Buying New Laptop – Video Editing

[eager to learn]

Buying New Laptop – Video Editing

Hi all,

I’m not a techie so I’m interested in hearing from others who are.

I’m searching for a new laptop as my Toshiba is 10+ years old.

I want to do some video editing with the laptop, possibly using ShotCut.

I’m wondering if I can just use onboard graphics or if I’ll need a separate graphics card?

If I necessarily need a separate card, which manufacturer(s) (models) have you had the most success with?

Is there a way for me to ascertain if the proposed laptop works well with OpenGL 2.0 and that laptop also is compatible DirectX 9 or 11 drivers?

A friend using Linux Ubuntu shared they’ve had major issues with Nvidia graphics cards.

Would an AMD Radeon graphics card be best? If so, are there particular models of AMD Radeon I should look for?

I’ve also read that heat reduction of the CPU is important. How might I ascertain if a certain laptop includes good heat reduction?

Thanks so much.

 

[Muadib]

Read this: https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/359840/the-best-laptops-for-video-editing

 

[fire400]

Unless you're a business-pro road warrior and have to be out in the field doing video editing, recommend a desktop instead if you're going to be in the studio doing editing most of the time with onsite-local cloud security storage which allows you to access the videos remotely.
If you don't care about price, get a +$3000 workstation laptop, maxed out with Xeon/i9/i7 and any super high-end graphics card with 64GB - 128GB RAM and max SSD storage, and max out the warranty.

nVidia or AMD will be fine, depends on the application and if it takes advantage of one or the other or any graphics processing at all.

Recommended budget laptop for video editing;
i7h-gen8 or gen9, no i7u.
discrete graphics; nVidia or AMD
16gb RAM
1TB SSD.

Cooling will generally suck on laptops when at maximum speed compared to desktops, so don't expect quite.

 

[LikeLinus]

MacBook Pro. I'm not the biggest fan of Apple, but my work MBP 15 is excellent.