Current best graphics card and computer at a reasonalbe price for PD 13.

Jimmywalter

Newbie Location: Vienna, Austria Joined: Sep 26, 2011 01:49 Messages: 9 Offline

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Sep 27, 2015 19:12

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/25/40943.page

I like Cyberlink. Much easier to use than Adobe and better than the others.

There support could use some work. I contacted them about this and all I got was the minimum requirements.

I have an AMD Phemnom II x6 2.8 Ghz 8 GB with a Nvida Gforce GTX 470 running Windows 7 Pro.

Rendering HD is about 6 hours for 45 min, but I can go do something else and I have mulitple computers so I can check email, etc while it works

Editing a large video is a bear - waiting, waiting, waiting, as it rebuilds the little images that are supposed to help you but just slow you down. I turned them off. When playing back within the editor, the image falls behind, jumps around, gets out of place, on and on.

I do not want to spend $10k on a Quadro or any other card. The less the better, but I have had this system for way over 5 years so I am ready to spend some money.

Please give me some advice.

Thanks.

CS2014

Senior Contributor Location: USA-Eastern Time Zone Joined: Sep 16, 2014 16:44 Messages: 629 Offline

Sep 29, 2015 08:20

There are many on here that can provide you with much better advice than I. They'll chime in eventually.

I believe you are certainly being limited to processing time due to the capability of your current equipment.

I think you are going to be only limited by how much you want to spend on new hardware. I think I have had some advice on this subject and you want at least 16G RAM, the best CPU you can get for what you want to pay, and again, if you can afford it - solid state hard drives - would make the processing of video MUCH FASTER!

But, let's see what the experts advise(optodata, ynotfish, Carl or is is Karl jcar.... and all those I can't remember at the moment). I'd like to see what they say also!

CS

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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
LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray Drive

Richmond Dan

Senior Contributor Location: Richmond, VA Joined: Aug 07, 2014 17:17 Messages: 673 Offline

Sep 29, 2015 09:33

Again, I don't know specifics. I do know, however, that the really good graphics cards take an above-standard power supply, so make sure you know the power requirements of the card you want, so you can size the power supply accordingly. 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

Jimmywalter

Newbie Location: Vienna, Austria Joined: Sep 26, 2011 01:49 Messages: 9 Offline

Sep 29, 2015 13:03

Thanks for helping! Sounds like I will have to build it myself. I did my current one back in 2010. If anyone has more info, please. please talk to me

Aldoxide

Member Joined: Mar 10, 2015 00:15 Messages: 51 Offline

Sep 29, 2015 16:24

I would copy someone's system who claims to have a nearly perfectly smooth running powerdirector to be honest (this is the single most important thing... FORGET PERFORMANCE). That is the BEST advice I can give you. Take a look at my system profile. I have also tried gtx 970, 960 graphics card. I've had my share of bugs and instability with my system (with powerdirector). It's all about compatibility down to the motherboard and configuration.

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