Slow pc alternatives

[Martin B.]

Before the adobe plugin if we wanted to have an instant preview of takes during shooting, maybe cutting and putting together a couple of images, it seemed that we had to go with a mac for the final cut option to use the quicktime previews. There was PC alternative for that, or is it and we had missed something?

Now it seems we can have a way to make a quick edit (I insist, only for preview purposes, just checking quick things) with a windows humble notebook with the premiere in it. I've been able to watch a 4k r3d file I downloaded from the Internet (we still haven't got the red one yet) running fluidly in my pc (amd athlon 64x2dual 5200 - 2.7ghz and 2 ghz ram) in a 512 sequence at its 8th quality.
My question is: if we plan to buy a notebook now, what configuration should you people recommend to look for?
I still can't believe there will be a chance to edit an offline version in pc's like this one.... :w00t:

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Did it play normally with your PC? I mean fluid playback and jumping on different points in a clip\sequence?

[Martin B.]

Yes, it did. It does!

[Dan Hudgins]

Since I added windowing to my sync playback it is possable to edit on maybe something as slow as a 133MHz '486 if you can use a small playback frame, the grading viewer is still frame so would show full screen up to 1920x1440x32bit video mode.

Doing the CC of 4K frames for a feature at 4K on a 486 would take more time than most would want, but you could edit and grade, and do the frame "cooking" at 2K or 4K on many slow junk PCs if you have some, or on new cheep boxes running FreeDOS and just a mother board and plug in HD.

You would need a computer running XP etc. to use REDCINE to convert the R3D into BMP or TIF at any size.