Best Specs for Video Editing Laptops

What are the best specs for a video editing laptop in 2021? In this video, I am going to walk through the CPU, GPU, Storage, and RAM specs for laptops.
Each of the components in a capable video editing laptop works together to provide the performance necessary for smooth playback, export times, and cool temperatures.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Best Specs for Video Editing Laptops in 2021
0:22 - Premiere Pro Video Editing Benchmarks
0:35 - DaVinci Resolve Video Editing Benchmarks
0:46 - Premiere Pro 4k Playback
1:23 - Video Editing Laptop Specs and Components Explained
1:33 - How to pick the best CPU for video editing
5:05 - How much RAM do you need for video editing?
6:14 - Do you need a GPU for video editing?
7:46 - SSD or HDD storage drive for video editing?
9:03 - Color Accuracy and Color Gamut Range Explained
9:16 - Delta-E Explained
10:14 - Adobe RGB Vs sRGB Vs DCI-P3
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[@robestey5628]

Thank you. Great explanation of the colour spectrums and screens.

[@jamescalvert2157]

Great video, very handy for understanding the specs needed especially when wanting to compare the more expensive machines

[@nespokiy]

Thats the best complete explanation I needed! Thanks Ben!

[@gabrielcuello8137]

Damn, best mini course for purchasing a laptop suited for editing videos. Love your style, man. I hope you don't mind I adopt some of your educational techniques.

[@annarichards6056]

Thank you Ben, very clear and helpful 😊

[@BigBarEats]

Thank you for the great info!

[@ricardomiranda3059]

Very informative, thanks a lot man

[@Anatoly___1]

great explanation thanks!

[@cmtang304]

Great video, organised and informative 🎉❤

[@saekka8537]

Thank you very much for this video. It's very informative and helpful for someone like me who's a complete boomer about the fine details of computers and the terminology. It's also helpful because I'm looking for a new laptop that can handle photo and video editing. I really appreciate it.

[@kaankarapnar1028]

Hey I really liked this video thanks👍

[@bigbigsquid]

Excellent! Very informative and entertaining (enjoyable) :)

[@alfredbarretto]

materials in the video looks awesome and getting better each video. Congrats !

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad you think so! Thanks!

[@alejandrotapia1403]

So useful data you said bro… thank you so much from Chile 🇨🇱

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad it was helpful!

[@WillMruzek]

I think it’s worth noting for film focused creatives having a calibrated DCI-P3 monitor is a great plus for great looking films, especially for theatrical distribution. Think film festivals. But if you have the budget, your colorist will have one of these anyway. Also worth noting for web: Apple is pushing P3 color on all of its devices. I could see other brands following suit.

[@ahmadfouad839]

Great Great Great video thanks a ton for the valuable info in such a condensed video👍👍👍👍👍

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@blastfilmmaking3658]

Hey mate! Thanks a lot for your videos! Amazing detailed info that i love. I am an after effects professional user working on a desktop pc. What laptop would you recomend (besides mac book?)

[@mancruisegaming]

I was waiting for this video bruhh thank u so much!!!! ❤️ I Appreciate ur quality content 👍

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@philiciencasimir8015]

Great video 👍🏿, although I expected you to give some references in graphic card for 4k editing such as GTX 1650i, GTX 2030 ect ... I'm considering to buy the MSI gl65 leopard with the GTX 1650 graphic card as a budget laptop. I Wonder if it could edit smooth 4k video.

[@dylanbaraldi5354]

Hi thanks for the video!!! I found the part about the cpu the most informative one! I would have loved to have a run down about the gpus as well!

[@BenGKaiser]

I'll have to do that sometime soon. Thanks for the Suggestion.

[@dylanbaraldi5354]

@@BenGKaiser thank you actually for your time and patience running all these tests for us!!!

[@dlerx3097]

Thanks

[@Courtney-Jai]

your videos are really helping me with picking a laptop for 4k editing for my channel just started filming at a higher resolution and my pc and laptop basically just collapsed on themselves

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad I can be of help during your decision making process. Hope you can make a great choice!

[@Courtney-Jai]

@@BenGKaiser I'm looking at the asus rog strix g15 not sure whether I should get the ryzen 7 with the 3070 gpu or ryzen 9 with the 3060 gpu. As there's only about £50 price difference and I'm not sure which one I'd get more out of.

[@hotshotsssss_]

Great video! Always informative and straight to the point. It would be amazing if you could do a video for the best specs for architecture as well as a budget or midrange laptop you would recommend.

[@ahjun5373]

I think any mid range to high range gaming or workstation laptop will fare. if ur hardcore into architecture look for Certified laptops mainly workstations by HP and Thinkpads. Other than that, only a student? Any mid range gaming laptop is more than enough

[@BenGKaiser]

I agree with Ah Jun

[@hotshotsssss_]

@@ahjun5373 thank you guys! I also plan on buying a gaming laptop but the portability makes it really hard for me to buy it😩😩

[@smaerialcinematography]

Thanks for making such an informative and content driven vid, this definitely will help with my decision making process. With that said, I’m looking for a laptop for 4K video editing and I followed your recommendations with H processors, RAM amount and screen resolution and gambit etc…and of course my budget…lol, I landed on the Gigabyte Aero 15 KD-72US623SP as my choice. But when I checked your vid’s laptop list, it seems it didn’t make the grade…lol. So I was wondering what’s your thoughts on that particular laptop…once again, thanks and keep up the GREAT work! 🙏🏼

[@BenGKaiser]

That is a great laptop! I think the color gamut range and performance is spot on. The reason I don't personally ALWAYS recommend it is because some people don't like to pay the extra money for the color gamut range. You want that, so it's a GREAT pick. :)

[@smaerialcinematography]

@@BenGKaiser Great…thanks for your quick and positive response on this laptop, much appreciated 🙏🏼

[@austinbarnhill8080]

Hey how has it been? I keep hearing the wifi stops working on the Laptop? have you had that issue?

[@long-termjournal8055]

Thanks, Man.....

[@ng542]

Thanks for the information. I am planning to buy hp zbook power g8 workstation with i9 11 gen and NVIDIA T1200 (4 GB GDDR6 dedicated) for video editing and 2d 3d rendering work. Do you recommend it or should i switch to omen laptops?

[@mikejc918]

Knowledge 💎

[@AbhishekKumar-xw1cm]

Can you please review the asus vivobook s15 oled 2022 with respect to 1080p and 4k video editing .

[@althafhussain5926]

I just subscribed to you after watching this video ✌️

[@full-light]

Omen 17-ck0020nr.... Looking forward to your review.

[@Cogha92]

Hey Ben, First of all thanks for all this videos, they are really helpful ❤ I just bought the Asus zephyrus g15 GA503 with RTX 3070, I'm a graphic designer/gamer how much can I trust the laptop in terms of color accuracy in terms of end product ? Do you suggest changing some settings or anything to get better results ? Keep up the amazing work!

[@kingsley8620]

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[@PlaymediaCL]

Great video and explanation. What do you think about the new i7-1260P I was wondering if an Ultrabook with i7-1260p, 16GB ram and Intel Iris Xe could handle ocasional video editing in 4K Thanks!

[@DanielBro42]

can it???

[@orijacreations]

Currently editing 4K Slog 3 short videos under 10 minutes on the M1 chip iPad Pro 11. So far no issues but want to upgrade to Macbook Pro 16 base model. Is the M1 chip enough to edit 4k videos on DaVinci Studio and After Effects or would a windows laptop with dedicated GPU like RTX3060 be more reasonable for smooth editing?

[@123rebelguy]

I wanna do 1080p editing with many effects. Is 1650gpu is enough ? And what is H series cpu ?

[@Poppy_Joes]

Hi how is the Dell inspiron 14 5640 for beginners in video editing.? Can I do 4K?

[@laksh4135]

Hii,can you review Dell Inspiron 15 plus (7510) 2021 model ,it can be added to your current best video editing laptops list I guess,you should check it out

[@JamesBond-qv2ht]

I have a new Macbook Pro M1 Max on order and want to buy a great monitor for 4K video editing. What 32” monitor would you recommend in the $1,500 to $2,000 range?

[@ambush4689]

Can we check our laptop display`s srgb ntsc without a external device? is there any software which can do the work

[@VivaCalexico]

Im looking at older models with 32gb of ram bc they are more affordable. What do you think?

[@ChantelAkua-cv7sl]

Is an i7 11th gen with 8 GB RAM cabaple of handling multiple high speed programs such as premier pro, photoshop, etc?

[@nina793]

Hi ,if I get a 1tb ssd, and 16gb ram, will the laptop be slower in start up and stuff?

[@soyrizzo]

I have the legion 5 ryzen 7 4800H gtx 1650 is it enough?

[@realMDizzy]

Can you do a best after effects laptop!

[@selenadigitalstudios]

which graphic card is better for 4k video editing gtx or rtx

[@imaginenation2065]

Is this also applicable on 3d rendering?

[@vipersrt30]

both nvidia and ryzen doesn't give hardware acceleration for h265 422 files which is a massive hit on anyone using the modern 10 bit cameras nowadays like a7siii or canon r5 r6. however, Intel's igpu does just fine with those at least in gen 11 and gen 12 cpu's and that's what matter to me. not the small differences that benchmarks give like 12 minutes vs 11 minutes, but the huge time gaps of being hardware accelerated or not. this is why i got myself intel 11800h and rtx 3070 used laptop for 1.2k on ebay lol if gaming wasn't a requirement for me, I'd take a macbook cuz m1 also decodes h265

[@shinehima]

Maybe my questions is out of the topic... I just need for photoshop and 3D rendering in clip studio paint..., maybe do sketch up...so is the 4K cpu or anything gave any effect on it if I took 11800h?

[@BenGKaiser]

11800H would be great for your use cases.

[@yazilimcionline]

perfect. What are the hardware specifications of the laptops in the tests? There is a difference between the 16 and 32 ram versions of Legion 5 Pro. Would the render time be reduced on a 32GB laptop? I'm surprised the R7 5800H has lagged behind.

[@BenGKaiser]

Render time is not very effected by RAM. RAM does help a little with Playback in Premiere Pro timeline.

[@yazilimcionline]

@@BenGKaiser Understood. I wish I had waited for Legion's 11800H. But its adapter is 230w and it loses charge under power. I bought Legion5 pro AMD just as it came out. 32GB RAM RTX3070 5800H processor.

[@abhishek.k6568]

How about lenovo legion 5 ryzen 7 5800h 4gb rtx 3050 with 165 hz rr @99k is this worth to but for editing under 1L?

[@phemlee8434]

Not skipping ads

[@iris-uj6kk]

I feel so educated about laptop after watching your videos. It's so rare to see me fully focus watching reviews or information videos of laptop😂😂

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad you like them! Thanks for the compliment.

[@samsmusichub]

What websites let me download more RAM memory?

[@akshor6220]

Ben, (side note) has anyone told you there's some resemblance between you and Andrew Garfield ?

[@angelan.8913]

omg just what i needed thank u

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad it was such a help to you.

[@Knapster4444]

How does a $3k Aeron laptop match up?

[@eleonacaliao]

is a 7core, 8gb RAM and 256gb storage alright? I'm a video editor

[@mikeysmith4909]

What about the SSD? is 512SSD enough for 4k editing? I thinking of the getting the gigabyte 15 laptop 4k oled 3060rtx 16gb ram 512SSD and upgrade myself to 64gb ram and 1TB SSD What you think? for 4k editing & maybe 5or6k too ?

[@BenGKaiser]

Yeah, that would be a great start. I would however recommend having some external drives to store old projects on as your laptop will fill up as you work on more projects.

[@PAUL-uk1le]

I'm shooting for 64 GB Ram 3080 GPU I9 CPU and 980 Pro OS and Data Drives

[@maddymac7813]

GPU info??? Which one will be enough, better for 4K?

[@franko1642]

What about memory ram?

[@Lentrail]

I use an area 51m for editing with 9900k n 2070 , do you know any laptops that would be an upgrade from that ?

[@UnCiudadanoInformado]

🤣🤣🤣😏

[@UnCiudadanoInformado]

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[@sikicofilm7393]

Hi ben, i wanna upgrade my laptop ram for video editing but the maximum ram compatibility is only 12gb. How much ram do you think i have to use, 4x4gb so it can be dual channel or 4x8gb single channel ?

[@BenGKaiser]

What laptop?

[@sikicofilm7393]

@@BenGKaiser asus a442u

[@tanzimulislam887]

How do you rate RTX 3060 for 4K video editing on Premiere Pro and AfterEffects? Planning on purchasing ROG STRIX G15 5900HX RTX 3060 100%SRGB FHD with 1TB SSD & 16GB RAM(will upgrade to 32later)

[@BenGKaiser]

It works well!

[@tanzimulislam887]

@@BenGKaiser alright thats a lot man. Your contents really have been of a great use for us creators .

[@DikkySurya]

Is asus tuf dash i7 11370H with RTX 3050 and 16gigs of ram enough for 4K video editing?

[@BenGKaiser]

It's solid, not the best but good. Here is my full review - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHWUXqWnl9psbKM

[@peter7james]

I switched to M1 Mac using DaVinci Resolve. I came from Windows using Vegas Pro. 4k editing on M1 Mac is so smooth and fast compared to editing 1080p on Windows. Now, I can't look back again on Windows editing. All those jet engine noises of fan. Oh my. I hate that noise.

[@ProBuildCarpenter]

Is the m1 fast do you have to use proxy’s before you edit ?

[@todoroki4418]

Where does the 4800h rank between a 1080p or 4k rendering CPU?

[@BenGKaiser]

4k all the way! ;)

[@agentshougun1233]

can u make a video on 3d modeling too

[@ahjun5373]

3d modelling is based on single core performance more than multi core. Due to the nature of how 3d modelling works , so look for faster single core speeds.

[@BenGKaiser]

Yeah, with that in Mind the i7-11800H with an RTX 3060 or 3070 will be great. Especially in Autodesk.

[@passh9558]

what a about new macbook pro 16 ?

[@BenGKaiser]

They're fantastic! I filmed this video before they came out. Here is my dedicated review if you're interested - kzbin.info/www/bejne/maSnooaNq72Zl6M

[@passh9558]

@@BenGKaiser Thank you very much

[@micmicbungee355]

Guys what ur opinion on HP victus 16

[@BenGKaiser]

Great pick for Video editing. Especially the Ryzen 7 5800H model.

[@slsahwon6410]

Acer Swift X in-depth review

[@BenGKaiser]

Finishing up those benchmarks in the next day or so.

[@Webrisernl]

Davinci resolve like gpu

[@dashplays3818]

Predator i7 11 gen rtx 3060 , plugged in , turbo mode , not even getting 100 fps In medium graphic , all fps inside game set on 165, in valorant , please help, just bought it yesterday,

[@VikramPremanand]

Maybe try disabling Optimus and run it directly through the 3060? Still doesn't make sense why it's not performing as it should though. What's the TGP of your 3060?

[@dashplays3818]

@@VikramPremanand no idea

[@ahjun5373]

See if u switched on FPS Cap

[@Sam-li4cr]

is this the qhd panel or the 1080? I bet it's the former tho since u mentioned 165 hz.

[@makeityourself5016]

I still can't decide which one's for me. Would you please help me? I use it for editing 4K videos in Davinci Resolve and I am also 3d CAD designer. I now have a 9 year old laptop and I spend extreme amount of time dealing with 4K footage. I have to generate optimized media for every clip in davinci and that takes like 10 minutes for 2,5 minute long clip. So I spend all day for making a 3 minute video. That's crazy because I have lot's of other work which is lagging behind because of that. I value my time and don't want to be dealling with it anymore. I would like a laptop which will be perfect for me. I don't want to spend extra money if not neccessary, but I am looking at laptops up to 4000$ (they are a lot more expensive in Europe where I live then US). I was looking at Lenovo thinkpad P15 Gen2 i7-11800, 32GB of Ram. But i cant decide which graphics card is right for my type of work. Is it Nvidia RTX a3000 with 6GB of Vram which goes for 3500$ here and 4700$ for i9-11950H and Nvidia rtx A5000. Maybe middle one rtx a4000? I happen to hear that P15 become extremly hot. Any thoughts on that? I would be extremly thankfull.

[@ProBuildCarpenter]

Hope he answers I’m in the same boat as you takes horse to get a proxy render

[@makeityourself5016]

@@ProBuildCarpenter hey mate. I got in contact with blacmagic designa aka davinci resolve and they toldm me to get a graphics card with at least 8GB of Vram. I will probably go with nvidia rtx a5000. It costs a lot but what can i do. I need it. Its a must for me to get a laptop and not desk pc. Hope i helped with the answer

[@himelu]

I wish I was computer smart 😕

[@anthonymasuga6056]

Is this a re-upload? I swear i watched this video before

[@FerryPrima]

It’s a re-uploade, yeah

[@abhishekpaul2631]

Your talking style is similar to Andrew Garfield

[@alexsframes2517]

You should really learn the basics of color science before trying to educate people. The color gamut does not imply wheter a screen leans towards a certain set of color but how many different nuances, i.e. the range of the specific color, it can reproduce.

[@danielprosvirnevs4818]

Anyone speak english here ?

[@visualstudiosproductions]

Not true. Gpus are a must for 4k video editing... in windows, running premiere. M1 Macs running Final Cut don't have a dedicated GPU and cut 4k like butter. And you don't even need to go M1, tbh - my 2015 MacBook Pro with intel iris gpu edits 4k just fine. It's all about the software.

[@chrisziboy9732]

Came across your comment. Wow, that’s amazing. Im so confused and cannot decide now what to buy

[@visualstudiosproductions]

@@chrisziboy9732 macbook air m1. easy choice.

[@chrisziboy9732]

@@visualstudiosproductions thanks. Is the base MBA M1 8GB/256 gonna be fine with davinci resolve, photoshop, illustrator etc ?

[@visualstudiosproductions]

@@chrisziboy9732 Don't use resolve, use final cut. It's much faster. It will run all of those apps fine, but I don't use Adobe software, so I'm not the best to answer that.

[@chrisziboy9732]

@@visualstudiosproductions thanks a lot

[@conanninteeneightyeight3512]

this video doen's have enough likes

[@BenGKaiser]

Thanks!

[@mathguy7888]

Very informative video ,Thanks man.

[@BenGKaiser]

Glad it was helpful!