Video Editing Music Production Graphic Design Computer
Video Editing, Graphic Design and Music Production PC for under $1500
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I'm an editor, graphic designer and musician looking to drop under 1500 on a new build for those purposes as well as for moderate Gaming. I use Cakewalk Sonar (64 bit) heavily, Video Editing in Premiere Pro CC, Photo Editing in Photoshop CC. I'll be using most of the CC Applications and a handful of other music applications. I'm pretty out of the loop on what makes a powerful PC these days (my last build I bought off Dell). Im looking for a build that will last and will give me the best availability to update for the future when the need arises. I have speakers, monitors, run two Presonus Firestudio 2626 audio interfaces (need only one when not recording full bands), m-audio 2496 soundcard. I'd like to stick with Asus, Intel and Nvidia as much as possible. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks!
I'm an editor, graphic designer and musician looking to drop under 1500 on a new build for those purposes as well as for moderate Gaming. I use Cakewalk Sonar (64 bit) heavily, Video Editing in Premiere Pro CC, Photo Editing in Photoshop CC. I'll be using most of the CC Applications and a handful of other music applications. I'm pretty out of the loop on what makes a powerful PC these days (my last build I bought off Dell). Im looking for a build that will last and will give me the best availability to update for the future when the need arises. I have speakers, monitors, run two Presonus Firestudio 2626 audio interfaces (need only one when not recording full bands), m-audio 2496 soundcard. I'd like to stick with Asus, Intel and Nvidia as much as possible. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks!
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His pc is a bit much, so you use sonar, a great Daw, ive used it extensively. You want a quad core that does multi threading , if you wanted to you could also go AMD after their latest release and drop the cpu and over all price . Hackintosh is also a viable option but you are limited to Intel cpu's. You already have an interface for recording I assume. You dont need an ssd, a 7200 rpm main drive will be great and I would up that 1 tb storage drive to two or more and install all your sound libraries on it, regardless of the drive, there are only so many read writes you get out of one drive, I would do one tb as a primary drive , though with sound libraries installed on drive 2 you may not edge past a few hundred gb of installed stuff on your main drive. The video card is kinda critical for video editing, AMD is competitive but the cuda architecture is pretty solid. You can do an intel at 2.6 with a 3.6 boost , and save money, You could cut corners on the gfx card as well
http://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/videoediting#howto You can do a budget build for far under 1500 according to this article, You do have options. I consider 16gb thr preferred music production ram amount But 25 tracks on 8 , works ok but can be a bit stiff at times, with internet windows open , you will get daw time outs. The second drive is critical for storing your recording sessions in as well, that frees up dynamic processing lanes that you will use for the DAC DSP on your interface through plugins on your main drive.
http://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/videoediting#howto You can do a budget build for far under 1500 according to this article, You do have options. I consider 16gb thr preferred music production ram amount But 25 tracks on 8 , works ok but can be a bit stiff at times, with internet windows open , you will get daw time outs. The second drive is critical for storing your recording sessions in as well, that frees up dynamic processing lanes that you will use for the DAC DSP on your interface through plugins on your main drive.
And Ive read that some people are using 5400 rpm drives for the secondary drive, the reason this works isnt speed related its lessening the tasks of the maindrive by a good margin with your session files and session audio in the second drive as well as soundlibraries. One guy said hed be up to 32 tracks with no issue and having all his DAC AD/DA tasks done. 7200 is optimal but 5400 can work in a limited capacity, You wont be doing movie scores at that speed.
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SSD makes load times much faster for the OS operations and overall application usage, so SSD will enhance performance significantly if not massively.
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in the end you can more than get by with a 7200 rpm maindrive initially not just talking about ideas either, we had to compose to video in school , our orchestral template was 56 tracks , and im on a laptop, mid 2012 macbook pro. i7 2.6, 8gb ram 750gb 5400 rpm hdd. I could handle two browsers 4 pages each and a 24 track session. people overspend on tech thinking they need the fastest when in my collegiate experience that simply isnt so. there is a difference between professional and non professional use, E.G. my film scoring mentor Evan Evans has a top of the line mac pro with 18 tb of external drives, and extensive used of ssd's, but he scores up to 100 tracks on 4 monitors for major films where the income is tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands per film, But that includes him hiring the orchestra and conductor. granted his system is probably worth 20-30 k but my point here is a beginner can make due with far less.
the film students have the same macbook, same specs as do the video game design students, 650 M nvidia card. There is a reasonable basefloor between what will work and what will give you ample headroom.
the film students have the same macbook, same specs as do the video game design students, 650 M nvidia card. There is a reasonable basefloor between what will work and what will give you ample headroom.
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There is a lot of difference between desktop parts and laptop parts because laptop componets are underpowered already for lower power consumption and heat dissipation. And the build here is for desktop, not for laptop.
And you can always slow down core performance by limiting core count during processing, but when it will fall short of processing power due to underpowered parts, you wont be able to enhance the performance.
And you can always slow down core performance by limiting core count during processing, but when it will fall short of processing power due to underpowered parts, you wont be able to enhance the performance.
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you missed the point, I do believe i mentioned i handled as many as 56 tracks with the laptop. So I will reiterate, a lot can be done for much less both in video and in music. systems should be built not based on fanboy oogling but by what you actually need which could save a person hundreds if they are a novice.
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Maybe you missed the OPs first post. This is also for moderate gaming beside music and video and also he wants a powerful pc thats going to last him for a couple of years. And the OP has stipulated a budget to go with. A PC can be configured even in $500, but its for the OP to decide how much he wants to invest and what he intends to do with that.
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Again bro, im not wanting a pissing match here, I simply stated depending on what he wants he has tons of options to save money depending on the level and quality of work he is doing.
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Maybe for music and video processing, but not so much for gaming.
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Hey guys, thank you so much for your time and for the input here. I had to put the build on hold for a minute but now I think Ive found the funds.
Are there any updates to this? Any changes on Processing power? I'll be rendering alot of video HD and 4k, mastering audio mixes and recording alot with this set up. Peripheral firewire/USB3.0/etc needs to be available. Also a RAID with removable storage - I found this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816322028 to help with that.
Are there any updates to this? Any changes on Processing power? I'll be rendering alot of video HD and 4k, mastering audio mixes and recording alot with this set up. Peripheral firewire/USB3.0/etc needs to be available. Also a RAID with removable storage - I found this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816322028 to help with that.
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Hey guys, thank you so much for your time and for the input here. I had to put the build on hold for a minute but now I think Ive found the funds.
Are there any updates to this? Any changes on Processing power? I'll be rendering alot of video HD and 4k, mastering audio mixes and recording alot with this set up. Peripheral firewire/USB3.0/etc needs to be available. Also a RAID with removable storage - I found this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816322028 to hlp with that.
Are there any updates to this? Any changes on Processing power? I'll be rendering alot of video HD and 4k, mastering audio mixes and recording alot with this set up. Peripheral firewire/USB3.0/etc needs to be available. Also a RAID with removable storage - I found this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816322028 to hlp with that.
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Nice, thank you for the response. I plan on overclocking, will need a cooler, right? Any recommendations there?
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