Well, this is an extension of the discussion on Paragon's thread, broken off for us to discuss.
So first let me lay out the problem for those unaware.
There are three main ways to send a video into youtube to be published.
The first is to upload as-is. People who do this hate other people.
The footage is shaky, sound levels are everywhere, and it looks like a video made in bad seas.
:cut_out_animated_em
The second is to sit down and edit the video into segments, and combine them. This is fast, easy, and can produce a decent video if your not trying to entertain a lot of people.
The third way is where the issue comes in.
When you make a video that you want a lot of people to enjoy, you must invest time into the process. Stabilizing the video, correcting the color, brightness, cropping and panning, adding filters, adjusting tone, adjusting audio, adding voice overs, ECT.
When you add these all together, you get a file that is all of the bits, and you must combine the elements, and apply each element you have added to each frame. Lucky for us the PC does this for us.
Here is the issue. If you did your entire edit on a mac air, or on a atom based windows PC you will go to combine the file into one video or (render). This process for a 10min video could take up to an hour, or more, with the wrong computer. Doing an even longer video could take days, and some computers with low specs could just not render the video.
There are 3 main programs used to edit video.
Adobe premiere
Final cut pro
And the main one used by hollywood Sony Vegas Pro.
When you edit, your PC requires a few items to make the edits very fast.
Processor, 4 or more cores preferred, at least i3, but recommend an i5
Ram, 8GB tends to be plenty.
Hard drive, SSD for the program, raid for the videos.
Video card.
The processor is the heart, and it keeps you moving, the GPU is the muscle, it does all the hard work like color correction. SSD for the program makes the elements easy to access, and makes the large swap file very fast. Lastly is the ram, and hard drives to store the video on.
My build looks like this
Core i5
8GB ram
SSD
2, internal HDD's, 2TB each, and then I offload to a 5TB drive for storage, keeping a copy on the internal HDD.
I used a mini ITX case, so I could use a full size graphics card.
A note on the processor. I read many hours of reviews, and all the tests said that between the i7 and i5 there was less then a 5% difference in rendering speed. Some test showed the i7 to be more slow. The price was higher, so I didn't bother.
I wrote off AMD because of two reasons. First, I had a quad core AMD. To render took almost an hour for a 10min video. So I got the same video card, GTX 570, and plugged it into my new I%, and it took 15min for the same video, with the same settings. 4 times the speed, changing only the processor.
Next for me will be a modern GPU, I am looking at the 295 X2 by AMD graphics. It will fit in my case, and will run on my power supply. This should make my videos render about 10 times faster. so I expect about 2-3 minuets per 10 of highly edited video. I am aiming for a 20min video length, so if I had not upgraded, I would be around 2 hours of rendering at about 5amps of power, down to 10min of render at 8 amps of power.
4K
We will be trying to make the 4K transition before we deport next year. In doing so rendering times with be about 5-10 times longer then 1080P. It can be very important to build a future proof PC. Ours fits in a 12x12x18 slot in the shelf.
So first let me lay out the problem for those unaware.
There are three main ways to send a video into youtube to be published.
The first is to upload as-is. People who do this hate other people.
The footage is shaky, sound levels are everywhere, and it looks like a video made in bad seas.
:cut_out_animated_em
The second is to sit down and edit the video into segments, and combine them. This is fast, easy, and can produce a decent video if your not trying to entertain a lot of people.
The third way is where the issue comes in.
When you make a video that you want a lot of people to enjoy, you must invest time into the process. Stabilizing the video, correcting the color, brightness, cropping and panning, adding filters, adjusting tone, adjusting audio, adding voice overs, ECT.
When you add these all together, you get a file that is all of the bits, and you must combine the elements, and apply each element you have added to each frame. Lucky for us the PC does this for us.
Here is the issue. If you did your entire edit on a mac air, or on a atom based windows PC you will go to combine the file into one video or (render). This process for a 10min video could take up to an hour, or more, with the wrong computer. Doing an even longer video could take days, and some computers with low specs could just not render the video.
There are 3 main programs used to edit video.
Adobe premiere
Final cut pro
And the main one used by hollywood Sony Vegas Pro.
When you edit, your PC requires a few items to make the edits very fast.
Processor, 4 or more cores preferred, at least i3, but recommend an i5
Ram, 8GB tends to be plenty.
Hard drive, SSD for the program, raid for the videos.
Video card.
The processor is the heart, and it keeps you moving, the GPU is the muscle, it does all the hard work like color correction. SSD for the program makes the elements easy to access, and makes the large swap file very fast. Lastly is the ram, and hard drives to store the video on.
My build looks like this
Core i5
8GB ram
SSD
2, internal HDD's, 2TB each, and then I offload to a 5TB drive for storage, keeping a copy on the internal HDD.
I used a mini ITX case, so I could use a full size graphics card.
A note on the processor. I read many hours of reviews, and all the tests said that between the i7 and i5 there was less then a 5% difference in rendering speed. Some test showed the i7 to be more slow. The price was higher, so I didn't bother.
I wrote off AMD because of two reasons. First, I had a quad core AMD. To render took almost an hour for a 10min video. So I got the same video card, GTX 570, and plugged it into my new I%, and it took 15min for the same video, with the same settings. 4 times the speed, changing only the processor.
Next for me will be a modern GPU, I am looking at the 295 X2 by AMD graphics. It will fit in my case, and will run on my power supply. This should make my videos render about 10 times faster. so I expect about 2-3 minuets per 10 of highly edited video. I am aiming for a 20min video length, so if I had not upgraded, I would be around 2 hours of rendering at about 5amps of power, down to 10min of render at 8 amps of power.
4K
We will be trying to make the 4K transition before we deport next year. In doing so rendering times with be about 5-10 times longer then 1080P. It can be very important to build a future proof PC. Ours fits in a 12x12x18 slot in the shelf.