Video Editing Build

[Boma]

I'm used to making gaming builds, but new to video editing builds. Looking to spend $1000 or less.

Can you guys help me build a good video editing machine? Mainly used for camcorder rips to the hard driving using Visual Studio (Corel)


I found a build here that looks pretty good. It uses a 3ware 4port sataII raid card.

Cerise Quad-Core Workstation Computer System

Newegg.com - 3ware 9650SE-4LPML PCI Express Lanes: 4 SATA II Controller Card RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, Single Disk, JBOD - Controllers / RAID Cards

 

[Pinscher]

I don't have time to put together a rig but for what your needs seem to be, I don't think you need to waste your money on hardware RAID. The software raid on your mobo will do just fine if you want RAID.

 

[Guttzu]

That case looks like a TJ10... Newegg.com - SILVERSTONE TJ10-B Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases

It also has the "Hard Drive Caddy" which mounts the HDDs vertically just like the TJ10...

It looks like they removed the Silverstone sticker and put a Cerise one on..... I could be completely wrong too lol...

 

[Boma]

I don't have time to put together a rig but for what your needs seem to be, I don't think you need to waste your money on hardware RAID. The software raid on your mobo will do just fine if you want RAID.

My boss noticed some skipping during the rip. Would software raid be enough to solve the problem? If so that would be great. If it isn't the HDD's what could it be that is causing this?

The pc we're using is:

P4 3.4
2GB DDR
Sata HDD
Gigabyte 945P-G mobo
6600 AGP video card
Generic PSU
Corel Visual Studio

 

[Peter.Cort]

It's not the HDD that's causing skipping. Most likely it's the CPU. I'd say that's a nice setup, but not $2500 nice.

I'll update this post with some stuff you'll wanna look at for a good rig.

CPU: Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops ($165)

Mobo: Newegg.com - ASUS P5QL PRO LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards ($87)

HDD: Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives ($80 x2 = $160)

CPU: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GV-N95TD3-512I GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards ($55)

RAM: Newegg.com - OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory ($48 x2 = $96)

PSU: Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Power Supplies ($90)

$673 is the total for that. That's without a case, monitor and OS. You should stay be able to stay under $1000 for all of it.

 

[zmatt]

It's not the HDD that's causing skipping. Most likely it's the CPU. I'd say that's a nice setup, but not $2500 nice.

I'll update this post with some stuff you'll wanna look at for a good rig.

CPU: Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops ($165)

Mobo: Newegg.com - ASUS P5QL PRO LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards ($87)

HDD: Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives ($80 x2 = $160)

CPU: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GV-N95TD3-512I GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards ($55)

RAM: Newegg.com - OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory ($48 x2 = $96)

PSU: Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Power Supplies ($90)

$673 is the total for that. That's without a case, monitor and OS. You should stay be able to stay under $1000 for all of it.

For a video editing job you want cache and don't really need a video card. For $1k you could probably get a core i7 and a low end or midrange video card. That would serve him much better. The Q8200 simply has no place in video encoding.

 

[Peter.Cort]

Most editing programs that I've used take advantage of all 4 cores so cache isn't too much of a factor. I looked at boards and the cpu and a board is gonna be around $500. Also Corel is a low end video editing program that doesn't require a whole lot in the way of anything to run, so in the interest of saving money, the q8200 is a nice little cpu.

 

[Boma]

Ok. So we'll focus on the CPU instead. =0) Thanks for the tips!

 

[Dauntae]

if your going 775 why not spend a little more and get the Q9550 with 12mb of cache
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Dauntae

 

[Peter.Cort]

I don't think it's worth it to spend another $120 or so on Corel.. The system requirements are extremely low, and the only thing a faster cache processor will do is help the encoding go faster, and with the q8200 it will be going pretty fast already.