building a budget video editing computer help needed!

[excessiveoutdoors]

Hello everyone, I started my own outdoors filming deal ( hunting/fishing) and its expanding fast and I have tons of footage I need to edit. I have never built a computer before. And I have no idea what I should use for hardware. Im a outdoorsman and as you can probably imagine do not know a whole lot about computer tech. I know I need alot of ram and memory, and that video cards arent that important for video editing? Anyways if anyone could give me recommendations, list of what I need etc.I would be very appreciative. My other problem is that due to buying all the time cameras etc. I have a limited budget... I was hoping to squeek by with 400 but can probably go a little higher if need be to maybe 600 but thats a little more than have currently.

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

Hmm. $600 is a small budget, I'd recommend that you save up so that you have at least $1200, since this is going to be a A/V Editing rig. The graphics card will cost the most, a good one for you starts at $400 (GTX 770), and the next level up is $600 (GTX 780), and the highest tier GPU's are $1000+ (GTX Titan and Radeon 7990). The second most expensive component will be the processor. You can either get an i5 4670K ($230)or the new i7 4770K ($330)(better for 3d modeling and a/v editing). The motherboard doesn't have to be that amazing, a $100-$150 MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, or ASRock board will be fing. Just make sure that the Chipset is Z87 and it is LGA 1150 or 1155. You should get 16gb or RAM, but 8gb will be ok. Make sure it says DDR3, and the peed is above 1333. CAS Latency is good at 7 or 8 or 9.

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

Hmm. $600 is a small budget, I'd recommend that you save up so that you have at least $1200, since this is going to be a A/V Editing rig. The graphics card will cost the most, a good one for you starts at $400 (GTX 770), and the next level up is $600 (GTX 780), and the highest tier GPU's are $1000+ (GTX Titan and Radeon 7990). The second most expensive component will be the processor. You can either get an i5 4670K ($230)or the new i7 4770K ($330)(better for 3d modeling and a/v editing). The motherboard doesn't have to be that amazing, a $100-$150 MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, or ASRock board will be fing. Just make sure that the Chipset is Z87 and it is LGA 1150 or 1155. You should get 16gb or RAM, but 8gb will be ok. Make sure it says DDR3, and the peed is above 1333. CAS Latency is good at 7 or 8 or 9.

 

[excessiveoutdoors]

maybe I will save a little more than. I will be using adobe premiere, after effects, photoshop... so nothing too intense I guess... I was also looking at gaming computers? It doesnt need to be top of the line professional. but something to get by as far as doing editing and then burned to dvds. thanks for the info! Im not sure if a gaming PC will work though

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

A gaming PC will be fine for your needs, unless you will be making heavy 3D animations.

 

[slsPCs]

What software do you use? (I've seen it now)

Neither a gaming-PC nor a heavy graficcard is right here - you need a balanced system to get the most out of your money. I'll work something out for you as cheap as possible.

 

[slsPCs]

Just try this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($224.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($94.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ Outlet PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 360W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $874.86
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-06 17:23 EDT-0400)

You have to switch off hybernation and delete the hybernation file. OS and software on the ssd. On both harddrives you make two partitions, the first (fast) one between 200 and 500 GB, depends on, what you need. You use one of this partition for souce-media, the other one for target media. The rest of both harddrives is for backup/archiv. Make sure that the fast partitions are always as clean as possible - delete files you don't need any more and archivate files that are ready.

You can easily upgrade the system and get more power by adding more hard-drives and more memory.

Please check the links underneath to find out how to setup and use harddrives:
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page/84-disk-setup