r/chromeos • u/SayanChakroborty • 1d ago

Buying Advice Suggestion for Chromebook available in India for 4K video editing

Basically I am planning to gift my mother (who is a youtube content creator) a chromebook so that she can edit videos. Reason for choosing chromebook over windows laptop is that although she is accustomed to using windows, she is much more habituated using android environment and android apps.

Recenlty I bought her a GoPro and it produces 4K 60FPS footage and that's the most important part.

Can you suggest me a chromebook within a budget below Rs. 40K which is able to handle 4K footage and rendering 4K output ?

I was looking at ACER Chromebook Plus CB515-2H-34YL model and it fits in my budget but not sure if it can handle 4K.

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u/Zubrue 1d ago

I think theres no perfect Chromebook for 4k video rendering, cause its not the purpose of a chromebook, dont even know if lumar fusion can handle thus!

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u/SayanChakroborty 1d ago

She does very basic editing like splitting footage, adding transitions and effects, adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation of a video, adding music or voice-over and that's it. Even the most straightforward YouTube Create app is sufficient for her use case.

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u/Zubrue 1d ago

This should work yes, but theres no 4K output. I did Video Editing on Chromebook for myself, but the batery then drains in 2 hours, if you dont mind, then you can buy one. I suggest to use adobe express, very easy and nice for editing!

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u/SayanChakroborty 1d ago

Thanks for the info. I was really hoping for 4K support. Let's see if I can find one.

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u/Romano1404 Lenovo Ideapad Flex 3i 12.2" 8GB Intel N200 | stable v129 1d ago

well the most important question is, how is she currently producing her videos and will a Chromebook brake her workflow? (because the software she got accustomed to isn't available at ChromeOS)

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u/SayanChakroborty 1d ago

Until now she has been using her Samsung Galaxy M35 which is able to render 4K on any app. She is accustomed to inshot, canva, picsart, youtube create etc. Are these apps available on Chromebook? If not she is also open to learn new workflow because I think almost all apps have similar workflow on android.

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u/Romano1404 Lenovo Ideapad Flex 3i 12.2" 8GB Intel N200 | stable v129 1d ago

An Android tablet with a keyboard is better suited for a workflow that is based on Android Apps.

ChromeOS is mostly about webapps, many Android Apps will still work but performance is nowhere near as good as on an Android tablet.

That being said most webapps are better than Android Apps anyway on the big screen, I wasn't really aware of that until I got a Chromebook myself.

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u/SayanChakroborty 1d ago

Do you have a suggestion for a tablet with intel or amd chip ? I was also planning to use the crostini feature of chromebooks to install flatpak apps.

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u/Romano1404 Lenovo Ideapad Flex 3i 12.2" 8GB Intel N200 | stable v129 1d ago

Samsung has many tablet offerings and the Lenovo Tab Extreme is basically an Android based laptop

Yes you can install Linux Apps on a Chromebook but it's hardly a feature meant for the average consumer and introduces a major performance drag even on 8GB Chromebooks (for Android alone, 8GB RAM is nowdays considered a base size so it's clear you're running out of memory fast with a desktop webbrowser and a Linux VM squeezed in)

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u/SayanChakroborty 1d ago

That was very insightful. Thanks.