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What do you recommend a video editing PC to have? (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 1 year ago by UnRelatedBurner to c/[email protected]

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Hello, me again. I'd like help in workstations. I see all of you jump to pcpartpicker whenever someone wants techsupport, but I'm just looking for general ideas or spitballing. Like whether Amd or Nvidia or Intel.

The usecase will be to try out videoediting and maybe 2d animating. There will also be unavoidable gaming on this device. I'd describe it as a hybrid gaming and workstation.

My logic instantly went to RAM and VRAM. as that should be the focus, but I don't know whether the speed or the quantity is more important. I also don't know if Amd or Nvidia is better at videoencoding.

I'd like tips like this please. NVMe for speed, hdd for capacity, or sata ssd for a mix? recommended MT/s for ram with channels? What gpu cores does premiere use? do I even need to worry about 2d animating? does the x3d modells of amd cpus any good for this usecase? do core # metter or only the GHz?

closing point; I know how to pc, but idk how to workstation pc as I only messed with highend/mid gaming pcs. Thanks for any info in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Haven't built a video station in ages, but that was one area that used CPU cores efficiently. I went with lots of cores to encode video. I have a dual Xeon setup that was overkill. However, while it was wild on multithreaded performance, single thread lagged behind other CPU's which hurt gaming a tad.

I didn't need a ton of RAM for editing, 16gb was plenty for my use, but Aftereffects pigged out on it. The more you had, the faster and more concurrent processes you could perform. It was the only time I realized I had bad RAM because it was the only program that used it all. I would choose quantity over speed in this case for heavy lifting.

Thesedays processed are offloaded to GPU so a good card will help, but as it doubles as a gaming station, you probably got that covered.

NVMe is a definite these days. The whole system is snappy. Brought life back to my 10+ year old desktop.

But I'd nix the HDD. Even my first editing station had removable drives because they filled up or became unreliable. It wasn't the best system and its best to engineer out single points of failure. In fact, I had a editing friend lose his entire senior project for graduation because a drive died. I'd spring for a small NAS box with RAID. 10G networking is more available now and a stack of cheaper drives can save you money and work together faster than a single drive. Just remember, RAID is not a backup. (But I've only had 3 failures in the past 25 years and they were easy fixes with no data loss) Knock on wood

[–] UnRelatedBurner 2 points 1 year ago

Nice (and old) setup man! I'm not even 25 years old and your pc is's Raid is that much, damn.

Anyways, thanks for the info. Needing to go above 16gbs for after effects is a very nice info to have, thanks.