Critique on a new video editing system

Hi,
Hi, I am about to order my new system for editing in Premiere (70%), minimal AE (5%) and some color correction (25%). Would like to hear any suggestions , advice or comments on whether this looks to be a reasonable way to spend my money when building a decent current editing system.
Specs:
Intel 5820K
Asus X-99 Deluxe
Seasonic M12II-850 Bronze PSU
Cooler Master Stryker Cabinet
Corsair 100i CPU cooler
8x4GB Gskill 2400 Mhz DDR4
Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 512GB SSD
512GB Samsung Pro SSD
Asus Strix GTX 970 4GB
2x3TB 7200 RPM Seagate Baraccuda
Monitor 1: Dell UltraSharp 24 U2414H
Monitor 2: Dell P2214H
Windows 8.1 Prof
Thanks,
RK

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Hi All,
The advice on selecting hardware for video editing in CS 6 on this forum is excellent. Many thanks to all those who have taken the time to post!
Although I am a little overwhelmed, I have tried to incorporate as much of the advice as possible and check the hardware reviews. I am relatively new to video editing and the type of work I will need to do is HD, but primarily for the internet or DVD.
I would appreciate it if anyone could take a look at the proposed build from AVA which costs about $2665 plus shipping.
COOLER MASTER, HAF 912 (RC-912-KKN1) Mid-Tower Case, ATX, No PSU, SECC/Plastic
THERMALTAKE, Toughpower™ Grand 850W Power Supply w/ Modular Cables, 80 PLUS® Gold, 24-pin ATX12V V2.3 EPS12V V2.92, 6x 8/6-pin PCIe, SLI/CrossFireX Certified
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INTEL, Core i7-3820 Quad-Core, 3.6 - 3.8GHz TB, LGA2011, 10MB L3 Cache, HT EM64T EIST VT-x VT-d XD, 32nm, 130W, Retail
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ARCTIC SILVER, Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound, Polysynthetic Silver, Electrically Non-Conductive
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EVGA, GeForce® GTX 670 Superclocked 967MHz, 4GB GDDR5 6008MHz, PCIe x16 SLI, 2x DVI + HDMI + DP, OEM
WESTERN DIGITAL, 500GB WD VelociRaptor®, SATA 6 Gb/s, 10000 RPM, 64MB cache
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RAID, No RAID, Independent HDD Drives
SONY, AD-7280S Black 24x DVD±R/RW Dual-Layer Burner, SATA, OEM
LG ELECTRONICS, WH12LS39 Black 12x/16x/48x BD/DVD/CD Blu-ray Disc™ Burner, SATA, w/ M-Disc, OEM
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The links Harm provided influenced the original build, but on his advice, I re-read them and decided to alter it and bit.
If I swap out the ASUS Rampage for the Deluxe model, replace the Velciraptor with a Seagate 2TB, and the water cooling with a COOLER MASTER, Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (rated Gold by hardwaresecrets), then I can upgrade to the larger COOLER MASTER, HAF 932 Advanced and keep the price about the same.
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The Corsair AX850 Gold power supply does indeed seem to be a better choice.
There doesn't seem to a concensus in the all the discussions relating to using a SSD vs a hard drive for the boot disk. However, since boot speed is not an issue for me I don't need an SSD and the Velociraptor seems to a unnessary expense. While I don't need 2TB for the boot drive, they are not much more than the 1TB.
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New video editing pc.. will this work ? i'm new here, please help me out

hi everybody my name is mark, . i really hope i write and express myself correctly
first of all i'd like to say i love this forum. there are some brilliant ppl here with great advice.
special props to Mr Harm Millaard.. wow u know sum serious s*** !
i'm a pro musician my thing has always been protools, recording production etc. its time for me to get into video using adobe premiere pro
mostly i'll be doing my own music vids for my solo projects and for my band as well as professionally done as possible. i'm a nebie at all things video but i'm totally obsessive when it come to creative projects. it helps with the learning curve (:
this is my courant rig setup
http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131405
http://CPU INTEL|CORE I5 750 2.66G R
http://MEM 4Gx2|GSKILL F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
3 Wd hd's 160 500 and 640 gb's
2 monitors 22' hanns g and a 19 "something
i believe a 400 or 450 w powersupply
stock vidow card
2 cd/dvd
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http://Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
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http://HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://EVGA 012-P3-1470-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
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http://Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
total 1,399.92 i'm pretty much at my budget max
will this setup be able to handle both my protools and adobe premier cs5? am i missing something ?
what would be the best HD set up wise for max audio/video performance ? i was thinking a dual boot ?
with 2 new hd's i'll have 5 all told.
3 for video... 150 veloci raptor 2tb Hitachi and WD 640
..2 for protools... the wd 160 and the WD 500
i guess i'm looking for the best way to set up my rig for max audio/video performance and pass the information on to my cuz who's in the pc building biz his thing is gaming not so much video editing.
i really hope i wrote this out correctly so everybody can understand what i'm trying to say and will be able to give me the proper guidance i need
let the suggestions begin
thank u for your time
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thanks for your support guys. it now looks like i'm changing up my rig again. looks like were going to be going with a RAID set up
3 x http://Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
1 http://Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive which i already have on the rig i'm using
my cousin gino orffitelli who's mainly a gamer builder for his company ePro had this to say in an email to me last nite.. he gave kool props to the adobe forums
'finally had a few min read through your email and skim the links you made in adobe'.....'as far as storage is concerend i believe the mobo's your looking at support RAID and from what i read thanks to your links, RAID 5 offers the best performance and saftey which means 4 HDD's.....' with the knowlege base your building and contacts u have you and i may just open a new direction for ePRO'.....
i try my hardest to understand RAID but since i'm a novice with computers its really hard for me to grasp it...http://forums.adobe.com/thread/525263
my brain is in overload insane trying to process all this (:
so guys... RAID 5 with the rest of the hardware i'll be using ?
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thanks again guys
mark

For those of you who cannot afford a proper video editing system...

...don't buy any prosumer video editing program (including Premiere Pro CS5.5). Here's why:
Last night, I ran the PPBM5 test on an Intel i3-2100 system with 4GB of DDR3-1333 RAM, a 500GB OS drive and a 1TB project drive (both drives are 7200 RPM) and integrated (onboard) Intel HD Graphics 2000. (This is the kind of system that one might buy for the purpose of Interner surfing and some limited gaming.) I have just submitted the results to the PPBM5 site.
The result?
With a total time of 976 seconds, that system is around 20 times slower than a fast i7 system (although it was marginally faster than the other systems with dual-core CPUs on the PPBM5 results list). That i3-2100 system also proved that no system with a dual-core CPU performed as fast as a system with even a mediocre-performing quad-core CPU.
In other words, at the lower end, you get what you pay for. This post and thread is to inform how senseless it is to cheap out on the components when building a video editing build.

If you absolutely can't afford the "fully ready" cost of...
16GB DDR3-1333 RAM: $120
4 x 1TB 7200 RPM SATA hard drives: $240
320GB or 500GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive (for OS): $45
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8GB DDR3-1333 RAM (2x4Gig)
2 x 1TB 7200 RPM SATA hard drives
320GB or 500GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive (for OS)
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1 - 320G WD Win7 64bit Pro and all program installs
2 - 320G WD Win7 swap file and video project files
3 - 1T WD all video files... input & output files
Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows swap file
http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US
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Hi guys.
I regularly work with video editing and I'm looking for a new monitor, my budget is not very high so I need to do a good choice.
For me the most important thing is image quality, I need a monitor I can trust the colors.
I was thinking of getting a DELL monitor because I always heard good things about them.
I would really apreciate if you could help me.
Thanks in advance.
César

César_Sousa wrote:
For me the most important thing is image quality, I need a monitor I can trust the colors.
Depends on what your output will be. If you are only going to show your video on the web, then a computer monitor that you can get a good calibration on should do fine. Calibration buys you a defined working space -- a solid neutral axis, no color casts, known edges of gamut, proper contrast, etc. All monitors will vary from this to some degree, but your calibrated monitor will show you the median, which is what you want for WYSIWYG work. So the people looking at your web videos will see something pretty close to what you intended.
OTOH, if you output will be DVD / BD, or broadcast TV, few computer monitors will show you the correct working space, which for HDTV is Rec.709. If you want WYSIWYG, you'll have to have Rec.709, there's no real way around it. This will take a production monitor (or an expensive computer monitor -- a couple of the Eizos can do this, and the HP Dreamcolor if it's still in production), which is considerably more expensive than a computer monitor. Low end production monitors start around 10x your budget, largely because they are made in much smaller numbers than computer monitors, and have much higher specifications; they just cost more to make.
If you want to output for a film print, you're talking real money. It's been awhile; I don't remember what the "standard" film working space is called, and of course it will vary somewhat depending on the film stock and the film recorder being targeted. But making a film print for distribution is sort of a silly thing to do these days.
A better path would be to a DCP (digital cinema package) which requires the CIE XYZ color space. There are monitors that support this too, and way beyond most budgets, save those of post-production houses.
If you are stuck with your budget and still want to author DVDs, about the best you can do is use a decent computer monitor, use the sRGB (not Adobe RGB or any wider gamut working space), calibrate it (without calibration you've got little hope of WYSISYG), and bump your contrast up to approximate Rec.709. Then work primarily off your scopes (waveform monitor, vectorscope, RGB parade) and not primarily off what you see. Burn a DVD / BD, and iterate making corrections and burning discs until you get what you want. It's an imprecise and much slower workflow, but it's doable in a budget pinch.
EDIT: You might also want to pick up a copy of Van Hurkman's Color Correction Handbook. Does a much better job explaining what you need than I can possibly do. And it's a wonderfully accessible tour of color correction. Answers questions you haven't thought to ask yet. At least, it does for me.

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Hello,
I would like to know how to properly format a new 2 TB Hitachi hard drive that I have for my early 2008 Mac Pro that will be installed in drive slot 3. Information at the following link explains that:
"Journaling is essential for OS disks (boot drives), but for disks used for video media, used for editing purposes, Journaling is not advised, as it can affect the speed of data being written. For video media (scratch) drives you would want to select the Mac OS Extended, no journaling."
"Journaling only affects the speed of either writing to or modifying a file, it has no effect on the read speed of files. If you're writing a lot of data, for for a long period of time, like capturing video, the write speed of the data will slow down, as the Journaling record keeps updating it's self."
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/formatting_hd_macstone.html
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In addition I would also make that drive "private" to spotlight so it doesn't search or catalogue there.
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partition 2 - make this the remainder of the capacity
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Ive followed this for years and it has worked on the few occasions a drive has misbehaved.
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asus P7X79 Pro mobo,
16GB Ripjaws 2400mhz DDR5,
Intel i7 3930K 3.2Ghz,
Intel 250GB SSD (Boot),
2 x WD Raptor 500GB Drives in RAID (Media storage),
2 x 120gb SSD drives both scratch.
ATI HD 7950 3GB Graphics (I know NVIDIA for MPE) but I cannot justify buying a Quadro card as this system is only 8 months old and was well suited to the graphics and illustration work.
NEC PA301W 30" IPS screen (25th Wedding Anniversary present)
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I'll take all the help/advice you can offer.

GraphiteGal,
Your system is quite strong overall, and your 25th Anniversary gift 30" sounds pretty sweet, but you do have two weak spots in the "balance" for a top notch Premiere Pro rig.
Most importantly, you should get a nVidia GTX video card to support the MPE (Mercury Playback Engine) capability. You do not need a Quadro and a GTX 670 or something similar would be a great fit for your other components.
Secondly, but WAY less critical, 32GB or even 64GB of RAM would help some with render speed. It would also help a lot with After Effects, but you did not state that you use it now.
Regards,
Jim

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Hi guys, new to this forum, just want your opinions on this potential new system I'm looking to put together.
Case: Coolermaster CM Storm Trooper
CPU: Overclocked Core i7-3930K @ 4.6GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 Pro: Intel Socket 2011
RAM: 32GB Kingston HyperX Quad DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics Card: 1.5GB NVidia GeForce GTX 580
Hard Disk 1: 120GB Intel 520 Series SSD, (550MB/sR 520MB/sW)
Hard Disk 2: 120GB Intel 520 Series SSD, (550MB/sR 520MB/sW)
Hard Disk 3: 2TB WD Caviar Black (7200rpm)
Optical Drive: 12x Blu-Ray RW Drive, 16x DVD (I know this is probably irrelevant though)
Power Supply: Corsair 850W Enthusiast Series Bronze
Processor Cooling: Intel Cert. Liquid CPU Cooler (2011)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Many thanks!

Looks good to me!! Realistically, you'll only need 750w of power, but if you have the money for 850w, then go for it!. Sounds similar to the system I'm hoping to build in the next week or two:
Case: Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 Pro: Intel Socket 2011
RAM: Kingston Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G)
Graphics Card: Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Goes Like Hell 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Hard Disk 1: Corsair Force GT 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F60GBGT-BK) for SSD caching
Hard Disk 2: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001)
Optical Drive: LG GH22NS90 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Power Supply:Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK)
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OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649)
Memory Card Reader: Akasa USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Memory Card Reader (Internal header) (AK-ICR-14)
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Have been doing a ton of reading on different forums and everyone has come to similar conclusions that this is about as hard as it gets, but seeing as I will be moving around a lot in the next year and my organization has agreed to pay $2500ish for one here we are...
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$2300 + Tax and shipping extra
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500GB / 7200RPM
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Thanks a lot,
Aaron

In reply to the question about the Quadro GPU in comparrison to other nVidia cards. A useful table available on the nVidia website shows the specs of Quadro Mobile cards. If you compare the K2000M specs with the specs of the GTX660M, which is a mid to high end Kepler GTX card you will notice they are very similar except the 660M uses faster DDR5 memory and has a considerably better memory transer rate (28.8GB/s as compared to 64GB/s) perhaps only thanks to the faster memory since the momory interface is 128-bit in both cases. Oh also the Quadro cards will give 10-bit output compared to the GTX's 8-bit, which is only useful if you were going to plug a 10-bit external display into the machine.
Personally, if Lenovo had a higher end Kepler Quadro or a Kepler GTX card available I would have been more inclined towards them as a candidate for my own imminent purchase.
Inspite of saying that, you will find the two top laptops on the PPBM5 table are infact Quadro cards (not even Keplar) and they are in a Lenovo laptop. I suspect that the 'hobbling' or de-tuning that nVidia does to the mobile cards (compare the GTX660M to the GTX660) so they will run more comfortably in a laptop is much less for Quadro compared to the GTX cards.
I am not an expert and only reply in a sincere attempt to guide you to information available from nVidia and add my perspective. Others may like to comment...
Goodluck
Peter.

Do you Agree that this editing system its good?

I every one, my friend would like to buy this video editing system dose every one agree that this is best system for future film 3K & 4K videos.
Software: Adobe Pr & Ae CS5
Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit
2 Intel® Xeon® Quad-Core Processor X5677 (3.46 GHz, 12 MB cache, 1333 MHz memory)
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Unbuffered RAM
OCZ Vertex 2 Series Solid State Drive - 90GB -SATA SSD
2 TB Hard Disk
16X SATA SuperMulti LightScribe DVD+/-RW
NVIDIA GTX 480
Or using ( Intel Core i7-980X Processor Extreme ) its better then 2 Intel® Xeon® Quad-Core Processor X5677 (3.46 GHz, 12 MB cache, 1333 MHz memory)

a 980x stock will outperform a dual Xeon up to 2.8GHZ.
after that the dual xeons start to win. (2.93 and up)
it also depends on layer count, effects count and codec and color bit depth. the nastier the project the more the Xeons will do better.
where a standard AVCHD with 3-5 layers would be better on the 980x (price point per performance)
note i have not talked about OCing at this point.
assuming OCing both platforms, 2 xeons @ 4GHz are better than 1 980x @ 4ghz..
the question is do you need that kind of horsepower. most do not. and its not cheap.
lastly the system needs to be balanced. it would be foolish to have say a dual xeon @ 4ghz, 12 gig ram and only 3 hdds.
vs a 980x @4ghz 24gig ram and an 8 drive raid.
Scott
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Does email interfere with a FCP editing system?

Old school system setup prohibited email or even internet on a video edit system partition. For example, my Avid DS system specified NO external connections, no internet, no email, no local network, nothing. Avid didn't even want a Jazz drive connected.
Is this still the practice on Final Cut Pro systems? I have always had email and net on my FCP partition, but I can't say it has ever been totally stable.
What is common practice now? Does anyone have trouble from this stuff today

Nope...works fine.
I can e-mail, surf the web and use iChat on my editing system.
I don't, as I have a laptop that I use for this, but when I was without one for a week, I did that all the time.
No problems. Avid used to have probelms, and had to be set up VERY SPECIFICALLY. And Avid DS was the worse. Now you can use e-mail with Avids, the later models.
And it has never been a problem with FCP.
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