Looking for recommendations on a high performance digital imaging system

Greetings,

What is your intended budget?

Thank you for the budget information.

To clarify some questions, do you mean 3.5" HDDs, as hard drives would either be 3.5", 2.5" drives or m.2 drives.

As for the optical drives, are you referring to using 4 optical/DVD drives at once? That will be extremely difficult to find case wise for anything more than just 1 DVD spot as most cases don't include any spots for optical drives at this time.

MC doesnt seem to carry any cases with 4 external facing bays for BD drives. Searching newegg shows they only have 2 choices there. So really putting them in USB C external case is probably best. The problem with 4 bays in the main case is that it cuts off most of the front from being able to take in air for cooling CPU and GPU which are getting hotter and hotter every year.

mc carries this interesting case with 2 bays, then you just need 2 externals: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX LAN Box Computer Case - Black - Micro Center

What software would you be using on this PC?

For the video card, any NVIDIA 2000 or 3000 series card with at least 6GB of VRAM should be fine. Just depends what you can find.

As for cooling, that would vary a bit by case, depending whether or not the case can support up to a 240mm radiator or a 360mm radiator. I'd recommend either a 240mm or 360mm water cooler for the processor in your case since the CPU will be under a lot of load I'd expect, most cases can do a 240mm radiator without issue, 360mm won't be supported by some cases.