Video Editing: Should I buy an SSD?

[Bulletproof123]

So right now, i havr a projecg to do in after effects but its taking a long time to render, so would an SSD help?
My laptop specs are Intel i7-7700HQ Quad Core Windows 10 Home 8GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 + G-SYNC 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD 16GB DDR4 RAM

 

[why_wolf]

SSD won't help render times. It would only help load up times, so if it takes a long time to load all your video clips into your editor for you to actually start editing, it can help there.

 

[superninja12]

SSD won't help render times. It would only help load up times, so if it takes a long time to load all your video clips into your editor for you to actually start editing, it can help there.

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http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-3169534/rendering-videos-hdd-ssd.html

Yes it will speed up, and just the regular use of your laptop feels snappier , it will make a difference.

 

[Solandri]

The SSD won't help with render times, but it will help with file read/write times. So if you're dealing with high bitrates (reading from raw video, writing to very lightly compressed video or slightly compressed 4k video), the SSD will help.

Likewise, if you're pulling from lots of different video files to combine them into a single new video (real video editing like a movie or TV show, not simply re-rendering captured raw gameplay footage), the SSD's faster ability to switch between reading different source video files will help. (I'm assuming the source video files are too big to pre-load into RAM.)

The biggest speed boost is if you're doing this in real-time (real-time video editing). Then the SSD helps tremendously to reduce or eliminate the lag while you wait for the video source files to be read. I'd almost consider it a requirement in this case.

It's also worth mentioning that HDDs suck at simultaneously handling two (or more) read/write requests, while SSDs don't even blink at it. So even though the CPU is barely working, if the video editing/rendering is doing a lot of disk activity, the computer will be useless for other tasks. That's why an anti-virus scan on a HDD computer brings your productivity to a grinding halt. With a SSD, you can run a render in the background and pretty much continue to use the computer as if it weren't rendering at all. With some judicious assignment of threads to cores and thread prioritization, you can even play games on the computer while it's rendering. The game runs at close to full speed while the render only uses spare CPU cycles. It's not ideal, but it beats watching TV or buying a second computer.

 

[superninja12]

The SSD won't help with render times, but it will help with file read/write times. So if you're dealing with high bitrates (reading from raw video, writing to very lightly compressed video or slightly compressed 4k video), the SSD will help.

Likewise, if you're pulling from lots of different video files to combine them into a single new video (real video editing like a movie or TV show, not simply re-rendering captured raw gameplay footage), the SSD's faster ability to switch between reading different source video files will help. (I'm assuming the source video files are too big to pre-load into RAM.)

The biggest speed boost is if you're doing this in real-time (real-time video editing). Then the SSD helps tremendously to reduce or eliminate the lag while you wait for the video source files to be read. I'd almost consider it a requirement in this case.

It's also worth mentioning that HDDs suck at simultaneously handling two (or more) read/write requests, while SSDs don't even blink at it. So even though the CPU is barely working, if the video editing/rendering is doing a lot of disk activity, the computer will be useless for other tasks. That's why an anti-virus scan on a HDD computer brings your productivity to a grinding halt. With a SSD, you can run a render in the background and pretty much continue to use the computer as if it weren't rendering at all. With some judicious assignment of threads to cores and thread prioritization, you can even play games on the computer while it's rendering. The game runs at close to full speed while the render only uses spare CPU cycles. It's not ideal, but it beats watching TV or buying a second computer.

yeah thats whant I ment, Honest !