This laptop fine for video editing? « Videomaker Community Forums

blakes2406
Member

Hello everyone, sorry if this is in the wrong place, but i was wondering if this set up would be fine for high end video editing. I currently edit normal video, but could possible move to HD later on. I also currently edit on Vegas Pro 8.

Studio XPS 16

16 inch display

Intel core 2 duo t9550 (6 mb cache, 2.66ghz,1066mhz)

4gb dual channel ddr3 sdram 1067 mhz

320 gb 7200 rpm sats hard drive

ati mobility radeon hd 3670 512mb

$1274

Just wanted to get your thoughts. Thanks!

Posted 3 years ago #
Coreece
Member

Yeah...you'll be able to do some damage and make some decent HD cuts, but what do you mean by "high end?" That's a pretty subjective term....

Posted 3 years ago #
blakes2406
Member

Sorry, shouldn't have necessarily said high end. I'm currently a film student, and want to use this PC to edit my films. Looking to do some independent film work and wedding/commercial work after school, so just seeing if this was good enough for that sort of stuff :)

Posted 3 years ago #
Coreece
Member

If you have some decent skils, that computer can go along way...but eventually it'll probably be necessary to beef it up a little if you wanna make a decent living throwing down some chops...

Posted 3 years ago #
XTR-91
Member

The specs for this PC are probably great for video editing, though I would get a Mac instead if it's not too much trouble. I do not have one myself, but I heard that they have better speed and stability for editing video.

Posted 3 years ago #
composite1
Moderator

Blakes,

Your machine is just fine for editing. With your current setup you can do a reasonable amount of HD editing (HDV, AVCHD, maybe even XDCAM without a lot of effects.) You're definitely going to need an external harddrive(s) to hold your media files (doing everything on the OS drive is a bad idea.) You will run into issues with rendering HD effects/transitions (Vegas can't do realtime effects in HD or DV) and rendering will take up most of your time (unfortunately, I haven't seen any hardware accelerator cards / adapters for laptops yet.) But for now, you've got a system that will get the ball rolling for you. As for the 'Get a Mac' mantra, I'll follow my grandma's advice, "If you can't say anything nice...."

H.Wolfgang Porter, Composite Media Producer
Dreaded Enterprises Unlimited, Inc.
http://www.dreadedenterprises.com

Posted 3 years ago #