How big a hard drive do i need to edit video on a PC?

Question

Roughly?

Answer 1

I understand you question... It does not exist yet the PC that supports that ´cause I have 1 GB RAM and enough storage space for NASA in my computer and still not enough good for high quality video editing...

Answer 2

Well. Roughly?
I use Pinnacle Studio 10 and I had a 100 gb, but added a second 250 GB HD to my system just for video editing and rendering of the movie(s) prior to burning them and 250 seems to work very well.

Answer 3

I assume you are referring to movie DVD's. Most DVD ROM, the ones that you find at your local Blockbusters, are usually between 7 - 9 GB. So, if you want to edit a video then you are going to need at least twice that amount. The two most popular commerical video editors and burners are Nero and Roxio. Each one needs at least 150 MB to install. It has been a long time since I've seen a hard drive smaller than 100GB. If you have at least 30GB of free space on your computer then it shouldn't be a problem.

Answer 4

I use about 300 GB, but I don't need that amount of space because I dump my edited material back to tape and other digital medium. The most important thing when considering your hard drive is the RPM though. Try not to stick with the regular 7500, 15000 is the best.

Answer 5

I have 120 gig of hard drive. However, you need to worry about RAM also. That is unless you don't mind waiting awhile (in some cases quite awhile) between edits. I am running 4 gig of RAM and wouldn't use less. I know that is alot, but, I do big files! I wouldn't even consider less than a gig of RAM if I were you.

Answer 6

for me, personally, i have a 100GB desktop multimedia center, but i always save the files to an external 500GB hard drive. The RPM should be respectable, but shouldn't be a deciding factor, because I'm doing just fine with 72000 RPM. The important factor is the amount of RAM: 1 GB or higher will work wonders (I'm trying to get 2GB right now)

500GB externals come for a good price right now: goto Buy.com and you can get a really good one for under $250 (comes with warranty and everything).

Answer 7

Anything over 100G will do. Anyway this is like the minimum size nowadays, so pretty much any HDD. You want though one that is fast, at least 7200 rpm. There are some that are Video rated, which means they are better suited for a sustained fast data tranfer.

http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/editing/f/diskspeed_ro.htm

Answer 8

Any hard drive will do, but if you are planning on having a lot of video on it, at least 100 GB is good.

Answer 9

How big is the video clip (if you have a hard drive with enough space to hold the video clip, you can probally edit it.)

Answer 10

The average file size for DV is 5 min per GB, so I would figure out how much raw footage you are going to have and then calculate your HDD size. Remember, you can loop firewire drives together to make more space...