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Hello, I am getting into video editing and will be using premiere pro to do 4k editing. I am trying to find a laptop that is capable of this, but I am not rich lol. So if theres a laptop I can get between 2019-2021 that would help out budget wise. Thanks.
What kind of budget do you have?
Hard to recommend anything without any sort of spending limit to consider.
For 4K editing you will want at least 32GB of RAM, which means price will be high to begin with.
Don't waste your money on the Intel Macs. Make sure you are getting an ARM Mac (M1, M2, or M3). If you need to, wait a little to save up. It will be worth the wait. The Intel systems just are no comparison. I just had a customer struggling with a 2018. I took a 60 second sample 4k file, added a title frame, a couple fades, and then exported to 1920x1080. The customer's 2018 took 2 minutes, 24.8 seconds to export the project. My reference M2 mini took 19.91 seconds. This is 7x faster! Considering that more than half your job will likely be transcoding, the M-class is the clear winner.
As Phil0124 noted, RAM is key. But don't forget about storage. You have two options. Either get large internal storage (costly), or fast external storage. Fast is the key. Go USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 storage, ssd if possible. Rotational is too slow these days. The external storage is also good if you are going to have a ton of projects. Simply put the project on a shelf when you are done with the project.
Also, for any computer you are buying, make sure you are spec'ing it for three years from now. Remember, you want the machine to last. This means three more versions of macOS, three more versions of Adobe CC, three more versions of everything. Be smart. Buy for the future, not the present or the past.
Hope this is helps.
Barely. You won’t get a decently capable Mac for less than $1000 USD.
You can get an M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16GB of Ram and a 512GB SSD.
It will work, but you’ll probably feel the lack of RAM when rendering 4K video.
You will still want a good external drive to store footage, and even to render from if the videos are longer than a few minutes as 4K video will eat through 512GB drive pretty quickly.
Bradley7600 wrote:
Got ya! Thank you big time! You got any recommendations for a external drive?
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-mercury-elite-pro-dual/mini
That helped major! I will be doing editing for tv shows and documentaries so just want to make sure I get the right thing. I did some transcrbing and logging awhile ago on a system called Avid which was industry standard at some point but I'm being told premiere pro is the industry standard now so just want to get the right thing. Do you think a 2020 or 2021 will be sufficient, with the right specs?
The budget is $1000 and under. Is that feasible?
Got ya! Thank you big time! You got any recommendations for a external drive?
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