I wanted to ask if anyone knows cheap laptops to edit. I don't want to do huge projects, I just want to make videos for at least 20s. The graphics don't have to be 4k or so either.
the laptop must not cost more than 500 euro.
Unfortunately that does not work!
You will have to spend about 1000 euro for this.
Very funny and I want a car that can do 300km / h for less than 5,000 euro
Either way, you have to spend more on laptops than on a PC. Then there's the fact that you want to use After Effects. This is difficult even with a PC under 1000 euro if you want to work effectively. With the laptop, I would expect around 1500 euro-2000 euro. You still need a display with good color reproduction and so on
For 500 euro you get a good office laptop with a graphics card (so no IGPU). You can use it to forget After Effects.
Pity.
Oh God. So expensive? That shows how inexperienced I'm
You can also take a laptop for around 1000 euro. But you can't really work effectively with it. I have a 800 euro Ultrabook from HP. I use HitFilm and Resolve to cut. But I do it very rarely and the rendering always takes around 400% of the video length. Unspoken playback is only possible with 50% resolution. And even that is not 100% smooth if you have complicated transitions or something in there.
So if you want to cut, something like that might be enough. But I tell you it's not fun. Since you should already spend more.
When I started with the video animation stuff, I had a laptop of the 600 Euro class… But that just didn't work… And I had a program that wasn't as resource-hungry as AFX is.
I had to buy a new laptop for it and it cost 1300 euro.