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PC for Video Editing Help

Andy_con

Andy_con

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I currently have a laptop i use for editing drone videos and its really starting to struggle with longer videos. its becoming unusable.

videos are 4k, about 1gb per minute and total length of a finished video might be 2mins. but it could be made up of several 1gb videos all editing together.

what sort of PC is recommended for simple video editing, i use filmora. would also need a 4k screen to go with it.
 
I bought an MSI gaming laptop to do my editing on, crunches through hours of 4-track, 4k, 60 fps footage with ease.

i9 processor, Nvidia 3060 graphics card, only a 1080 screen but 144hz, works well enough for me.

Cost about £1400 IIRC.
 
MarkCup said:
I bought an MSI gaming laptop to do my editing on, crunches through hours of 4-track, 4k, 60 fps footage with ease.

i9 processor, Nvidia 3060 graphics card, only a 1080 screen but 144hz, works well enough for me.

Cost about £1400 IIRC.
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Way more than the money I have at the moment 😕
 
Darren S said:
What's the spec of the current laptop doing the editing?
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I imagine they wouldn’t be much better than your laptop tbh.

The second one would actually be worse with its 10 year old processor.
 
Does it have to be a laptop?

There's a big compromise on options and capability of a laptop over a similar desktop. Most people think they need a laptop - and then proceed to never move it from their desk or table. In which case a desktop would have been far better.

I have a laptop for work - but don't really use it in terms of a screen to work with. It's into a docking station with 2x 27" monitors connected, and a proper keyboard and mouse. I just have the laptop's screen on for Outlook and little else. If work would let me, I'd swap that for a desktop in an instant.
 
Darren S said:
Does it have to be a laptop?

There's a big compromise on options and capability of a laptop over a similar desktop. Most people think they need a laptop - and then proceed to never move it from their desk or table. In which case a desktop would have been far better.

I have a laptop for work - but don't really use it in terms of a screen to work with. It's into a docking station with 2x 27" monitors connected, and a proper keyboard and mouse. I just have the laptop's screen on for Outlook and little else. If work would let me, I'd swap that for a desktop in an instant.
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Desktop is fine
 
If I can get the price down would it worth getting, by worth getting I mean a big improvement over my laptop?
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Got mine out of the bin from work, got 2 actually. Dell precision 7740 i7 🤷‍♂️. Slapped a battery in one and 64gb of ram, run VSDC free. Seems ok. My other laptop just cooks itself when I try doing anything video related.

Edit scrap that, just checked ebay
 
i really need to pull my finger out and get a decent PC.

DJI are about to release a new drone, which can capture in 6k. this is going to make my laptop struggle even more!

whilst i get the below isnt top of the range or cutting edge, im assuming it would be way better than my little old laptop (specs above)

 
Andy_con said:
i really need to pull my finger out and get a decent PC.

DJI are about to release a new drone, which can capture in 6k. this is going to make my laptop struggle even more!

whilst i get the below isnt top of the range or cutting edge, im assuming it would be way better than my little old laptop (specs above)

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It will be considerably better than your laptop, but it might struggle a bit if you're dealing with 6K video data/stream. 16GB RAM is not enough and 8GB GPU VRAM is not enough these days. Ideally, you would want 32GB RAM minimum, a 16GB GPU, and as much fast NVMe / SSD storage as you can afford (probably a couple TBs as 6K video will chew through storage space as well, especially if raw or high quality). The CPU is not too bad.
 
SharkyUK said:
It will be considerably better than your laptop, but it might struggle a bit if you're dealing with 6K video data/stream. 16GB RAM is not enough and 8GB GPU VRAM is not enough these days. Ideally, you would want 32GB RAM minimum, a 16GB GPU, and as much fast NVMe / SSD storage as you can afford (probably a couple TBs as 6K video will chew through storage space as well, especially if raw or high quality). The CPU is not too bad.
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this is outside of my budget, but could be an option

 
 
whilst the new PC is ace, so much better than my laptop. there is one issue, the shitty spinning hard drive!

ive not had a computer with a spinning hard drive for years, ive forgotten how slow they are. it really lets the PC down.

whilst swapping out is pretty straight forward, sadly the spinning hard drive has windows installed on it. the PC has a second drive already installed and this is an SSD.

what are my options for not having to buy anther copy of windows if i swap the hard drive out?
 
Andy_con said:
whilst the new PC is ace, so much better than my laptop. there is one issue, the shitty spinning hard drive!

ive not had a computer with a spinning hard drive for years, ive forgotten how slow they are. it really lets the PC down.

whilst swapping out is pretty straight forward, sadly the spinning hard drive has windows installed on it. the PC has a second drive already installed and this is an SSD.

what are my options for not having to buy anther copy of windows if i swap the hard drive out?
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Windows is tied to the motherboard so it will automatically activate when you reinstall and go online.
 
Daz... said:
Windows is tied to the motherboard so it will automatically activate when you reinstall and go online.
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I never knew that.

So could I use the 1TB M.2 NVMe as the main drive with windows on and the 2TB HDD for just storage?

I wouldn't even know where to start with doing this.
 
Download the windows installer from Microsoft, it’s all pretty self explanatory and gives you pointers along the way.
 
Random question

I purchased a dell 4k screen with the PC, the screen came with a usb c cable.

When I plug the USB c cable into the screen and pc, nothing. I've google it but can't find any answers. I've used a hdmi cable for now but should I be using the usb c cable, are there any advantages? Or just stick with the hdmi cable?
 
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