Graphics Card

Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

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Dec 02, 2013 16:43

SO I'm really new to this whole video editing community, and anyway, i just got a stronger laptop which i love a lot. And i have the trial version of Cyberlink PowerDirector 12 and before i got the full one, i wanted to make sure my laptop could handle it. I got a Toshiba Satellite S55-A5295 and it has a Intel HD graphics card, and I dont know if this graphics card is good enough to handle the video editing and cyberlink and stuff or if my computer will crap out if i try and make a long video. If someone could help out that would be great! Thanks!

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 17:52

Hi,
Post a DXdiag (txt file) here on the forum and the members can tell if your machine is capable.
Video editing id very demanding of computer resources.
Jim Intel i7-2600@3.4Gz Geforce 560ti-1GB Graphic accelerator, windows 7 Premium 12GB memory

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Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 18:03

http://www.staples.com/Toshiba-S55-A5295-156-Laptop/product_49556
this is the laptop that i just purchased, that i am wondering if it is strong enough
THanks

the King

Senior Member Joined: Jun 30, 2010 04:10 Messages: 296 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 20:55

it's the 3rd gen. Ivy Bridge, not as good as new Haswell, but enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 21:12

So it will work! SWEET! thanks! by enough you mean plenty? or it will barely work?

the King

Senior Member Joined: Jun 30, 2010 04:10 Messages: 296 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 21:17

the 4th gen Haswell can support 4K hardware decode and encode and AVX2 instructions acceleration, it greatly helps.

Ivy Bridge can support 4K hardware encode only in some cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 21:27

so it will only work sometimes. like it might work... whats 4k? like hd video?

All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 21:34

Angie2643,

Don't worry about 4K - it may be dead by this time next year - it's an unproven format.

If your purpose is to edit your own videos sourced from either a good camera or camcorder you'll be fine with your laptop. It has plenty of power for HD video editing.

Welcome to video ! Win 10, i7

Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 21:45

Heres the dxdiag with more information that will hopefully help to see if my graphics are good enough. Thanks! also what does 4k mean?

Filename	DxDiag.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	72 Kbytes
Downloaded:	415 time(s)

Aus_Sean

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Nov 27, 2013 19:55 Messages: 25 Offline

Dec 03, 2013 00:28

Angie, your system is very similarly spec'd as my toshiba, I think I'm running 8gb ram and AMD graphics. It does a great job.

RE 4k. At the moment it's really only the go pro hero3's that I know of which can shoot at such high resolution. An even than it's a lower frame rate. It's essentially 4x the resolution of full HD (1080x 1920). Or in other context, a video image made of 12megapixel images per frame. TV's are starting to enter the market at this resolution but typically very expensive (in australia at least).

Angie2643

Newbie Joined: Dec 02, 2013 16:37 Messages: 6 Offline

Dec 03, 2013 15:21

Thanks so much ! im super happy that someone else had luck with toshiba

Aus_Sean

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Nov 27, 2013 19:55 Messages: 25 Offline

Dec 03, 2013 17:32

Well it started out not so positive, but after the hard drive crashed within the first couple of months it's been sensational since. Fortunately I didn't lose anything as it was still on another computer. Was a lesson in ensuring everything is backed-up.

I also hated win8 intially, so have partitioned the hard drive with win7 and win8. I'm not sure if my hate was contributed with a dying hard drive. But now quite a fan of win8 (well 8.1 to be precise).