VideoStudio 10 with laptops

collind · Post by **collind** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:31 pm

I am considering buying VS 10, but saw a post on Amazon that indicates, as of 23 November 2006, that it does not work on laptops. Has anyone had that problem?

wywso0 · Post by **wywso0** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:47 pm

I have used VS 10 plus (not VS 10) on a laptop with no problems. I can't see how VS10 would "know" whether the PC it was running on was a laptop or a desktop. Does the comment relate to the fact that laptops are sometimes lower spec than desktops?

Bill S

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:50 pm

collind wrote:I am considering buying VS 10, but saw a post on Amazon that indicates, as of 23 November 2006, that it does not work on laptops. Has anyone had that problem?

I've used it on my laptops (Core Duo 2050/512mb memory, and a slower 1.4ghz Celeron-M/768mb memory).

One concern with video-editing on a laptop (regardless of application) would be lack of multiple hard drives and/or total hard drive space (if you only have the one internal hard drive to work with).

Regards,
George

mike.petrie · Post by **mike.petrie** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:34 pm

I'm new to VS and have 10+. I have had problems with laptop overheating and it seems essential to blow out the cooling fins and fan entry fairly regularly. I take it to the local garage and use their airline. This seems to work for six months or so. But I don't have a dual core processor which would probably be better.

Mike

collind · Post by **collind** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:36 pm

The comment on Amazon indicates the user was waiting for a patch, but I too find it hard to believe that it was just because they were using it on a laptop. Must have been someone using an old machine.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:53 pm

In any case, ALWAYS DOWNLOAD THE FREE TRIAL!!!

To the computer, video data is just like any other data. The only time the computer itself should cause you trouble, is with real-time analog capture. If the computer can't process video at real-time speed, you will get dropped frames or other corruption.

If your laptop has a firewire port, and you are downloading digital video from a mini-DV camera, I wouldn't expect any problems.

Hardare is rarely the problem. Most problems seem to be caused by bad video files (the slightest bit of file-corruption seems to cause trouble). Highly compressed video formats like DivX and Xvid seem to cause lots of trouble too.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:03 pm

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:09 pm

I forgot to mention -- the SP1 Update patch did improve rendering performance on my Core Duo Laptop

Regards,
George

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:20 pm

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:59 pm

Hi MD,

Well, just ran some tests, and it wasn't as good as I originally thought. I think I was just impressed that my laptop was just "as fast" as my desktop (which is slow by today's standards)

My laptop is a Core Duo T2050 (1.6Ghz) processor/512mb ram (it's not a Core 2 Duo processor)

My Desktop is similar to yours -- 3.0ghz HT, 800FSB, 1gb ram

Source for all tests was 5-minute dv .avi
Rendered to mpeg2, CBR 6000kbps Quality slider at 100, DD Audio

Desktop - 8:17
Laptop w/o SP1 - 8:30
Laptop w/ Sp1 - 7:28

Regards,
George

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:08 am

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:49 am

VS will definitely run on a laptop. I edit my video on my old Pentium M 1.73 G notebook for some time now and it's running well.

H.T.

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