Video editing on laptop

[Kookla]

Hi, I have a Lenovo G780 and I do some video editing for myself. The thing is that when the video gets too big the rendering is really bad ans very slow. Can anyone suggest a solution to make the editing better, like maybe an external graphic card or something else maybe? Has anyone in this group ever used a external graphic card for laptop? are they good to use? Please help

 

[kenrivers]

Will you provide more specs on the Lenovo G780 such as the processor, amount of RAM, etc.? Looking at the Lenovo site for this model shows three different processor options and two options for graphics (well at least I think they are options and you don't get both but I could be wrong).

 

[Kookla]

Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 8)
Number of threads 4 (max 16)
Name Intel Core i5 3230M
Codename Ivy Bridge
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 988B rPGA (0x4)
Core Speed 1198.0 MHz

8 gb ram

 

[kenrivers]

That processor should be fine and so should the RAM. What video editing software are you using? Are you rendering to the same drive that your video software is installed on? If yes, then you might want to consider a USB 3.0 external drive to save the rendered files to instead of the same drive as the source files.