Can you please offer us more detail on the type of CPU that you are using and what type of video files that you are editing with it? Win 10, i7

Sure, I am editing Hd Video from my Sony HDRx500.

System Specs:

Intel I7 870 2.93 GHZ processor
Windows 7
Pd 9
Nvidia Gtx 275
8 Gb Ram

Thanks

Your PC has lots of oomph to handle things without any acceleration. See the following post at :
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15631.page Win 10, i7

Thanks for the link. I'm still a little bit confused. I have read that video quality should be better without Hardware Acceleration turned on, as long as you have the proper hardware. Since you said my computer was powerful enough, should I uncheck both options under the Hardware Acceleration tab?

OPTIONS

1) Enable Cuda to speed up video effect video render
2) Enable hardware decoding

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Simply put. Yes. Win 10, i7

I do not enable it. My understanding is that when you do , it uses non standard acceleration in windows and really does not accelerate anything anyway. __________________________________________
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Guys, I see where you can "not enable" hardware acceleration in the Edit section of the program (Edit, Preferences, Hardware acceleration) but several have mentioned that you also have to do it at the Produce or Create Disc section. At the Create Disc section, is there a different place to "not enable" hardware acceleration or do you go through Edit, Preferences again? Perhaps a step by step dummies guide for us dummies would be useful. Thanks.

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Bill,

To disable hardware rendering in the produce room see the attached file.

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Just to a one more comment, the latest Nvidia drivers are not producing good video when hardware acceleration is ticked in the produce window.

You need to go back to 260.99 drivers. I have the acceleration turned on in both places and yes it does make things a bit easier but if you have a new i7 cpu and a decent video card you really don't need it.

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Thanks Hal. It was right in front of me and I never noticed it. Now, it doesn't appear in the Creat Disc room which (if I understand this correctly) combines the production (project rendering) and disc authoring in one place. Wouldn't you expect to see it there? Does that suggest that to make sure that hardware acceleration is turned off that we should always Produce first then Create Disc, bringing in the rendered file to be authored?

FYI, I'm dwelling on this because I "Produced" a DVD (highest quality) from AVCHD files and was pretty disappointed with the quality (even as a DVD; I know the expected quality loss from AVCHD to DVD). The PD9 DVD was significantly less quality than a DVD I made by a direct copy from my camcorder to a set-top DVD player/burner. If hardware acceleration is the culprit then I want to make sure it is turned off. My computer is strong enough without it. HP Pavilion Elite 410f. AMD Phenom II 1045T (six core), ATI Radeon HD 5570 Graphics Card w/1GB, 8GB memory, terabyte HD, generic multi optical, LG BD burner, both Lightscribe, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Formerly used Ulead/Corel VideoStudio.