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Will this laptop setup do?
With Vegas Pro 9 and Excalibur running to edit 9 SD quality 30-45min pieces of footage will this laptop prevail? (if not what would you suggest changing) Price is a big factor but control/speed is also priority.
Intel® Core™ i5-520M Processor (2.66~2.933GHz, 35W) w/3MB Intel® Smart Cache – 4.8 GT/s
4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR3/1066 Dual Channel Memory
500GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200RPM Hard Drive (16MB Cache Buffer)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 Graphics with 512MB GDDR2 MemoryThe price of this laptop I’m setting up on Powernotebooks.com is $ 992.77, and $1,000 is the limit, am I getting the most bang for my buck? Will I have any problems when doing heavy editing? Thanks.
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That looks good as far as laptops go. It has all the right components (4GB, 7,200RPM Hard Drive, etc.) Check and see if the video card has it’s own memory. If it doesn’t, it’s going to steal 512MB of your 4GB for video memory leaving you with 3.5GB. Still not a bad amount of memory but it’s always nice to have the video card use it’s own memory.
~jr
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Thanks John, this graphics card does use its own memory. Appreciate the input! I didn’t think to check for that.
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For a little more cash…how much better would this setup be?
Intel® Core™2 Duo T9600 2.8GHz Processor w/6MB L2 Cache (35W) – 1066MHz FSB
4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR3/1066 Dual Channel Memory
500GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200RPM Hard Drive (16MB Cache Buffer)
nVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT w/512MB -
I would do some reading up on the Core i5’s for laptops. It would seem to me that a quad core would be better but it’s curious that the dual core cost more. Until we know how the quad core laptops perform it’s hard to say. That dual core is a T9600 which is exactly what you would want (top-of-the-line) processor.
Most people don’t realize that for laptops the processor speed is not as important as the processor type. Intel makes T2500’s, T4400’s, T6600’s etc. all the way up to T9900’s. You can get all of these as a 2.0Ghz and you would think they are all just as fast, but a 2.0Ghz T2500 is barely useful for surfing the web, with a 2.0GHz T4400 or T6600 being marginally better but not a video editing machine, while the 2.0Ghz T9600 is something a video editor can actually use. So laptops are a bit of a different beast.
~jr
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Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9900 3.06 GHz
nVidia GeForce GTX 285M 1,024MB PCI-Express GDDR3 DX10
6,144MB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 SODIMMS)
500GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 300 – 16MB Cache)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS NotebookWould I be free to multi cam edit in HD with something like this? I could be using footage from up to 9 cameras at one time all in HD. I feel like this would be a good setup for everything I need to do but I could still use input.
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Would I be free to multi cam edit in HD with something like this? I could be using footage from up to 9 cameras at one time all in HD.
Well… On my 2.66GHz Quad Core workstation with 9 cameras of HD Cineform I only get about 12fps. With 9 tracks of HDV I get less than 1fps. Don’t even think about 9 tracks of AVCHD.
That is a very powerful laptop and you probably won’t find anything faster unless you go with a Quad Core but that wouldn’t improve preview playback much anyway. I would definitely plan on converting all of your source files to Cineform using Neo Scene. Otherwise you could edit proxies with a tool like VASST GearShift. There is no way you can edit 9 tracks of native HD in real-time with any PC on the planet.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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