Hey folks,
I have a Asus K45VM notebook for editing (it had to be a notebook, not a desktop, unfortunately). I suppose the specs are quite good, it's an i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB HD Nvidia GT 360M 2GB...full details can be checked here.
Well, recently I started to work on heavier projects, and so I'm experiencing frequent slowness. As example, I can mention a 1280x720 six minutes length project in After Effects CS6. I'm using a uncompressed footage (21GB) as imported source, and some video as overlays as well as a couple of text layers and color correction plugins (Magic Bullet and BCC). After Effects takes from 6 to 10 hours to render the output file, and I'm starting to think that my computer is underachieving.
Well, where is the bottleneck? A SSD would greatly improve my performance? I also considered buying a 1TB External HD to free up some memory from my internal HD. Well, what's the best way to improve my notebook performance?
Thanks in advance!
I have a Asus K45VM notebook for editing (it had to be a notebook, not a desktop, unfortunately). I suppose the specs are quite good, it's an i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB HD Nvidia GT 360M 2GB...full details can be checked here.
Well, recently I started to work on heavier projects, and so I'm experiencing frequent slowness. As example, I can mention a 1280x720 six minutes length project in After Effects CS6. I'm using a uncompressed footage (21GB) as imported source, and some video as overlays as well as a couple of text layers and color correction plugins (Magic Bullet and BCC). After Effects takes from 6 to 10 hours to render the output file, and I'm starting to think that my computer is underachieving.
Well, where is the bottleneck? A SSD would greatly improve my performance? I also considered buying a 1TB External HD to free up some memory from my internal HD. Well, what's the best way to improve my notebook performance?
Thanks in advance!