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CS5/ Premiere Pro Laptop for h.264 DSLR
Hello ‘Cowuns,
New here today, long time over in Nikon-land and seeking intervention.
Trying to avoid buyer’s remorse and online/sales pitch hooks in a so called desktop replacement.
Looking at prices, not interested in too little and choke also not planning to create heavy 3D or Pixar styled products.
Portability is key, serious photography, now video excursions and no gaming.
Nothing too unusual, we are shooting club venue concerts, demo clinics then building content for multi-media placements, DVD, web, flash, possibly HD broadcast. Also, shooting h.264 for eventual NPS visitor use.
I’ve been getting dizzy trying to decide on a new Laptop that will handle the complete Mercury functionality and 5.5 suite, some stills, some animation, some titling/text plus narration.
Multiple video clips from three Nikon’s, with H4N audio override of on camera mics, zooms, fades and transitions.
So far, the choices could be Xeon which are not usually available for laptops, correct? If not can someone point the way? Then the Sandy Bridge 17 series, which vary in speed etc.
With an eye to overkill and if anyone feels compelled, some questions for the Pro’s.
Question 1: Dual Processors yes or no?
Question 2: Is there something more robust then the 17 Sandy Bridge Quad/Hex while not a Xeon?
Absolutely Nvidia GPU’s. Sorry iJOBS, can’t get to Mercury from earth without it, so far at least. I’m told it’s some roil between Intel/Apple/Nvidia.
Question 3: Will the 400M series be more suited than the FX and Quadro in a laptop PC based upon on-GPU-VRAM and interface with the CPU/Suite elements?
Question 3: In DDR RAM chips, are larger values per slot better than multiple slots with equal values such as 16GB in two 8GB dimms versus, four dimms at 4GB? Also is there value in the higher MHz versions?
Question 4 : Is there better overall suite performance by using a Hybrid drive for OS, source and render or are the SATA 7200 versions adequate…
Some of the listed options show no Hybrid for OS, but have then drop down choices for Hybrid, for drive 2 and 3, and SS drives break the bank at this point.
Question 5: Dual Video Heads, are these standard on the Nvidia GPU’s and do the vendor(s) choose whether to add the Mobo jack?
Last question: Do any of all ‘yall, know of or use a portable system for content and broadcast editing?
Thanks in advance for the input,
Rob
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5 Replies
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Hi Rob,
1: not available on the mainstream laptop market
2: same for xeons
3: only depends on your budget, the fx mobile cards normaly cost the double of the same specs (or even better) as “gaming” model. You’ll be very happy with a GTX4++. Just look a the cuda cores. Try to afford a GTX.
4: two slots would be better. BUT as a user you would not feel a real differnce when going with 4 slots filled
5: yes, but a fast external video drive over eSata or USB3 is enough for multible streams DSLR footage in to premiere.
6: too many possible answersYou might looking for mobile workstation models of HP, Dell or Lenevo. HP Elitebook w series, just robust power AND the option for the dream color monitor. But it has its price. I had several Lenovo ThinkStations (w) in action, works and feels good. You might get the best price there.
I havn’t seen new xeons in notebooks, most probably your`re not 24/7 with your mobile workstation nor have option for dual processor thats why you don’t need one.
LG, Robert
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Robert,
Thanks for chiming in.
Your advice is appreciated, I’ll reset the mission.
You are correct, it’s not 24/7 but it is the focus, taking up a significant part of each day, well into the wee hours.
” 5 yes, but a fast external video drive over eSata or USB3 is enough for multiple streams DSLR footage in to premiere.”
So these outperform the 7200 RPM gadgets then?
Is there a brand (that’s) preferred?
I’ll dig in search as well.
Many thanks,
Rob
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Welcome Rob.
7200rpm is the minimum, ext or int.
To date my favorite is a G-Tech G-Raid 2TB for less than 300€. It has eSata, firewire etc.. and the best thing, it has two drives in hardware raid0. I had very good ones from Lacie, too. But there are many others…Greetz, Robert
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Thanks again,
These folks are based here in the Los Angeles area. Most of the stores (Pro) have them for sale I’m sure.
Thanks again,
Rob
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Yo, in Berlin too.
Oky, much production fun than!
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