XtremeConditioning
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AMD FX-8350
8GB DDR3 RAM
And then I've got 2x R9 270's, a nice BluRay drive, etc, etc, but of course it's mostly your processor that matters, unless you accelerate with your GPU, and most don't anyway...
This gives me approx a 1:1 render time, suppose I'm going from 1080p, and simply rendering in 1080p, it's about a minute of render time per minute of video, depending on bit rate, what I'm doing, etc.
If downscaling or upscaling, it's more like 1.5-2 minutes of rendering per minute of video. Again, it also matters if you resample (I almost never do) as well as how much you're compressing the source video, etc.
But you don't need this just to edit video, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. A decent i3 laptop will be fine for 1080p editing, just make sure it has at least 4GB of RAM, preferably 8GB.
You'll have to render more like 3 minutes/min of video, maybe more, but if you upload even a video a day, but more likely a video or three a week, that setup will be fine, and you can get a laptop like that for less than $200. Such as an i3 3130m, or the like.
Don't get hardware you don't need, unless you're going to either be gaming as well, or if you are going to be making several videos a day. If you are, a better machine makes sense. For me, it's mostly gaming, so for video editing, I just happen to have this bulked up rig.
8GB DDR3 RAM
And then I've got 2x R9 270's, a nice BluRay drive, etc, etc, but of course it's mostly your processor that matters, unless you accelerate with your GPU, and most don't anyway...
This gives me approx a 1:1 render time, suppose I'm going from 1080p, and simply rendering in 1080p, it's about a minute of render time per minute of video, depending on bit rate, what I'm doing, etc.
If downscaling or upscaling, it's more like 1.5-2 minutes of rendering per minute of video. Again, it also matters if you resample (I almost never do) as well as how much you're compressing the source video, etc.
But you don't need this just to edit video, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. A decent i3 laptop will be fine for 1080p editing, just make sure it has at least 4GB of RAM, preferably 8GB.
You'll have to render more like 3 minutes/min of video, maybe more, but if you upload even a video a day, but more likely a video or three a week, that setup will be fine, and you can get a laptop like that for less than $200. Such as an i3 3130m, or the like.
Don't get hardware you don't need, unless you're going to either be gaming as well, or if you are going to be making several videos a day. If you are, a better machine makes sense. For me, it's mostly gaming, so for video editing, I just happen to have this bulked up rig.