A good computer needed for vegas pro 13

Stijnw wrote on 8/8/2019, 3:25 PM

Hello there,

I need a new laptop for my study but I also want to edit with the laptop. I want to ask if this computer is good enough to edit without any problems with the speed.

(I got sony vegas pro 13)

The computer:

HP Chromebook x360 14 G1 6BP69EA#ABU Pentium 4415U 8GB 32GB 14Touch FHD Chrome OS

The specs:

Thank you,

Stijn

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TheRhino wrote on 8/8/2019, 3:37 PM

The stock OS for Chromebooks is Google Chrome, not Windows... Vegas & other editing apps run on MS Windows... Typically a good laptop for editing is a "gaming" laptop with a dedicated GPU and separate drives for the OS & editing files... Most have the OS on a M.2 drive and a slot for you to add a separate SSD drive.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

Stijnw wrote on 8/8/2019, 3:49 PM

Thanks for your answer but i need a nice transferrable laptop for my study. Does something like a ASUS VivoBook Flip TP412UA-EC055T work? Because its from windows and i saw something you needed more than 2 GHZ cpu speed and this one is.

So it will go well if i get a seperate SSD drive in this ASUS or the chromebook? or does it not work like that?

wjauch wrote on 8/8/2019, 10:10 PM

A laptop has limited scope for upgrading, get something powerful so you are not frustrated in your editing. I bought one of these new in 2016. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/801666978-USE/asus_gl552vw_dh74_15_6_republic_of_gamers.html . I'd recommend an Intel i7, 16GB Ram, an SSD drive for OS and programs with a second HD for video files (or one with just a large SSD drive) and a GPU ideally with 4GB+RAM. Also IIRC Sony Vegas preferred AMD GPU, Magix I think prefers NVidea GPU.

The ASUS VivoBook Flip TP412UA-EC055T you suggested is very basic, 64GB eMMC, you'll run out of resources very quickly