Best way to upgrade a HP g56 to be able to video edit?

i got this for christmas as a gift but since i use my computers to edit videos and run other programs that require better graphics and whatnot im wondering what i could do to run a program perhaps like pinnacle studio 14 or an avid program without having to but a completely new notebook. be it ram upgrades, video cards, processors, basically anything to get this notebook up to speed to at least be able to run some programs so i dont have to do everything at home on my desktop. thanks.|||First off which version do you have there are a lot of variations of the G56. There is a Celeron Model, Pentium Dual Core and Athlon II version. If you have the celeron version I would stop right there, and consider a new laptop and its going to be awful for video editing no matter what. If you have the Dual core intel or amd version there might be hope. If you are running a 64bit OS max the memory out, and and upgrade to a SSD that will help a lot.