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Thread ID: 139862	2015-07-12 00:36:00	Suggestions for up specing a PC for video editing?	stuffed (1469)	Press F1

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1404497	2015-07-12 20:16:00	Are you looking to get into professional video editing or are you staying as a keen video editing enthusiast?	Webdevguy (17166)
1404498	2015-07-12 22:09:00	Think that SSHD looks like the answer thanks. Just for own videos but these video editing programs are now so resource hungry that need to keep the hardware up to date!	stuffed (1469)
1404499	2015-07-12 22:40:00	Think that SSHD looks like the answer thanks. Just for own videos but these video editing programs are now so resource hungry that need to keep the hardware up to date! Firstly, what is your budget?, If you have a realistic budget of $1-$2000+ (not including software) which would be my suggestion you can up grade your current PC with a decent high resolution monitor, the higher the better which is essential if you are editing HD video. Sony do some very high end monitors, as do Apple, obviously. A minimum of 8 GB of RM, anything more is a bonus. Storage, the more the better so you would be looking at multi-terabyte storage. Also get some decent video editing software like Adobe Premier Pro for PC. Yes, there is a learning curve but it is well worth it and Premier Pro has far more options than Pinnacle studio which sells for $59.99 As to video though put, yes it is fantastic and amazing... if your career depends on it and if you are editing 4K video. If you are just a regular Joe then its probably over kill for some basic home editing. Video editing is a different kettle of fish than PC gaming.With PC gaming the tendency is to spend great wads of coin on upgrading your rig to the latest bells and whistles every 6 months, just so that you can play the latest games and keep up with your overseas team mates. With home video editing, you need storage, RAM, screen resolution and a reasonable CPU. Once you have these you should be fine. Just enjoy the movies you make.	Webdevguy (17166)
1404500	2015-07-13 00:52:00	Firstly, what is your budget?, If you have a realistic budget of $1-$2000+ (not including software) which would be my suggestion you can up grade your current PC with a decent high resolution monitor, the higher the better which is essential if you are editing HD video. Sony do some very high end monitors, as do Apple, obviously. A minimum of 8 GB of RM, anything more is a bonus. Storage, the more the better so you would be looking at multi-terabyte storage. Also get some decent video editing software like Adobe Premier Pro for PC. Yes, there is a learning curve but it is well worth it and Premier Pro has far more options than Pinnacle studio which sells for $59.99 As to video though put, yes it is fantastic and amazing... if your career depends on it and if you are editing 4K video. If you are just a regular Joe then its probably over kill for some basic home editing. Video editing is a different kettle of fish than PC gaming.With PC gaming the tendency is to spend great wads of coin on upgrading your rig to the latest bells and whistles every 6 months, just so that you can play the latest games and keep up with your overseas team mates. With home video editing, you need storage, RAM, screen resolution and a reasonable CPU. Once you have these you should be fine. Just enjoy the movies you make. Thanks for your input - you will see that I have 16GB of RAM and 4TB of HDD so feel am set up in that department. Like the idea of a 2TB SSHD though for doing the actual processing on. Budget not really a problem (providing no one else in our household reads this!) Just that now of 35+ years of home videos covering nearly 200 hours so there is a lot of good history to share with family and friends. Had to get an import licence for my first video camera and VCR in 1979 and about 15 years ago started putting all those old tapes onto the PC - now very pleased that did that!	stuffed (1469)
1404501	2015-07-13 01:54:00	Thanks for your input - you will see that I have 16GB of RAM and 4TB of HDD so feel am set up in that department. Like the idea of a 2TB SSHD though for doing the actual processing on. Budget not really a problem (providing no one else in our household reads this!) Just that now of 35+ years of home videos covering nearly 200 hours so there is a lot of good history to share with family and friends. Had to get an import licence for my first video camera and VCR in 1979 and about 15 years ago started putting all those old tapes onto the PC - now very pleased that did that! 16GB of RAM is more than enough for home video editing. Your storage sounds plenty sufficient. I'd say your only other limiting factor would be in the video editing software, unless you are happy using Pinnacle Studio. If not then you might want to consider looking in to Adobe Premier Pro. Other than that.. start organising your back ground music clips, figure out what stories you are wanting to tell and organise your captured video clips accordingly then stat putting it altogether along with any necessary title captions and other humorous comments ;) I'm assuming that Pinnacle Studio lets you add captions to the video clips? As long as you are not rendering any special effects in any of your videos then you have got nothing to worry about. Its the special effects aka "CGI" that takes all the bandwidth and specialised processing power of a Linux Render wall setup.	Webdevguy (17166)
1404502	2015-07-13 01:57:00	Some video editing tips to consider blog.ted.com	Webdevguy (17166)
1404503	2015-07-14 00:53:00	Hello. I am interested to read of your extended project. I have been with Pinnacle for over ten years and have used version 17-Plus for the past year. Have you head of "Pinnacle Studio 17 Plus and Ultimate Revealed" by Jeff Naylor? www.dtvpro.co.uk/ Good luck. Peter.	PeterE (6851)
1404504	2015-07-14 01:59:00	Hello. I am interested to read of your extended project. I have been with Pinnacle for over ten years and have used version 17-Plus for the past year. Have you head of "Pinnacle Studio 17 Plus and Ultimate Revealed" by Jeff Naylor? www.dtvpro.co.uk/ Good luck. Peter. Interesting link for Pinnacle studio stuff, the actual web page design is very amateurish. The coding is poorly organised.	Webdevguy (17166)
1404505	2015-07-14 06:13:00	Hello. I am interested to read of your extended project. I have been with Pinnacle for over ten years and have used version 17-Plus for the past year. Have you head of "Pinnacle Studio 17 Plus and Ultimate Revealed" by Jeff Naylor? www.dtvpro.co.uk/ Good luck. Peter. I gave up on Pinnacle 17 (kept hanging) and went back to 16. Was nearly going to ditch the product but have got used to using it so have just got 18 plus and from first look appears a lot more stable and they have an excellent set of training videos - for free for about a month. Am recording the key ones via screen capture!	stuffed (1469)
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