Quote: Hello,

Does Power Director 12 us all the processors in the computer when rendering? I have 4 processors.

When I was using Corel Videostudio and rendered - it would say it was using 4 processors.

Wondering why rendering is taking so long.

Thanks,

Alan

Hi acg,
PDR12 will use the resources available to carry out the task. With projects that have many changes to the original video file, then the project will take longer to produce. With your resources you should edit wisely and choose carefully what actions you want the computer to carry out.
Remember you can reduce and edit a large project in smaller chunks before bringing all those finished video into PDR12 for a final merge. Adjust your editing to what you have.
Dafydd

I have a quad core which runs as 8 virtual processors. When PDR12 is rendering (with nothing else running) and I run task manager then all processors can be seen to be busy. So it certainly seems to use all the resources on my machine.

I also do quite a lot of 'fixes'; increased exposure, some cropping, white balance and stabilisation typically. This results in a 5 1/2 hour render for a 20 minute video saved at 1080 30fps mp4.

Thanks,

I have 13 8mm converted videos that are 1080i 30fps avchd format. I am keeping them separate in the avchd format and doing editing, adding music, applying sub-titles and thinking about some slow motion.

Each video will take 5-6 hours to render.

So in-between I save the working video, come back to it pull up the saved file then eventually render the final version.

I am rendering each in avchd 1080i 30fps Highest quality video on the computer. Maybe I am shooting to high on quality vs reasonableness on time.

I then put them together as separate videos for burning on either a 25 GB Blu-ray or 50 GB Blu-ray DVD.

You can do only so much with 8mm converted film.

Alan

Maybe I need to build a computer with the resources I need. I am capable of doing that with my background. Am using a personal cloud network.