How to optimize video editing

M

McSpin

Member
I'm about to build a new computer that I will use primarily for video editing. My current editing program is Sony Movie Studio and I'm dealing with clips that range up to 5 minutes, but many of them for the final production. I'm not sure which components affect this most and where the money should go when looking to optimize for this task.

I'm thinking that the processor is a big deal, but not sure about memory, the graphics card, mother board or an SSD (or two). I have monitors, keyboard and mouse, so just need the main computer components. I'd like to keep this under $1200, but could go higher if the return is worth it. Any guidance would be appreciated.
 
Ideally an i7 build for extra threads. Something like X99 might be a decent solution since you can get 6c/12t CPUs for about the same platform cost as Skylake. Depending if the application supports CUDA or OpenCL it might influence your GPU choice, whereas a lot of those tasks would be offloaded to the video card.

Do you have any other requirements for this build?
 
Sony Movie Studio says use a graphics card with at least 512 mb ram and recommends an intel x-series motherboard. It says that Nvidia GPU must be CUDA enabled with driver 270.xx AMD/ATI needs Open CL enabled & catalyst driver 11.7 Recommends Radeon HD57xx or higher.

The computer will be used for other very basic stuff - no gaming.
 
Well I ran Vegas Movie Studio 10 on an i5 760 and a GTS 450 1GB back in the day and it ran great. I agree an i7 would be ideal but you could probably get away with an i5 especially if you overclocked it. Graphics card something like a GTX 960 would be good, or a GTX 950 but the 960 would probably be more ideal since it has more CUDA cores.

I'd stick to NVIDIA for this build.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top