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Question about laptops and HD footage
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so i have a cannon HV20 and for grad my parents are putting come money into a laptop. I've only ever filmed on standard definition because i cant edit the HD stuff.
Is a macbook black powerfull enough to edit HD? i would get it with the extra ram.
If its not what are some alternatives to the macbook pro?
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i have the cheapest macbook pro (not so cheap, but still the cheapest one haha). i edit my HD stuff from the HV20 fine. just get an external HD or a large internal one, b/c it takes up so much space...
donno the specs/enough about comps to say if the black macbook is enough, but it prolly will be a little slow, but def. editable.
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actualy, the only time mine is slow is renders, and even then it isnt too bad. you should be fine
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yeah you should be fine, i have one and i havent had any problem doing things like that
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so what is the difference between the macbook black with 4 gigs of ram and the macbook pro with 4 gigs of ram, they look identical, exept for 500 bucks
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Look. I have a white macbook (second one, not the cheapest) with 4 gb of RAM (had a great price). We've been making a ski movie with exactly a HV20. I'm using Final Cut Express, and I can say that I'm able to do maybe 80-90% of what I need to do. Basically, with the graphics card that macbooks have, you won't be able to play highly-rendered video directly in final cut (like a shot speeded up 2000%). What I do is export it and check with quicktime, and this works.
The rendering time is slower, and you won't be able to "see" as much rendered video at once as you like. However, it's enough to do the job, and if you don't want to spend an extra 600$, it's okay to go with the Blackbook.
This said, I think you have much more mac for your buck if you buy a macbook pro. For example, you have more than one firewire port, so you don't always have to import on your hard drive and THEN transfer it to your ext. hard drive, if you need to do so, you can do it directly since you have 2 firewire ports. Also, you can connect eSata to an ext. hard drive with the Expresscard, which is a freaking nice thing. Also, the video card is like the best you can get on a mac.
I personally think buying the Pro over the normal black macbook would be the best choice, but you will still be able to edit your HD footage on either computer. Hope I helped.
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you do know that you are paying an extra 200 dollars to have it be black right?
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Actually its 120. There's a bigger hard drive roughly worth 80$ in the black macbook.
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oh, it used to be a bigger difference, back when I bought mine I bought the white and upgraded the ram and hd and it was only 20 bucks more than the black so it worked out well for me
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some things i recently learned... buy the computer with the lowest HD size and ram, and upgrade to bigger hd/more ram. im gonna buy these soon...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231135
SOOOO much cheaper than buying it from apple. maybe it will save u enough to get the mb pro too
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or spend half the price and get an equivalent or better PC...
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i was thinking about it, but i have made up my mind and am fucking sick of Windows.
I know the computers might be the same but i want OSX and just get away from all the bullshit (like what i had to deal with today)
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