8K Is The Best Laptop for Video Editing 2021, Video Editing Will Now be Like Water
Today we will discuss the best video editing laptops, The new 2021, which is capable of editing 8k videos, the best laptop we get below $ 2000
Welcome to the big boys club. (futuristic resonating) (keyboard
keys clacking) Happened to you too, huh? Spent all your money on a brand new
camera only to find out that it, is in fact so epic, that you're gonna be
needing, a new computer that is equally as epic, just to edit the footage.
Welcome to the club, you are not alone. A strong
camera is an incredible tool but it's pretty much useless if it's not paired with
a strong machine, and a strong operator, to be able to utilize its technology. Some
dead giveaways that you might, in fact, be in need of a computer upgrade are,
one, if your computer or editing, programs decide to crash, every time you ask
them, to do something intensive. One of the biggest ones.
is if you're experiencing, jittery or delayed playback,
when you're editing, meaning that the video and audio, start de-syncing and get
kind of choppy. That is a huge red flag that, you definitely need to upgrade.
Thirdly, if you're experiencing export or render times
that take too long, that you're missing deadlines, also might be a great time
to upgrade. And finally, you are definitely in need of an upgrade, if you keep
running into my old friend, the spinning wheel of death. Now, these issues
aren't only frustrating, but they can actually, cause you to miss deadlines, and
just overall start hating editing.
So today I have partnered with MSI, to find two
laptops at, two different price tiers, that are both complete, creator
powerhouses. Both of these machines are capable, of editing 4k high-quality
4k60, and even tackling the dreaded 8k RAW, that has rendered all, of our
laptops useless.
So after terabytes of testing, I have landed on two
different variations, of the Creator 15 laptop from MSI, both of which
support 10th generation, i7 Intel Core Processors, and honestly quite, ridiculous
graphics cards.
So laptop A, which is technically the Creator 15
A10SGS-40, we're gonna call The Beast, AKA The Beast. And we call it that
because, MSI has managed to be able, to put an RTX 2080 Super, Max-Q graphics
card, 32 gigs of RAM, two terabytes of storage, and a 4k Thin Bezel Monitor, into
one small, incredibly powerful laptop.
Laptop B, which is technically the Creator 15
A10SFT-53, we're gonna Beauty, AKA Beauty, because they've somehow put, an
Nvidia RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card, 16 gigs of RAM, and a full HD touchscreen,
monitor in this laptop, all still coming in at under $2,000. But are they both
capable of 4k high quality,
4k60, or an 8k RAW workflow?
And can they allow you to edit and export faster and
more efficiently? Let's find out. I tested it for you, and we're gonna go
through all of my results, but also in the case at home, you wanna test this on
your own device to kinda see how much of an upgrade you're actually looking at,
I've included a link in my bio where you can download all of the test images
used in this video so that you can test it against our findings as well.
So the first test we did was editing 4k high quality. 4k,
120 frames a second in traditional 4k to just make sure there was no jittery
playback or lagging video that would make editing impossible. Luckily for us,
both of these machines absolutely rocked this test.
Both of these laptops were able to achieve butter-smooth playback in
full resolution quality without requiring any pre-rendering at all. You were able to import the video, click play, and instantly
start editing your 4k high quality and also 4k120. It's worth noting that even
when the footage was colour corrected, there was absolutely zero change in the
outcome. The playback was butter smooth and that is for both machines.
Now the second test was 4k60, a frame rate that
literally cripples almost every computer. However, after a brief pre-render, which
is completely normal, both of these devices were able to achieve butter-smooth
constant playback in full resolution in 4k60.
And just keep in mind that Laptop A with 2080
Supergraphics card is playing 4k60 smoothly back on a 4k monitor. That's
pretty freaking cool. And for you guys keeping little notes at home, laptop A,
AKA The Beast was able to pre-render our 4k60 test clip in just 45 seconds while
laptop B, AKA Beauty, was right behind it with only 60 seconds. So it's not
like it was a massive difference. Both machines absolutely dominated this task.
Now I was actually kinda nervous about the third test.
Can these machines actually handle an 8k RAW video workflow with colour
correction, post-processing, and all of the tools that
we need to use as creators? Can they do it without
melting?
Well, obviously I'm making this video. So yes, they
actually both after a brief pre-render were able to playback 8k RAW video in
full resolution without any skipping or jittery, perfect, butter-smooth
playback. My mind is honestly completely blown. However, this is the first test
where Laptop A, AKA The Beast, started to noticeably
be able to outperform Laptop B. Laptop B, AKA Beauty, was able to pre-render our
8k RAW clip in 12 minutes, while Laptop A, AKA The Beast, was able to complete
the same task in only six minutes. That means that our
Creator 15 configuration with that 2080 Super Max-Q
graphics card was rendering footage twice as fast as 2070. This power gap
actually became noticeably more apparent when we started to do the post-processing
to 8K footage like advanced colour correction, stabilization, or even graphic
text. They were both able to complete the tasks, but Laptop A was doing them
much more efficiently, which we would have expected.
And that brings us to our fourth and final test. What
individual features or functions allow us to edit easier, more efficiently, or
at a higher level? Well, Laptop A, AKA The Beast, is a little bit more capable and
also a little bit more expensive.
It has a razor-sharp Ultra HD 4k monitor a faster
graphics card, more memory, and the ability to render videos at almost twice
the speed of laptop B, but it does cost a little over $3,000.
And Laptop B, AKA Beauty, is perfectly capable of 4k
and 8k video, it has plenty of memory and power, it comes with a full HD touch
screen monitor, which is an absolute game-changer for photo editing or
Photoshop use, and yet you get all this for less than $2,000. In closing, both
laptops are going to be incredible choices when looking for a machine to edit
4k and 8k workflow.
Personally, for me, I'm going to be going with Laptop
An AKA The Beast, because I can utilize the larger graphics card and increased
memory to be able to speed up my workflow and actually minimize the turnaround
times between all the videos I have to create.
The less time it takes one of my videos to render means
the quicker I can get out and start shooting the next one. Plus, I'm freaking
in love with the Ultra HD 4k monitor. It's actually the first 4k monitor I've
ever owned and seeing all of your high-resolution footage in all of its glory
is (kiss) oh, priceless.
But that is it, I really hope you enjoyed it. If you did,
please give this video a big thumbs up and subscribe. I try to make new film
and photography related videos every single week and would love to have you
here. Also thank you to MSI for getting me these laptops and working with me
for over three months until I could finally find what I was happy with and
share with you guys as a solution I know a lot of you are looking for.
And if any of you guys are interested in checking out
these laptops, I will put links to both of them right down below in the
description as well as you can check out msi.com. As always, I love you guys
very much.
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