Spec me a video editing system

Glass

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Hi guys & girls

I'm working with a company just now and they've got a requirement for an internal video editing system.

I have a system at home that I've used for the past 7 years but I know things have moved on somewhat.

At a guess we will be using Adobe Creative cloud/premier.

OS and after effects scratch area should be a 1TB SSD of some description.

Looking graphics card that will support 2 ultra wide monitors. No gaming required but needs to be fluid for video playback on one screen/edit windows on the other.

I'm looking for a futuristic/technology/business looking case that does not look like a 15 year old's gaming rig.

Air cooling, quiet and fast at rendering lots of threads.

In regards to storage of media I'm thinking of some form of NAS (Qnap 10gig ethernet /thuderbolt)

Thanks in advance!
 
Yes so my system at the moment has 24GB RAM - comes in very handy when rendering with After Effects. Almost all gets eaten up. I've been investigating things further and see that a decent GPU is on the cards. I'm not sure I can stretch to a Nvidia Quadro - if anyone has experience please chime in. I see that AMD have a poor man's version. Also on the RAM side what' a good configuration that does not break the bank?
 
You could split up the OS/Page File/Programs and the Scratch, use (at least) two disks, faster one for Scratch (put anything like "media cache", "cache", "previews", "project files", and "exports", "Global performance cache" on the latter, names may differ a little across different programs). That's where the fast M.2s are really useful. Previewing etc will then be more fluid. Something like a Samsung 850 EVO + 960 EVO/Polaris/SM961 combo. You should easily get away with a 250GB OS/Programs SSD, and then a 500GB M.2 ought to be ample if you offload non-active media/project/export files to the HDDs/NAS. Even with a 1TB M.2 you'd have to start offloading non-active stuff at some point anyway, although you'll know the size of the files and the number of concurrent projects you're going to work with better than I do.

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SM961 and Pro Polaris better than EVO.
 
Do you have a budget in mind? If not and you can wait a bit you may be better served by X299 from intel or X399 from AMD.

If your videos have a high colour bit depth and your rendering in 4k you may want to consider going for more than 32Gb.
 
It really does depend on your budget. If it's your own money then i imagine you would be more selective than if spending the company's money?
 
Thanks for all the replies thus far.

Budget wise I'd like to keep it under £6k. Some research and it appears the most recent versions for Adobe Premiere & After Effects both utilise CUDA within the Nvidia range to offload rendering.

So I'm now looking for some form of SLI set up.

I'm been thinking of going back to AMD - seeing all the activity with their new CPU's, however, I'm worried about stability and the fact that I can't go dual CPU.

Here's what I'm thinking

1x Asus Workstation (WS) Mobo with dual sockets
2x Intel i7's
2x Nvidia 1070's
64GB RAM
Samsung Polaris M2 1TB


Advice on bang for buck GFX, RAM & CPU would be helpful thanks, guys.

Here's my basket so far

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £5,658.75
(includes shipping: £15.90)



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64gb ram, ryzen 1800x, x370 board, 2x 1080ti, 1200w gold rated power supply, 10tb hard drive, 1tb ssd.

Or get whatever the best xenon chip is, one of the boards that support 128gb ram and xenon, the 2 x 1080ti and 1000w plus power supply, plus the hard drives.


Sorry can't be more specific, 6 grand is a hell of a lot and could buy a crap load, just can't advise a fantasy build that would be money well spent ha.
 
Glass said:
Thanks for all the replies thus far.

Budget wise I'd like to keep it under £6k. Some research and it appears the most recent versions for Adobe Premiere & After Effects both utilise CUDA within the Nvidia range to offload rendering.

So I'm now looking for some form of SLI set up.

I'm been thinking of going back to AMD - seeing all the activity with their new CPU's, however, I'm worried about stability and the fact that I can't go dual CPU.

Here's what I'm thinking

1x Asus Workstation (WS) Mobo with dual sockets
2x Intel i7's
2x Nvidia 1070's
64GB RAM
Samsung Polaris M2 1TB


Advice on bang for buck GFX, RAM & CPU would be helpful thanks, guys.

Here's my basket so far

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £5,658.75
(includes shipping: £15.90)



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You can't use Intel i7s in a dual docket motherboard. Only Xeons support having multiple CPUs in the same motherboard.

Edit: And not all Xeons at that. I think you need a Xeon E5 to support dual socket motherboards.
 
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Cromulent said:
You can't use Intel i7s in a dual socketmotherboard. Only Xeons support having multiple CPUs in the same motherboard.

Edit: And not all Xeons at that. I think you need a Xeon E5 to support dual socket motherboards.
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Thanks I did not know that!

bloodiedathame said:
Do you have ultra wide monitors or are you looking to get them?
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Not yet - probably a Dell Ultrawide
 
I'd personally stay away from the ultrawides, I had one (rather than two) and whilst it was ok, I much prefer working with two 16:10 screens. At work I use 2 Dell Ultrasharp 24" @ 1920 x 1200, but I'm trying to get upgraded to 2x 25" @ 1440p. That's the sweetspot for real estate for me personally (I edit/motion graphics/3D anim daily). I've not researched how accurate colours are on ultrawides either, but it's an important factor. We don't do much 4k, but if that's something you might do then you'll want to have a look at 4k monitors.
 
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