Any youtubers on here? PC specs and software?

MTBSully

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Car guys and youtube channels seem to go hand in hand these days. Any of you guys on here? Been thinking of starting to document some of my car projects/flips/shenannigans on youtube since its pretty much all I do. The last project car I had I made the effort to film almost every aspect. I finally sat down to edit the footage and its been almost a month and I still havent posted it. I have tried multiple different software packages all of which seemed to have choppy playback during editing which basically made it impossible to edit. I finally have decided I like Devinic resolve and started editing there but have the same choppy playback issues. I check my CPU usage while playing a clip in the software it and was basically maxed at 100%. This was on my microsoft surface Pro with 8GM ram.

So the question is, you guys that edit and make youtube videos, what is your setup? PC specs? What are you using to film, your go-pro or your phone? External hardrive to save all the footage?

Looking for your advice. I see some pretty seemingly low dollar youtube channels with high quality footage and good editing and I gotta believe they aren't spending $4k+ on a PC and software.

I'm a windows guy but open to here MAC OS guys input as well.
 

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What format are you shooting in? If you're doing 4k at 60fps, you'll definitely bog down that surface and any mid level machine out there. 1080p/30fps is pretty much all you need for regular YouTube videos.

I've shot some video/timelapse for my kit car build that I plan on putting on YouTube and I have an i7 desktop with 32GB ram and a decent video card. The thing that bogs it down is having to resize thousands of 11MP jpeg stills as batches so they can be made into a timelapse (my Sony A7RIII won't shoot anything smaller so I should get a GoPro or similar). I use Premiere for the final editing and it does a great job, but is definitely RAM/processor taxing when rendering the final video. Does your software allow you to preview your video at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution? That might help a lot with the choppiness you're getting. What happens when you render a video? Is it still choppy? It could be a video card/framerate issue and actually be a solid file and smooth on a good machine, but too much for your specific video card to handle so it drops frames on your surface. Lots of variables here.
 

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Better have time for this and be dedicated. Quite a few have said I should do a Corvette history channel but You tube is just meh anymore with the stupidity they have done over demonitization, adpocylpse, strikes and the list goes on.
 

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What format are you shooting in? If you're doing 4k at 60fps, you'll definitely bog down that surface and any mid level machine out there. 1080p/30fps is pretty much all you need for regular YouTube videos.

I've shot some video/timelapse for my kit car build that I plan on putting on YouTube and I have an i7 desktop with 32GB ram and a decent video card. The thing that bogs it down is having to resize thousands of 11MP jpeg stills as batches so they can be made into a timelapse (my Sony A7RIII won't shoot anything smaller so I should get a GoPro or similar). I use Premiere for the final editing and it does a great job, but is definitely RAM/processor taxing when rendering the final video. Does your software allow you to preview your video at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution? That might help a lot with the choppiness you're getting. What happens when you render a video? Is it still choppy? It could be a video card/framerate issue and actually be a solid file and smooth on a good machine, but too much for your specific video card to handle so it drops frames on your surface. Lots of variables here.

I did shoot at 4k once and immeditately shut that down for the same reasons I listed. This most recent video i did at 1080 30fps but still is choppy. I'll see if davinci has the option to preview at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution maybe that will help. The video renders perfectly. Its just the editing that is so choppy the PC bogs down and lags and I can't even tell what I am doing. Very cumbersome.

Better have time for this and be dedicated. Quite a few have said I should do a Corvette history channel but You tube is just meh anymore with the stupidity they have done over demonitization, adpocylpse, strikes and the list goes on.

Not invested a ton of time yet. Just wanted to try out documenting some of my projects. Havent even gotten to the point of uploading it to youtube yet lol.
 

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I don't have anything really to add other then I would say scan the pics and vids section to see who is using Youtube, I just saw a thread from @Ryan2KRedL. Also @Intervention302 and maybe @BoostedVette.

I can't remember the guys name but what about that guy that had the neighbors bouncing basketballs and messing up his stucco LMAO!!!
 

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Video card isn't really important since video processing during export is done by the CPU, not a GPU. I use DaVinci Resolve and love it. Best freeware video editor by far.

Lot's a memory helps, as well. I wouldn't try it with less than 16GB.

And solid state drives help as well.

TL;DR

Fastest honking CPU and butt loads of memory. Video card not that important.
 

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Go for it man! I do it for fun just don’t take it to seriously lol but as far as software at the time being I just use my phone haha I use iMovie and just try to make it work it’s not that bad once you get the hang of it. My channel sucks but I’m still learning
 

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I use 3 GoPro cameras for most of my footage (1 is an old original GoPro Hero 1 and the other 2 are GoPro 7).
I use Movie Studio 16.0 Platinum software (used to be called Sony Vegas) for my editing software. It works pretty good and gives you many options for mutli-camera, picture in picture, etc.
My computer setup is a Dell Inspiron 15 (5000 series) x-64 based with Windows 10 PRO operating system and 12.0 GB of memory.
I will tell you that it is best to offload your videos and raw camera files onto a separate drive to keep your computer memory available.
If not, your playback and editing will be choppy and your upload time will take much longer.

Check out my channel for my content. https://www.youtube.com/user/98saleen
 

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I tried it for a little while. I did the streetspeed717 method and used a gopro and gopro studios to edit. videos came out decent.
 

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I'll see if davinci has the option to preview at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution maybe that will help. The video renders perfectly. Its just the editing that is so choppy the PC bogs down and lags and I can't even tell what I am doing. Very cumbersome.

Yup, that's your issue. Preview at 1/4/ or 1/2 and I'll bet it's much more smooth. Your hardware can't keep up with the live 100% render of your edit.

Try the following:


How to Make DaVinci Resolve Playback Faster In Two Clicks
 

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