PD 12 Preview slow

Searching81

Newbie Location: Brisbane, Australia Joined: Dec 15, 2012 04:21 Messages: 4 Offline

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Nov 29, 2013 01:58

Hi guys

I recently upgraded to PD 12 (from 11) and I'm noticing that the preview seems extremely slow... it's playing back exactly a 1 second chunk then pausing to render the next second, then playing one second, etc, etc. I don't remember this behaviour from PD11. It happens on unedited files I drag into the timeline and try to preview. Interestingly, if I open up the trim box, i have flawless playback in there while chopping files up.

It also doesn't seem to matter what quality I have the preview set at. It also doesn't appear to be a hardware issue... my CPU/GPU/Disk access is barely being taxed (< 25%) and there is plenty of free RAM (23% used of 16GB). Source files doesn't seem to make a difference, same behaviour with vids from my Canon P&S, Canon DSL and GoPro and a a friend's Nikon DSLR (so some .mov, some .mp4, with a variety of frame rates). It's really starting to annoy me while trying to edit. Anyone have any ideas? I've had a bit of a Google and a look through the forum and most reported issues with slowness seem to be definite hardware issues, whereas mine isn't. Is this related to the "pre-rendering" issue reported with Nvidia drivers? It doesn't sound quite like the behaviour reported with that bug.

Thanks!

PD 12.0.2230.0
Win 8.1
Intel i7 4770K
16GB RAM
Geforce GTX660 Ti (driver 331.82)
2x Samsung SSDs in RAID 0
(original source material is on a solid state drive, but shadow/cache set up on SSD, along with program install)

This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at Nov 29. 2013 02:06

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Nov 29, 2013 03:40

Quote: I recently upgraded to PD 12 (from 11) and I'm noticing that the preview seems extremely slow... It doesn't sound quite like the behaviour reported with that bug. Geforce GTX660 Ti (driver 331.82)

Sounds like it to me. Load the 331.58 driver from http://www.geforce.com/drivers

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the King

Senior Member Joined: Jun 30, 2010 04:10 Messages: 296 Offline

Nov 29, 2013 03:42

The root cause: (driver 331.82)
the latest beta patch can workaround it: http://update.cyberlink.com/ftpdload/patch/PowerDirector/VDE131105-02/CyberLink_PowerDirector_Downloader.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PowerDirector 365

Searching81

Newbie Location: Brisbane, Australia Joined: Dec 15, 2012 04:21 Messages: 4 Offline

Nov 29, 2013 03:51

Thanks guys!!! I updated to the beta and it's now working great, just like PD11 did. Wasn't so keen on rolling back the driver due to the significant BF4 performance improvements in the last couple of revisions. Might pay for Cyberlink to update that FAQ (http://www.cyberlink.com/support/product-faq-content.do?id=16772) as it doesn't really talk about performance issues when previewing, just the appearance of the bar when adding clips (which wasn't really an issue for me).