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mermaidking
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August 24, 2018
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Razer Blade 15 vs. MacBook Pro (2018 models)

  • August 24, 2018
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Hi all!

I am in need of a new editing laptop for Premiere Pro. I have narrowed my choices between the Razer Blade 15 and the MacBook Pro. I often use Premiere Pro for editing videos that are typically 20 to 30 minute 1080p h.264 files. These videos contain multiple layers of videos (like side-by-side comparisons), titles and simple animations. On my current base model 2017 MacBook Pro (running 12.1.2), these videos take 3 hours to export. Please help me decide which laptop will have faster export times compared to my 2017 MBP.

Razer Blade 15:

NVIDIA GTX 1070 Max-Q

8th Gen Intel Core i7, 6 Cores

16GB Memory

512GB SSD

MacBook Pro:

Radeon Pro 560X

8th Gen Intel Core i7, 6 Cores

32GB Memory

1TB SSD

Thank you.

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Xao`
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September 11, 2018

Hey there. I recently got the Razer 15. And although it works very nicely when it works, I've been having a lot of issues with premiere, here are a few:

Video freezes - Media pending forever ( close sequence and force quit to fix)

Do not use One Drive to backup your footage/project, it messes up premiere with tons of crashes/bugs.

I have to disable Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration in order to export my videos. ( File > project settings > Renderer)

Now that I spent hours figuring out solutions for these issues, I feel that it's performing well, I might call support for the freezing issue, but it doesn't happen that often. At least I can work on projects now. It's imperative to change your auto save to every 5 minutes though.

I also LOVE the Razer for gaming when I'm not editing

Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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September 11, 2018

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Xao%60  wrote

It's imperative to change your auto save to every 5 minutes though.

Don't rely on autosave. Save a copy on a different drive than the OS drive any time you do a difficult edit or at regular intervals.

Autosave is not reliable.

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