High end laptop - $3.000

ProStar sells a fine product, I have bought many of them. However due to inadequate service and warranty support I had to switch vendors and now buy all our laptops from lpcdigital.

I use mine as a CAD machine and it handles AutoCAD 2014 just fine. I rarely get an opportunity to game on it but when I do, it does just fine. I would say the mobile processor would serve you well and I can through side by side comparisons that there is no perceivable difference between ones with a SSD + HD and the ones with the hybrid SSHD (Seagate Momentus XT)

For video editing, Id suggest The P170SM (Base Price $1376 "cash" / $1419 credit):
http/www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np8270-special.html

17.3" Full HD LED AUO B173HW01 V.4 90% NTSC 1920 x 1080 Gloss type $100.00
30 day Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels - FREE UPGRADE! $0.00
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 770M 3GB GDDR5 Memory - SPECIAL! $0.00
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) $0.0
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU $35.00
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB - FREE Upgrade Special! $0.00
Samsung® 256GB SSD 840 PRO Series $195.00
750GB 7200rpm SATA 300 Hard Disk Drive $80.00
6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive - SPECIAL! $0.00
Killer™ Wireless-N 1202 with Bluetooth 4.0 (Dual Band) - Special! $0.00

Total is $1,829 credit.....$1,774 cash

Ya have lotta room in ya budget so could go for GFX upgrade
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5 Memory $350.00

Or two of them in SLI for $2900 or so... configured as above.
http/www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np9380.html

Dont forget to ask for the MAX discount
http/www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html