Worse with PD13? Probably not. Yet as programs become more sophisticated they demand more resources.

This should help you...
http://www.cyberlink.com/support/product-faq-content.do?id=16444&prodId=4

Thanks. That is what I needed. But past experience says that such specs usually are minimums. Does anyone have experience with these and should any of them be increased to make sure I have the performance I seek. My last PC was supposed to have done the job. It never did, no matter what I tried. Sigh. Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

Basic "purchased" computers tend to be lopsided. Meaning... Good CPU/Mem & HDD but poor to fair video card.

If you're looking to get into Video processing, look at the Video Card first. I bought my current rig from newegg.com. Less than $1000.

My System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 9/3/2014, 06:55:39 Machine name: ANADRAC-1-WIN7 Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: MSI System Model: Z1-7641 BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.5GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Available OS Memory: 8192MB RAM Page File: 2400MB used, 18077MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


My Video Editing Computer | My DirectX Diagnostics


PowerDirector 15.0.2820.0 | PhotoDirector 7.0.7504.0 | AudioDirector 6.0.5902.0 | ColorDirector 4.0.4627.0 | Power2Go 9.0.2602.0


Sutter Hill SDA Church | Anadrac_Organ_Works | My_Youtube_Channel

Thanks. This will help when I search for a new PC. But I can't interpret this information very well. For example, the video - what video card works well for you?

Bill Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

If you click on "Computer Specifics" at the bottom of jcardana's post, you'll see the full listing, including the video card. (I, too, wondered why he didn't list it, since he said it was important). Regards,
Dan
Power Director 21-Ultimate
v 21.0.3111.0
XPS-8940, Win-10 64-bit,
Intel Core i9-10900 processor
(10 core, 20M Cache),
32GB DDR4 RAM, 2TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD, 2TB 7200 RPM SATA HDD,
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6

After having built my last 3 (or is it 4?) systems, I decided to purchase this new one (see specs in my signature below) because the components are pretty close to what I would have bought to build one again, and I liked the case and the sale price was pretty good. I'll be upgrading it as I go anyway.

This is the graphics card I have: MSI R7 250 1GB-DDR5 OC. It is doing the job right now, but I am not a PowerDirector "power user" like many of the folks on this forum. So I don't believe I'm putting huge demands on my card and system anywhere near what these guys do. In my opinion, you need to research what's available and buy above and beyond what the minimum requirements are.

The Cyberlink system requirements for a graphics card say:

128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (1 GB or higher VRAM and OpenCL capable are recommended)

Definitely go with 1GB or higher! I don't know why they would even suggest 128 MB. LOL.

Good luck and post your new system specs! Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|

If you are buying an I-7 type CPU, the on-board video chip works perfectly well. I would have not said that even a couple of months ago.

Spend your $$ foir a better CPU, more memory, and a SSD (as your system drive).. .
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Quote: If you click on "Computer Specifics" at the bottom of jcardana's post, you'll see the full listing, including the video card. (I, too, wondered why he didn't list it, since he said it was important).

Oh that's simple... I didn't bother to actually look at what I was copying CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


My Video Editing Computer | My DirectX Diagnostics


PowerDirector 15.0.2820.0 | PhotoDirector 7.0.7504.0 | AudioDirector 6.0.5902.0 | ColorDirector 4.0.4627.0 | Power2Go 9.0.2602.0


Sutter Hill SDA Church | Anadrac_Organ_Works | My_Youtube_Channel

Quote: If you are buying an I-7 type CPU, the on-board video chip works perfectly well. I would have not said that even a couple of months ago.

Spend your $$ foir a better CPU, more memory, and a SSD (as your system drive)..

I politely disagree. Even if he does get an I-7, I think he should focus on the vidcard first. For Vid editing that's the most crucial part. Nothing less than 3GHz cpu & 8GB mem.

How much better response time do you get with an SSD? I keep getting conflicting stories. CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


My Video Editing Computer | My DirectX Diagnostics


PowerDirector 15.0.2820.0 | PhotoDirector 7.0.7504.0 | AudioDirector 6.0.5902.0 | ColorDirector 4.0.4627.0 | Power2Go 9.0.2602.0


Sutter Hill SDA Church | Anadrac_Organ_Works | My_Youtube_Channel

Here's a short, interesting article I came across on building an editing PC: How I Built My Custom Photo/Video Editing PC for Under $800. Mine's a little better. Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|

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Quote: If you are buying an I-7 type CPU, the on-board video chip works perfectly well. I would have not said that even a couple of months ago.

Spend your $$ foir a better CPU, more memory, and a SSD (as your system drive)..

I politely disagree. Even if he does get an I-7, I think he should focus on the vidcard first. For Vid editing that's the most crucial part. Nothing less than 3GHz cpu & 8GB mem.

How much better response time do you get with an SSD? I keep getting conflicting stories.

Re: SSD I'm getting a immense difference in performance using a SSD over a hard drive. BUT many people buy a small SSD as the system drive and then use a hard drive to store their resources. Doing that negates the advantages of the SSD (read/write/access). If you have a SSD and a hard drive and you want to test them, download HDTune to see the difference in speed. Speed of the device does not tell the complete story as you know.

I have an Alienware laptop that has a top of the line NVidia card. Somewhere along the line the video card "got lost". I didn't notice any performance differences between the Nvidia 600 series and the HD 4000 GPU on the mother board.

I guess I'm wondering why SPEED is such a topic for discussion. In the old days, a computer would take 10 hours to encode a 1 hour video; then more recently it would take 4 hours for each hour of video. Now it takes about one hour of processing for one hour of video. At one to one, I can get something to eat and my video is done. Copying the folder set to DVD or copying the DVD takes up almost the same amount of time.

Also, many people will tell you that software rendering will produce a better quality video than one using hardware rendering. I can't see the difference personally.

MikeB; thanks for posting that information. The author tends to agree that a top of the line GPU is not necessary for good performance.

No one (until now) has talked about maintenance on thew computer. If it is loaded with garbage and the hard drives are fragmented, then performance will suffer. How often do people delete junk files, unused and trial programs, defrag a hard drive (not a SSD) and generally keep a computer clean and cool?

Here is my dxdiag information on my main computer.: I'll post the information on the Alienware computer later.

Velocity Micro .
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BoilerPlate: To posters who ask for help -- it is nice to thank the volunteers who try to answer your questions !
Anything I post unless stated with a reference is my personal opinion.

This discussion started off with the desire for a PC configuration that will allow me to play back at the high resolution without jerking, or even stopping at times. It's so difficult to evaluate what I've created when I have to burn it to DVD to see how well it plays. That's a waste of time and disks.

My desire is to be able to play the full project on my HD monitor before burning it. Is that too much to expect?

Where must I improve my current system as described below my name.

Bill Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

Quote: This discussion started off with the desire for a PC configuration that will allow me to play back at the high resolution without jerking, or even stopping at times. It's so difficult to evaluate what I've created when I have to burn it to DVD to see how well it plays. That's a waste of time and disks.

My desire is to be able to play the full project on my HD monitor before burning it. Is that too much to expect?

Where must I improve my current system as described below my name.

Bill

Bill, your computer should be good enough to play the project on your HD Monitor. Are you making a folder set? You can play it with several programs including the free VLC to check the project. That eliminates any issues with burning to a disc to see the project?

Please do a dxdiag.exe diagnosis of your computer and post the test results as I have above. Here are the instructions - PartB

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7958.page


There is no personal information except for the name of your computer. It will tell us eabotu your drivers, state of your hard drive, etc.
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BoilerPlate: To posters who ask for help -- it is nice to thank the volunteers who try to answer your questions !
Anything I post unless stated with a reference is my personal opinion.

OK. Here's me DXDIAG. I have a W7, PD12, VDE140423-01, with McAfee running. Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

You should update your video card drivers. I think that is your main problem with the jerky video.
Also, your system BIOS is out of date (2010). At least check and see if you need to update it.
Otherwise your system should be OK for video...

P.S. In the first sentence of the original post you said you were considering buying a new PC, hence that is the direction it took. Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|

Quote: No one (until now) has talked about maintenance on thew computer. If it is loaded with garbage and the hard drives are fragmented, then performance will suffer. How often do people delete junk files, unused and trial programs, defrag a hard drive (not a SSD) and generally keep a computer clean and cool?

You are SO right! I'm in the business of "Computer Maintenance" and my favorite tool is Process Explorer. I find that a fair system runs between 60-75 processes. I've seen some Win7 systems dragging on because they have 110+. CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


My Video Editing Computer | My DirectX Diagnostics


PowerDirector 15.0.2820.0 | PhotoDirector 7.0.7504.0 | AudioDirector 6.0.5902.0 | ColorDirector 4.0.4627.0 | Power2Go 9.0.2602.0


Sutter Hill SDA Church | Anadrac_Organ_Works | My_Youtube_Channel

Thanks, everyone! I will follow through on your suggestions. Now I have to figure out how to update my drivers and the BIOS - I have no idea about this. But it would be worth it if I didn't have to replace my PC and all the stuff I installed in it - what a pain!

Bill Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

I highly recommend getting disk imaging software. Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|

Quote:

Quote: No one (until now) has talked about maintenance on thew computer. If it is loaded with garbage and the hard drives are fragmented, then performance will suffer. How often do people delete junk files, unused and trial programs, defrag a hard drive (not a SSD) and generally keep a computer clean and cool?

You are SO right! I'm in the business of "Computer Maintenance" and my favorite tool is Process Explorer. I find that a fair system runs between 60-75 processes. I've seen some Win7 systems dragging on because they have 110+.

How much junk/garbage files do PowerDirector/other Cyberlink programs leave behind that doesn't get auto-deleted? Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|