looking for some good image and video editors

[chk071]

As a picture editor, i'd throw Photoshop Elements in the ring. Should be enough for most tasks, and, i really like using it. Used GIMP before, and, it's a blessing for me to have such a easily operable software, with great automatic adjustments, and anything else i could ask for. Well worth the money IMO.

Affinity Photo should be nice as well, though. Serif/Affinity do a lot of things differently to, say, Photoshop, but, their software is much more affordable, for hobbyists.

As a video editor, i got a great deal on Sony/Magix Vegas Edit 14 a couple of months ago, for 17 €.

[tooneba]

Davinch doesn't even open when you don't have a GPU which has enough power. Most discrete card will be enough though.

I would like to mention that the playback performance and also rendering performance can be very poor with Davinchi. I remember to export a 7min video with 720p@25 fps which needs between 30 to 40min with my i7 and the HD 4000 GPU!

I think HD4000 isn't discrete GPU. You will need at least a GPU that is equivalent to a mainstream desktop GPU sold in 10 years.

Intel HD 4000 score :455
GeForce 8800 GTX score:763 (released in 2006)

That said, Lightworks looks nice for general laptop users.

[sprnva]

Also, the free version of Resolve doesn't support GPU-accelerated encoding.

[4damind]

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[4damind]

Also, the free version of Resolve doesn't support GPU-accelerated encoding.

Hmm, the support has not mentioned something in this direction. Maybe the free version doesn't support multiple GPUs?
Anyway, a discrete high performance GPU seems to be very important for Davinci Resolve.