Surprised that PD is no longer the fastest

pmikep

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Oct 06, 2017 16:25

Interesting to see in the PC Mag review that PD 16 is no longer the fastest when it comes to rendering time. (See the Moderator's Sticky above about the PC Mag review.)

Although, to be fair, we don't know anything about the Image Quality or file size for the Winning product. (Who knows, like that one company who cheated on diesel emissions in the States, the Winners might have purposely chosen a fast, almost no compression default encoder setting optimized for Magazine tests.)

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Oct 07. 2017 19:29

ynotfish

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Oct 07, 2017 23:54

Hi pmikep -

I just (kinda) replicated the rendering test in the PCMagazine article, except with a different PC (obviously) & different software.

I used 4 mixed clips, as they did in their test - UHD, 1080p, 720p & SD - with a total duration of 5 min - rendered to AVC H.264 MP4 1920x1080/30p @ 16Mbps.

Personally, I couldn't care less about rendering speed, but PDR came out a good way ahead.

PDR16 = 2:25

Premiere Pro CC 2017 = 3:19

VEGAS Pro = 4:49

Cheers - Tony
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pmikep

Senior Member Joined: Nov 26, 2016 22:51 Messages: 285 Offline

Oct 08, 2017 00:17

I wish that PCMag posted a link to the reviewer's test file, so we could verify his results ourselves.

I care about speed because I'm the impatient type. (Am waiting for a CPU-bound render to finish now.) I would try the Winning software. But, forunately for CL, Corel does not offer a free trial of this particular editor.