Monday, December 16, 2013

How to Create a PC Desktop for Editing Video

 

Building a PC Desktop that can edit HD footage in real-time and export videos quickly requires of combination of:
  • 4, 6, or 8 processor cores
  • generous amounts of RAM memory (16GB+)
  • a graphics card with a high amount of RAM that supports the Mercury Playback Engine for Adobe Premiere
Expect to spend $1,400 and up to configure a professional system, not including the monitor.  Check motherboard specs to see how upgradable your system will be for the future.

Learn more about system benchmarks and what hardward will affect what performace:

Premiere Pro Benchmark for CS5

Adobe Premiere CC, CS6, CS5.5 and CS5 Video Cards with CUDA Acceleration Mercury Playback
test results with AMD and Intel system configurations

A friend who was a freelance videographer and now works at a local TV station is able to edit HD footage in real time with these system specs:

AMD 8-Core Processor
16 GB RAM
128GB solid state drive
2TB 7,200 rpm drive
600w power supply
Nvidia 760 GTX graphics card

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Here's a current custom desktop build from iBuyPower.com on 12/16/13 to match the pro video guy's specs.

Gamer Mage D295 system, $1,399 (sale price)

AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 - 2GB
(has 2 x DVI, 1 x HDMI , 1 x DisplayPort)
120 GB S510 ADATA SSD -- Read: 550MB/s, Write: 510MB/s
2 TB WD Black HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 -- AMD 970
14x Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Re-Writer, DVD±R/±RW Burner
600 watt power supply
Windows 8.1

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 -- AMD 970 motherboard specs:
up to 32GB of RAM
Memory Slots:  4 × DDR3 DIMM 240pin
6 x USB 2.0 ports; 2 x USB 3.0 ports
6 x 6GB/s (SATA-III)

upgrades for this system:
256 GB ADATA SX900 SSD -- Read: 550MB/s ; Write: 530MB/s - $85
ASRock 990FX Extreme9 -- AMD 990FX w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16, 2x eSATA3, 8x USB 3.0 - $130
(only motherboard available that supports up to 64GB of RAM.)
AMD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L3 Cache) - $50

cheaper options for this system:
AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB  - $84 less
1 x Daul Link DVI-I, 1 x HDMI, 1 x D-SUB Port


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