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Although I don't do it too often I do love video editing and I was about to begin my opus of a re-edit of Superman II which satisfied my view on how it should be done. I'm also toying with the idea of a subtle edit of A New Hope and Return of the Jedi too but lo and behold, I uninstall Adobe Premier 1.5 in favour of CS4 and it states I need 2GB of Ram.
For a long time now my system has been grinding to a halt. I'v had it for years and whilst a re-format might fix things and make it slightly quicker, I think if I want to do things quicker and satisfy all my video editing desires it may be best to get a new machine.
I hope to have children soon and with that will come the loss of our computer room - hence I'v always had it in mind to get a laptop. But how do you guys find these? Whenever I look through brochures/leaflets that come with papers I'm always confused because they'l label a super laptop as compatible for 'desktop replacement' but in my mind, a load of the other specs are much better than my current tower system! lol
Another bone of contention is the hard drives speeds as most seem to run around the 5,000RPM mark. Now back in the early days of getting into editing I knew it had to be 7,200RPM so here is my way around it.... to get an external hard drive that runs at 7,200 whcih I would use for Video Editing. Would this be fine or is there some kind of bottleneck that I have overlooked?
The thought of re-editing a film whilst sitting downstairs on the kitchen table sounds a lot better than being couped up in a spare room but I wondered what peoples thoughts are and your experiences as well if you don't mind :)
