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we have built a lot of gaming focused systems in our time

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and a gaming pc can act as a very competent

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video editing workstation but here's the thing

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if you don't care about gaming there are ways that you can change your

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configuration to both save money and improve performance and thanks to

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viewsonic sponsoring this video and sending over one of their vp 2785 4k

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professional displays we are going to be doing it in style

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let's set aside our display for now though and talk instead about what

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you're going to be viewing on it if you're a content creator these days

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chances are you're not only shooting or capturing in 4k but you're editing in 4k

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too and for good reason many productions master their content at

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much higher resolutions than the intended delivery format because more

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resolution provides a number of benefits including extra versatility for vfx and

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the ability to reframe a shot in post without losing a significant amount of

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quality hey editor actually can you show them how far you can zoom in on me thanks to

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our 8k camera pretty cool right furthermore a higher

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resolution original source let's say uh

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one that said 5k or 6k reduces certain types of visual

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artifacts and results in a greater amount of detail when the video is

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eventually down scaled and compressed to be cheaply delivered over the internet

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like on netflix or youtube that's a basic rule of compression garbage in

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garbage out and vice versa anyone can benefit from high

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resolution footage if they've got the hardware to work with it

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but what exactly does that mean i mean

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if you want to get technical about it just about any modern computer can edit

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4k video so long as you've got enough patience

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but if it's a smooth experience you're after then depending on the types of

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formats that you shoot in and the types of effects you want to apply then the

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hardware choices start to matter a great deal

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and since smoove is kind of subjective

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it gets really challenging to choose the right parts for a budget rig

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fortunately we've got you guys

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if you work with a lot of h.264 encoded media then chances are that you'll want

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to take advantage of Intel's uhd graphics for better performance but

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since our goal was to build an all-rounder machine that can handle a

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mix of formats comfortably we've turned to team red with the ryzen 5 3600 this

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six core 12 thread processor is a great value and as you can see from puget

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systems excellent article on the subject it even trades blows with team blue's

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eight core processors in some professional workloads thanks to zen's

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architectural advantages in CPU encoding and decoding if you read their

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methodology though you'll probably notice that they used ddr4 2666 for

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testing not only is 3 200 megahertz RAM usually

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just as cheap 3rd gen ryzen absolutely

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loves fast RAM so after some load testing with our sample 4k footage we've

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settled on 16 gigs of 3200 megahertz

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memory as our baseline now obviously if you work with very complex timelines 16

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gigs may not be enough for you so in that case you should grab a 32 gig kit

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or even more as an added bonus you can usually get 3 600 megahertz for about

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the same price as 3 200 megahertz at these capacities which should give you a

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small performance boost now some of you may not actually like our choice of

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motherboard but at the time of writing availability

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is pretty poor for b450 chipset motherboards that have the combination

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of features vrm capacity and the

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out-of-the-box support for 3rd gen ryzen that we're after without needing AMD's

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BIOS upgrade kit so we went with the b450a pro from MSI at 95

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now once factory updated b450 boards are commonplace or a 500 series b chipset

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comes along you might be able to save a further 20 or so if you play your cards

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right speaking of which our graphics card

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sadly for team red NVIDIA pulls off a pretty healthy lead in both the adobe

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suite and in davinci resolve and while

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you don't need a high-end graphics card for just straight video editing when it

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comes to GPU accelerated encoding which you can do with third-party media

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encoder plug-ins or real-time application of effects like lumetri

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color vr denoising optical flow and

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especially after effects mogarts you will definitely want a dedicated

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graphics processor of some kind in your system even if you were running on team

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blue after some experimentation we determined that the GPU load wasn't

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particularly high on our rtx 2060 which

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had been our first choice so we eventually settled on the NVIDIA gtx

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1650 it will not handle 8k red footage

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at full resolution like the 2060 will but the thing is that's not what we're

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here for today so in it goes now let's talk storage if we

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really needed to save a buck we would start with a reasonably priced boot

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drive SSD like this NVMe 500 gig samsung

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970 evo this will keep your operating system feeling nice and snappy while

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also acting as a scratch disk for render effects nested clips and proxies

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then for our bulk footage we'd go with

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our hard drive packaging sucks well a pair of high-capacity commodity hard

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drives that would come in a little piece of plastic like this we went with a

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couple of seagate nas drives now the size of the drives you choose really

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depends on how many projects you expect to have on the go at a time but here are

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some general guidelines that we've put together for you for how much storage

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you can expect your footage to take up now in a perfect world guys we would

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store our raw footage on an external drive of some sort in fact we've got a

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second installment in this series planned where we're going to build a safe affordable external network storage

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box so make sure you're subscribed for that

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finally there's the case in power supply even though we aren't likely to be

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thermally constrained with these kinds of specs we're not looking for the

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bottom of the barrel here either so fractal's focus g is today's case choice

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it looks professional enough that you could bring a client around without it

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being embarrassing and it's got decent ergonomics for when you're building and

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decent airflow without breaking the bank other options here include the cougar

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mx330 and the phanteks p300 the latter

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of which includes a tempered glass side panel if you'd like a little bit more of that aesthetic in your life for our

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power supply we're playing it safe with Corsair cxm 2015 edition it's 80 plus

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bronze modular and is often on sale with good overall performance for its price

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it is worth noting that if you wanted something a little better and potentially more reliable for an extra

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thirty dollars you can grab the fsp hydro ptm that's rated in the ultra high

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end in the psu tier list that's hosted on our forums and then if you wanted to

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save twenty dollars for a shirt from lttstory.com you could also drop down to

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a non-modular 450 watt Corsair cx 2017

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and that's it that makes for a total system cost of

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just over 925 dollars for a setup that can do real

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work and that you can even get paid with of course we still need to actually

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demonstrate all of that so let's get this thing fired up and see

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how it runs we'll be using Windows's built-in

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software raid 1 mirroring in order to ensure that in the event of a physical

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drive failure we won't lose any of our project data but there are a couple of

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things about this solution that i want to emphasize one i cannot condone storing anything

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important on a single mechanical drive no matter how tight your budget is you

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must have anything important in at least two places

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and number two raid

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is not a backup in the event of a ransomware infection

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accidental deletion natural disaster that physically affects your computer or

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software corruption that second drive could end up being exactly as

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compromised as the first one and not do anything for you so this is our bare

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minimum recommendation that also assumes that you will be very careful with your

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setup okay then so with all that out of the way um dennis do you want to come in

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and try out our amazing budget editing setup yes

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so this is some footage shot on the blackmagic pocket 4k uh stay stay on the

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purple one uh of brandon's dog basically i just want you to tell me about the

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experience like does it meet your expectations for working with this 4k

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footage okay i'm playing fall right now yep scrubbing through

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pretty good oh my god wow brandon your dog got fat dude so we've got real time

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color we've applied some effects and we're still not dropping any frames even

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though we're playing back in full quality okay now you're dropping frames what did you do to my just what did you

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do to my computer fast forward oh okay so now we're good so now to push things

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we're firing up that same clip in after effects and we're

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we're adding some wiggle to make the camera like more dramatic and we're

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gonna put some fire particles no one wants to watch the born identity

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starring brandon's dog oh look we're playing fall still is playing pretty

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fast now she's in the middle of like a fire tornado and earthquake at the same

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time wow so after effects is sucking back

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about 40 of our CPU we are still pretty

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comfortable in terms of memory usage though even with premiere open in the

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background so so far what would you say of the editing experience on our machine

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here to be honest like particle world usually take a lot of um RAM and

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the a lot of power so far when i play back in full

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still pretty good so that's great then so far our budget 4k editing station is

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keeping up surprisingly well but i think

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we can push it further so while dennis is playing around with some 8k red

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footage over there i'm going to tell you guys about the viewsonic color pro

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monitor that we're using here so it features 99 coverage of the adobe RGB

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color gamut which is about 96 of dci p3

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so it's great for video editing every unit gets its own calibration report and

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is tested at the factory for a delta e of less than two which should be

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indiscernible from completely accurate colors viewsonic worked with x-ray and

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pantone to generate its internal color library which references a 14-bit 3d

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lookup table of about 4.39 trillion colors and their color pro monitors can

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use the x-rite i1 display pro calibrator to access the viewsonic's internal color

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library which is better than using third-party calibration tools which can

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only do software calibration it's got usb 3.1 for a single cable connection

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that can charge your laptop at the same time along with a usb type-a hub so you

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can plug all your peripherals in through your monitor and the three-sided

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frameless design means less distraction while you're trying to focus on your work speaking of focusing on your work

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dennis how's this going oh i'm putting a

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lot what are you doing to it it's not even recognizable you say

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pushing really hard you might want to play it at uh one quarter yeah

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so you would consider this to be like meets expectations for the amount

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of effects that you're applying here yeah because i actually put quite a lot

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to generate uh effect because this effect is pretty heavy so if i just one

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effect oh then that's easy that's real time playback this is a glitching effect

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it's not real now we want turbulent displays

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real time playback still not bad so to be clear we were running at one

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quarter preview quality there but that was at 8k footage which as you guys

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might remember is four times the pixel count of 4k

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so can we dial it back now and do something a little bit more reasonable

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okay so we a7s2 we have a7s2 4k footage

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here so what dennis is doing right here is a

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perfect example of why even if you're going to deliver finished 1080p footage

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for web consumption it's still great to shoot in 4k because you can see he can

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punch in and sort of reposition the frame however he

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sees fit so playback of our a7s2 footage

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even at full quality is fine but our timeline scrubbing performance is

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not the greatest even at half quality so we want to have a look and see

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how our other footage responds so we've gone ahead and loaded up a timeline with

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all our different 4k footage now so the blue one is a7s yeah the purple one is

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that's blackmagic blackmagic our green one is c200 so all of them are

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actually better than the a7s and this is all at full quality yeah this is blah

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magic 4k pretty good yeah that's really good actually 200 pretty good that's

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actually very usable so we've done pretty well so far handling anything

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from 4k even all the way up to 8k footage in a variety of formats but with

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how popular sony's mirrorless cameras are anything that can't comfortably

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handle footage coming off of them can't really be called a viable anything

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goes 4k editing solution that is why we mentioned earlier that we

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wouldn't go any lower than the processor that we chose with its six cores and

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eight threads so what i'm doing in the background is actually something that

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used to be a part of our workflow here at Linux media group back when we would

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shoot on our a7 s2s quite frequently so i'm converting the mp4s that come

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straight out of the camera to cineform yuv10bit and what we're going to find

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out when we go ahead and throw these clips on our timeline is that they're going to perform quite a bit better i'm

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just going to junk this last one and then we'll throw the rest of them on now

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this process does add a little bit of time to your workflow but the good news

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is that from our experience it has a negligible effect on the image quality

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and as you can see it is a much much smoother editing experience

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so because of software or codec limitations there's never going to be a

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single machine no matter how high end you go that's going to work for every

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workflow but by building something balanced or

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a little bit stronger than you absolutely need in certain areas you can

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make up for other deficiencies and make sure that you're getting your projects

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done on time and on budget on the subject of getting video production done

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on a budget it used to be that the monitor to go with your workstation that

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costs you thousands and thousands of dollars also cost you thousands and

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thousands of dollars but it's become much more accessible and our color pro

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from viewsonic here has a couple of really cool features i haven't mentioned

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yet so one is that with the plugin it'll actually automatically pivot if you're

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the kind of person who frequently has to switch between landscape and portrait

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like say if you're developing graphics for web or whatever

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the case may be and it also has a built-in ambient light sensor and

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because the luminosity and the chromaticity are different it won't

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affect the color accuracy of the image if the lights in your office change and

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this can help reduce eye strain during marathon editing sessions once again

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huge shout out to viewsonic for sponsoring this video check out the links in the description below for more

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info and where you can pick up a color pro display for yourself we've even got

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a discount code if you pick one up by the way you should totally watch our

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review of the blackmagic pocket 4k camera this is pretty much

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the camera to get if you want to shoot cinematic type content and you're on a

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tight budget so it fits in pretty darn well with the video we shot today

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so thanks for watching guys see ya

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um

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you