Hi vkmast. Thanks for your reply. 👍🏻 Ah I didn't realise that the software had a name tweak. It's been many years since I last used it. 😁 I did find them system requirements but wanted to check to see what sort of hardware people are using to run Vegas and how their hardware deals with it.

In a perfect world I'd like to save some money and get an 11th or 12th gen i5 processor if that was to work? The last thing that I'd want to do is spend over a thousand pound on a laptop that won't do it's main purpose. 😀👍🏻

I'd avoid 11th gen Intel as they run hot in general. Intel is good though and has iGPUs that do a good job decoding media in Vegas. Try to find one that has adequate thermals to not throttle under load (read reviews for the specific model).

Ah I didn't realise that the software had a name tweak

@Seggons It's not a name tweak. It's a change of ownership. Did you fully read the link vkmast gave you?

See my signiture for the laptop I use. Works nice for Vegas.

I'd avoid 11th gen Intel as they run hot in general. Intel is good though and has iGPUs that do a good job decoding media in Vegas. Try to find one that has adequate thermals to not throttle under load (read reviews for the specific model).

Thanks for that advice Roger S. 👍

Ah I didn't realise that the software had a name tweak

@Seggons It's not a name tweak. It's a change of ownership. Did you fully read the link vkmast gave you?

I did indeed read it. Sorry for getting it wrong it's just I tried the trial on a laptop to see if it worked on it and it looked very much like the Vegas by the company that started with a S and end with "ony" so obviously wrongly assumed it was just a name tweak. 😀

See my signiture for the laptop I use. Works nice for Vegas.

I just searched for the laptop that you use and it's between £2000 to £2600 to buy which is a little bit over my £1300 budget. 😁 Thanks for the post though. 👍

My seven year old laptop works just fine with SONY Vegas.

See my signiture for the laptop I use. Works nice for Vegas.

I just searched for the laptop that you use and it's between £2000 to £2600 to buy which is a little bit over my £1300 budget. 😁 Thanks for the post though. 👍

Right. But you asked for hardware that works. And here you find a combination that works. Does not mean that you have to purchase such an extra expensive OLED system, but the rest can give you an indication. In terms of the processor used, in terms of the i-GPU used, in terms of RAM and GPU used.

Please check also the system requirements of Vegas. For example, to use a GPU with 4GB ram will be on the limit.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/specifications/

Maybe look at Alienware x15, the m variants or the 16? They seem to have solid cooling.

My seven year old laptop works just fine with SONY Vegas.

But could that already handle 4K? 😇

No, my last version of Sony Vegas didn't do 4K. I think 13 would do 4096x4096.

Hello All,
let me reignite this post.

Background:

I am one of the frustrated vegas Pro users who left Vegas Pro 16 and moved to FCP last year.

Why did I leave?

Because the process to create proxies to edit my 6k files were crashing. crashing so much that i could find any solution. My laptop was i7 with 16 GB Ram and a raedon video card. Vegas support was useless and they always blamed drivers for my miseries which was not the case as I always kept drivers up to date.

What happened after I switched side:

well, I fell for the unified design of M1 so bought a macbook air M1 and FCP. cost me a lot of money , roughly GBP 1500. I am NOT a professional video editor and edit only for hobby so I cant buy expensive hardware so rely a great deal on PROXY file based editing. using trial version, I was able to edit 6K video without any issues.
however, now i can't export files due to crash issues. all suggestions i got from different forums were ineffective so I am stuck. Plus FCP lacks the simplicity of Vegas. its file management sicks. its library keeps swelling all the times.

Now what??

I am considering returning back to Vegas. but i have a question and need your help in answering.

what is the minimum spec laptop I can buy that I can use to edit 6K and 8K files with 6K/8K output using PROXY. So I am happy for rending to work for any amount of time to finish project. I dont rely on what Vegas website says as a minimum specs needed as I always met that in the past but still all i got was crashes. Even Proxies were not getting created.