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  Safe Rendering on my Laptop?

  Posted by Brandon Shrader on July 21, 2012 at 9:55 pm

  So, I am a video editor for gameplay and commentaries. I left my desktop to sit in the corner of my room.

  I have a gaming laptop, so to start, it can handle Battlefield 3 and Fraps running at the same time.

  Would it be safe to render videos that are 1080p, 10-20, maybe even 45 minutes long on this laptop? Two to three times a week?

  Here are my specs :

  Intel Core i7 3610QM (Ivy Bridge)
  1TB HDD 7200RPM
  8GB Ram
  4GB VRam (2GB Dedicated(GeForce GTX 660M), 2GB Discrete)
  – Do mind, this is all in a laptop –

  So, should I be ok to render videos that often on this laptop?
  (Edit, I posted in Sony Vegas forum, because I use Sony Vegas 11 to render my videos out)

  Brandon Shrader replied 14 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Schroeder

  July 22, 2012 at 1:01 am

  The only limit I see would be hard drive size. At some point those 45 minute videos will fill it up. As long as you have space available, capturing video should not be a problem. You may have bad results if heat becomes a problem. Run a heat monitor from time to time and keep the cooling pathway clean.

  Jeff

  2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64
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  Brandon Shrader

  July 22, 2012 at 3:38 am

  [Jeff Schroeder] “The only limit I see would be hard drive size. At some point those 45 minute videos will fill it up. As long as you have space available, capturing video should not be a problem. You may have bad results if heat becomes a problem. Run a heat monitor from time to time and keep the cooling pathway clean.

  Jeff”

  Alright, I’m in a basement because the upstairs is far too warm.

  I’m not exactly worried about space, I will probably move the content to an External harddrive.

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