Video editing

[KiwiCol]

Here's one for ya, guys of the GSX1400 world. What sort of laptop specs would be good for editing videos, specificlly bike videos?

Looking at an new one,   17.3" Asus Rog

I7-9750H 6 core 12 thread 2.6ghz - 4.5ghz (12M cache)
32gb ddr4 2666mhz ram (2 x 16)
1TB  NVMe PCIE 3.0 SSD
GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6GB GDDR6

What do ya reckon tech blokes? gonna do the trick & a bit left over?

@VladTepes   @Proteous

[grog]

Looks good to me Col, just remember ive just learnt which way light switches work. My angle grinder skills are about equal with my computer skills. Just thought id help. 😂

[Kiwifruit]

Why is it called an angle grinder Grog ?

[grog]

Kiwi, totally wrong name, should be angry grinder. Im guessing its because its 180 degrees to machine. No idea really.

[Notty]

Sounds expensive Col - angle grinder cheaper !

[numbskull]

Looks good. Lots of RAM and and quick CPU are the most important things for video editing; will provide fluid 'scrubbing'. Some video editors use GPU acceleration for encoding which the 1660 will be fine. What video editor are you planning to use? Davinci Resolve is very good and very versatile, the free version lacks a few bits which are non-essential. Can be a somewhat steep learning curve beyond the basics.

Used to use Resolve, but now use Filmora https://filmora.wondershare.com/ . It's not free but is very simple to use with loads of built-in effects (such as titles) which require a more manual approach with Resolve.

Plenty of tutorials for both on YouTube.

TLDR; it will be plenty powerful with loads to spare.

[KiwiCol]

Thanks Numbskull, I have filmora & have played with it a bit, however, this laptop just isn't up to running the application properly making it very tedious to try even the most basic of things.  Hence the 'need' for an upgrade with a bit of overkill for 'futureproofing'. 

I've had "Director' think it was called that, on one of the earlier laptops, when it died so did that program. Windows movie maker I've played with as well, but again, not enough resources to utilise the capabilities of it.

Expensive? it'd be better than average system, but there's way better, (more expensive) systems available.  With the 'overkill', bit like the horsepower on a bike, you may not hardly ever use all of it, but it's damn nice knowing it's there when you want it.

[VladTepes]

Yep as @numbskull says it'll be more than fine.

@Proteous does some video editing for his drone stuff and may have further advice on programs etc. .

I might move this thread to a different forum - IT or vide or somewhere (but I'll leave a redirect).

[Globalrider]

I've done a lot of bike videos using Power Director - started with PD5 now up to PD16 - it works very well and as been suggested a quick CPU and lots of RAM are the keys. When you get up to about 4Gs of video on one production the processing power is critical but of course the quality of your production can be 'adjusted' to fit one DVD or even bigger if using a stick. This is where the size and type of your HD is also a factor. Gaming computers tend to platforms to do this stuff.
Have fun even though it is somewhat of a steep learning curve, PD is quite intuitive.
Cheers
Stan       

[KiwiCol]

Done it, brought the beast for a Chrissy present for myself.  It's now got 2 x SSD's, a 512GB & a 1TB   Should have it by Tuesday or Wednesday this week.    Woooo, can't wait.