Adobe Premiere on Laptop

[diversteve]

let me correct some values.

10,000 & 15,000 rpm are only found in SCSI drives (workstations and servers)

regards,
Yener

Normally I wouldn't correct you, but for Phil's info:

Compusa sells a 74GB 10,000rpm SATA150 Western Digital Raptor drive for $239. My brother-in-law also has a pair of 50GB 10Krpm SATA drives in his home computer.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=317940&pfp=BROWSE

 

[yceltikci]

Normally I wouldn't correct you, but for Phil's info:

Compusa sells a 74GB 10,000rpm SATA150 Western Digital Raptor drive for $239. My brother-in-law also has a pair of 50GB 10Krpm SATA drives in his home computer.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=317940&pfp=BROWSE

You are completely right. Most of the times, I ignore SATAs... Shame on me, I'm getting old in this IT sector... :huh:

rgrds,
Yener

 

[larsdennert]

The question is, why edit on the laptop at all? Are you going to burn DVD's there?

 

[jonnythan]

I imagine un-edited video would take up a tremendous amount of disk space..

 

[RICoder]

I'll stick my nose in here...

You are far better off with a 7200 RPM drive that is 40GB than a 5400 RPM that is 100GB, strictly because the performance difference will be huge. My Inspiron has a 60gb 7200rpm drive and 1gb of memory (17in widescreen and 2ghz proc), and I use it to do editing on vacations with Premiere Elements.

Here's my advice, get a laptop with a fast drive and firewire. Rip the movie to the laptop, edit it and stick the editied video on a DVD then dump the original and store the tape (This is assuming you are using some sort of DV).

I may be wrong here, but even with a terabyte of storage on my home computer, keeping the original on a harddrive is just insanity, its cheaper and easier to keep the tapes.

FYI, the last DVD I made took about an hour to encode and burn and was over an hour long, so just because its a laptop doesn't mean it can't be your editing studio.

 

[Phil TK]

Here's my advice, get a laptop with a fast drive and firewire. Rip the movie to the laptop, edit it and stick the editied video on a DVD then dump the original and store the tape (This is assuming you are using some sort of DV).

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I think I'd better point out that I'm working as a resort video-og and I'm asking about the laptop because our editing office only has two desk tops and not enough space for three -which is a problem when there are three video-ographers who need editing facilities every day! So I'm going to edit in my hut, which is not big enough for a desk top.
What I'll be doing is downloading the footage from camera to laptop -editing the footage and then sending the finished rendered video back onto a new tape in the camera. The camera is then used to run the video through the resort TV system. Only if the customers want to buy a copy do I download the video on to one of the desktops and burn a DVD which they collect the next day.
Thanks for the help guys -I'll be getting a firewire HD, which will help greatlty
Phil TK

 

[salimbag]

For your needs you MAY want to try a Macintosh with Final Cut Express. Although I personally like Premiere a little better (the differences are not that great), if you want to put together an inexpensive laptop set-up an Apple may be better. The reasons are that the concerns you have about compatibility and sneaking by with a minimal system really aren't as much an issue with Apple products. Since Apple makes the editing software and the laptops, everything works together. You won't run the danger of in the process of looking for the minimal laptop coming up with something that won't work with the software you're using. A simple thing like an inadequate graphics card can torpedo you.

There is a lot of talk in the Mac community that XP is not as stable as a Mac - I don't buy that, except when you get into the realm of inexpensive machines. Everyone I know who has a problematic Windows machine owns the cheapest Gateway or whatever they could find. Since there is no such thing as a cheap Apple knock-off, that problem won't vex you.

I use an old G3 500 mHz laptop, a five year old machine and the first "white" iBook with Final Cut Express v1.0 and it works great. These are very solid machines (more so than Windows laptops in general) and available for $300 used. Final Cut is really the industry standard (although I don't think deservedly so), so there's no doubt about its capability. I would also like to add that I've never had a problem using 5400 rpm or 2.5" drives to capture DV video with a Mac.

I DO use Premiere 6.0 on my desktop machine, but there I bought the more ambitious machine that Adobe recommended. I also concur with those who say "use Adobe Elements!" if you go the windows route. It's quite capable and places fewer demands on your machine. That said, I think the approach you are taking here is good: find someone who has a system that works and copy it exactly!

 

[drbill]

Has anyone out there tried editing video on a Dell Inspiron XPS M140/630m or an E1505/6400. I was looking at these "two" systems and had concerns about the Intel GMA 900 with shared memory. I'm just looking to edit daily underwater video in the field so I can take it home and do the real work on my desktop system.

 

[jonnythan]

The graphics card won't make a bit of difference in video editing.

 

[5ata]

Personally, I would bypass PPro completely and look at SONY Vegas or Movie Studio Platinum. System requirements are much less and it handles much better for a given computers specs than PPro. I should know - I use them both.