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New laptop for VV6 ??s
Need advice re: new laptop purchase this week (hopefully).
Husband uses VV5, but has 6 waiting to be installed. His current laptop (Dell 8600) is too “weak” to use anymore for doing any HD work (he got a new HD camcorder this year.) I’d like to surprise him with a new laptop (HAS to be a laptop). We were going to wait, but he’s accummulating a lot of HD tape that needs to be edited.??s are: I know you all mostly say to stay away from Vista in any form, but it looks like I don’t have any choice. Vista Home Premium or Ultimate is the only choice. Any diff here?
Burning DVDs ??s: Choice between a “multiburner” or Bluray multi. He’ll be burning only “home videos” but they will be in HD format, is there a diff I need to be aware of for VV? Will dual layer be able to be read by our relatives who might not have the latest DVD player or do they have to have a dual layer ability DVD player?
What’s EASIEST?
Current choice seems to be an ASUS G2S-B1 or ASUS G2S Extreme. Both with Santa Rosa chip, 200 gig 7200 rpm, and seems like everything similar other than DVD burner, but a 1000 diff in price.Appreciate the help.
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Any current laptop will run Vegas 6 just fine. DuoCore/Dual cores is best of course…
Blu-ray burning won’t matter if you’re using Vegas 6, and I assume you’re using CineForm Neo to conform the HDV files to be useable in Vegas?
Your relatives likely can’t play HD DVDs in their players, unless they’ve got Blu-ray players.
All newer DVD burners can burn Dual Layer/DL discs, and all current DVD players should be able to play DL discs.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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It also might be worth considering upgrading to Vegas 8 because:
1) Vista is a supported OS
2) It handles HD much better
3) It has MANY more features than Vegas 6
4) It’s only $150 to upgrade right nowEdward Troxel
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Ooops? Cineform Neo? Is that what he’ll need to do the HD? Isn’t Vegas (shall upgrade to V8 it looks like) enough?
Can you burn HD video to a dual layer DVD?Sorry for the newbie questions, but it’s his birthday and I don’t want to get him something useless, but at the same time, I do want to help him use his new HD tapes right away.
Jan
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Not true that you have to use Vista. Just buy the XP Pro disk separately, and format the Vista drive and install XP. Make sure they give you your Vista disk though, as that’s part of the parcel in the laptop deal. In case you want to install that OS in the future. You can also buy your laptop from your local computer shop, they will still install whatever OS you want in. The bigger chains like Best Buy and Future Shop won’t, so I won’t buy from them anymore. I agree with the advice to upgrade to Vegas Pro 8.0, that will last him for quite a while into the Future. It’s very nice the surprise you’re planning for your husband, wish my wife was so understanding about my gear purchases. Lastly, I highly recommend a second hard drive, not only for storage of mass HD footage, but also as a great place to store an image of the C: drive should anything happen. The C: drive can be small even 20 gigs, but make the second drive as large as you can afford. Personally I don’t store ANY data on my C: drive…….only the OS and the programs are on that disk. A perfect image of my C: is on another drive, as well as all my songs and video footage. Should a castrophy occur you’ll be up and running again in half an hour.
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Thanks for the help. Yup…we’ve got a bunch of extra harddrives around here (5 at last count)and am planning to get an SATA one that he can use (7200 rpm) with the new machine. (has an eSATA port).
I’m afraid I’m going to stick with the ASUS. We travel fulltime, so a “local shop” which I agree would be good, won’t help us in the longrun.
His gear is in trade for “my gear”…photo equipment…so we’re even.
Jan
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