Reaper on a potato laptop for video sound editing

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  1. Boosire

    Boosire Producer

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    So before anything, here's the horror :

    Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz 1.10 GHz

    4go ram

    hdd


    ...


    Just moved home and found a new job, won't be able to afford anything for a few months so i gotta work with that for the time being.

    My question is, will this handle video sound editing ? I work on documentaries and movies or animated shorts and i've recently decided to go back at it after a break.
    I have high doubts such a bad laptop can handle much even using Reaper, right ?

    I don't need tons of effects in one project though as i'm used to bounce in track as i shape the sounds, so i wonder....

    Any good feeling about this ?
     
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  3. ArticStorm

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    haha i guess you are better off getting a raspberry PI4, which is really cheap and you can for sure run some Linux version it with Reapers Linux version. (Ofc no VST plugins will work, but i doubt anything on the celeron will work.)

    https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/specifications/

    i have not tried it, but the specs and what you read about it on the internet look promising. I found the 8GB RAM module for 80€, which is really cheap. (Okay then you might need a display, keyboard and mouse, but those can found very cheap too im pretty sure)

    Hmm i doubt the notebook can handle Reaper at all, the CPU is a single i think, RAM is okay, but im pretty sure you wont have any fun with it.
     
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  4. Polomo

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    Video as long it's only 480p would work
    more would take very long rendering times but would also work
    (maybe some sort of cloud service can help you something like this :https://www.foxrenderfarm.com/
    Because I don't know your Programs, I'm not sure if this will work for you

    or
    https://shadow.tech/en-gb/what-is-shadow)

    I have here a slightly better PC, and it can handle Reaper without many problems
    With 20 Tracks most of the time RAM is the Problem not the CPU (4GB)

    Try it more than super slow can't happen :winker:
     
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  5. junh1024

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    1.1ghz sounds bad, but it can turbo up to 2.6ghz & The N4000 is quite similar to my current CPU in score

    https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-N4000-vs-Intel-i3-530/3239vs737

    YOu can do sound to video, as long as it's converted to 480p or so beforehand, and stick to stock FX & JSFX for efficiency.

    I also have music projects to about 40 tracks, and does fine, you just gotta be smart how you do your project.
     
    junh1024, Nov 11, 2021
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