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Advice on two notebooks for PPro
Hey,
I am very aware that editing on a box is better than a notebook, but have to equip two people with notebooks capable of video editing on an as-needed basis. They will be doing many other things too, not just video editing, so it is not like they are full-time editing machines. Note that each will be used with a second LCD monitor of higher resolution than the built in screen to support PPro CS5 screen requirements. And most of the source footage will be DV, not HD.
From experience of either the processors or the video cards or the notebooks themselves, please give me your opinion on each of the following – it is most appreciated!
Dell Studio XPS 13 Laptop
Colour: Red with Red Leather
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P7450 2.13GHz/1066
Edge to Edge 13.3′ Glossy WXGA Screen
2.0 MP Integrated Webcam
Dual Digital Array Microphones
4GB DDR3 Dual Channel Memory
500GB Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
90W XPS Power Supply
512MB NVIDIA Geforce 210M Graphics Card
Integrated Stereo Speakers
Dell 1515 Wireless N Mini Card
Bluetooth Internal 2.0 Mini Card
US International Backlit Keyboard
8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)Acer® Travelmate Series Notebook: TM5742G
Intel® Core i5 480M 2.67GHz Processor
4GB DDR3 Memory (1x 4GB – 2 Slots)
640GB 5400RPM 2.5″ SATA HDD
8x DVD Super Multi Writer
15.6″ 1366×768 LED Backlit HD Ready Widescreen
1.3 Megapixel Webcam
Intel® HM55 Express Mobile Chipset
ATI Radeon HD5470 512MB
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n @ 300Mbps
6 Cell Battery
Bluetooth 3.0
Multitouch Gesture Touch Pad
Full Size Numeric Keyboard
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-Bit
3x USB 2.0, 1x Headphone Jack, 1x Microphone Jack, 1x D-Sub VGA, 1x HDMI, 1x RJ-45 Ethernet, 3-In-1 Card ReaderOnce again, I would be most appreciative of any insights.
Thanks,
Sean
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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9 Replies
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In general, Nvidia is the choice for Premiere Pro…
However, what kind of footage will they be editing?
Knowing the codec and frame size would be helpful.
Alex
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How are you planning to get DV into the notebooks?? capture elsewhere and use external disks to load?
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Footage will be mainly SD DV. Timeline is usually DV for eventual DVD creation, 720 x 480 or 720 x 576 depending on the project.
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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Capture will be through firewire on a powerful editing station. Footage will be on external HDD fed via USB2. I currently do this on my Asus G73 and it works fine. If we get certain compressed HD video sources, then things get slow unless they are moved to an internal HDD.
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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How complex of edits are we talking about? News docu style or multi-layer fx heavy stuff?
Alex
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The video card isn’t going to matter too much as the nvidia card doesn’t meet the memory requirements so even the MPE playback hack isn’t going to work, so you will be using just the natural acceleration of CS5, if both the memory slots are filled on the dell the acer maybe the better one as it appears it’s using one slot for a 4gig mem chip, so you can add more memory, using a 64bit system you should a least have 6gigs of ram with CS5, that will free up a full 4gigs for work as CS5 and win7 64 tend to be memory hogs. Using external USB drives maybe able to get you 2 or 3 layer of source depending on the overall USB requirements, I prefer a laptop with a esata port though.
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Edits will be 2-4 layers, mainly DV plus titles and the occasional matte. Transitions. Corporate productions.
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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I’m very happy with the GoBoxx from Boxx Technologies, but this isn’t really a laptop. They call it a portable work station, and it can handle some pretty heavy duty editing, After Effects work, etc.
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Check the sony vaio f series it has nvidiA 425, 17 QUAD 740 TURBO CPU estata,usb3,fw, express card, 4gb ddr3 ram. prices starting 1200.99
I currently use cs5 and avid 5
RC
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