Hi
I'm looking for a laptop for light video editing (youtube videos - using Corel Video Ultimate). Budget is around $1.5k (cheaper the better).
I was looking at an metabox, Dell I5 7000 or go for a gigabyte? I am totally lost! Please help!
Laptop - Light Video Editing
wau2 on 20/02/2019 - 17:05
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Light editing could be as simple as just making cuts and adding background music, like many vlogs.
"Heavier" editing could involve color grading, lots of transitions, 4K high-bitrate video, audio processing, filters for e.g. distortion correction, multiple layers, animated titles, etc.
I've done 'light editing' on a Surface Book with 8GB RAM and 940M. It was nowhere was zippy as my desktop, but was alright. I would definitely want something with more grunt for heavier editing. The Metabox laptops do seem like really good value. There's no touchscreen though, which I can't live without now!
Yeah.. I wouldn't say making cuts and adding background music as light until you consider the many aspects as you mentioned. Many youtube videos even vlogs are quite involved - so yeah some people may think youtube video is light edit, but there can be a lot of catch and you end up with a rather 'not simple' editing and then realised your machine is not geared up for it.
On my subs list I can see three distinct kinds of videos. One is focused on the content, the other is focused on visuals, and the third has a mix of both. They're akk interesting, but the first is definitely 'light' and the second 'heavy'.
Some youtubers can just record a video and upload it straight with literally no editing and still make an interesting video. It just depends on what the channel is focused on. Maybe the OP is planning on doing more of the first kind of video.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ideapad-330-15-Notebook-Intel-Co…
I got this on the eBay 20% off for $919.20 just today, the 8th generation i7 can run at 4ghz so it's pretty impressive (4 cores with hyperthreading).
The metabox will be more grunt since you can spec it with a desktop class CPU which are still like 25% better than this i7 but the ideapad is more than capable of light editing tasks and fantastic value for the money.
You may want to buy an 8gb stick to bump up the ram from 8gb to 12gb though as video editing programs can get pretty ram hungry.
What makes you consider it a light video editing? Youtube videos can also be as demanding as any other video. Therefore, I think you still need a good enough machine to not cause frustration to you when editing regardless of level of editing (unless its so simple you could use a phone to do it).
I've been using macbook for editing so can't comment much on windows based computer. But I would say the three most important things would be an SSD based drive, an independent graphic card and RAM. Probably at least 1.5GB graphic card and 16 GB RAM (or at least maybe 8GB RAM). I'm not super techy but I've edited on machine with this spec and had no complaint with the speed.
I have edited on 4GB RAM machine. Never again.