Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects?
by Chin Park
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Nov 6, 2009 at 7:14:02 pm
Hello, I wanted to know if anyone could recommend some general specs of a system that could comfortably handle doing video work (both import and export as) in HD1080P(1,920 x 1,080). And I need it to be able to also manipulate 3D objects (mostly in After Effects after I bring it in as PSD). I use mostly After Effects. I'm willing to also render out videos in pieces and put them togther in Premere or Final Cut... I'm also open to either MAC or PC.
I have a Intel duo core with 3GB RAM, and it's struggling very much. I was wondering what processor, ram, graphics card, etc I should be working with.
Re: Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects? by Bob Zelin on Nov 8, 2009 at 11:14:15 pm
easy answer to both MAC and PC
HP Z800 for PC
Mac 8 core Nehalem for Apple platform.
You want hi end - you buy the right tools. And the Z800 from HP is "low end" compared to Boxx Systems or JMR's new product with integrated 16 TB drive array, and dual Nehalem processors.
Either you are a chump, or a pro. Nothing in between.
Re: Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects? by Chin Park on Nov 9, 2009 at 4:20:22 pm
Thank you very much.
Any recommendation for amount of RAM and type of graphics card I should choose? The most frequent issues I'm running into are 1)After Effects reporting not enough ram when rendering; 2)super slow when I'm editing 3D psd's and high res images/footages in the timeline(even at quarter resolution).
I'm also going to try Maya to do the animation and see if I can get it done more efficiently that way.
Playing HD movies is not a big concern since the movies don't necessarily have to play smoothly on the computer. I'm concerned primarily with editing, exporting, etc.
Re: Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects? by Bob Zelin on Nov 10, 2009 at 5:08:29 am
Chin,
did you ever go to a video trade show, where Adobe was exhibiting their products ? Did you ever go to an official Adobe demo ? They use HP workstations at the demo.
Re: Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects? by Arnie Schlissel on Nov 11, 2009 at 2:16:05 pm
[Chin Park]"Playing HD movies is not a big concern since the movies don't necessarily have to play smoothly on the computer. I'm concerned primarily with editing, exporting, etc."
Editing without decent playback is frustrating at best. You'll need stable, smooth playback just to review your work. But it's not that hard these days to get 200-300 MB/s playback off of 3 or 4 drives striped together as RAID 0.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
http://www.arniepix.com/
Re: Good System for High-End HD Video Editing/Animation/Effects? by Tim Kolb on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:53:09 pm
[Chin Park]"
Any recommendation for amount of RAM and type of graphics card I should choose?"
The most you can afford. It will never be enough.
I'd guess that CS5 will show up (it'll be 64 bit only) with a minimum RAM recommendation of 16 and a preferred RAM spec of 32 GB.
I use NVIDIA Quadro cards...as Bob has been alluding to...not cheap, but solid.
As far as HD playing back, as long as you plan on doing no editing on the machine, that's OK...but looking at dropped frames can make judging motion pretty tough.
