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I am starting to get into video editing, and since I’m builidng a pc soon, how much ram do i need?
I am starting to get into video editing, and since I’m builidng a pc soon, how much ram do i need?
What type/scale are we talking? E.g. short form, long form, 4K, etc.
Remember as well to take the GPU into account for acceleration.
Do you also plan on playing games, etc? How many slots will the motherboard have?
As above it depends what you want to do and what programs you want to use.
If you just want to take footage from a camera and chop out the bad takes, splice in stuff shot out of order and whatnot then if the machine plays it back in the first place you are good.
Adding in basic subtitles, static images or premade animations is nothing really on top of that.
You could probably add a basic key (what most people call greenscreen) for nothing notable over what a standard higher end/gamer style PC build will be these days.
Some software might choke a bit if you have 1000 clips and want to make an hour long edit with the typical every 50 frames jump cut style so popular with the kids these days. Other software will not notice anything as it only fetches what it needs when it needs it.
Where it starts getting fun is when you start to restore and enhance footage, do 3d graphics on top of things and start adding in the big boy effects. You can still do it on a more modest machine (we have been doing such things in the "not a Hollywood film editing suite" side of things, indeed even open source, for the better part of 15 years and things have got better in computer world since then) but if you want to start editing 4k footage as 4k (various phones, gopros and whatever else will do it, bit overkill if you ask me but 4k can be nice to crop down after the fact in case you did not perfectly frame things) then it will start to strain resources.
You can probably learn on 8 gigs and also do happily for 99% of what I see online and even TV*, indeed most things would need a benefit from 16. Indeed if you wanted to take the difference and invest it in either a bigger hard drive or a fancy microphone (assuming you want to talk over your videos online) that will probably be the better use of money.
*I say that but
That was their 2009 reel and much of that aired earlier still.
Yeah he gives a lot of details which is always good even if it may seem overwhelming. Just better to grab some water or snack and read at your pace.Wow thanks, this is probably the best answer I’ve gotten on the internet
I’m using sony Vegas, and it’s long form, I also plan on playing games