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Laptop Questions
I’ve searched the posts and can’t find anything on laptops. I’m away from my home computer alot………
Can anyone give me some direction in buying a laptop to do vegas editing on?
Speed? Ram? Anything special i need to know when buying one? I know it needs a firewire connection. Would i get an external hard drive so that I can connect it also to my home computer? Will i have any trouble getting vegas, dvda2 and Ecalibur installed free from my home computer’s copy?
Can I expect good results working on a laptop? Thanks, Gary -
5 Replies
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Any modern laptop should be fine – I have an “ancient” P4 1.6 Ghz model with 1 Gb ram which does everything, including editing HDV, thanks to Gearshift’s .avi proxy files.
I always use external drives for video – for many reasons, including flexibility in switching from desktop to laptop.
You can instal Vegas on both, but only use one at a time – Sony have a very reasonable policy here.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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I do all of my editing on laptops now. My main one is a 3.4GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1 Gig RAM, with 2 60Gig 7200RPM drives. It runs Vegas and Excalibur very well. Vegas should run on pretty much any laptop you wish to install it on.
Edward Troxel
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Hi Gary,
I’m also looking for a laptop because I’m tired of my P3 Dell XPS not performing the way I want it to. I really had no intentions of video editing at the time. Now I’m into it pretty heavy. I received some great information from friend Ed and great Vegas users. I believe you would want a fast processor since Vegas relies on processor speed. Check out “Upgrading” on May 8, 2005. Thids is all about laptops.
Happy Shopping!
Mooooooooooooo!Ralph Hajik
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Gary & Yvonne –
I have a Hewlett Packard AMD 3400 laptop computer with 1 gig of ram. I, like the others, attach external hard drives for editing and capturing. The computer works great. I like the fact that my model has a PCMIA card slot so I purchased a PCMIA card with two firewire ports just in case I wanted to go that route. So far USB 2.0 seems to work fine for capturing and editing. You will also find that you can get 40 gig pocket sized 5400 rpm hard drives at a pretty reasonable price now.
Grasshopper
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using HP w/AMD 3700/1gig ram, switch between 30gig and 100gig C drives … just added averatec 4265 laptop P1.6M w/512 ram / 80gig hd ..
both work good with all sony products … i’m using desktop less & less these days.
i too use external USB/1394 drives .. on the road i take external devices (combo usb2/1394) with 2 1/2 laptop H.drives (40, 60,& 100gig- all can get power from USB bus) … if i need more gigs i’ll take a 400gig external ( 3 1/2 drive) ..
no problem using DV rack capturing to C drive on either ….
bottom line is that desktop is still faster and seems to handle more video streams.
i do more pre-rendering when using laptops
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