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  Best hardware for low budget editor

  Posted by Ivar Frisch on August 27, 2018 at 1:26 pm

  Hi everyone,

  first of all, I’m kinda new here so I hope I’m posting this in the right forum.

  Second, I’m a 20 year old college student with a passion for editing. I make videos with a lot of effects so rendering is quite heavy. ATM I’m editing on a macbook pro with the specifics:

  – OS X 10.9.5
  – graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
  – storage: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
  – processor: 2,66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

  And as the external harddrive (required for FCP) I use a ‘Lacie Little Disk Hi-speed USB 2.0’.

  I really wish to upgrade my setup, but have little money to do so (max $500).
  For better rendering performance, should I buy a better computer of external harddrive and what would you guys recommend?

  Cheers,

  Ivar

  Allan Barnwell replied 7 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Allan Barnwell

  August 28, 2018 at 5:23 pm

  I think you’ll do better to keep saving your money and investing in a new laptop. Do you have Thunderbolt on that system? If not, then there’s no external acceleration available.

  Allan Barnwell
  TM Television

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