Is this enough laptop to edit 1080p in Vegas?

[John Rofrano]

Wow you’re talking double the price between those two units. The cheaper one doesn’t have an HD resolution display so if you’re planning to preview your work in Full HD you can’t do that with the cheaper laptop. Other than that (and the obvious second hard drive) the cheaper unit looks equally powerful enough for HD video editing.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Rick Antonio]

Well that settles it then.

Looks like I’ll have to go with the pre-built 3D model because I DEFINITELY want to view and edit 1080HD

That being said, you’re sure the 5400rpm HD will be suffifient?

I was under the impression that I’d need a 7200rpm or SSD?

[John Rofrano]

[Rick Antonio] “hat being said, you’re sure the 5400rpm HD will be suffifient?”

You bring up a good point. If you’re just dealing with one HD stream you should be fine. If you are trying to edit multiple camera streams that it may not be fast enough. I prefer 7200RPM drives. That’s what I have in my MacBook Pro laptop. I just replaced the 5400 with a 7200 after the fact. Like I said, you may be fine because today’s HD formats use a lot of compression to keep the file sizes down.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Rick Antonio]

Well, I guess I’ll find out soon enough as I pulled the trigger on the X875 3D model right after you mentioned the HD screen issue.

Surprisingly, as I was checking out, it asked if I had any coupon codes, so I Googled Toshiba Coupon Codes and found one for free shipping, then another one for 25% off, then another for 30% off the extended warranty package, then another, and another….

The coupon box let me stack all the codes together and I ended up getting the laptop shipped with a 4 year smash and bash replacement warranty for less than the original price of the laptop alone 🙂

Yes, I do edit multiple camera angles (4 GoPro 1080HD)

I usually keep it simple and line them all up on the timeline, then switch back and forth between them like this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxQxZKY7mks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_FWzL37ZVQ

However, I’ve been dying to venture into more hardcore stuff like chroma key 🙂

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