video editing

[poisonspike]

Hi i'm looking to start video editing, however i'm reading alot of mixed sites across the net on which hardware will make my experience as smooth as possible. I'm willing to change parts where needed to make the process faster as i hate waiting if i'm honest. I cant decide which storage drives are best ssd/sas or sata? I have read that all data gets buffered through the os drive regardless of if the data is stored on a separate drive therefore meaning it will degrade ssd drives really quickly, is this true? I have considered sas or sas 2.0 however cant find how much of a real difference there is between onboard sas controller or pcie raid card so is it reaaly worth the extra money?. I understand WD black drives are good performers, but again do i need a pcie raid card to get the most out of them?. I understand i cant raid ssd's as i would need trim but could a single ssd outpeform raid 0 sas drives with only seek time being there advantage, or is sas raid overkill. I dont mind spending the money just dont want to get it wrong and have to waste money replacing, can anyone help explain which drives would best suit a mostly video editing pc?

Many thanks in advance for any help

 

[tinytomlogan]

If you are planning a lot of editing just get a Samsung Spinpoint F3 1tb for storage and then have an SSD as the boot drive dude. Raid / SAS wont make any difference to the render times what so ever.

Youll also need to spend as much as you possibly can on cpu & ram if you want it done quick.

Ive got a i7 970 Hexcore and 12GB of ram plus a huge overclock and 30min videos still take my system an hour to render, a ten min vid is about 20mins.

 

[BigIan88]

*goes to run and hide*

Tom - you know how long it takes me so I wont embaress myself in public by saying it.

But in short, to render and upload a 15 min video to youtube takes between 4-5 hours in total...

 

[clutchuser]

If you use Adobe Premiere for editing, It will take advantage of Cuda technology via the Murcury Playback Engine as well. It will send all Video FX to your GPU instead of CPU for real time playback. You would be able to add five layers of Hd video with blur and color correction to each layer and still play it back with out a problem in real time. The card has to have at least 1gb of ram in order for it to qualify for MPE. Adobe premiere will only use 96 of the Cuda cores so anymore than that and they wont get used. also its sure helps if the ram is ddr5.

 

[Pullen]

Sorry to slightly hi-jack, I'm looking to start frapsing/editing/uploading and want to know if there's any good software out that makes full use of the cuda cores, as I've got 580 SLI I have a feeling it will be tons better than through my CPU lol.

 

[clutchuser]

Sorry to slightly hi-jack, I'm looking to start frapsing/editing/uploading and want to know if there's any good software out that makes full use of the cuda cores, as I've got 580 SLI I have a feeling it will be tons better than through my CPU lol.

The Only software for editing that i know of that uses Cuda is Premiere pro cs5, and the 580 is really overkill for that and doesnt use the SLI feature. like i said as of now. premiere only uses a max of 96 cuda cores. you will still want a good CPU for encoding and rendering.