Hi Andrew,

I can confirm your findings.

I imported 1920x1080 m2ts files and produced to a mpeg-2 file DVDHQ profile and my ATI activity was mostly at 0% during the entire rendering process. (see screenshot)

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I must have stumbled upon the beta forum...

Pithed again ?

I've just done a similar but not the same test with using 720p mixed clips to .mp4. I had the project open.

I also looked at the cpu performance in task manager. Screenshots attached.

With HA only 3 cores being used c.30% but no change shown in GPU indicated in Overdrive or GPU-Z

Without HA all 6 cores @100% but no change shown in GPU indicated in Overdrive or GPU-Z

I suppose the question is "if the indicators are right, what's doing the extra processing?"

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Hi all,

Some good news! Build 2504 appears to have corrected this issue, with my ATi card now showing activity of 60% when performing the test I described at the start of the thread!

See if you have any luck!

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Hi Andrew,

The new build 2504 worked great for me as well. Activity level at around 60% during Hardware Acceleration.

Also when using SVRT placing 4 m2ts clips on the timeline and placing a transition between clip1 and clip2, the rendering appeared normal....slowing down to render the transition and then picking up speed to SVRT levels for the rest of the clips.

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Hi All,

I am still seeing the problem that was described in by Andrew in the first post even after installing patch 2504. I am using the newest ATI driver (11.2) and my card is Radion HD 6800.

Any suggestions?

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I'm seeing virtually no GPU activity with my ATI 4870 graphics card when all three GPU options are turned off. Using version 2504 of PowerDirector 9, burning a 5 minute movie to a blu-ray folder using AVCHD footage took 7:05 to render with hardware encoding (burning options) and only 3:19 without hardware encoding.

When I enable the APP and GPU options under preferences and GPU processing under burning options, I notice substantial GPU processing activity. However, the GPU processing activity always randomly stops and returns to zero and the burning process stops. I also notice that the program crashes often and the video stutters while reviewing the movie once the second video file starts to play (when APP and GPU processing are selected in preferences). Therefore, I disable all three GPU processing options. I'm not sure if APP is compatible with the ATI 4000 series. I'm curious how PowerDirector 9 works with ATI 5000 and 6000 series cards.

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ATI has a new activity monitor that works well at displaying CPU, GPU and memory utilization. I'm not using release 2504 because it's way too crash worthy - 2330a works somewhat better. And GPU acceleration works well too as per the new monitor.

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Additional note: I have recently tested release 2504 against 2330a using multiple AVC HD (1080i-24Mbps in and out) files on the same timeline with video correction applied to all files and 2330a is noticeably faster at it than 2504 with less use of the CPU and a bit more of the ATI GPU, memory remaining the same. Win 10, i7

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Additional note: I have recently tested release 2504 against 2330a using multiple AVC HD (1080i-24Mbps in and out) files on the same timeline with video correction applied to all files and 2330a is noticeably faster at it than 2504 with less use of the CPU and a bit more of the ATI GPU, memory remaining the same.

Unfortunately, I just "upgraded?" from 2330 to 2504 PD9 Ultra two days ago. HDedit, you're saying that this upgrade isn't really an upgrade in the traditional sense? I hope you've let Cyberlink know this so they can take your experiences/findings and put out an upgrade that restores the pre-2504 level of PD9 performance.
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I'd like another experienced user to confirm the following using a 1920x1080i (24 Mbps) video as a source :

- render the video to AVCHD 1920x1080i (24 Mbps) profile
- render the same video using the identical profile BUT this time changing the "quality" setting in the profile to 7 from the default 6 (therefore making a custom profile)

- In my case the default rendering switched from SVRT to Hardware.
- The rendering time dropped by 30 % !
- The video quality was better.
- The CPU and GPU utilization dropped substantially ! Win 10, i7

I just whant to say.. welcome to the forum, nice to see you back here again. Nice spirit.!

MORE interesting finds about ATI acceleration and PD9, specifically release 2504 on an i7 intel PC with ATI hardware video encoder (HVE) capability.

Using several sets of AVC (1920x1080 i) files recorded at 24 Mbps with a Sony camcorder (10 minutes duration in total), adding stabilization effects to ALL segments, trimming ALL segments, and finally adding cross transitions as well, offered an interesting insight into PD9 as to the mode of the rendering, speed of rendering, and the quality of the final production into an AVC (1920x1080i - 24 Mbps) video file (SVRT friendly) :

SVRT on ( PD9 default in this case): render time = 18 minutes, video quality = some artifacts

SVRT off (manual override of SVRT option ): render time = 22 minutes, video quality = less artifacts

HVE on, (manual override of SVRT option) : render time = 14 minutes, video quality = least amount of artifacts

These are all good numbers. However, the surprise is the fact that by forcing PD9 to use the ATI hardware accelerator (HVE) one obtains faster rendering AND better video quality. Would any of the other senior members care to run a similar test ?

NOTE to ATI users : the Hardware Acceleration boxes of PD9 in the preferences tab are ignored if Avivo is installed on the PC. You have to override it manually on the Production page. Win 10, i7

Quote: NOTE to ATI users : the Hardware Acceleration boxes in PD9 are ignored if Avivo is installed on the PC. You have to override it manually on the Production page.

In my last ATI driver update AMD recomends to install Avivo and i have it installed.

Can you please explain more how to override it manually?
Do you mean to dissable the Hardware Video encoder in production?
If PD9 ignores HA box if Avivo is installed its not better to uninstall Avivo?

Avivo is installed automatically in newer releases by ATI if your graphics card is able to make use of it. When PD9 detects the presence of Avivo, by default it enables hardware acceleration even if you deselect it in the preferences tab.

The "override" that I refer to is when in the production window PD9 is automatically selecting "Hardware video encoder" OR SVRT, depending on the video files being rendered. By removing the "Fast video Rendering" check box, both SVRT and acceleration are disabled, forcing PD9 to us the resources of the PC alone, and at the same time forcing rendering of ALL files, which is why it is usually the longest in render times. Win 10, i7

Well you are right. After i install the last ATI update, the only whay to get nices jobs in productions or creations, is to disabled HD.

EDITED: Do you know if there is a way to unistall Avivo? it is necesary to CCC or ATI work prop.?

I find that when rendering AVC HD video the ATI acceleration is the fastest AND produces the best results. I intend to use it all the time. You should verify it yourself on your video files.

As for removing Avivo, that is simple. Run the install file for the ATI card and at one point in the process you are presented with two options : INSTALL and UNINSTALL. By selecting uninstall you are presented with a list of all the ATI modules loaded, AVIVO will be one of them. By de-selecting it the installer will remove only AVIVO leaving all the other modules in tact. Win 10, i7