Hi,

I'm wondering what I can do to speed up rendering. I'm using PowerDirector 11 Ultimate build 11.0.0.2812, on the below hardware The nVidia driver was 1314.22. I imported .mts's into the Media room, and edited them to make a 1h 52m project. I adjusted white balance,exposure, contrast, brightness, and highlight healing. I then went to the Produce tab, and produced it as an MPEG-4 1920 x 1080p (13Mbps) NTSC file using Hardware video encoding.

This took about 10 hours, and used an increasing amount of RAM, maxing at 79% total RAM utilization. Finishing the rendering did not release the RAM, neither did closing PD11, I had to save and reboot to get RAM utilization back to baseline, about 23%.

Previously, I had made a disc using the unadjusted videos as follows. I went to Create Disc, set up menus, and burned a single 2D DVD as an MPEG-2, Best Quality, using Smart Fit, and IIRC, hardware encoding. This went pretty quickly, and did not seem to cause trouble. There were problems, however, when I tried to do this with the color-adjusted version.

The problems came when I tried to change the menu. I set up a menu for the adjusted, 10h to render, version, which was about 10GB in size. I did everything the same as before, but forgot to use hardware encoding. This took about 9 hours, and RAM usage went up as before, this time maxing at 82%. the RAM was not released, as before, until I rebooted.

I checked Task Manager, and the system was not doing much else when it was rendering, either in terms of CPU or RAM use, and it was using all 12 logical cores. Is this rendering time and RAM usage typical? Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

Thanks very much,





Rod

PD11.0.0.2812
Win7 Ultimate x64
ASUS P9X79 Pro, i7-3930K
Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB, WD 2TB Black
16GB RAM @1600MHz
ASUS NVIDIA 660ti 2GB