What are you Computer Specifications specificaly for editing video?

Sorry for my english. Here's what I just built 2 weeks ago. I also recommend this spec if anybody wants to work with AVCHD. I hope I don't offend anybody here but I made a switch from Final Cut to Premiere and Vegas last month. I must say Premiere really suites me when it comes to native editing, espcially AVCHD, no transcoding, rewrapping, time consuming or logging and transferring required. Did you know that Adobe Encore does AVCHD natively on Blu-ray without trans-coding or loosing 1 drop of quality.

all for less than $2,000 compare to a comparable configurable Mac Desktop $5,000 plus without the monitor. The following can be over-clocked scramming fast!
-Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
-Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield
-blu-ray burner Sony drive
-6gig DDR3 1600MHz doing triple channel (way enough and faster than 8gig)
-GeForce 470 with 1gig vram (a must have for native GPU editing/rendering on Premiere!)
-Hitachi 2tb archiving/raw, 1tb system, 1tb scratch/working, eSATA drives for finished products, all spinning at 72000rpm
-windows 7 oem
-samsung 23" (still waiting for the NEC EA233WMi 23")
-Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
-oh don't forget the amazing and must have Yamaha hs50m (or hs80m) monitor(speakers)!
 
Intel i7 860 - 25% OC
GA-P55A-UD3R
Palit Sonic Geforce GTX 460 1 Gb RAM Factory OCed (for mercury hardware acceleration of CS5 with the hack)
4 GB x Patriot Viper DDR3 16000
Dell U2311H 1980p Monitor
WD 1 TB 7200rpm Black Edition + few WD Green 1 & 2 TB HDDs.
Corsair TX750 750W PSU
Win 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

Need to add:

120-160 Gb Sandforce SSD (for OS and Apps)
More RAM
Adobe CS5 or at least Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premier Pro (still haven't convinced myself to shell out the money, though the above system was bought to run CS5 :) )

This is not my HT setup, so no Bluray drive and only an old Altec Lansign 2.1 speakers.
 
when i had a canon 550D i had no trouble editing the mov files but the avchd files of my GH2 are a nightmare the software keeps crashing ,it takes ages to edit a film,it will have to unless i find a solution.
 
Musical Memory said:
Budget as little as possible. It just as to play and edit HD. I don't mind waiting for rendering. I did nonlinear editing in the late 90's and we would wait days for a 30 minute render! ;-)
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For an overall budget PC, Tom's Hardware has a nice, albeit somewhat dated, build right here. It's about $500 without monitor or OS. If you'll be using CS5, you'll want to upgrade the card they use to its 1GB model.

Musical Memory said:
I don't know what NLE to use. I would like to use Adobe CS5 but it is rather complicated and expensive. I just need something that can accept plugs in like Twixtor as I love the slow motion ability of that plug in! Nobody uses time codes anymore right?
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Well, if you do want to use CS5, you'll want to get an Nvidia graphics card with at least 1GB of memory. For more information about comparability with the Mercury Playback Engine, check out this link.

Musical Memory said:
That is interesting as I read the Intel Sandy Bridge has some problems and won't be on shelfs by April...
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Correct, there were problems in some motherboards' SATA implementations. However, updated motherboards should be available soon.

I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to send me a PM.
 
I use Avid Media Composer and Adobe After Effects and have no performance issues, and very fast performance, with:
6-core AMD Phenom II 2.8 GHz, 64-bit
8 GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD5670

Although my graphics card has not had any issues it has done a few funky things so get a better one. My setup works great, and was a lot cheaper than equivalent Intel or Apple hardware. I've had After Effects render at real-time speed before.
 
my recently completed system, which runs AE/PP CS5 with dynamic link relatively smoothly:

old Dell 3007
Intel i5 2500K (3.3 GHz) - processor
G.Skill 16GB DDR3-1600 - RAM
Corsair Force F90 - boot SSD
Samsung 2TB - storage drive
EVGA GTX 570 1.2GB - video card

I really need another SSD as a scratch drive to actually do my editing on.
 
Has anyone ever thought about building a portable computer that one could lug around for on-the-spot editing? Yes, a laptop would be doable but often the specs are not as good as desktop machines. I was thinking about getting a mini-ITX case and stuffing it with a gfx460 (prefer cooler and quiet).
 
dracore said:
Has anyone ever thought about building a portable computer that one could lug around for on-the-spot editing? Yes, a laptop would be doable but often the specs are not as good as desktop machines. I was thinking about getting a mini-ITX case and stuffing it with a gfx460 (prefer cooler and quiet).
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I just ordered the new macbook pro. 2.2ghz quad i7 with 8gb ram and a 1gb vid card. Would be nice to edit some stuff on the spot.
 
I use the CS5 production suite: mostly After Effects and Premiere.

Custom Box
12 gb ram
AMD Phenom 6 core OC'ed @ 3.6 ghz
Geforce GTX 260 (need a better card)
250 gb system drive
2x 1 tb data drives
800w power supply
old 50w studio monitors

HP 23in 1080p monitor

+ 4tb home network storage

The computer when I first built it with an old Phenom II x4 black edition and 6gb or ram cost me about $600 minus O/S and Software. I think to build the same system today it would cost close to $900. Going AMD will save you a lot of money on the motherboard and CPU and give you a system that preforms very nicely for a reasonable price. Just shop new egg for bargains and you can build a pretty nice system.
 
I am a programmer + gamer so I've always built top of the line pcs. I got the new 13" macbook air (4 GB) to do iphone app coding. To my surprise iMovie 11 works wonderfully with HD footage from the GH2.

I guess the SSD and the iMovie software work wonders. Its a much better editing experience than I ever got on PC even with quad-core i7.
 
dracore said:
Has anyone ever thought about building a portable computer that one could lug around for on-the-spot editing? Yes, a laptop would be doable but often the specs are not as good as desktop machines. I was thinking about getting a mini-ITX case and stuffing it with a gfx460 (prefer cooler and quiet).
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I did it for a while, but it was just too cumbersome even though I built it from a case the thickness of about 2 brief cases. But you're right, any laptop is not as powerful as a similar desktop.
 
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