Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "ExplainingComputers" channel.

  1. Very good, but a few points of clarification. First off, used to run Hitfilm Express, great editor and fairly powerful, however, Artlist bought it in I think 2022 and did some changes, Express is now called Hitfilm Free, and as you say, it's now limited to 1080P, used to be able to output up to 4K for Express. Specifications do say, a Core i5, or Ryzen 5, from roughly 2016/17 (translation, the 6th gen i5, first gen Ryzen 5) or greater. Hitfilm used to be able to run on a Core i3, but no more. Back in early spring, the last of the original employees of FXHome left and the user forums were wiped out by Artlist and a subscription model is in place for the paid version, which does allow for full 4K. I agree that it was a great piece of kit, and have seen too many novices either not read the minimum specs, nor understand what is involved, and even if you explained, some still didn't get it. I have since switched to Davinci Resolve, mind you, an older version as I am running it on a 10 YO Dell Optiplex SFF that has a 4th gen Core i5, and 1G of VRAM, for now I am hoping to upgrade and it's been recommended that I run an i7 or Ryzen 7, or greater processor, 32G of system memory and have 12GB of VRAM on the graphics card for much smoother playback. Do be aware that this will be true for any editor that the minimum may get you to 1080P, but don't expect a great experience with anything higher res when it comes to scrubbing, especially when working with H.264/H.265 codecs. Best to transcode those to say ProRes, Cineform or DVnX instead. Nice thing about Resolve is once you pay $299 or so for it, it's paid and upgrades are perpetual, and as someone else pointed out, if you buy even the speed editor at roughly the same price, Resolve Studio is free.
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  2. There are other tablets out there, some like Samsung Galaxy's and Notes that will do this, with a screen, and some are very affordable.
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  3.  @fabianmckenna8197  Depends on the tablet, but some of the touch screen style tablets for folks that do animation etc do better with the glove as your pinky/wrist may affect the screen's reaction of your hand when drawing. The One by Wacom is not generally sensitive like a touch screen typically is.
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  4.  @_________________404  I watch Brad Colbow on YT and he tests tablets, among them, huion, XP, Samsung, yes, their tablets, such as the Galaxy series and some of those are reasonably priced. I may pick one up for graphics use for videos on occasion, but do have Epic Pen, but without a tablet to use it on, it's not usable much as is and I don't have a touch screen on my desktop. I do on my laptop, a Dell Latitude that can double as a tablet, but it lives in the living room most of the time and something like the Samsung may be better for use tethered to my desktop. I have an old Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but never could get the hang of it so it sits, gathering dust.
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