Laptop video editing + SSD + Creative Cloud

MileCreations

MileCreations

Hi guys, as I am moving away from home next near I am in need of a more portable editor for some of my personal projects. Because I will be wanting to use the computer at the residence, at home and at school I'm going for a laptop. I've never edited high end video on a laptop before so I've been looking around trying to find a high end laptop that can run at speeds I'm used to.

I currently have a Windows 7 64bit 8gb ram desktop running CS4, however I've been looking at a MacBook Pro 8gb ram with SSD and upgrading to CS6 as I don't want to touch FCPX.

What are people's experiences editing on laptops? And what do people think of SSDs?

On a side note I'm looking at the Creative Cloud Subscription-what are people's experience with Adobe cloud services?

Thanks in advance
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
I generally edit short films as well as a few live events (band gigs, weddings) needing multiple layers of footage in Premiere and doing the occasional complex Special effect in After Effects
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Laptops don't give you the bang for your buck when you compare the speed of a desktop with a laptop. You can do it, but its going to cost you a lot more. Also, in general, the speed of an I7 on a desktop is faster than an I7 on a laptop. I don't have experience in Macs so this might not be true.

For SSD's. they are really good. They'll increase the performance of the computer quite a lot.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
If you go with Mac, don't buy the SSD and the 8 Gigs directly from them. Get the most standard setup and get your RAM and SSD elsewhere for a lot cheaper (Crucial for instance) and install it yourself (it's allowed by Apple and doesn't void the warranty).
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Thanks for your help,

Sweetie said:
Laptops don't give you the bang for your buck when you compare the speed of a desktop with a laptop. You can do it, but its going to cost you a lot more.
Click to expand...

I am aware that they don't really compare to a desktop but unfortunately a desktop isn't really an option for portability.


TheArtist said:
If you go with Mac, don't buy the SSD and the 8 Gigs directly from them. Get the most standard setup and get your RAM and SSD elsewhere for a lot cheaper (Crucial for instance) and install it yourself (it's allowed by Apple and doesn't void the warranty).
Click to expand...

Is it possible to alter these for a laptop? I was always under the impression that with laptops you didn't really have very much control over the hardware once you got it
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
In a laptop you can change hardware, like switching a HDD for another is fine, or switching a smaller stick of ram for another stick with more is also fine. Adding an extra hard drive, adding a video card or even changing a motherboard and/or CPU is usually something you cannot do.

It can be painful to switch the hardware as taking apart a laptop is a lot more quirky than taking apart a desktop, but it is possible. Just remember, when putting it back together again having spare parts left over is NOT a good thing.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Swapping out the hard drive on a macbook is not for the faint of heart. If you choose to replace the disc type HDD for a SSD, use Super Duper to clone the factory drive before you swap it, and it will have everything that the original drive had and work exactly the same, just faster.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top