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Attention: Video Editing on Laptop?

post #1 of 15
12/16/04 at 12:17pm
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I am about to pull the trigger on an 9860, but have a few questions in regard to video editing. I currently use after effects, and premiere to do video editing. I know that this laptop should be fine but in regards to hard drive setup, what should i get?

Would a 60GB 5400rpm SATA and and a second drive 100gb SATA work fast enough?

or should i get two 100GB SATA 5400rpm and stripe using Raid 0, then get an external solution for more drive space (firewire, USB 2.0?) would the external solution be fast enough to write to the hard drive when capturing sources and applying effects. I want the fastest possible soluion.

Has anyone done video editing on their laptop and does it work as good or better that a desktop configuration?

On the other hand, what if I get the 3790 for mobility and use a Raid 0 solution with esternal storage? would that be fast enough?

Thank guys in advance for your help

You guys Rock!!!
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post #2 of 15
12/16/04 at 12:42pm
I have after effects and premier on my sager 4750. I would recommend the largest hard drive (perferablly a fastest one they make at the size) you can get in non Raid alignment (more stable that way), and also get an external hard drive. Video files are very large, and you will need all the space you can get.
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post #3 of 15
12/16/04 at 1:06pm
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Originally Posted by mayaman2
I have after effects and premier on my sager 4750. I would recommend the largest hard drive (perferablly a fastest one they make at the size) you can get in non Raid alignment (more stable that way), and also get an external hard drive. Video files are very large, and you will need all the space you can get.

so is there a big diference between 5400rpm SATA and 7200 IDE for this purpose?

Money is not a concern for this laptop so I want to be able to get the fastest solution. I read somehwere that a 2 SATA drives raid 0 would be the fastest solution and use that to do the work in and to use a firewire external drive (200GB +) to store the files in. I am just concerned about transfe rates as I know that the firewire transfer rates are not as fast as sata or ide.

By the way i've done video edting brfore on an AMd 2500+, 512MB, 40gb HDD 7200 (os and programs) and 80GB HDD 7200 (storage, video files) It worked but most of the times in some effects and rendering it took for ever. it would crawl and i would have to leave it there because the cmp would not allow me to do anything. also sometimes i would get chopy audio and video stuttering, so i had to sacrifice quality.

thanks maya for your suggestions
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post #4 of 15
12/16/04 at 2:59pm
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Anyone else have any suggestions?
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post #5 of 15
12/16/04 at 4:49pm
he's just saying that putting your SATA drives in RAID-0 would be less stable. SATA RAID-0 WOULD be the fastest solution. If you're only using external storage for just storage and no work usage, you'd probably go well with RAID-0 and a firewire external. No real experience to back it up, but ideally it is the fastest. Not necessarily the most stable, though. There are people who are lucky and unlucky with RAID arrays.
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post #6 of 15
12/16/04 at 6:33pm
Get some external hard drives and daisy chain em.
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post #7 of 15
12/16/04 at 6:57pm
You can also do external SATA drives with a SATA PCMCIA, which are faster yet than Firewire or USB2.0
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post #8 of 15
4/3/05 at 1:50am
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Originally Posted by pneuwanda
You can also do external SATA drives with a SATA PCMCIA, which are faster yet than Firewire or USB2.0
But you're going to be limited by the PCMCIA (PCI) bus which is 133 MB/s.
Your WLAN uses PCI bandwidth too. So if your WLAN is 54g, then that's 7MB/s gone. Your PCI bandwidth available is now 126 MB/s.

So, threoretically for the SATA drive you're allowed 150 MB/s but you'll probably get 40 MB/s realistically. Then this is going through PCMCIA card and capped by his 126 MB/s so now your real average speed is way below 40MB/s.


If only PCI wasn't the limiting factor....but laptops can only use PCMCIA to receive SATA signals....*sigh*
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post #9 of 15
4/4/05 at 12:16am
Wht kind of video are you editing?
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post #10 of 15
4/5/05 at 8:47pm
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Originally Posted by bfavre444
But you're going to be limited by the PCMCIA (PCI) bus which is 133 MB/s.
Your WLAN uses PCI bandwidth too. So if your WLAN is 54g, then that's 7MB/s gone. Your PCI bandwidth available is now 126 MB/s.

So, threoretically for the SATA drive you're allowed 150 MB/s but you'll probably get 40 MB/s realistically. Then this is going through PCMCIA card and capped by his 126 MB/s so now your real average speed is way below 40MB/s.


If only PCI wasn't the limiting factor....but laptops can only use PCMCIA to receive SATA signals....*sigh*
The 9860 supports ExpressCards as far as I know.

You could always disable stuff you don't need from the PCIe-bus.
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post #11 of 15
4/5/05 at 9:03pm
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Originally Posted by voidar
The 9860 supports ExpressCards as far as I know.

You could always disable stuff you don't need from the PCIe-bus.

I had bought a i6000d, no expresscard slot.
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post #12 of 15
4/10/05 at 1:06am
I am sorry, no Sager has an ExpressCard slot yet. I will get a Toshiba Tecra M3 instead then.
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post #13 of 15
4/12/05 at 6:07pm
why not get a powerbook and use Final Cut?
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post #14 of 15
4/22/05 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by bobx2001
why not get a powerbook and use Final Cut?
Probably because he wants to get a better system for a fraction of the price
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post #15 of 15
4/26/05 at 3:55am
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Originally Posted by bobx2001
why not get a powerbook and use Final Cut?
gross.

also, if money isn't an option. invest in Sony Vegas 5.0 and ditch premiere. Adobe did Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects right, but man did they blow it on Premiere.
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