What is needed to edit/render vidoes

[yotano211]

I need info so that I can edit and render videos faster. I currently have 16gb 2666mhz of RAM and a i7 8850h processor clocked at 4.4ghz/6 cores, with a Nvidia 1080. To edit/render videos do I need more RAM or faster RAM, and how about the HD space. Will SSD help with editing/rendering videos.
I planning to use Vegas Pro. Specs of my computer/laptop are in the system specs.

 

[Toothless]

SSD helps with loading/saving big files. Ram might need a bump, depends on the size of file.

 

[yotano211]

SSD helps with loading/saving big files. Ram might need a bump, depends on the size of file.

This laptop does have 4 memory slots, but with 8gb sticks each. I can put in 64gb max if I take out those 2 installed right now, so I guess 48gb is max with currentl RAM.

 

[Toothless]

32GB should be fine. Check to see what the max the board and chip can handle.

 

[OutThereSomewhere]

I need info so that I can edit and render videos faster. I currently have 16gb 2666mhz of RAM and a i7 8850h processor clocked at 4.4ghz/6 cores, with a Nvidia 1080. To edit/render videos do I need more RAM or faster RAM, and how about the HD space. Will SSD help with editing/rendering videos.
I planning to use Vegas Pro. Specs of my computer/laptop are in the system specs.

Vegas Pro System Requirements

• Operating system: Microsoft® Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit) or Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Processor: 2.5 GHz 4-core processor (3 Ghz and 8 cores recommended for 4K)
• RAM: 8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended; 32 GB recommended for 4K)

I have 32GB of DDR4@2400mhz and it seems more than enough for my 1080p editing.

 

[yotano211]

32GB should be fine. Check to see what the max the board and chip can handle.

It can handle 64gb on 4 memory slots.

 

[Athlonite]

the first step is to find a program that will take full advantage of your hardware that means both CPU and GPU for rendering out video and unless you planning on working with really big or high res video footage 32GB of ram is enough

 

[Bill_Bright]

I don't know that you are going to "see" much of a performance boost when you already have a nice 16GB chunk of RAM.

More RAM trumps faster RAM any day but again, 16GB is a decent amount. So if you want to add more RAM don't worry too much about the speed of the RAM.

and how about the HD space.

You tell us. How much free disk space do you have? Don't let anyone tell you you need some "percentage" of free disk space. That's just nonsense. On a 2TB drive, that could result in a HUGE amount of wasted space. On a small drive, it could result is way too little. I generally recommend ensuring 30GB or more of free disk space, regardless how big the drive is.

If you dinked with the page file, change it back to the defaults and let Windows manage it. The only change to the PF settings that makes sense is moving the PF off the boot drive IF the boot drive is tiny.

Run Windows Disk Cleanup periodically to keep the clutter at bay.

And while an SSD will certainly improve performance with disk intensive tasks, it also improves over all computer too as it allows the OS to complete its tasks faster. That in turn, frees up resources quicker and makes them available to your running programs. A good thing. So I say go all SSD if the budget allows.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

It can handle 64gb on 4 memory slots.

Don't. Get 32gb - 64gb is OVERKILL for rendering 4k even, 32gb will have enough headroom easily - get an ssd if possible since that'll drop render times massively that should be priority for maximum performance.

 

[Voluman]

Get a proper coolingpad, or find a suitable setting to cpu/gpu that can maintain the possible highest clock for the longest time, trying avoid thermal throttling as long as you can.

 

[yotano211]

Don't. Get 32gb - 64gb is OVERKILL for rendering 4k even, 32gb will have enough headroom easily - get an ssd if possible since that'll drop render times massively that should be priority for maximum performance.

I was only thinking of getting 32gb. I talked to my friends kid who renders and he said 32gb for Vegas Pro is prefect.

Get a proper coolingpad, or find a suitable setting to cpu/gpu that can maintain the possible highest clock for the longest time, trying avoid thermal throttling as long as you can.

I use Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra on the processor. At 4.4ghz, the temps stay around low 80s.

 

[Mussels]

on a laptop you're going to hit wattage/thermal limits on the CPU, thats probably going to hold you back the most - and there isnt anything you can really do to fix that

8850h is only a 2.6Ghz CPU when all cores are active

 

[yotano211]

on a laptop you're going to hit wattage/thermal limits on the CPU, thats probably going to hold you back the most - and there isnt anything you can really do to fix that

8850h is only a 2.6Ghz CPU when all cores are active

Thats the base clock but it turbos much higher and its semi unlocked when using intel extreme utility.
The i9 8950hk is fully unlocked but this one semi.

 

[Mussels]

turbo is single core, not all core

Go fire up one of your rendering programs and see what the cores actually run at - the base clock is kind of important for all-core tasks

 

[yotano211]

turbo is single core, not all core

Go fire up one of your rendering programs and see what the cores actually run at - the base clock is kind of important for all-core tasks

I dont have anything to render atm, I can use Boinc. It goes to 4.4 on all cores.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-8850H-SoC.275940.0.html

 

[Voluman]

I use Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra on the processor. At 4.4ghz, the temps stay around low 80s.

I thought not on thermal paste but cooling pad, which is under the machine and cool it from under, like these.
I have no experience with it so you have to try it yourself to find out it works for your usage.

 

[yotano211]

I thought not on thermal paste but cooling pad, which is under the machine and cool it from under, like these.
I have no experience with it so you have to try it yourself to find out it works for your usage.

I have never use a cooling pad, I dont really have the need for one.

 

[notb]

I need info so that I can edit and render videos faster. I currently have 16gb 2666mhz of RAM and a i7 8850h processor clocked at 4.4ghz/6 cores, with a Nvidia 1080. To edit/render videos do I need more RAM or faster RAM, and how about the HD space. Will SSD help with editing/rendering videos.
I planning to use Vegas Pro. Specs of my computer/laptop are in the system specs.

First of all... you didn't say what video you're working with. You should look at bitrate, not resolution...
32 GB of RAM should be enough for a typical 4K work, i.e. you'll know that the process isn't slowed down by unnecessary caching.

As for general performance - are you really limited by what your setup offers? You're doing things on schedule or what?
Encoding video takes a long time anyway. You could try optimizing/overclocking this setup... and gain maybe 5-10%, so IMO hardly worthwhile.

 

[francisw19]

I need info so that I can edit and render videos faster. I currently have 16gb 2666mhz of RAM and a i7 8850h processor clocked at 4.4ghz/6 cores, with a Nvidia 1080. To edit/render videos do I need more RAM or faster RAM, and how about the HD space. Will SSD help with editing/rendering videos.
I planning to use Vegas Pro. Specs of my computer/laptop are in the system specs.

Your specs are completely fine for working with Vegas (or any editor for that matter). The only thing I would add is that make sure you have enough drive space to work with. If you want the best editing experience (i.e. smooth scrubbing the time line, trimming, etc.) consider either using an "edit friendly" codec (I like Cineform, personally) or proxy your footage which will make a low-res/fast decode copy that you work on, but will render out the full res in the end (Vegas supports this and it's easy to do). This is the reason I mention the disk space. Either of these options will consume more disk space but make they make the editing process much more smooth. You list a 1 TB M.2 and a 2TB mechanical in your sig - I think this would be plenty. You might need to think long-term storage for old media and projects, but you've easily got enough there to start I'd say.

 

[John Naylor]

If serious about editing, the laptop is not something I'd recommend. here's one of the best sites for building video workstations but unfortunately it's centered around Premiere.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-143

-32 GB is "entry level' for video editing
-Without that, make sure to have an adequately sized and fixed page file size, on it's own partition as close to then outer disk edge as possible, .... having a fragmented page file is a drag
-Twin SSDs, one for OS and applications and 2nd for a scratch disk is a good thing

 

[yotano211]

If serious about editing, the laptop is not something I'd recommend. here's one of the best sites for building video workstations but unfortunately it's centered around Premiere.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-143

-32 GB is "entry level' for video editing
-Without that, make sure to have an adequately sized and fixed page file size, on it's own partition as close to then outer disk edge as possible, .... having a fragmented page file is a drag
-Twin SSDs, one for OS and applications and 2nd for a scratch disk is a good thing

I'm doing it in a semi truck so a desktop is a desktop out of the question. I want to start now so that in 2 years and stuck in the middle of the ocean with tons of time I can upload good quality videos to youtube.