Jeff Turkali
November 6th, 2021, 06:21 PM
I have a good but not great laptop, and HP with an i7, 16Gs ram, SSD for bot, 1TB HDD for storage, etc. It only has integrated graphics is the small bummer here.
But I keep reading that editing with the Cineform codec makes one able to cut through the HD footage (2k or 4k) like a hot knife through butter, so much easier to edit, process, and render out about anything faster, and with none of the other severe drop in quality issues we see when anything more than simple cuts and trims are done.
So if this is true, I should be able to transcode all of my high-def footage into Cineform at home (on a very powerful computer with 32Gs of ram, and a GPU with 6Gs of ran), load it to a HDD, and take it and my laptop and edit (remotely) to my heart's desire with little to no lags or stutter at all right?
It's the ProRes of the PC world. I wonder why more video and filming folks don't mention this wonderful way of working in Vegas on a PC laptop that is powerful, nice, but not at all the latest or the greatest.
As long as my drives can swiftly move that footage to that nice internal 1TB on the laptop, I should be more than good to go. Why did I not think of this before? Why are folks stressing out over laptops not cutting it? When they actually can cut it.
I wish to do a mix of iPhone 13 Pro Max footage and HDV footage with minimal quality drop - so Cineform is a no-brainer on any computer. But I had previously thought that my HP was simply not fast enough. Now I know why I maxed out at 16Gs and got the TB size dive. I actually plan on mixing three different camera's footage to complete short films.
But I keep reading that editing with the Cineform codec makes one able to cut through the HD footage (2k or 4k) like a hot knife through butter, so much easier to edit, process, and render out about anything faster, and with none of the other severe drop in quality issues we see when anything more than simple cuts and trims are done.
So if this is true, I should be able to transcode all of my high-def footage into Cineform at home (on a very powerful computer with 32Gs of ram, and a GPU with 6Gs of ran), load it to a HDD, and take it and my laptop and edit (remotely) to my heart's desire with little to no lags or stutter at all right?
It's the ProRes of the PC world. I wonder why more video and filming folks don't mention this wonderful way of working in Vegas on a PC laptop that is powerful, nice, but not at all the latest or the greatest.
As long as my drives can swiftly move that footage to that nice internal 1TB on the laptop, I should be more than good to go. Why did I not think of this before? Why are folks stressing out over laptops not cutting it? When they actually can cut it.
I wish to do a mix of iPhone 13 Pro Max footage and HDV footage with minimal quality drop - so Cineform is a no-brainer on any computer. But I had previously thought that my HP was simply not fast enough. Now I know why I maxed out at 16Gs and got the TB size dive. I actually plan on mixing three different camera's footage to complete short films.