There are no issues in the release notes that need fixing in the way I use PD14. I do see that 'Enhances the program performance when generating shadow files' might help with your 4k video editing if you don't want to wait for the shadow files to finish generating first. I would like to see other bugs fixed so that I don't have to use the earlier versions of PD like the automatic beat detection, etc.

Thank you tomasc, yes the faster shadow file generation would be a major benefit for me and about the only reason to change.

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Eugen157:

I installed the 2527 patch a few days ago and used PD14 yesterday to produce a couple of video files. It worked fine.

Like you, I back up regularly (full system images, all partitions) once a week, so I can "roll back" if something goes south.

I plan to do some BD burning today, so I will post back if something strange happens, but I am not expecting anything untoward.

Just my experience to date with the newest PD14 patch. Have a great day.

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Thanks all.

Installed the patch and it works fine here too, and the SF are generating about twice as fast now with the exception of 264 MP4 files.

1 minute of 264 4K MP4 takes app 4:21 CPU at 15% -PDHanuman

1 minute of 4K XAVC-S from AX100 at 2:14 CPU at 28%

1 minute of 265 4K HEVC MKV takes 1:50 CPU at 28%

The 1 minute test files are all the same video clip from the AX100 and converted to the different formats in PD14, bit rate app. 60Mb.

Would have been better if PD had given an option to set the CPU allowance for SF conversion.

But I am glad it is speeded up after years of griping.

SF generation of AX100 camcorder files is app 2X real time, not too bad.

No idea why my MP4 files only get 15% of CPU allotment. And the most compressed file format 265 HEVC takes the least amount of time. In all this the GTX 960 GPU was not used.

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