Nina,

I think you should experiment a little before you decide to make all of your videos in H.264, for some uses, WMV is hard to beat for small file sizes.

I think H.264 is far better quality than WMV.

Youtube re-renders everything uploaded. The Flash player does a good job, but it does lower the quality of the video some.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I tried out producing a 2min28sec intro to a project.
Choosing H.264 AVC in PD gives you templates saying AVCHD,
and an explanation saying:

profile encodes MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video format in
a high definition profile that is compatible with AVCHD.

I just rendered 2 samples of the 2.28 min intro, high profile except lowered the bitrate for
audio to 192 ( I'll try main profile later).
Crystal clear result!
And, as you can see, my prosessors are all in use!

So this is totally different from rendering the mp4/Mpeg4 - on my computer,
where only 1 prosessor is being overloaded and warning signs appear.
But yes, I will certainly have in mind the .wmv's for smaller projects.

Forgot; did not use HA




Just something.
https://www.petitpoisvideo.com

So Nina,
Do you think this is good or bad?

All CPUs are working, do you get any warnings?
How long did it take to render?

Depending on your video card and your video driver, Hardware acceleration will reduce your CPU load.

I know some Video cards and drivers have given bad results, but I believe the latest drivers have fixed those problems.

It is worth another try. If you have bad results, you can disable the HA. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Of course I prefer the prosessors not being parked,
as 7 are when PD9 renders the mpeg4's on my system.

I was impressed with the render I tried out. I do think the filesize was
larger than I expected, though, in light of what I've read and learned
over the past days.

No warning signs!

I did not take the time for the rendering, I was occupied I guess with use of cpu.
I will take notice of that the next render, and also try out with / without HA.

Carddxdiag attached.
Thank you for your inputs all !



Just something.
https://www.petitpoisvideo.com

I was impressed with the render I tried out. I do think the filesize was
larger than I expected, though, in light of what I've read and learned
over the past days.

PowerDirector is sometimes large on file size, the profiles used are high bitrate, so that makes for large files.
You can do a custom profile and lower the bitrate to make smaller file sizes.

Nice thing about H.264 encoding, you can get away with much lower bitrates and have not apparent loss of quality.

I see you have an Nvidia Video card, I have see posts that say the Nvidia drivers have problems.

I did see one post that said the 460.?? driver was good.
I have to edit the post when I find that post.

I found the post, seems your driver is the latest.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Hi,
Latest Nvidia drivers are 270.?? just released this week.
Jim Intel i7-2600@3.4Gz Geforce 560ti-1GB Graphic accelerator, windows 7 Premium 12GB memory

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