Thanks again for your detailed info - the performance chart is interesting but with my setup I cannot keep up - with H.264 I get HA only up to 1920x1080 16Mb/s - but that's fine as my camera only produces up to this format anyway.

However, I solved one mystery why users get such different rendering times and sometimes no speed advantage with HA! I did my own simple test: Test file was a 2:00min .MTS video composed of a few little clips without any effects applied. I rendered in H.264 AVC 1920x1080 16Mb/s both with and without HA and got 02:02min (no HA) & 01:03min (HA) which shows the GPU was working well. I took screenshots of Windows Resource Monitor (file attached). In the first case the CPU is working 100%, in the second a little less with the GPU halving rendering time!

However, the situation changed entirely when I applied heavy editing, in this case reversing every clip in the video. I then got rendering times of 06:30min (no HA) & 06:22min(HA)! This shows two things: editing can increase rendering times by several 100%! The fact that HA did not have any effect can be explained by looking at the CPU activity - it was intermittent in both cases and I also noticed a high disk activity. So the more effects are applied (especially ones that affect an entire clip) the HDD becomes the limiting factor, so much so that the GPU has literally no effect. It also means that a very fast HDD is equally important as the GPU - the system needs to be well balanced.

Before I spend big time on new hardware and software - does anybody know if PD 15 works well with the latest Nvidia GPUs using the Pascal architecture? PowerDirector 13 Ultimate
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I like how you explained the results to your experiment with HA - very clear - conscise in my opinion. I've not tried to use HA I don't think but then again I've usually had quite heavily edited clips in projects I've rendered in the past.

I wonder what the results would have been if you had used a SSD instead of the HDD? (so I guess I'm wondering if a SSD reads and writes faster that the render times would decrease?)

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the situation changed entirely when I applied heavy editing...

your observation is correct hence 10 min project finished in 50+ minutes.

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does anybody know if PD 15 works well with the latest Nvidia GPUs using the Pascal architecture?

it's not what you'd expect.

PD15 -> http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/49546.page

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/49689.page#261412

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/49540.page#260545



PD14 -> http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/48751.page#258423

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/48751.page#255382

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I wonder what the results would have been if you had used a SSD instead of the HDD? (so I guess I'm wondering if a SSD

reads and writes faster that the render times would decrease?)

CS?

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so much so that the GPU has literally no effect. It also means that a very fast HDD is equally important as the GPU ...

sorry -> http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/39306.page#202999

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/25978.page

do not burn your more expensive SSD! ' SoNic67'


oh happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan

'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

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Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1

Well, I guess not! I sit corrected!

Thanks for the link and info PepsiMan!

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Quote Well, I guess not! I sit corrected!

Thanks for the link and info PepsiMan!

CS

u r welcome.

glad to help; however, thanks should go to JL_JL for his knowledgeable contributions to our

beta testers forum.



happy happy joy joy

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Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1

The only thing I can say in my defense is that I did say ' I was wondering' so I was only speculating or rather inquiring in a speculatory manner. lol Ah, alot typed for no particular good reason other than to try to explain I was 'wondering' and didn't really claim the SSD would be faster.

Thanks again PepsiMan

CS



p.s. edit addition:

And Jeff definately deserves credit for that analysis and all the technical info he offers. PD13 Ultimate - Build 3516, WIN 8.1, 64 Bit, 16G RAM, Intel Core i5 4460, CPU @ 3.2GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT720, Graphics Memory(total avail.)-4093MB
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I wonder what the results would have been if you had used a SSD instead of the HDD? (so I guess I'm wondering if a SSD

reads and writes faster that the render times would decrease?)

CS?

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so much so that the GPU has literally no effect. It also means that a very fast HDD is equally important as the GPU ...

sorry -> https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/39306.page#202999

https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/25978.page

do not burn your more expensive SSD! ' SoNic67'

I read most the material provided but I think my conclusion from my second test still holds - reversing clips seems really bad as it does not seem to give the CPU or GPU continous work (see the graphs!) so the rendering times are equally longer with or without HA. What other disruption could there be other than I/O related? But no, I won't be burning SSDs

Most of the tests do not specify the exact properties of their test files regarding edting complexity. Maybe we should adopt a 'real live' or 'worst-case' scenario - editing is fun, PD provides so many features and effects, why shouldn't we be creative and apply colour corrections, sound editing, lot's of transitions, speed changes, cropping to name a few? Waiting ages for the finished product is no fun!

On a philosophical note: I am an IT fossil, having learned on IBMs with punch cards, programmed mainframe systems, encoded pre-PC personal computers and ... and ... and ... before ending up as a retired PC power user. I had a passion making Super 8 movies from the age of 13 and quickly adopted video cameras. In the analogue world editing was slow and expensive, using stacks of video recorders and tape formats. In the mid '90s (?) we were told "digital video editing is here!". I went through generations of expensive hardware plug-ins with expensive, proprietry and fault riddled software. Every time we were told "it's really working now" I found that the camera and display technology was outpacing editing technology. For me, HD is more than enough quality and inexpensive regarding hardware, after all most joy I derive from the content of a movie not the resolution.

Conclusion: why shouldn't the average video enthusiast be able to create a movie from filming to the finished product without replacing his computer every two years and spending hours dealing with vendors' support tickets or even certain forums ... now it's out, I just had to get this out of my system, hoping I haven't bored everyone! While I am sitting on my coffin and pondering I join pepsiman in 'happy happy joy joy' - I do enjoy chatting with you guys and thanks for all the help!

BTW, I've heard that next year digital video editing will really work flawlessly .... eehh do the Cyberlink guys read this stuff?

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On a philosophical note: I am an IT fossil, having learned on IBMs with punch cards, programmed mainframe systems, encoded pre-PC personal computers and ... and ... and ... before ending up as a retired PC power user. I had a passion making Super 8 movies from the age of 13 and quickly adopted video cameras. In the analogue world editing was slow and expensive, using stacks of video recorders and tape formats. In the mid '90s (?) we were told "digital video editing is here!". I went through generations of expensive hardware plug-ins with expensive, proprietry and fault riddled software. Every time we were told "it's really working now" I found that the camera and display technology was outpacing editing technology. For me, HD is more than enough quality and inexpensive regarding hardware, after all most joy I derive from the content of a movie not the resolution ...

no, we're not an IT fossils. i, too, started with FORTRAN and got burned out using C++. if you look closely to

my signature, i, too, began with silver based film... Yashica Electro 8 LD-6 Super 8mm.

i am a classic dice, dice, chop and splice kind of guy and i still apply that to PD.

intel has reneged on releasing 10 bit, 12 bit 4.2.2 4K capable kaby lake and scooter cannonball lake i7 cpus till

2017 and beyond.

newer cpus will make the 1080p and 4K editing a lot easier.

our laptops are still capable FHD machines. i think so.


happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan

'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

Yashica Electro 8 LD-6 Super 8mm
Asrock TaiChi X470, AMD R7 2700X, W7P 64, MSI GTX1060 6GB, Corsair 16GB/RAM
Dell XPS L702X i7-2860QM, W7P / W10P 64, Intel HD3000/nVidia GT 550M 1GB, Micron 16GB/RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1

So I was right with next year??!!

It took my wife and me splice splice splicing (with cement, not tape) our 1:40hr S8 documentary of Australia with sound track, voice-over and animations in a room with clothes lines of film clips 3 (three) months to finish - so we've come a long way ...

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