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dustinp11713319
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June 29, 2018
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Budget laptop for editing 1080p in Premiere Pro

  • June 29, 2018
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Hello everyone, I'm starting a Youtube channel, and will be doing video editing (1080p 60fps with possibly some 4K), using Premiere Pro and After Effects. I plan to shoot with a Panasonic Lumix G7. I'm considering which laptop to purchase. I have included my budget, the desired specs, and the products that I am considering. If you could let me know if I'm on the right track, or if have any constructive feedback, I would really appreciate it!

Budget: $1000-$1500
Specs: Intel Core i7 8th Gen 8750H (2.20 GHz), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 16 GB Ram Memory, 256 GB SSD drive, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD drive

Another consideration is screen quality and resolution. As I will be doing video and some photo editing, it would be great if the screen was high quality, (1920x1080 seems to be standard, but I am wondering if I should go for 3840 x 2160)

Products I am considering:

HP Envy - this has a 17.3 4K screen which I love, but only has a GTX 1050 graphics card - Is it critical that I go with at least 1060? Is it that big a difference? https://store.hp.com/…/hp-envy-laptop-17t-best-value-4hk23a…

Tracer 3 from cyperpower PC - around $1200, packed with great specs, but not sure how good the display or quality is. https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/…/Tracer-III-15-VR-300-with-Me…

Power Tech - has the older 7700 processor, but the GTX 1070 video card and a 17 inch screen, although the screen has poor color accuracy, from what I have seen in reviews: http://www.microcenter.com/…/1710_173_Gaming_Laptop_Compute…

Acer Aspire - great specs, price, and 17inch screen, but reviews, again, say it has poor color accuracy: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…

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    RjL190365
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    June 30, 2018

    First of all, did you know that you must have the laptop plugged into an AC wall outlet just to minimize the risk of the CPU throttling down its clock speed severely, below the minimum requirement just to run Premiere Pro at all? That could potentially defeat the primary purpose of a laptop to begin with. This is because running such a laptop on battery power may completely disable the Turbo-boost feature, resulting in the CPU clock speed "locked" to its stock non-Turbo speed of 2.2 GHz (as opposed to the full all-core Turbo speed of 3.9 GHz) regardless of the number of cores being utilized. That speed may be too low to run later versions of Premiere Pro smoothly.

    Second, 16GB of RAM is not quite enough to handle 4k editing. "Simple" 4k playback is much less demanding on hardware than 4k editing, which often involves decompressing and recompressing on the fly.

    Third, there has not been a new 1TB 7200 RPM 2.5" hard drive since the HGST back in 2015. All new 2.5" HDDs introduced since then only spin at 5400 RPM.

    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
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    June 29, 2018

    I don't think any of those processors will be adequate, especially on battery power when the processor is throttled back.

    You will also need at least 32 GB RAM for 4K, and that is if you use proxies.

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