Watch BEFORE Buying a Video Editing Computer | 2024 Buyers Guide 

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Hi, I'm entry level and in the market for a new laptop. Great video, thanks! Are refurbished Dell laptops worth it?

I'll sign up for your course right after I buy my new PC, which should be fairly soon.

I've got a great mind for telling the story, and for knowing where to cut and piece footage together, but I have never learned video editing using final cut, or anything like it, so I need some help. Your course looks great. I do not have a great video camera at this time, but I can use my iPhone 16 to learn. Then I'll buy a decent camera that I can shoot 3D pics with. I am going to use my late 2013 apple desktop PC for an external monitor. I am going to buy a MacBook Pro M2 tip 16 inch screen 16GB Unified RAM, SSD 512 GB. I am delighted that I have found you and I look forward to mentoring with you in the near future. Still saving my bucks and with help from a friend, and your instruction, I've got this. I'll use your link above soon.

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This is beside the point but, WOW! Hole ee Cow the Mac book pro was not $ cheap. I do believe it will be the right choice for me though. It’s an investment🤙🏼💪🏻

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Is this beginner friendly?

@@HelloThere-lo3qi yes it is. Great value, great content!

@@MrPaulXavierHow do I find out reliable used Apple laptops in Houston or even any where else? Any suggestions or names of any store whether local or out of state? Thanks

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He's also wrong about many suggestions

@@KarlGutowski which ones?

Thank you!!! I’m going with the Macintosh!🍎

Terrible advice, dollar for dollar PC gaming machine willtotally smoke a Mac when it comes to anything above basic editing . The only thing the Mac do extremely well on the low end, is if you use a certain type of video, it has built-in chips that make it run and seem quicker than it is. Also Anyone who works with video with under 2 GB of SSD would be ridiculously hard in the long run. You'll notice the author is using super high-end Apple systems. He doesn't tell you how ridiculous it would be to work with a 512 drive, and 16 GB or below. Try using fusion, or color grading anything besides basic editing with this cheap Mac. With the basic Mac you can cut and edit anything simple, however, you don't need those programs for that, you can just go with luma fusion on a tablet. You can see it all over these 256 8 GB Mac for sale. They become useless unless you attach hard drives to them, now you've lost all your portability, and you might as well just bought the PC in the first place. Go ahead and look at the prices of older model PC gaming machines in a 1 100 range, and compare that to a comparable Mac. The difference would be night and day, on anything except for basic editing. And if you're going to do basic adding just do it off your tablet don't worry your phone you don't need a big old computer for that.. Plus they'll get a gaming machine to boot.

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Totally! And also it depends on what editing suite you prone. Adobe is a fair bit more efficient with CUDA acceleration vs open gl from non nvidia gpus. Especially when dealing with a lot of assets in your timeline, whether psd files, after effects elements and other render heavy things. Chances are most people use a combination beyond just a video editing suite and based on that echo system, you may benefit a lot from more cpu cores, if a pc laptop making sure it's plugged in so the gpu isn't throttling due to insufficient wattage etc.

Terrible advice, dollar for dollar PC gaming machine willtotally smoke a Mac when it comes to anything above basic editing . The only thing the Mac do extremely well on the low end, is if you use a certain type of video, it has built-in chips that make it run and seem quicker than it is. Also Anyone who works with video with under 2 GB of SSD would be ridiculously hard in the long run. You'll notice the author is using super high-end Apple systems. He doesn't tell you how ridiculous it would be to work with a 512 drive, and 16 GB or below. Try using fusion, or color grading anything besides basic editing with this cheap Mac. With the basic Mac you can cut and edit anything simple, however, you don't need those programs for that, you can just go with luma fusion on a tablet. You can see it all over these 256 8 GB Mac for sale. They become useless unless you attach hard drives to them, now you've lost all your portability, and you might as well just bought the PC in the first place. Go ahead and look at the prices of older model PC gaming machines in a 1 100 range, and compare that to a comparable Mac. The difference would be night and day, on anything except for basic editing. And if you're going to do basic adding just do it off your tablet don't worry your phone you don't need a big old computer for that.

@@Joedisney I've been selling and servicing computers since before the internet existed in conjunction with real estate related work. What i fix the most is Macs. Not even close. I can't vouch for them in terms of reliability from my personal anecdotal experience. That doesn't make it enough of a sample size to pass judgement on industry wide averages. That being said, there's no denying that the M1 and M2 chips are highly effective with built in encoder/decoder (media engine) for both h264, hevc and ProRes formats. It's a HUGE DEAL for anyone that has suffered through really annoying timeline scrubbing on a PC in adobe premiere. Puget systems has the most in depth benchmarks on this and it's undeniable that for the average editor it's a game changer. So much so that intel had to do the same for content creators with their latest iterations. I won't even mention how irrelevant Radeon GPUs are in adobe suite apps, the edge is staggeringly on the CUDA side (nvidia). That being said, anyone doing more than just basic "youtubing" won't use entry level stuff anyway. A complex timeline with after effects assets becomes a nightmare on anything low end. You'd have a point there. Personally I just don't get people using a laptop for content creation unless they absolutely need the portability (or a machine that does both things). Most inevitably end up plugging external monitors, NAS, SSDs, keyboard/mouse etc. I edit on a threadripper machine but I know plenty of other real estate photographers/videographers that work on macbook pros with external redundancy cause you just can't trust your primary storage with mission critical work and regardless of pc or mac you'd have NAS and/or cloud for your assets anyway. Onboard storage is nowhere near as important beyond just basic content creation. I don't get why people defend one side or the other like they're paid to do so, there's a tool for every job. Some people do incredible video work on an iphone and others like MKBHD do everything on RED 8k cameras that require some really high end stuff to work with. For my 2 cents, I game on occasion and MAC is not an option at all. For those that exclusively use Final Cut they have to use Apple products. For those that use davinci or adobe apps, either work. The M1 and M2 opened up a whole new world for those that want the synergy of interconnectivity with their other apple devices (phone or tablet). I'm an android user and rely heavily on google apps for my day to day and i'm better served by the PC side of the ledger but there's arguments for both sides and it's really a case by case thing. No statement applies to all. Pugetsystems extensive coverage and benchmarks in all major content creation programs on all silicon is pretty clear on that.

@@RMRealEstateProductions I have about 20 years on you, I have every certification and MCSE A+ Plus etc. I've also has a master's in computer science. I WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WHEN THERE WAS ONLY 500 WEBSITES IN THE WORLD.. I'm just going to say it right out, if you understand what you say you do, then you would know that you can't swap files with a small drive and these Apple slow down, next to nothing OVER TIME. UNLESS YOU PUT AT LEAST 32 GB OF RAM IN THEM. Apples for apples (pardon the pub)you cannot even come close to comparing price point from an apple to a last year model PC gaming machine (laptop). I'm not speaking about integrated graphics, I'm talking about a game machine such as the $700 3070 RTX. You'd have to spend over 3,000 to get the same speed from an apple. The only advantage of the Apple it would run at a lower power, if that was necessary. I'm notout here to argue with Apple fan boys, fact is Apple is outrageously priced. I think they're fantastic computers, but they are extremely overpriced compared to a a gaming PC if you want to get work done for a good price. I have a Mac mini M2, with 512 memory and 512 SSD, and I have an old laptop with a 2070 and an i 7. When I work with fusion, the apple just bogs down, the 2070, its not the quickest but it is capable of getting the work done. . Yes if you do simple editing you can get away with the Apple no problem, but why not just buy an iPad and put DaVinci resolve on it, or use even better yet LumaFusion. Apples just not a professional tool until you get into the 3500 on up price point. This is why you see all these Apple fanboys are spending over 3,500 on their Apple machines. Again, I like Apple,however, it's a consumption device atanything lower than $3,500 price point. This is why you see a bunch of low and apples for sale; you don't see the 3,500 on up Apple's for sale. They're great computers, they are just priced at a ridiculous amount of money. This is why businesses use PCs, they're not trying to get the latest and greatest they are trying to get work done and a good price point. I promise you you will see most business out there buying Apple computers when they are at a better price point per performance than a PC. I'm not here to argue , I just seen a lot of the comments of people who are trying to buy computers for their children, and I hate to see them making a mistake.. I wish you luck, I enjoy your video it's great quality. I just hate to see people getting screwed over because of Apple's great marketing machine. FYI, one of my good friends is an Apple executive and he'll tell you the exact same thing I just wrote here.

@@Joedisney Thank you for your reply on this video. You saved me from buying my 14y son a m2 what pc build specs am i looking for to do video editing

Very good point!

If your ram burns out? Please don’t compare 70’s and 80’s SOC (NOT EVEN CLOSE TRO THE SAME) to Apple SOC. You have no clue what you are talking about.

can u replace gpu or cpu in a laptop either?

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xeon processors shouldn't be in a conversation about video editing, because last i looked, they don't have intel quicksync capability and therefore don't support 4:2:2 10-bit h.265 decoding on the editing timeline, which is extremely important: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

If you don't mind me asking, which lenovo did you get?

We got a mid-range Lenovo Tower 5i series with a Core i7 13th Gen CPU, mid-range graphics card (RTX 3060) and16 GB RAM (wuth intention to upgrade GPU and RAM in next 5 years)@@joycebrett8364

What u think of the dell Inspiron 24 it's 32 gb

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Terrible advice, dollar for dollar PC gaming machine willtotally smoke a Mac when it comes to anything above basic editing . The only thing the Mac do extremely well on the low end, is if you use a certain type of video, it has built-in chips that make it run and seem quicker than it is. Also Anyone who works with video with under 2 GB of SSD would be ridiculously hard in the long run. You'll notice the author is using super high-end Apple systems. He doesn't tell you how ridiculous it would be to work with a 512 drive, and 16 GB or below. Try using fusion, or color grading anything besides basic editing with this cheap Mac. With the basic Mac you can cut and edit anything simple, however, you don't need those programs for that, you can just go with luma fusion on a tablet. You can see it all over these 256 8 GB Mac for sale. They become useless unless you attach hard drives to them, now you've lost all your portability, and you might as well just bought the PC in the first place. Go ahead and look at the prices of older model PC gaming machines in a 1 100 range, and compare that to a comparable Mac. The difference would be night and day, on anything except for basic editing. And if you're going to do basic adding just do it off your tablet don't worry your phone you don't need a big old computer for that.

Also, although I work on a custom built windows pc and prefer it (because i game on occasion and it's paramount that i be able to upgrade my stuff on a semi regular basis so laptop is not viable for me and i don't edit on the go anyway) if MOBILITY is not a thing for you; you can get a lot more for your money with a Mac mini (if you prefer final cut pro for example you gotta go Mac, i prefer the adobe suite). For $1300 you get a macbook air m2 13" with 512gb , 8gb. If you don't look beyond that you miss the fact that a Mac mini with the m2 pro chip, with double the memory and more importantly the cpu has more cpu and gpu cores for faster workflow is a bit cheaper. For not much more money you can add a monitor/keyboard/mouse (which most people would add ANYWAY cause it's so dreadful to edit a complicated timeline on a 13" screen). I wish the video covered rendering times because that is HUGE in my view. And also the variable that if you game, a gaming desktop or laptop also does great for content creation since adobe's programs are cuda optimized (assuming you go nvidia rtx vs amd equivalent which is superior for content creation), mixed with an amd cpu vs intel since it's also the better option for content creation right now at most price points.

Wow, thanks!

What would you recommend?? I have an iMac now w ram I added and the editing on adobe is soooooo laggy. I’m ready to sell it and find a new setup. Just don’t know what to switch to?? Budget $800-1300

WOW.... that was a truthful sandwich.. so im now retired and taking up photography and video. I'm not a computer person but need a mobile laptop for editing video and photos that will last 2 or 3 years. Would you be willing to give a recommendation or 2 maybe under 3k if possible? I'm not computer educated so really looking for help

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​@@drewskidohini i9 14900k, zseries Asus motherboard with ddr5 ram support. 64 gb ddr5 ram 6000mhz. Rtx 4070ti / rtx4080, 2tb Samsung nvme gen4/gen5. Case - nzxt/fractal design/ lianli, 360mm aio cooler for cpu.

@@passionatebeast24 that's frigging awesome system, but he aint putting that together for $800-1300, ...but it's still a great rig. good job !!

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@@MaxFitnessExperiance Its low end shite

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@@ItsZ5 Because you rarely get the quality that you thought you were paying for.

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I’m having the same experience. Apple won’t verify it’s an issue with my 4k monitors.

@@AngeliqueStidhum I think the Apple monitors are 5 k. So it would have to rescale.

@@AngeliqueStidhum watch why I returned my 4k monitor /// MacOs Scaling Explained by Hunter King

I bought the monitor this guy recommended because I wanted to play World of Warcraft on my Mac Studio.

That was the goal! :)

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We covered the three major categories you need to worry about whether it’s a mac or PC. Ram, CPU, and Storage. We even talked specific CPUs for PCs - did you watch that part in the video??

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I should have the most updated link if you follow the gear guide link in the description beneath the video!

Solid points :)

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I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Generally speaking used macs that have been treated well will perform great!

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If the specs are still in line with what we talk about in this video, buying used is a really solid decision!

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Anything with an m2 or m3 chip with over 30GB of unified memory will do well. The more memory you get the better!

@@MrPaulXavier but the desktop for Mac doesn’t have the M3 max. Do you think they will come with one soon?

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Wow, thank you!

When it comes to saving money we'll always have to sacrifice something. 16GB is enough to get by but the computer will lag more than one with 32 GB

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