I recently bought a new PC. Before moving on, my specs are AMD Phenom II x4 955 3.2ghz with an ATI RADEON 5770 1GB video card, 4 GIGS of Kingston Hyper X ram, Windows 7 64bit. I'm running the latest ATI drivers. I was drawn to powerdirector 9 by the ultra 64 version to take advantage of my new version of windows. I created a quick 19 minute video of my son playing soccer. I decided to try to produce it to a H.264 file type. The video itself was filmed in HD 720 30 frames per second. All together, I had about 31 Gigs of video total and the H.264 format was going to create about a 3.1 Gig file.
1. During the process, I noticed I could not enable the "true velocity accelerator" for some reason. Is that something that you can't enable due to the trial version?
2. So as that was producing, I noticed it would get stuck on about 14%. The time elapsed would continue counting but the produced file stopped growing. I also noticed my CPU load went from 89-100% down to near nothing. So the software itself has obvously stopped. I tried this 3 or 4 times with the same results. I started reading on the forums here and saw there were issues with ATI graphic cards and having the hardware accelerator enabled. So, turned all of the enabling off. The video ended up producing after that so the hardware accelerator switches were my culprit. My question is, this video of 19 minutes took about 45 minutes to render. Am I asking too much of powerdirector?
I just want to make sure I'm getting the benefits of powerdirector's speedy processing power because I can't find anything else to speed up the process. Please advise. Thanks!