Pc for video editing.

Mark Davidson · 12 Feb 2021 at 11:17

Hello, I'm after a little guidance.

I'm after buying a pc to help my wife with her work. She's an artist and I've started to do a little picture/video editing for her but my current computer just doesn't cut it.

I'm not making the next James Bond movie but I'd like something that will be more than capable for a few years as i get more experienced before having to upgrade some parts.

I'm looking to spend around a £1000, maybe a little more if needed.

Thanks in advance.

mickyflinn · 12 Feb 2021 at 12:59

The problem at the moment is the lack of availability of graphics cards and Will you be building it yoursef or Pre built ?

I would sugeat a 6 core cpu with 16gb if ram.

Mark Davidson · 12 Feb 2021 at 13:01

I just want to buy prebuilt.

Isn't 32gb the recommended amount of ram these days for video editing? Just what I've read.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2021 at 13:03

Also, there is a video editor called DaVince Resolve. It has a free version, which has a few of the more advanced features removed. It’s still very powerful though and ample for the stuff you want it for.

Donnie Fisher · 12 Feb 2021 at 13:36

Consider a Mac mini M1 ?

orbitalwalsh · 12 Feb 2021 at 13:45

what programs being used? either as mentioned above , resolve that TAKES any hardware give and more or Adobe prem - that is less on the GPU side and more on cpu

Donnie Fisher said:
Consider a Mac mini M1 ?

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...op-Workstation-for-Adobe-Creative-Cloud-1975/

When 12/16 core version comes.. will truly challenge PCs

Mark Davidson · 12 Feb 2021 at 16:57

robfosters said:
Also, there is a video editor called DaVince Resolve. It has a free version, which has a few of the more advanced features removed. It’s still very powerful though and ample for the stuff you want it for.

Thanks for the information. As I asked above, is 16 gb Ram enough or should I aim for 32?

Mark Davidson · 12 Feb 2021 at 16:57

Donnie Fisher said:
Consider a Mac mini M1 ?

I'll look in to it, thanks.

mickyflinn · 12 Feb 2021 at 16:59

Mark Davidson said:
Thanks for the information. As I asked above, is 16 gb Ram enough or should I aim for 32?

The more ram the better but 16gb was a starting point.

Donnie Fisher · 12 Feb 2021 at 17:08

16 is generally enough but I’ve pushed past it a few times with lots of larger programs open such as photo editing and video editing at the same time.

Meritor · 13 Feb 2021 at 08:47

With £1000 budget I’d probably be looking at something like this:-

(Disclaimer: I’ve not pulled together a build for a while so I might have missed something).

Forum members get free postage, so that leaves you £250 for a GPU (there’s nothing in stock at the moment unfortunately).

Also, this assumes you would be taking your existing Windows license across to the new build.

There’s lots of things open to be tweaked if you have preferences on case, RAM manufacturer, PSU etc etc, more just an idea of what you could be looking at, hope it helps.

orbitalwalsh · 13 Feb 2021 at 12:19

^^^ again, depends on what your looking at software wise and GPU doesn't really effect Prem Pro unlike Resolve does .
Would be looking at 8 cores personally

bloodiedathame · 13 Feb 2021 at 12:25

I'm a professional video editor and it does make me laugh how most enthusiasts have better hardware than I do.

mickyflinn · 13 Feb 2021 at 12:30

bloodiedathame said:
I'm a professional video editor and it does make me laugh how most enthusiasts have better hardware than I do.

Now im intrigued whats your system spec ?

bloodiedathame · 13 Feb 2021 at 13:16

5820k, 32gb ram, gtx 970, SSD boot drive, mechanical cache and project drives. I recently did some 4k 16bit compositing for a Netflix show, first time I've had to wait 45 mins to render 10 seconds for a long time.

mickyflinn · 13 Feb 2021 at 13:26

bloodiedathame said:
5820k, 32gb ram, gtx 970, SSD boot drive, mechanical cache and project drives. I recently did some 4k 16bit compositing for a Netflix show, first time I've had to wait 45 mins to render 10 seconds for a long time.

Is that considered slow compared to a modern 6 core cpu ?

orbitalwalsh · 13 Feb 2021 at 19:37

bloodiedathame said:
5820k, 32gb ram, gtx 970, SSD boot drive, mechanical cache and project drives. I recently did some 4k 16bit compositing for a Netflix show, first time I've had to wait 45 mins to render 10 seconds for a long time.

Puget systems, articles.. all the reading you'll need .

I'm amazed people can have all the gear or all the skill and a monitor that will display vastly different colours to how it'll be seen

Should fine using SSD should help you a bit

bloodiedathame · 13 Feb 2021 at 22:01

My machine is fine. I don't really need to upgrade it. I know Puget well but there's no point spending thousands for marginal gains. Working efficiently saves me more time than a faster machine. I use a benq pd2720u as my main colour monitor but scopes tell me what I need to know most of the time.