- Jul 19, 2012
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Hey guys, I do Multi camera video for bands. I shoot with 10-20 cameras dump the footage (300gb-1500gb) onto WD My Books (external HD i think 5,400 rpm) and edit with Adobe premiere off of the My Book. The cache files are usually stored on a separate My book.
The system I'm using was built about 4 years ago. Whatever core i7 was called back then, 32gb ram, I upgraded the video card to a quadro k200, 256 ssd for the os, I technically have a 2TB 7,200 rpm drive in there which was supposed to be for video edit jobs but the worksflows are so massive that it just isnt practical.
My system updated to a new version of windows 10 a couple months ago and since then it's been terrible. Something with the video card not playing well with the os... or motherboard... It works, just not as well as it used to.
I have a legitimate excuse to buy a new system now because i need to bring in someone to help me edit so Im gonna use then new one, wipe the old one and he'll use that.
I'm ideally looking to spend between 2 and 4k on this, 4 is a lot but if i need, it, i need it. These slowdown are killing me and i need to make my workflow easier.
Before I get started with parts, where should I build it? Last time I had a buddy of mine do it for like 200 bucks. We sat and picked out the parts and he put it all together including the hacked windows 7 (i paid for the upgrades later (is the OS gonna cost me now or is it free?)) Micro center seems like a good place to get all the stuff and have it put together, no? I'm moving to a new place within a week so i'd love to get it done before then.
I'm gonna list the bullet points I'm trying to hit and let me know what you think I need.
First some simple stuff, I'd Like to able to run at least 4 monitors. (on that note, I have a big TV I use for the editing part of the program because the delay is too much and color/light is too wrong to use for the actual video. Also, I never really need the video to be that big but having all the controls, tracks and menus enlarged is nice. then I have a 27 inch and 24 inch. They all look different. What monitor should I be using to do accurate color and light adjustments for video editing?) also, in my new place i want to have the screens on one wall and the computer behind me by a different wall with all the peripherals. I probably only need 25 feet of cable but if I need 50 would that cause problems?
Here's a weird one, I want to be able to plug in a lot of external stuff. My current system gives me a lot of issues with this. I want to be able to have a lot of drives plugged in at once becuase I'm always jumping around. And I used to be able to plug in 10 two slot card readers and transfer 20 sd cards and let it run over night but now things start getting funky when I plug in too many things. Sometimes I get the "Hub doesn;t have enough power" and sometimes hard drives just eject and reconnect by themsleves... Very frustrating. Don't really know what to do about this. What do I need to get to avoid this on the new system? I guess motherboard is really part of this question. I would ideally love to have as many usb 3 slots built in as possible (or through add ons?) I'm gonna have to use usb hubs anyway but i'd love to start with as many as possible.
Video card? Im doing multi camera editing In adobe premiere.. Don;t even know where to start.. I dont really edit anything in 4k but I'm sure I'm going to have to start at some point.. what do I get?
Ram? 64gb? more the merrier, right?
Storage? I'm so loose on this one. I edit an external 5400 rpm drives over usb 3.0. once in a while i've tried putting the video files on the internal 7200 drive or the internal ssd.. didnt really notice a difference. maybe because the cache files were still being stored on external drives?... idk.. My jobs I edit range from 300gb to 1.5tb so that makes using higher quality internal drives difficult.
If you told me that If I was editing on an internal raid and I could link together some drives to get me 15tb or so and that would speed up the editing, I'm in.
Processor? could be this is my bottleneck now. I dont know. Theres all the regular i7 ones but then theres the extreme ones. What do I need?
I'll get another full size case. Which do you guys recommend?
The system I'm using was built about 4 years ago. Whatever core i7 was called back then, 32gb ram, I upgraded the video card to a quadro k200, 256 ssd for the os, I technically have a 2TB 7,200 rpm drive in there which was supposed to be for video edit jobs but the worksflows are so massive that it just isnt practical.
My system updated to a new version of windows 10 a couple months ago and since then it's been terrible. Something with the video card not playing well with the os... or motherboard... It works, just not as well as it used to.
I have a legitimate excuse to buy a new system now because i need to bring in someone to help me edit so Im gonna use then new one, wipe the old one and he'll use that.
I'm ideally looking to spend between 2 and 4k on this, 4 is a lot but if i need, it, i need it. These slowdown are killing me and i need to make my workflow easier.
Before I get started with parts, where should I build it? Last time I had a buddy of mine do it for like 200 bucks. We sat and picked out the parts and he put it all together including the hacked windows 7 (i paid for the upgrades later (is the OS gonna cost me now or is it free?)) Micro center seems like a good place to get all the stuff and have it put together, no? I'm moving to a new place within a week so i'd love to get it done before then.
I'm gonna list the bullet points I'm trying to hit and let me know what you think I need.
First some simple stuff, I'd Like to able to run at least 4 monitors. (on that note, I have a big TV I use for the editing part of the program because the delay is too much and color/light is too wrong to use for the actual video. Also, I never really need the video to be that big but having all the controls, tracks and menus enlarged is nice. then I have a 27 inch and 24 inch. They all look different. What monitor should I be using to do accurate color and light adjustments for video editing?) also, in my new place i want to have the screens on one wall and the computer behind me by a different wall with all the peripherals. I probably only need 25 feet of cable but if I need 50 would that cause problems?
Here's a weird one, I want to be able to plug in a lot of external stuff. My current system gives me a lot of issues with this. I want to be able to have a lot of drives plugged in at once becuase I'm always jumping around. And I used to be able to plug in 10 two slot card readers and transfer 20 sd cards and let it run over night but now things start getting funky when I plug in too many things. Sometimes I get the "Hub doesn;t have enough power" and sometimes hard drives just eject and reconnect by themsleves... Very frustrating. Don't really know what to do about this. What do I need to get to avoid this on the new system? I guess motherboard is really part of this question. I would ideally love to have as many usb 3 slots built in as possible (or through add ons?) I'm gonna have to use usb hubs anyway but i'd love to start with as many as possible.
Video card? Im doing multi camera editing In adobe premiere.. Don;t even know where to start.. I dont really edit anything in 4k but I'm sure I'm going to have to start at some point.. what do I get?
Ram? 64gb? more the merrier, right?
Storage? I'm so loose on this one. I edit an external 5400 rpm drives over usb 3.0. once in a while i've tried putting the video files on the internal 7200 drive or the internal ssd.. didnt really notice a difference. maybe because the cache files were still being stored on external drives?... idk.. My jobs I edit range from 300gb to 1.5tb so that makes using higher quality internal drives difficult.
If you told me that If I was editing on an internal raid and I could link together some drives to get me 15tb or so and that would speed up the editing, I'm in.
Processor? could be this is my bottleneck now. I dont know. Theres all the regular i7 ones but then theres the extreme ones. What do I need?
I'll get another full size case. Which do you guys recommend?
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