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Question

Can a 940M, dual core i5-6200u, 8G BRAM, edit videos in FHD

Apr 29, 2017 6:19PM PDT

Hello everybody,

I have an Asus x556Uwith an Nvidia 940M GPU, dual core i5-6200u, 8G BRAM. I also have a panasonic G7 who shoot up to UHD (3,840 x2,160). However I want to know if it can edit (let's say smoothly) on FHD (1920x1080) using premiere pro (I really really care about the image quality). If not what laptop can I consider (Not more than £700/$906 please). Even for 4k. If possible I also want to know what spec to consider when choosing a pc fr video editing

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Yes. Just may have to wait.
Apr 29, 2017 6:25PM PDT

My oldest video edit, DVD creation was on the Acer 600ter. 64MB RAM 12GB HDD and 6 hours to render a Video DVD.

Yours will edit video. I can't guess what you mean by smoothly. Some folk want split second response times but to do that you are on a multi-CPU 5 figure desktop.

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Yes. Just may have to wait.
Apr 29, 2017 6:53PM PDT

Ok. It my take hour to output the video, its fine. However can I do Long videos (like 40min to 1h), with a lot of effects filter ect without my computer crashing or slowing down like hell whem editing and still have final videos that looks really good(1920 x 1080 without any downgrade of the image quality)?

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What is this about crashing?
Apr 29, 2017 8:27PM PDT

All the office PCs edit video without a crash. They do slow down as there's a lot of computations to complete, but crashing points to hardware and or software issues.

Is there anything odd about the PC such as lack of cleaning, didn't change the heatsink compound in years, fan issues, mixed RAM? You need to stop the crashing first.