Video Editing Rig Ideas
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I think you might need to do some more research on this. Can the software you use do GPU offloading? It might affect your choice of GPU then. It might also be a reason to actually pick Intel over AMD (CPU offloading for encoding). Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance. I haven't been keeping up with the latest and greatest and don't know what camera you will be using, what format, bit rate, bit depth etc. But I would makes sure to use a hardware/software combination that can do GPU/CPU offloading if possible and is suitable for the formats you need to work in. Anyway, camera, editor and hardware need to be considered as a system.
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@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.
I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265, all 4K and 5K.
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@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
But I would makes sure to use a hardware/software combination that can do GPU/CPU offloading if possible and is suitable for the formats you need to work in. Anyway, camera, editor and hardware need to be considered as a system.
Well I'm using everything on an A10 with a fraction of this CPU performance and essentially no GPU performance today. Moving to the supported NVidia GPU rendering, and doubling for sure and easily tripling total CPU performance, it's hard to believe that this won't work well. Maybe not ideal, but SO much better than what I've been doing.
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As bad as the A9 is, I can't believe you find an A10 usable for video editing at all...
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@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Well I'm using everything on an A10 with a fraction of this CPU performance and essentially no GPU performance today.
During your video editing, CPU/GPU are not that critical. But during final export (encoding), CPU/GPU should always work at 100% utilization.
I think Ryzen 5 with 16GB RAM and NVMe will be just fine. (I would not be satisfied with A10) -
@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.
I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265
Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?
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@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.
I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265
Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?
The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
During your video editing, CPU/GPU are not that critical. But during final export (encoding), CPU/GPU should always work at 100% utilization.
It's awfully handy having real time rendering, it's amazing how much easier it is to find problems when you have that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.
I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265
Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?
The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice.
This is not a good choice. You want to edit in a format that is easy to decode and H.265 is not. So to be able to edit you either have to re-encode your H.265 video clips into another format (aka transcoding) suitable for your editor or suffer much slower editing performance.
If you shoot in H264 you can probably edit it directly without much impact. The editing software will re-encode it on the fly.
H.265 is a delivery format.
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@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas:
Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance.
I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265
Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265?
The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice.
This is not a good choice. You want to edit in a format that is easy to decode and H.265 is not. So to be able to edit you either have to re-encode your H.265 video clips into another format (aka transcoding) suitable for your editor or suffer much slower editing performance.
If you shoot in H264 you can probably edit it directly without much impact. The editing software will re-encode it on the fly.
H.265 is a delivery format.
GoPro says h264 only for legacy older devices. H265 is their editing format.
H265 works fine on newer hardware.
