03-13-2007, 10:39 PM
Dave Wrote:When you say "do anything with them" what do you mean and what would you suggest in this department in terms of power, hard drive, etc. Basically, I want to go the track the laptop and pull the video right off on Saturday night and Sunday night, then eventually put them on the desktop.
Well, raw DV footage takes up a lot of HD space...an hours worth is a few gigs at least. So you'll need a sizeable hard drive. If you plan on doing any sort of video editing, you'll want as much memory as possible. I have 512MB and it just isn't enough...everything gets really laggy sometimes. I wouldn't really recommend a laptop for video editing anyways, but you'll want some way to compress the video down at least if you don't plan on editing and just want video to watch