topic Re: Laptop recommendations for editing in General Discussion

Laptop recommendations for editing

Kiararj — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:51:04 GMT

Just curious what laptops you guys would recommend for editing?

Re: Computers

Tintype_18 — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:24:33 GMT

I would think the innards would be the main factor in editing. I don't do a lot of detailed editing, too.

Re: Laptop recommendations for editing

p4pictures — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:34:23 GMT

A lot of the suggestions would depend on what you are editing, photos, video?

I use am M3 Pro MacBook Pro and it flies through almost everything I can give it; stills or video. The key factors are super fast storage access speed, a decent amount of memory, and a graphics processor that is well supported by the software you want to use. If you shoot video then you will likely need the "right" graphics card to deal with H.265 footage from an EOS R series camera shooting in HDR PQ mode, the apple M processors work well with this.

Re: Laptop recommendations for editing

kvbarkley — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:25:49 GMT

p4pictures is right on.

One other issue is whether this is a field solution or the main solution at home. Depending on your fussiness, you may need to look at screen profiling for a Color Management Workflow.