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Recommendations needed for video editing
When I put together my computer a year ago, I had no idea I'd want to
edit home video recordings.... but now that my wife is teaching our Border Collie how to herd sheep, I find myself with hours of footage that I need to edit and organize into reasonable videos. I'm thinking my present box is probably lacking in many areas that could be optimized, so here's what I have.... I'd appreciate recommendations on what to upgrade to get the most improvement.... I'll be using Adobe Premier Elements ver 9 for the video processing Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8400 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK (8 GB installed) GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512HP GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card SAMSUNG 2433BW 24" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500410AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (for data) (2 of these available) OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (for OS and installed software) I've tried reading several video forums, and most seem to say that the processor is what affects speed the most. If this is the case, are there any reasonable CPU changes that can be made without having to get a new motherboard? What about going to a quad core.... would that help? It "seems" like it takes a long time for Premier to react when I ask for something. would a faster drive for data help much, or am I really CPU limited? I could RAID my two 500 BG Seagates, if that might help. I backup daily to external storage anyway, so I could easily go to RAID 0.... I haven't so far because I haven't really needed faster access to data until now. Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
I'll be using Adobe Premier Elements ver 9 for the video processing Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8400 Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500410AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (for data) (2 of these available) OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (for OS and installed software) I've tried reading several video forums, You might consider posting in a UseNet group dedicated to that software. and most seem to say that the processor is what affects speed the most. Yeah, CPU and memory are the main speed elements. If this is the case, are there any reasonable CPU changes that can be made without having to get a new motherboard? What about going to a quad core.... would that help? Assuming Vista is the same as XP... Use Performance Monitor and Task Manager. I always have Performance Monitor running. I am always monitoring CPU core usage x 4, disk usage x 3 (probably should be only 2), and Internet bytes sent and received. In order to tweak CPU core usage, open Task Manager and Set Affinity. A free program called Prio might be necessary to make those settings permanent, I dunno for sure, you can check. Using Set Priority has always seemed like voodoo (I have played with that for ages), but Set Affinity does noticeable good. At least in XP, some program tasks are poorly distributed. When playing Supreme Commander 2, I can make the game run better by doing the Set Affinity thing. So... If Performance Monitor indicates that one core is being overly used at near 100%, open Task Manager and take a program process off of that core. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. That makes sense. The best advice usually comes from a forum with lots of users of the software you have in mind. Good luck and have fun. |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
It "seems" like it takes a long time for Premier to react when I ask for something. would a faster drive for data help much, or am I really CPU limited? I could RAID my two 500 BG Seagates, if that might help. I backup daily to external storage anyway, so I could easily go to RAID 0.... I haven't so far because I haven't really needed faster access to data until now. Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. Your set up is more powerful than mine. I have no problems using Premiere Pro or Elements with a Pentium 3.0ghz and 2 Gig Memory. "Slow" is relative in that you need to determine how quickly you can reasonably expect the rendering process to take. When I first started (about 10 years ago) an hours worth of film would be rendered overnight. Now I expect it to take less than an hour. What are you expecting of your computer? This activity puts any PC under pressure. It seems pointless in replacing your PC with something that will still seem "slow" if you are expecting too much of it. km |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:57:44 +0100, km wrote:
It "seems" like it takes a long time for Premier to react when I ask for something. would a faster drive for data help much, or am I really CPU limited? I could RAID my two 500 BG Seagates, if that might help. I backup daily to external storage anyway, so I could easily go to RAID 0.... I haven't so far because I haven't really needed faster access to data until now. Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. Your set up is more powerful than mine. I have no problems using Premiere Pro or Elements with a Pentium 3.0ghz and 2 Gig Memory. "Slow" is relative in that you need to determine how quickly you can reasonably expect the rendering process to take. When I first started (about 10 years ago) an hours worth of film would be rendered overnight. Now I expect it to take less than an hour. What are you expecting of your computer? This activity puts any PC under pressure. It seems pointless in replacing your PC with something that will still seem "slow" if you are expecting too much of it. km It's also worth adding that the rendering of video can be affected by the need to convert your input format into the output format. If they are both the same then the process will be quicker but if someone uses various sizes, quality and type of video (eg AVI, mpeg4, mpg etc) and is outputting to a custom size then this would prolong the process. Adobe has a number of Tutorials also see Ask Linda. Although the tutorials are expensive to buy a selection of them can be viewed for free. I am telling you this from past experience so am not 100% sure of current availability. km |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
When I put together my computer a year ago, I had no idea I'd want to edit home video recordings.... but now that my wife is teaching our Border Collie how to herd sheep, I find myself with hours of footage that I need to edit and organize into reasonable videos. I'm thinking my present box is probably lacking in many areas that could be optimized, so here's what I have.... I'd appreciate recommendations on what to upgrade to get the most improvement.... I'll be using Adobe Premier Elements ver 9 for the video processing Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8400 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK (8 GB installed) GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512HP GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card SAMSUNG 2433BW 24" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500410AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (for data) (2 of these available) OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (for OS and installed software) I've tried reading several video forums, and most seem to say that the processor is what affects speed the most. If this is the case, are there any reasonable CPU changes that can be made without having to get a new motherboard? What about going to a quad core.... would that help? It "seems" like it takes a long time for Premier to react when I ask for something. would a faster drive for data help much, or am I really CPU limited? I could RAID my two 500 BG Seagates, if that might help. I backup daily to external storage anyway, so I could easily go to RAID 0.... I haven't so far because I haven't really needed faster access to data until now. Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. As John says, you use Task Manager, to gauge how a program is responding. Programs can "block" on I/O, if the kernel is holding up the processor. Or if some other blocked resource is being used. To give an example, a few minutes ago, Internet Explorer was virtually frozen and not responding. It was a networking problem, cause by the design of the web page. The web page seemed to be stuck in a loop (for minutes at a time), and yet the browser wasn't smart enough to notice it was a loop. So if you watch Task Manager, and one of your cores isn't "pegged", then it could be that some software defect is causing the lack of response. It's one thing for an "honest" responce to be causing the problem, and quite another for your fun to be hijacked by some bug. ******* Video editors have two requirements. The first, is the ability to preview footage in the editor window. Such an action may be single threaded. A 3GHz core2 core is plenty for all except the most outrageous formats (AVCHD 1920x1080 60p), If you're dealing with SD rather than HD, you'd expect a single core to be able to handle previews without complaint. Rendering may use multithreading, allowing all available cores to be used. When I used Windows Movie Maker, by using Task Manager, I could see that most of my two cores (E8400) were being used. The rendering was still slow, I think it was roughly real time, meaning frames could be processed at about the same rate as if I was playing back the content. In principle, turning off previewing during render, could speed things up, but it's just possible that the "decode and re-encode" requires the data to be in a plaintext form anyway. So perhaps turning that off, makes no difference. Some video editors, can use other types of hardware devices, to accelerate rendering. One example is the Spurs Engine, which uses a Toshiba Cell Processor. Another is GPGPU computing, which uses the video card GPU for rendering. Depending on the age of the video editor, it may not have support for that. Industry wide, proper documentation of actual accelerator usage or performance, is lacking. (I was reading something just yesterday, where someone found their GPU rendered video slower, than their CPU. And it was a decent video card too.) A possible work flow, would be creating the output in some intermediate format, and using another tool with better rendering options for final output. In terms of hardware, with a P45 board, a quad processor might be an option. That would double your render performance. But for portions of the program that are single threaded, that might not help. I would say it has more to do with program design, than with a deficiency of your computer. Trial versions of other video editors may be available for download, and you can do some comparison shopping that way. https://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/systemreqs/ "2GHz or faster processor with SSE2 support, 3GHz processor required for HDV or Bluâray, dual core processor required for AVCHD" If you believed that, you'd be good for even AVCHD. I doubt the problem is your hard drive. If you have tons of RAM, you can split the RAM into two pieces, and store a small sample of footage on the RAM disk. It's even possible, if you have a 32 bit OS, to define RAMdisk *above* 4GB. I tried the following product, with 6GB of RAM installed, and was able to define a 2GB RAM disk above the 32 bit limit. That gave me up to 3.1GB for programs, plus 2GB defined as a super high speed storage device. http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...ftware/ramdisk I tested that software for four days, and defined the 2GB RAMdisk as part of system swap. I only saw two strange events in the four days of usage. When used as a scratch disk for hosting files, I doubt you'll have any problems at all. Using it for swap, placed extra requirements on its behavior, and it appeared to me, it wasn't entirely bulletproof. Close, but not perfect. Since I'd set a restore point before using it, I "evicted" it and returned to my normal 4GB RAM setup. (Benchmarking the RAMdisk. With 8GB installed, and a 32 bit OS, you could have up to a 4GB drive. At least, according to their website. Someone with decent RAM on their motherboard, will be able to beat these results. I'm still stuck with DDR2. Yes, that's close to 4GB per second. But more is possible, if you've got decent RAM.) http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8...am2gbabove.gif I seriously doubt compressed video footage needs to be pulled faster than about 10MB/sec off the hard drive. And even my most crappy drive, can do that. I you had totally uncompressed footage of some sort, I ran into one person who was pulling HD data off a RAID array at 135MB/sec. But not many people use or manipulate totally uncompressed video. Video is normally in a highly compressed state - the fact that processor needs to be wasted, to uncompress it again, is part of slowing the rendering process. ******* This is an example of a socket compatible processor upgrade. $340 http://www.amazon.com/Intel-1333MHz-...2272702&sr=8-1 By comparison, you could swap out the motherboard and CPU, and build a Sandy Bridge system. The upgrade would be in the vicinity of $550 or so. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...f?dmode=source Paul |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
Thanks for the great information!
I suspect that first, I was expecting too much (used to editing in Photoshop only), and really don't know enough about video yet. Quite possibly after I understand more I can make some adjustments... EX, some of the things I've tried editing are old 8 mm home movies, converted to VHS several years ago, and then to digital recently.. The quality is very poor, so it doesn't make any sense to render at a high quality video setting. I'll make some tests and see what difference it makes. |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
On Apr 8, 5:42*pm, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
Thanks for the great information! *I suspect that first, I was expecting too much (used to editing in Photoshop only), and really don't know enough about video yet. Quite possibly after I understand more I can make some adjustments... EX, some of the things I've tried editing are old 8 mm home movies, converted to VHS several years ago, and then to digital recently.. The quality is very poor, so it doesn't make any sense to render at a high quality video setting. I'll make some tests and see what difference it makes. I converted old VHS video files into digital DVD format. I thought I need a faster computer to handle this. Maybe new upgraded computer does little faster but not that faster than I would expect. The digitized process ain't much help with faster computer. Amount of memory size is not even matter. Quality of the digitized process can't be functioned by hardware. I learned mobo system has a limitation on the speed of digitized process. NO matter how faster your CPU and larger memory size is, digitizing timing and output quality is never significantly improved. So is hard drive speed. One way new upgrade computer needed is playing video game. Since I don't play any video game, I don't need new system. And new system is not even help in online video files handling. Faster CPU would not render faster online downloading speed. |
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Recommendations needed for video editing
On Apr 7, 5:04 pm, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
When I put together my computer a year ago, I had no idea I'd want to edit home video recordings.... but now that my wife is teaching our Border Collie how to herd sheep, I find myself with hours of footage that I need to edit and organize into reasonable videos. I'm thinking my present box is probably lacking in many areas that could be optimized, so here's what I have.... I'd appreciate recommendations on what to upgrade to get the most improvement.... I'll be using Adobe Premier Elements ver 9 for the video processing Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8400 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK (8 GB installed) GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512HP GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card SAMSUNG 2433BW 24" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500410AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (for data) (2 of these available) OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (for OS and installed software) I've tried reading several video forums, and most seem to say that the processor is what affects speed the most. If this is the case, are there any reasonable CPU changes that can be made without having to get a new motherboard? What about going to a quad core.... would that help? It "seems" like it takes a long time for Premier to react when I ask for something. would a faster drive for data help much, or am I really CPU limited? I could RAID my two 500 BG Seagates, if that might help. I backup daily to external storage anyway, so I could easily go to RAID 0.... I haven't so far because I haven't really needed faster access to data until now. Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'm used to single cores, or what it doesn't use being preferable, as unrelated background program processes may introduce unwanted aberrations into a final rendition or encode. MPEG2 is probably the standard to work within in terms of meeting compliance over the widest range for various optical players. TMPGEnc, say, as opposed to Adobe, might involved matching other programs for compatibility with TMPGEnc's encode, again, either by necessity or preference to supercede added functions of Adobe's suite concept. Individual programs to edit the audio track, splicing, subtitles, or a title screen to a menu items and underlying chapters, are within means to a professional, or not, product in terms of broadcast engineering. ...as close as that would be in proximity from a standpoint outside the studio, from a home PC, which in likelihood will extensively be covered within these forums. http://forum.doom9.org/ |
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On Apr 8, 4:04*am, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
Rendering is what really seems to take a long time, and I don't really know what that process "uses" in terms of hardware. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone doing similar work with video. Software is as important as hardware. Check out the freeware "Handbrake" for video editing--you can compress a normal video file by ten fold using the default settings in Handbrake, with little loss of quality. RL |
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