Hardware Requirements for a Post-Production Home Studio

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi, this is Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm going to talk to you about your computer hardware requirements. When you're putting together your own post-production home office, all of the burden of the computing power and what you could produce and the time you can produce it is going to fall on you so you need to do a lot of research beforehand to make sure that the computer that you're going to purchase that's going to be the muscle to get as much done as quickly as possible is number one, within your price range and it's going to serve you best. So, make sure to do a lot of research on what your needs are going to be when it comes to doing certain video projects in regards to how much you can afford. A lot of times, you can build in hardware purchases to certain clients for certain jobs. For instance, you can do a built-in expense of a hard drive for a certain project because it's going to take up a certain amount of hard drive space and you know that going into it. That way, you know that you're not going to have a bunch of files cluttering up your own hard drive space along the way. When it comes to deciding which computer you're going to purchase, you want to make sure that it's going to be compatible with the software that you'll be running the most. For example, a lot of the editors use a software called Avid and Avid is only compatible with certain operating systems, you need a certain amount of RAM, you need a certain processor and you want to make sure that all of those things can fall in line so you don't purchase a computer and then when it comes time to buying your software, you're kind of stuck because it doesn't work with what you actually need. So, you want to make sure you do all of your homework beforehand so that all of your software and hardware will work together to get you the most performance for your buck."