• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Lightest Lenovo and external drives for on-the-go Premiere Pro editing

  Posted by Lopici Gaspar on March 12, 2024 at 4:01 pm

  What is the lightest, most portable Lenovo laptop model that can handle complex Premiere Pro editing, often starting with 4K video as the original raw or many hundreds of 33M JPG files for timelapse. (Current i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz 2.11 GHz, 16.0 GB RAM is unusably slow.)

  Relatedly, what’s the fastest – preferably portable – external drive I should be using? (Current WD, Seagate EasyStore, My Book, Elements, etc. via USB-A are all pain slow.)

  Rob Ainscough replied 2 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mads Nybo jørgensen

  March 12, 2024 at 5:46 pm

  Hey Lopici,

  How much money do you want to spend?

  Even if your current processor is 7-years old, you may find if you can upgrade your RAM to 64GB or higher. And, find some fast drives, that this might help it speed up.
  Also check whether there are internal slots for SSD expansion?

  Last year I got a HP Laptop where I “upgraded” the RAM to 128GB and added 2 x 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD drives to the 1TB already installed for Windows – still got space for another 4TB.

  This is the first system that I’ve had where Adobe is running out of memory (128 GB) when rendering out a basic video file…

  On external drives, I like both the Samsung T7 4TB, and their T9 2TB drive – the T9 is the fastest.
  You could also look at a NAS or similar. There is endless options, but you might want to make sure that your laptop has thunderbolt 4 (HP has). Thunderbolt 5 is one the way into the production line. Adding to that, depending on the amount of footage, you may want a 4-port Thunderbolt hub.

  It all comes down to your budget. And then, even with all of the money in the world, you might still not get what you want.

  Atb
  Mads
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  Rob Ainscough

  March 12, 2024 at 6:12 pm

  IMHO, nothing makes Adobe Premiere Pro run fast … not even a 96core AMD CPU with nVidia 4090 GPU and 128GB RAM. Here is what nVidia recommend for GPU acceleration for Adobe Premiere:

  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/software/

  Recommended Desktop GPU : GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER or NVIDIA RTX 4500

  Recommended Laptop GPU : GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU or NVIDIA RTX 4000 Laptop GPU

  For laptop I would look at Dell/Alienware (about $4000) for video editing $3700:

  https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/game-laptops/new-m18/spd/alienware-m18-r2-laptop/useashctom18r203

  For external drives I would go with USB-C to M.2 nVME enclosure with M.2 2-4TB SSD (10G).

  https://www.amazon.com/SSK-Aluminum-Enclosure-Adapter-External/dp/B07MNFH1PX

  or if you want Lightning 3/4 and USB-C then more expensive (40G):

  https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Enclosure-Anti-Drop-Compatible-Thunderbolt/dp/B0CLV3D3H6

  Cheers, Rob.

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