Spec me a video editing rig 1-2k

[BassHead]

Hi

I would like a video editing rig that is quick at converting video to different formats and generally quick at just chopping up video's i don't really use special effects, I have a YouTube channel and just really need to edit hours of footage by chopping and cutting it about.

I have a budget of up to £2000 but don't need to spend it all for example if a 2k rig is only 5% faster than a 1k rig then there's no point spending the extra. I already have a monitor keyboard and os.

 

[smilertoo]

I'd go with a 32gb 4770k and put some money towards a bigger ssd (480gb).

 

[Fulax]

Do you want this build to look sexy, or don't you mind?

WIll you be doing a bit of gaming on this, too?

 

[Doomedspeed]

This is what i've cam up with:

YOUR BASKET
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x Intel 4820K 3.70GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM (CM8063301292805) £227.99
1 x Asus P9X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £199.99
2 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £143.99 (£287.98)
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
1 x Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,390.28 (includes shipping : £13.75).



The 4820k has extra instruction sets (over the 4770k) which help in video editng (may help in conversion too).

This allowed me to go 2011, which means you can drop in a hex-core if you need to later on.

32GB of RAM, with space for another 32GB.

Cheap Nvidia GPU for CUDA, if you use GPU transcoding (you may need to).

Silent Stylish and down right beautiful case.

Big cooler for a good overclock...

Also, two RAID0 SSD for speed and 2 HDD's for RAID0/RAID1

 

[M3G4UK]

I echo the spec above HOWEVER I would tone down the SSD to a slightly cheaper one (when rendering HDD speed takes a back seat to raw CPU power) and instead put money toward a Matrox Mini MAX (£499 including HDMI in and out) or Matrox CompressHD (£399). The Matrox MAX codec chip is built to halve H264 rendering times. YouTube uses H264 so by uploading 264 you should shave off time on how long it takes their servers to post-process. The Matrox MAX comes with YouTube presets, took me about 20 mins to render an hour and a half of 1080p footage.

 

[BassHead]

This is what i've cam up with:

YOUR BASKET
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x Intel 4820K 3.70GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM (CM8063301292805) £227.99
1 x Asus P9X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £199.99
2 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £143.99 (£287.98)
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
1 x Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,390.28 (includes shipping : £13.75).



The 4820k has extra instruction sets (over the 4770k) which help in video editng (may help in conversion too).

This allowed me to go 2011, which means you can drop in a hex-core if you need to later on.

32GB of RAM, with space for another 32GB.

Cheap Nvidia GPU for CUDA, if you use GPU transcoding (you may need to).

Silent Stylish and down right beautiful case.

Big cooler for a good overclock...

Also, two RAID0 SSD for speed and 2 HDD's for RAID0/RAID1

Thanks for that that looks cracking and well under budget.

 

[altrewin]

Had a go at making a small renderbox, pretty similar to Doomed's build, just smaller!
YOUR BASKET
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £69.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £59.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £1,054.91 (includes shipping : £11.75).



However it's probably important to note that it's worth checking if the program you're using for rendering supports CUDA, OpenCL or both as that would affect GPU choice
Also M3G4 makes a valid point, using a dedicated chip could very well be worth it for rendering videos. You may even be able to scrap this current spec and just connect one of those to your current system (although I could be entirely wrong about that).