Laptop for edius & raylight duties.

[ROne]

I'm a bit late in this thread.

I'v got two acers: both dual core 1.66 (one of the slowest) with one gig of ram, both internal sata 5400 drives, firewire and pcmcia and express.

One is a travelmate, much sturdier (carbon lid and better hinges) than the other - an aspire. Essentially they are close in spec (the 8202 travelmate has a much higher rez screen).

The 8202 was £1200 and the aspire 5672 was £700.

Both run edius 4 broadcast fine in realtime at 720. Internal drive and external drive - I've not had any problems at all. When you pile on lots of effects and multiple streams you may need to do a little rendering.

But on the whole for the average edit they have been fine. Very stable.

My only tip is that some of the bloatware needs removing from both of these - they each come running approx 50 threads, which I've got down to 30 or so.

 

[tazza]

I'm running a P4 3.2 Alienware (heavy) notebook w/2gigs of ram. I've been messing around with the Eduis 4 trial software and it seems to work with no problems in performance.
2 questions:
1. How do you like working with Raylight?
2. Would you know when Adobe is going to address the P2 issue?
This is the deciding factor whether or not I upgrade to the new Video Collection or trash Adobe and go with Canopus>
What's your opinion?

 

[ROne]

Raylight has been great for what I wanted to initially do, but now I find that I'm using Edius more and more, it still seems quirky compared to premiere but that's more to do with the time I have spent with it.

I don't know what adobe are waiting for, perhaps they are happy supporting HDV ... or waiting for P2 to proliferate ... who knows, but I need hidef editing now so I made the jump to edius.