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Pc hardware reqs for editing

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boobie
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I was thinking about getting a gopro hd hero this winter and making some edits. Problem is that idk if my laptop can handle the hd files so well... yes I know the laptop is far from great but it was part of my tuition at school. Anyone have the technical knowledge to answer that? Lappy is a dell e6400, core 2 duo p8600, 2.4ghz, 160gb mem, 2gb ram.
Dec 14 2010 9:25PM
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assface
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that should be able to handle gopro footage. for editing with multiple layers and stuff like that a goor AMD or intel processor and upwards of 4mb or RAM is handy
Dec 14 2010 9:32PM
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boobie
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anyone else? i'm looking for someone who is doing/has done it with a comparable or worse set up so they can say that it will work or that it will be too much for it. not tryin to drop that kind of money just to find out my laptop is too weak, just because someone said i "should be fine"
Dec 14 2010 10:00PM
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alexat955
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It will work, it might not be that fast but it's not like it's gonna break your computer
Dec 15 2010 12:02PM
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LuminatX
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yeah it will work, but scrubbing through your video will be slow, and if you start color correcting/adding layers etc etc, the more and more it will slow down.

what program did you plan to edit with anyway?
Dec 15 2010 8:09PM
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fsscott
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that should be able to work, but damnit stop calling hard drive space 'memory'.
Dec 15 2010 9:47PM
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.cam.
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im going to guess that you meant 4 GB of ram?
Dec 15 2010 10:06PM
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assface
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haha yep
Dec 15 2010 10:08PM
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boobie
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Ok, it being slow I can deal with. Just didn't want it to barely move or have the large file storage effect other usage of the computer... it wont, right? I read one thread on here where a kid was selling his gopro cause his computer couldn't handle editing the footage. My first thought is you're an idiot and probably doing something wrong, but I never posted cause I figured hey, what do I know, I don't have one. I do want to layer and play around with it a lot, but I'm only lookin to make like 5 minute edits so I assume that wont slow it up much even with all the layers (anyone have confirmation of that?)
Dec 16 2010 12:35PM
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boobie
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I figured I'd just pirate an adobe program to edit with. I tried vegas and some other ones that were free a little over a year ago and didn't like them, and the only other program I can get from a friend is a pinnacle one which was really basic.
Dec 16 2010 12:37PM
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alexat955
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5 mins is decently long... And editing HD footage is gonna take up a lot of space on any computer. But you can get an external hard drive if that's a problem. And idk exactly what layering you're gonna be doing but that takes a good amount of processing power
Dec 16 2010 4:30PM
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