Editing Video editing software (section)

==Hardware requirements==


As video editing puts great demands on storage and graphics performance, especially at high resolutions such as [[4K resolution|4K]], and for videos with many [[visual effects]], powerful hardware is often required.

It is not uncommon for a computer built for video editing to have a lot of [[Computer data storage|drive capacity]], and a powerful [[graphics processing unit]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.videoproc.com/edit-4k-video/hardware-for-4k-video-editing.htm|title=Hardware Configuration for 4K Video Editing - VideoProc}}</ref> which optimally has [[Graphics processing unit#GPU accelerated video decoding and encoding|hardware accelerated video encoding]].

Having sufficient disk space is important since videos can take up large amounts of storage, depending on the resolution and compression format used. Each minute of a [[Full HD]] (1080p) video at 30 fps takes up 60MB of space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://itigic.com/how-much-space-hd-fullhd-4k-8k-video-occupies/|title=How Much Space an HD, FullHD, 4K and 8K Video Occupies}}</ref>

When visual effects are used, a [[server farm]] can be employed to speed up the rendering process.