Video editing

[_Iain_]

I'm exceedingly out of touch with computers lately.

Basicly, i want a desktop (or laptop) capable of smoothly playing/editing 1080 video. Other than that it's likely to get used for web browsing, movies. Standard shit. Wont be used for gaming.

Used to build all my own stuff, im assuming it's still cheaper to do this with used components that are a bit 'last season' than to go buy an off the shelf PC world unit? What sort of specs am i likely to require?

Ta muchly
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[P.addy]

My PC manages it just fine, its pretty good for the basic stuff.

I'm running some ghetto 1999 rig

Core 2 Quad 9400 2.6ghz.
4GB RAM.
9500GT card.

Nothing spectacular. Probably £50 if you ebay hard enough.

There are some fairly decent spec'd "gaming" bundles which would be fairly shit for games but for £250 you can get a semi decent rig to do what you want.

[_Iain_]

Currently have a pentium 4 w/2gb ram & a fucked os, or some ghetto as fuck thing i built out of spares a few years ago when my decent tower packed up. Think thats packing a 1.6ghz unit...maybe 512mb ram if you're lucky. I got too reliant on phone/ipad!
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[P.addy]

Yeah, dat is ghetto.

Well, can try doing some stuff on mine, if you find thats powerful enough you can just aim for something a step up from mine. Mine cost me £25 and the card back in the day was £50

[_Iain_]

Might give it a go on the iPad using the shite machine for uploading to it. Gotta do research on apps & stuff...

Will be vlogging in no time
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[kingsknight]

Mate playing and editing videos are completely different. You could easily get a cheap i3 laptop which will have no problem playing 1080 but depending on the encoder that same laptop could take 7 to 8 hours to encode an hour of footage at 1080.

I do a lot of video editing with Sony Vegas Pro 12. I bought a laptop a year ago to do it. Here is the spec and encode times

i7 2.2ghz
8gb 1300mhz ram
180gb intel 530 SSD (550mbs write speed)
GT555M 2GB GDDR5

720 > Real time

1080 > an hour of footage encodes in around an hour and 15min

I off load my encodes to my GPU using CUDA.

Windows Movie Maker doesn't support GPU off loading so encode times will always be higher using that.

I highly recommend getting a good Nvidia GPU with CUDA support and an SSD if you're looking into doing video editing.
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[barrkel]

[kingsknight]

Yep you are correct but when you are encoding using a standard 7200 hhd your system will lock up and will be come unresponsive. Encode onto a SSD and your system barely notices your doing anything.

I went from a 7200rpm to a SSD and the jump was amazing. Really shows when your working with many different videos at the same time for a project. You're right when you say it wont effect the encode times but for everything else it is much much faster!

All my computer systems have an SSD now, even my nebook lol
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