Do I need a Blu-Ray writer for video editing or can I stick to CD/DVDs writers?

FuzzzyPickles

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Hello there everyone. Here is my part list in case people are curious. Somehow I got this below $1500 but I am looking to see if it is possible to get it below $1400 when including shippings and based total but not including discounts and rebates. My goal is to get a build that will be enough for 1080p/60FPS video editing (and recording myself in front of the camera) yet also able to upgrade to 4K editing in the future (when they start to become standard) as I intend to start a YouTube channel.

I am close to submitting a build to my brother's friend (who will hopefully be able to help me with the build since I am new to learning about PC hardware) and there is one last detail I'd want to iron out before doing so. That is, what optical drive do I need for video editing?

My primary intention is to do video editing and stream Super Smash Bros. Wii U with friends (although I might do PC gaming in the future, that is so far not a concern) and I have no intentions of watching DVDs or Blu-Rays on my computer. However, I am trying to figure out if there is any way for me to cut down on cost from what I have and the only thing I can think of potentially doing is to cut down my optical drive (which is shown here as Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer). This is something that I want to do but I want to make sure that removing a Blu-Ray player/writer won't remove anything that would be important when video editing. If there is, please tell me, but if there are no compelling reason, I intend to downgrade to a $20ish DVD Writer/Player that can also write/play CDs.

Thank you.
 
If you want to put your fottage on a Disk and have it play right out of any DVD/Blu-Ray player then you need to decide what you want to do. if you record to a DVD the max resolution you can do is 720x480. If you want 1080 you need to burn to blu-ray.

Now if you just want to transfer data, or lets say if your DVD/Blu-Ray player with play MP4's which most will then you can just burn the MP4 to a DVD and it "SHOULD" play ok. I have played 1080p MP4's off a DVD in a Blu-Ray player before with no issue. it depends on the player, but if you want native DVD/Blu-Ray play back then you need Blu-Ray to burn a 1080 video.
 

FuzzzyPickles

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I don't mind investing in HDDs for my videos and projects. I'm more concerned about me potentially losing important work on there were my hard drive to crash. That said, I think I will drop down to just DVD capacity for now since I intend to store my videos onto my HDD.