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Minimum Computer Requirements to Edit DSLR Video with NLE
www.learningdslrvideo.com For the past few months my wife as been complaining how slow her computer has become. Her computer is a laptop that we have doc’ed to a keyboard and monitor and when we are on vacation we take it with us. On vacations she has always complained about the keyboard not working well so I headed to Costco before our last vacation to pickup a new laptop for her. The main requirement was for it was to have a good keyboard since I knew anything new would be fast enough for her web usage. She ended up picking the Acer Aspire 5560-Sb653 which was pretty much the cheapest laptop there at $480. I was kind of hoping that she would have picked a higher-end model with an I7 processor, more RAM and an NVidia card so I could create videos of our vacations from the laptop. So I was really surprised when I put Premiere Pro CS5.5 on it and I was able to make a few videos with it on the road. You can’t scrub through the video with the laptop and occasionally after 45 minutes of editing it would crash, but I actually made 4 videos with it so far. Before it would crash I could sense it slowing down and I would reboot. It is running: Windows 7 64bit AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M AMD Radeon HD 6520G 6 GB DDR3 Memory 500 GB HDD 15.6″ HD LED LCD screen Tilt of the screen, this part sucks, if you move your head 5 degrees off axis the contrast can change so much you really need to pay attention how you are looking at the screen. I tried Sony Vegas Pro 11 which just came out a …
Intel WiDi (Wireless Display) & Dell XPS 15 R2 L502 Demo
So, I accidentally found out that my new XPS laptop had this feature called, “Intel WiDi.” I had no idea what it was but after doing some research, I was pretty excited that I have it. I’ve always wanted to figure out a way to run an HDMI cable from my bed to my TV. Total cost of materials for that project is about $35. For WiDi to work you need a Netgear adapter that costs $72 from Amazon. Considering the time saved from having to punch holes in the dry wall and running wires thru the basement, I think that’s fairly reasonable. After a quick decision, I ordered the Widi and it arrived today. It took me literaly 2-3min to get it set up and running. Of course, it’s not perfect like a hard line connection, but it’s pretty impressive how well it works. You will see the cursor lag if you jerk the mouse around really quick, but that’s an edge use case, no one really moves their mouse that way. Playing HD content is great if you are playing it directly from the laptop. I’ve tested high bitrate 12GB 1080p h.264 video files and the FPS is 95% smooth. However, if you have a WiFi network setup and want to play media files from your WiFi network and stream it to your TV, then YMMV depending on how heavy the bitrate is of the media file you wanna play. I heard that this system runs on 802.11g protocol, they really should’ve used 802.11n. What Intel failed to consider is what if I want to stream video from my HTPC to my laptop to my TV? WiFi-G just doesn’t cut it, believe me, I’ve …