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chrisjones · 29-03-2011, 23:30

Sorry but it's not going to happen for much under £600. The way HD camcorders compress the footage to SD cards makes it a total pain go edit on lower end machines, I dare say nearly impossible, trust me, I've tried it. You need a decent CPU to decoded and re-encode the files from your SD Card (or wherever you copy to), play back on anything less than i3 (or equivalent) will be choppy at best. I spent a good £700 to get something like a decent laptop for editing 1080i files via Vegas Pro 9, even then it can have a hiccup at times as really laptops aren't designed to be spending hours encoding clips

29-03-2011, 23:30	#2
chrisjones Inactive Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Knaresborough UK Age: 46 Services: 100mb BB TiVo 500gb TV L Phone - Evening / Weekends Posts: 833	Re: Cheap, Lightweight, Portable, Laptop for Video Editing? Sorry but it's not going to happen for much under £600. The way HD camcorders compress the footage to SD cards makes it a total pain go edit on lower end machines, I dare say nearly impossible, trust me, I've tried it. You need a decent CPU to decoded and re-encode the files from your SD Card (or wherever you copy to), play back on anything less than i3 (or equivalent) will be choppy at best. I spent a good £700 to get something like a decent laptop for editing 1080i files via Vegas Pro 9, even then it can have a hiccup at times as really laptops aren't designed to be spending hours encoding clips