Fast Laptop for H264 Exports

[Ty Maier]

I need a laptop for H264 exports when out of the office. Speedy export times would be the absolute priority. I have a 2014 13" MacBook Pro Retina that just isn't cutting it. Either considering a new 15" MacBook Pro maxed or a MSI.

I'm based in Premeire. I love the Mac system but wouldn't mind going to PC for this if processing would be much higher. About a $3k budget. Any suggestions?

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

It's really whatever video card you have that it'll decide. Premiere and Media Encoder rely heavily on the GPU. Have you looking into external GPUs? A 1080ti or TitanXP would crush it for you.

 

[L. Langer]

If you switch to Windows, you get much better encoding options and plug-ins for Adobe software that can take advantage of the video encoder built into any GPU.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tppm4.html

The above plug-in lets you get super-fast exports using even a mid-range Intel laptop, but it only works on Windows.

 

[Shawn Richman]

Check out Eurocom's Tornado F5 (MSI 16L13)

Link to Eurocoms site - http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure(2,384,0)TornadoF5

4k screen,
full desktop GTX 1080
skylake or kaby lake processors
up to 64GB of RAM

We have one from last April and it has a i7 6700k, 32gb RAM, GTX 980m. It does pretty good with our 6k Dragon footage on the road. I am tempted to replace the GPU with one of those 1080.

It's nice that the model is up-gradable and tune-able. There is a forum with 600 pages of chat just on this model with some really useful info. Lots of guys overclocking for games. I just leave it stock so far to keep things reliable. - http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...f5-evoc-16l-g-1080-15-6-owners-lounge.797128/



If you do get one, there are a few things those guys talk about like different thermal paste and cooling fans and such, worth a look.