My 5 year old i7 win 7 pc died a few month ago. I only replaced the CPU, motherboard and new 16GB memory for around $600.00 and have now significantly increased the performance. Specs listed below.

For 4K videos shorter than 5 min there is no need to bother with shadowfiles, they are a must for anything much longer. Rendering is done in 4K HEVC at app 2x real time. The 4K UHD output is burned onto a 25 GB BR as a file that will play fine in the Samsung 8500 UHD BR player. They will not play on the Phillipps UHD player.

Picking the proper GPU is a major item. The GTX960 I bought a year ago cut the rendering time of a 90 min 4K HEVC from 3 1/2 days (while we did a cruise) to less than 4 hours. PQ is excellent.

Hope that CL will add real UHD burning soon. Anyone know of a editing program that does?.



I very rarely make color changes, just a few transitions and titles.



A Happy and Healthy New Year to All



Eugene 73s, WA6JZN ex DL9GC
CYBERLINK PLEASE ADD UHD BLU RAY BURNING SOFTWARE
PD14,
Win10,64bit.CPU i7 6700,16GB ,C= 480 GB SSD ,GPU GTX1060 6GB 1 fan. Plus 3 int, 4 ext HDD's for video etc.LG WH16NS40 reads UHD.
4K 24" ViewSonic monitor.Camera Sony FDR-A

Quote My 5 year old i7 win 7 pc died a few month ago. I only replaced the CPU, motherboard and new 16GB memory for around $600.00 and have now significantly increased the performance. Specs listed below.

For 4K videos shorter than 5 min there is no need to bother with shadowfiles, they are a must for anything much longer. Rendering is done in 4K HEVC at app 2x real time. The 4K UHD output is burned onto a 25 GB BR as a file that will play fine in the Samsung 8500 UHD BR player. They will not play on the Phillipps UHD player.

Picking the proper GPU is a major item. The GTX960 I bought a year ago cut the rendering time of a 90 min 4K HEVC from 3 1/2 days (while we did a cruise) to less than 4 hours. PQ is excellent.

Hope that CL will add real UHD burning soon. Anyone know of a editing program that does?.



I very rarely make color changes, just a few transitions and titles.



A Happy and Healthy New Year to All



Eugene

Well, it appears that if I could minimize color adjustments / grading, and also downsample BEFORE importing inot PD, that would be a big help.

Or edit in PD, produce it as 1080p, then open in CD and do color changes / grading there. Then produce again, since according to Jeff it seems that CD will produce faster than PD will with color changes.

All the pc options, including mine will do the job nicely, it is just that picture adjustment take time to do, that is all.



Gene 73s, WA6JZN ex DL9GC
CYBERLINK PLEASE ADD UHD BLU RAY BURNING SOFTWARE
PD14,
Win10,64bit.CPU i7 6700,16GB ,C= 480 GB SSD ,GPU GTX1060 6GB 1 fan. Plus 3 int, 4 ext HDD's for video etc.LG WH16NS40 reads UHD.
4K 24" ViewSonic monitor.Camera Sony FDR-A