Here's the deal.

I bought a Lenovo Y510P laptop (i7, 8 Gig RAM) knowing that the specs will be decent for video editing. Turns out not as straight forward as I thought.

Whenever I load my .MOV files for editing, once laid out on the timeline on Vegas Pro12, things are not smooth at all. Jerky, choppy etc. I had to always convert the files to GoPro Cineform Avi format if I want to have a smooth playback preview. The thing is those files are super huge and takes time to convert.

My question is, I have seen another buddy of mine running the same program with the same .MOV files to work on but his PC is only like a Dell PC on i3 and he can even set the preview quality to Best! I have been scouring the net for forums on these issues but I haven't found any real solutions.

Anyone with experience on this? Sure helps if I can skip converting them files every time!

Cheers!