Will this laptop run Sony Movie Studio

FullOfQuestions wrote on 8/18/2014, 3:27 AM

Help would be greatly appreciated :) Is the AMD Radeon R4 good enough?

Specs are below...

Toshiba 17.3" Satellite C75D-B7215 Laptop PC:

AMD A8-6410 Quad-Core processor
2.40GHz

8GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 16GB)

1TB SATA hard drive

17.3" HD+ TruBrite TFT display
AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 8/18/2014, 3:42 AM

This laptop is more than powerful enough. It is the quadcore cpu that makes all the difference.

Support for graphics cards within Vegas is sketchy and unpredictable, depending very much on the codec used for rendering. (When I 'upgraded' my desktop graphics card, some render times increased rather than dropped... While that new card showed incredible performance for computer games)

FullOfQuestions wrote on 8/18/2014, 3:48 AM

Okay, thanks so much for the help!!

I'll go ahead and purchase it! If for some reason it doesn't work, it's walmart, so I can return it! :P Only $498 :)

Weird about your graphics card increasing render times. Does the graphics card only affect rendering in Vegas/Movie Studio?

musicvid10 wrote on 8/18/2014, 8:14 AM

". . . some render times increased rather than dropped."

There was a period of time when people were glorifying hardware assist as a fix for mediocre cpu rendering performance. And it worked in some cases.

With quad and i-class processors now at prices such as you mentioned, that's where you need to throw put your money, and get a graphics card that works. The benefits of gpu rendering diminish inversely with increasing cpu performance.