How to build PC for real time compositing and editing?

[jbills]

the only real time compositor out there is Motion. You can use motion with a plugin called "conduit" for a more shake-like experience, but it still is lacking in professional features and gets bogged down when you string more than 4/5 effects together.

Shake will never be real time on any box. Your best bet with a shake pipeline is to get access to a huge renderfarm and trade slow compositing for fast rendering.

Nuke is very interactive, way better than Shake - but not even close to real time.

Even if you had an 8 proc box with a sick video card, you're still in for a surprise. Compositing is slow.

I think you'd get the best results from After Effects teamed with Nucleo on a fast dual or quad system with a lot of RAM and a small renderfarm. That's the most flame like interactivity that I've see as of yet. It smokes.

[beaker]

a fast raid array is going to make the biggest difference in speed with your compositor. Get an 8-16 disk sata array. That will help a lot with editing/compositing.

What app are you using for editing?

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