Is my build good for HD video editing?

OzzmanFloyd120 · May 11, 2008

This fall I'm going to be doing alot of HD video editing with Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer, also I'm going to be doing alot of stuff with Protools for school.
Is my PC going to be able to get me through with that in a timely fashion, or should I start looking for new parts in the summer?

kyle2020 · May 13, 2008

*checks stats*
I really cant see any areas for improvement. apart from the fact that us unfortunate AMD lovers are getting kicked in the balls by intel atm. Their value - Performance ratio on the quad cores and faster dual cores is completely owning AMD currently. Thats the only suggestion, i might go to intel on my next upgrade myself.

echo75 · May 13, 2008

your system is decently adequate for what you want to do, however like Kyle2020 if you want the best of the best ,intel at the monent is on tops and i havnt seen any sign yet that its changing in the immediate future but then who knows in the much longer run.

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

I do fine on a AMD system. Like i've said in another thread, i can do a HD video in 15min with my specs.

I'm planning on getting a phemon soon, they will help on alot. But i'm just wanting the phemon for benchmarks and games really.

kyle2020 · May 13, 2008

CrackerJack said:
I do fine on a AMD system. Like i've said in another thread, i can do a HD video in 15min with my specs. I'm planning on getting a phemon soon, they will help on alot. But i'm just wanting the phemon for benchmarks and games really.

phenoms are quad core AMD's am i correct?

sneekypeet · May 13, 2008

kyle2020 said:
phenoms are quad core AMD's am i correct?

yes you are.

suraswami · May 13, 2008

suraswami · May 13, 2008

OzzmanFloyd120 said:
This fall I'm going to be doing alot of HD video editing with Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer, also I'm going to be doing alot of stuff with Protools for school.
Is my PC going to be able to get me through with that in a timely fashion, or should I start looking for new parts in the summer?

With that Quad @2.6 you should be able to compile in a timely manner. Don't know about Adobe Premiere if it can take advantage of more than 2 cores. If so then it will be fast.

kyle2020 · May 13, 2008

sneekypeet said:
yes you are.

thanks haha, i guess ill have to have a comparison on the phenoms to the intel quad cores to look at for next year. joy. :laugh:

jbunch07 · May 13, 2008

i see nothing wrong with your system...your good to go!

farlex85 · May 13, 2008

Yeah a quad-core intel would get the job done faster, but your phenom is as good as it gets for amd, and should be fine. After all you can still use your comp while your encoding.

kyle2020 · May 13, 2008

evaluating on what farlex just said, crackerjack, how does your 5000+ BE overclock? my new motherboard arrives this week so ill finally get to tune it a bit, just wondering if 3.2 is the wall @ stable with it?

suraswami · May 13, 2008

farlex85 said:
Yeah a quad-core intel would get the job done faster, but your phenom is as good as it gets for amd, and should be fine. After all you can still use your comp while your encoding.

And CrackerJack let me know your secret. It takes me about 25min to analyze and encode a regular dvd much less an hd one, and my proc is faster clock for clock and oc higher, so........

It depends on the software you use. I used Sony's Vegas encoding software. Encoded about 60 minutes of home video and burn't to DVD in about 15 minutes on a 5600 OC'd to 6400 speeds. The software used full 100% on both cores :rockout:

farlex85 · May 13, 2008

Yeah I guess I didn't think about that, good point. The one I use also compresses them to put on a dvd-r, sorry, I retract my previous statement. :laugh:

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

yeah adobe is 100% of the cores, so make sure you have good cooling. I encode at 3.2ghz temps around 45 full load. There's no real no secret, you should always encode with same resolution as the orginal video.

ex.
1hr. 720x480 to 720x480= 10-15min.
1hr. 720x480 to 1920x1080= 2hrs.

when changing resolution is when is assume so much time. if the video is 1920x1080 (HD) to begin with then your looking at 25-30min encode time. Going from 720x480 to 1920x1080 you won't see much of a difference. you'll see a bigger difference if you record 1920x1080 to begin with.

This video was recorded in SD. I never re-encode it to a higher resolution, this is 720x480. But the adobe flash player is set much lower.

http://www.performancebuildpc.com/SamplePage6_1280.html

niko084 · May 13, 2008

Should work pretty well, I would have gone with an Intel Quad instead but thats me.
Also you may want to run the video stuff under XP, it will be quite a bit faster, even faster if you can get it running under linux

My video encoding software encodes and transcodes about 3-4x faster under linux then xp.

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

I use Vista x64 x10 times better than XP Home and XP Pro x64. I saved almost 5min in Vista vs XP Pro x64.

niko084 · May 13, 2008

CrackerJack said:
I use Vista x64 x10 times better than XP Home and XP Pro x64. I saved almost 5min in Vista vs XP Pro x64.

Vista x64 I guess I could see that... x86 not a chance...
And linux x64 will eat the crap out of both, I can't even explain....

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

How did you get adobe to work with linux. It's Mac and Windows only

niko084 · May 13, 2008

CrackerJack said:
How did you get adobe to work with linux. It's Mac and Windows only

Not using adobe... So I can't say for that software in its own. But if it will run on a Mac, you can get it to run on linux probably fairly easily.

I figure linux is faster all around because it doesn't use ram or processor really and handles things differently, probably also faster under mac os then windows I would guess, nothing new there though.

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

niko084 said:
probably also faster under mac os then windows I would guess, nothing new there though.

Yeah for now

niko084 · May 13, 2008

CrackerJack said:
Yeah for now

Windows 7

ohh I just hope they do it as well as I hope they do!!!!!

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

niko084 said:
Windows 7
ohh I just hope they do it as well as I hope they do!!!!!

Wasn't talking about Windows 7. I was talking about CS4.

niko084 · May 13, 2008

CrackerJack said:
Wasn't talking about Windows 7. I was talking about CS4.

Aww... Well.... Maybe, but I doubt it simply because of the way windiws operates...

CrackerJack · May 13, 2008

Well I just know for a fact that it will operate awhole lot better on Windows than Mac. he he

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