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Quote Hi - I have created my video and I want to add what is either known as PIP or overlay. My video is basically me talking with a blank background so I want to choose a ready mady whatever that will fit either side or both sides and the top to male it more visually appealing. Can anybody tell me what would be the best way to do this and where I might find these?


What you need is the green screen technique. Just Youtube on green screen and you will find what you need. PD is capable of handling green screen.

grz
LouisV
Quote Admission: I'm afraid I just did some troubleshooting in a most unscientific way embarassed

First I started checking codecs to see if any were reported as "broken". Nothing came up but unrelated screen capture codecs (TechSmith).

Next I uninstalled & re-installed ADR7 & ADR8, then updated the both with the latest patch. (Now, a thinking person would have re-tested MP3 production, but...)

In my previous searching, I found a fix for Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (Professional) and ran it.

Now, both ADR7 & 8 will produce MP3s but, embarrassingly, I am unable to report which action caused the change.

PIX


I am using AD7 and it refuses to produce mp3. Wav, flac.. no problems.
I can produce mp3 in Powerdirector 15, so it is not a codec problem.

grz
LouisV
Quote 1) Intel i7 7700K, ASUS GTX1060 card, newest mainboard etc. - my new PC cost me around 1500 EUR, the hardware is top notch, I would say. I like it!!

So, PD15: Everything runs fine, I have a clip on the timeline, say, a 50 minute 1280x720 clip. When I try to shorten it by clicking and dragging with the mouse from the right end of the clip towards the left, everything freezes / lags and only after two or so seconds it's back to normal again and I can continue editing.

How can that be?!! I expected my new editor to run as smoothly as silk with that kind of hardware power, but alas...

Any answers / suggestions?



2) I heard that PD15 renders faster with "OpenCL" NOT checked - which I can confirm. Are there any more secret tips on how to get everything out of my multicore system? Does PD15 really use all of my cores + my graphics card to the max? Because that's why I bought it... Browsing the web, I read that many users are also quite disappointed with how their new hardware only uses a fraction of its capacities even with multicore applications...




The question is: 'does PD uses your NVIDIA gpu'? Your i7 has a built in HD 630 graphics card. I know from experience that PD and NVIDIA not always work together as it should. It really is a matter of luck, no matter what is said here on this forum. I have a laptop on which it is impossible to use the NVIDIA. Did you check in the NVIDIA settings whether PD uses the 1060? If not,disable in your BIOS the HD 630.
Quote Hello again LouisV,

You've explained the problem well & I see the issue clearly now.

If you only use the Adjustment module, Before/After is always available, but once you enter the Edit module things change when a new virtual photo is created.

The way around it is to:


  1. Create the virtual photo in Edit (showing the final result)

  2. Return to Adjustment & reset your original

  3. Go to Library & select Current/Candidate view


Perhaps this will help.



PIX




Hello Pix

Thank you very much for helping to solve my problem. Works great! I'm sure a lot of users will find the youtube tutorial you made of this 'minor' problem very useful.

Grz

LouisV
Quote I'm sorry. I think I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying.

Admittedly, I rarely generate virtual photos - on the basis that I would not be overwriting my original photos in any case. It may be the difference in your workflow I'm missing.

Perhaps some screenshots or a capture would help clarify?

PIX




Hello Pix

If I could send you a screenshot, the problem would be solved. That is the problem, I cannot get the before/after that I want.
Please do a little test yourself. Start with a RAW, do some adjustments like exposure, lens correction, RGB curves... Switch then to the editmode and do some face corrections, object removals...
Try now to get a before/after with the RAW original in the left pane, and the pic with the last correction in the right pane. That is what I would like to see in PhD; nothing in between. I think it is impossible in PhD. The manual advises to make all the adjustments before editing the picture. There must be a reason for that advice.

When you change from adjustment mode to editing mode, PhD asks if you want to create a virtual photo. If you don't, editing isn't even possible. What I also don't understand is why PhD (after the program has been closed and reopened), deletes most of the virtual photos but not all. They were all saved and the results are all ok when exporting the files.

I hope I explained my problem properly, because my native tongue is Dutch.

Grz

LouisV
Quote Hello LouisV,

In the Adjustment module, if you have selected the Before/After view PhD displays the same photo in both left & right panes. It does not display the original/virtual copy as it does in the Library module.

As each adjustment is made, the right pane (or whichever configuration you've selected) shows the progressive adjustments. In other words, the "After" pane shows the total adjustments made.

This basic screen capture shows what occurs:



PIX


Hello Pix

It looks all very strange. I get 3 different before/afters: Library module, Adjustment module and Edit module. I took a picture, changed the contrast in adjustment module; then made a couple of changes in the edit module and hoped to see the original and the last change next to one another. Seems impossible in PhD ! The closest I get is what I described in my original post: left the original and in the right pane a virtual copy of one of the changes I made (but not the last one).

Lightroom and RawTherapee do show the final results; PhD is easier and quicker to use, that's why I mostly use PhD when I have a lot of pics to adjust/edit.

Maybe the CL guys can take this in a future version.
When editing a picture, every change is saved in a virtual copy. Why is it not possible to view the original and the last virtual copy in a dual pane (before -after)?

Suppose I made 4 changes to the original. When I click in the browser on the original picture, I see on my left the original and on my right the virtual copy of the third change.

When I click in the browser on the virtual copy, I see left and right the virtual copy of the last change (fourth).

Is this normal?

Thx

LouisV
Is it possible to use a shortcut to move from one timeline marker to another?

Thx

LouisV
Forgot to mention the following.

When you edit the sound of a clip in PD via AudioDirector, the result always will directed to \user\documents\CL ... and so on. It would be nice if the change made to the audio would automatically be placed in the directory of the original clip with the name of the original clip, followed by a version number or something of a kind.

LouisV
It would be nice if the duration of a clip could be implemented to a range of clips in one time. With clips I mean titles. Suppose you have 25 titles and you want to change the duration of all the titles, one has to change them manually 25 times. Multiple selection and inserting one value for all of them would be very handy.

LouisV
Quote I suppose that to some extent it depends perhaps on where you got the installation file from.

I've had false positives in the past (not with Cyberlink software) but in each of those cases it was quickly shown to be a false positive and the virus definition fioles were quickly updated. I would say, report it to G Data AG.




File came from the CL shop (download). Best I delete the file.

Thx
GDATA found a virus in the pd14 installation file (see attachment). Not that it is important since I am using PD15, but I would like to know if it is a false positive or not.

LouisV
Quote Hello LouisV (very regal sounding),

Welcome to the AudioDirector forum laughing

In the Edit module of ADR, double clicking on a track has the same effect as "Select All". The track changes to light grey to show it's selected.

The ADR User Guide is available in other languages. Unfortunately Dutch isn't one of them.

PIX




Hello Pix

First, thanks for the compliment (very regal sounding innocent). Mystery solved (double click)! I searched the pdf-manual on 'double click' and 'select all' a moment ago, but nothing about this in the manual. Thank you for letting me know. I followed your youtube-link and you have some very interesting tutorials there.

Thx and grz

LouisV (Belgium)
Hi

Just upgraded from PD14 to PD15. First, I found it strange that PD15 removed my PD14 (didn't happen with a previous upgrade to PD14). I am in the middle of a big project, so I would have liked to have 14 and 15 for a while till the project is done. Can projects from PD15 be opened in PD14?

During installation, PD15 asked if I wanted to remove the content packs from PD14. I once had to reinstall PD14 and it took me about 2 hours to remove the content packs. So I decided to let them stay during installation PD15.

Is it really worth it to install the new ones or are they only minor changes? I installed a third content pack from PD15.

These are the versions from PD14 and PD15

PD14
CyberLink_PowerDirector14_ContentPack_Essential_PCP150526-061 - working now with PD15
CyberLink_PowerDirector14_ContentPack_Premium_PCP150526-011 - working now with PD15

PD15
CyberLink_PowerDirector_ContentPack_Essential_PCP160714-011 - not installed for the moment
CyberLink_PowerDirector_ContentPack_Premium_PCP160722-31 - not installed for the moment
CyberLink_PowerDirector_ContentPack_PremiumII_PCP160627-011 - working now with PD15

Thx, grz

LouisV (Belgium)
Hi

Just bougth AD7 after a trial. I can help myself pretty well, but there is one thing I cannot find. When I double-click in an audio-channel, the color changes from dark grey to ligth grey. I don't understand the purpose of it. Manual is 150 pages, I did a quick search but could not find anything. Pitty AD7 is only available in English (I myself am Dutch speaking); audio is a very technical matter so reading 150 pages takes me hours and hours. Most of the things this beautiful prog can do, I don't need, so reading from beginning to the end is more or less a waste of time. I have looked in all AD topics but none of them refers to my problem.

Thx

LouisV (Belgium)
Quote
Quote
Quote I see the last reaction is of januari 2016 but I'am still interested in this subject.

I am living in The Netherlands (sorry for the incorrect English) and do a lot of nature filming. Since end 2015 I film in UHD with a Panasonic HC-VXF990 connected to a Kowa TSN 883 Telescope. When I come home with a lot of material I first select the parts I want to keep. Important for me is to do fast skipping of the material. I than make short films of the selected material per subject(bird / animal / place). The rest of the material I delete. Important for me is the performance during editing and not the ammount of effects. In the past I chose Powerdirector for its performance.

I have been wondering a lot of times what is the best computer for editing with, at this moment, Power director Ultra 14.

I still use an older I7 3770 computer with 8 GB of RAM, several SATA disks, Samsung EVO 256 GB SSD systemdisk using a GTX750 card as well as build in intel graphics 3000.

At this moment I film with a panasonic HC-VXF990 UHD cam and I do a lot of editing for a friend which films with a sony TD20 3D camcorder in so called MVC format (3D full HD 50p)
My UHD films are rendered in X-AVC S format 25p 60Mbps.
The 3D films are rendered in 3D, H264 AVC, m2ts, 1920 * 1080 50p, 28mbps or to Bluray files in AVC format.
These formats give the best results on LG UHD 3D TV's of 55" and 84" we use.

During the past years I did several tests with these formats on different computers. One of the last systems I tested was a "heavy" one with a I7 5775C, 16 GB RAM, IRIS Pro graphics 6200 and Samsung pro 500 GB SSD and SATA 600 disks and the latest MSI motherboard.
I did several heavy tasks with projects with light/color enhancements etc. The performance enhancement of different types of videos was average 30 % to max 40 %. What amazes me the most is that when I look in taskmanager at the load of the CPU this is about 100%. The memory used by PD 14 was max 4 GB(?????) and the diskload never was over 50% (??). What conclusion I may take with these figures is a big question for me.
I did the same test on a I7 6700K with a GTX 970, 32 GB RAM and Samsung PRO SSD and this system performed 10% worse than the 5775C.
Looking at Passmark tests my old I7 3770 (9342) compared to the I7 6700 (9954) is still not outdated.

What is important for me!
Looking at all kind of systems I conclude that the most important for me in a video editing system is the performance during editing. I mean the reaction on mouse and keyboard and the smooth playing of the video, including corrections during editing.
The time a system needs to create my film at the end is not so interesting for me.

What amazes me is that when I'm editing a project it often looks the system is hanging. It stays death for several seconds (look like minutes). When I look in taskmanager the load of the system/disks/memory is low but Powerdirector is getting no attention.
How much this is caused by modules like PDHanumanSVr or interrupts by windows, I don't know. In that situation using the keyboard or the mouse too much often causes PD to hang.
The big enhancement of a dedicated Graphics Card, much RAM I haven't seen yet. Last week I tested a I7 7700 system with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB card and 32GB RAM. The realtime performance wasn't better than with this card removed, using the build in graphics Intel® HD Graphics 630 of the I7. During rendering it used max 5 GB of RAM!! 3D didn't even function correct with the GTX and PD14 so we removed this $ 300 card.

Is there anyone (specialist at cyberlink?) who can say what realy does matter looking at realtime performance during editing of UHD in Powerdirector 14 / 15!!!


Hi

First I appoligize to the other members of this forum for writing in Dutch. I am from Belgium and everything I write here has already been published in other posts. So, it is for Jan that i write especially.

Hallo Jan, ik heb ongeveer hetzelfde probleem. Ik werk met PD14 op een Asus portable met i7-3630 QM en een GT635M. Voorts 12 gb intern geheugen en ssd enz. Wat je cpu load betreft heb ik hetzelfde ondervonden. Iedereen spreekt over 32 gb ram, maar ik zie ook zelden meer dan 5 gb dat gebruikt wordt. Ik weet niet of je de discussie volgt over het falen van NVidia kaarten, maar bij mij werkt de gt635m voor geen meter. Het heeft gewerkt blijkbaar tot en met versie 13 van PD, maar nadien zijn er problemen gekomen. NVidia zegt dat het een Cyberlink probleem is en omgekeerd. Via NVidia Inspector zou je het moeten kunnen klaren, maar het is niet simpel. Zelfs wanneer je op je bureaublad rechts klikt en je programma opstart met krachtige grafische processor, vertikt de NVidia om te werken. Vorige week heb ik een MSI laptop gekocht, 16gb ram en Geforce 1050Ti met 4 GB en het ding werkte nog slechter dan met mijn 4 jaar oude laptop. Waarom? Omdat ik in de bios van mijn oude laptop het videogeheugen dat bestemd is voor mijn HD4000 ingebouwde gpu van Intel kan aanpassen. In de bios van de MSI ging dat zelfs niet en was het max geheugen beperkt tot 128 mb (megabyte, kun je voorstellen). Gelukkig kan ik het toestel terugsturen naar Coolblue. Mijn videobewerkingen komen ongeveer overeen met die van jouw (simpele aanpassingen via Color Director enz.).

Ik zou je willen voorstellen om eens te kijken naar de NUC van Intel

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html

Daar zit nl. een Iris Pro 580 in als grafische kaart. Geen simpel geval. Die dingen worden trouwens ook in de Macs van Apple gebruikt ( en die werken met Final Cut Pro, het topprogramma bij uitstek voor video). Google eens uitgebreid. Voldoende tests en specs.

Ik denk dus dat het feit dat de GTX 1060 geen verbetering gaf, ligt in het feit dat die kaart gewoon niet gebruikt werd door PowerDirector.

Veel succes verder nog met je zoektocht naar een oplossing.

groeten

Louis V (België - Belgium)






Dank je wel voor je reactie Louis,

Ik heb tot voor 2 jaar getest voor Cyberlink Europe en veel fouten uit powerdirector gehaald.
deze vraag ook meerdere malen aan deze mensen gesteld maar zelden een fatsoenlijk antwoord gekregen.

Cyberlink Europe is destijds dermate uitgekleed dat al mijn contacten toen vertrokken zijn.

groeten,

Jan vdh




Hallo Jan

Nog even dit meegeven. Ik lees in je Engelse post dat er bijna geen verschil zat tussen de 1060 en de hd630. Ben je zeker dat de 1060 echt wel actief was? NVidia heeft 2 simpele tooltjes (waarschijnlijk ken je die wel) die onmiddellijk laten zien of de kaart actief is. Optimus Tools_64bit. Ik ben ondertussen ook te weten gekomen dat in sommige bios'en er een keuzemogelijkheid is tussen MSHybrid en de dedicated kaart. Probleem is dat niet alle bios'en die mogelijkheid aanbieden. Afhankelijk van de keuze start de pc dan altijd op met die kaart. Vermits je bij het editten soms moet wachten (is bij mij ook het geval bij grote bestanden waar ik snel doorga) heb ik het gevoel dat het de iGPU is die aanstaat. Trouwens de HD530 is sneller dan de HD630 (ter info).

mvg

Louis
Quote
Quote I really don't understand how you guys manage to run PD on a NVidia gpu. I am trying for years now to make it work and I only can render with my HD4000. Last week, I sent a laptop (MSI with 1050i 4gb) back to the shop because it was impossible to use the card.
I have been through something silimiar. Most of the newer gaming laptops use nVidia Optimus or MSHybrid mode. The laptop boots with the iGPU active to conserve power. The OS automatically switches to the dGPU only when required or when an app 'detects' it. Unfortunately, Power Director is not compatible with this technology. You need a laptop that can disable MSHybrid or Optimus in the BIOS.

I just bought a Sager (Clevo) notebook which has this ability and works great with PD15. I can produce a 1hr 1080i HDTV .ts file to 720p MP4 in about 3min with very good quality.

If you are shopping for a laptop/notebook, make sure it doesn't have nVidia Optimus / MSHybrid mode or make sure it can be disabled in the BIOS.




Now this is what I call very useful information !! I have read a lot in the past about Nvidia-CL problems, but the suggested solutions were always something like updating drivers etc.
Now I know at last where to look to avoid possible problems. Thank you so much.

In my despair (I mean I lost hope) I was planning to buy a Clevo N650DU. This notebook has a desktop i7-6700 (not mobile) with HD530. Performance i7-6700 vs my I7-3630QM needs not discussed. Second, HD530 has better performance than HD630 (7th generation) and HD530 has about 100 % better performance than my HD4000. I thought this was the only solution left. Now that I have read your advice, I have a lot more options. My grandson has ordered an Acer gamemachine with a GTX1050. Delivery in a few weeks. I will have a look in his Bios. I will keep you informed how things go. Maybe it would be not a bad idea if there could be a topic with a simple list of bios'es able to turn off the Optimus/MSHybrid mode (tip for the moderators).

grz

LouisV (Belgium)
Hi

I really don't understand how you guys manage to run PD on a NVidia gpu. I am trying for years now to make it work and I only can render with my HD4000. Last week, I sent a laptop (MSI with 1050i 4gb) back to the shop because it was impossible to use the card. I have already tried PD on various laptops with various cards (960M..) and no luck so far. I know some will say that I should use a desktop with lots of rams etc etc. Well, this is imo nonsense for PD. I used the Adobes before PD, and yes , they are ram-consuming progs, not PD, so...

I am experimenting now with HitFilm4 Express. Free and for a moment, I was blown away by the possibilities of the program. Hate to leave PD, love the CL programs, but what can I do?

grz

Louis V (Belgium)
Quote I see the last reaction is of januari 2016 but I'am still interested in this subject.

I am living in The Netherlands (sorry for the incorrect English) and do a lot of nature filming. Since end 2015 I film in UHD with a Panasonic HC-VXF990 connected to a Kowa TSN 883 Telescope. When I come home with a lot of material I first select the parts I want to keep. Important for me is to do fast skipping of the material. I than make short films of the selected material per subject(bird / animal / place). The rest of the material I delete. Important for me is the performance during editing and not the ammount of effects. In the past I chose Powerdirector for its performance.

I have been wondering a lot of times what is the best computer for editing with, at this moment, Power director Ultra 14.

I still use an older I7 3770 computer with 8 GB of RAM, several SATA disks, Samsung EVO 256 GB SSD systemdisk using a GTX750 card as well as build in intel graphics 3000.

At this moment I film with a panasonic HC-VXF990 UHD cam and I do a lot of editing for a friend which films with a sony TD20 3D camcorder in so called MVC format (3D full HD 50p)
My UHD films are rendered in X-AVC S format 25p 60Mbps.
The 3D films are rendered in 3D, H264 AVC, m2ts, 1920 * 1080 50p, 28mbps or to Bluray files in AVC format.
These formats give the best results on LG UHD 3D TV's of 55" and 84" we use.

During the past years I did several tests with these formats on different computers. One of the last systems I tested was a "heavy" one with a I7 5775C, 16 GB RAM, IRIS Pro graphics 6200 and Samsung pro 500 GB SSD and SATA 600 disks and the latest MSI motherboard.
I did several heavy tasks with projects with light/color enhancements etc. The performance enhancement of different types of videos was average 30 % to max 40 %. What amazes me the most is that when I look in taskmanager at the load of the CPU this is about 100%. The memory used by PD 14 was max 4 GB(?????) and the diskload never was over 50% (??). What conclusion I may take with these figures is a big question for me.
I did the same test on a I7 6700K with a GTX 970, 32 GB RAM and Samsung PRO SSD and this system performed 10% worse than the 5775C.
Looking at Passmark tests my old I7 3770 (9342) compared to the I7 6700 (9954) is still not outdated.

What is important for me!
Looking at all kind of systems I conclude that the most important for me in a video editing system is the performance during editing. I mean the reaction on mouse and keyboard and the smooth playing of the video, including corrections during editing.
The time a system needs to create my film at the end is not so interesting for me.

What amazes me is that when I'm editing a project it often looks the system is hanging. It stays death for several seconds (look like minutes). When I look in taskmanager the load of the system/disks/memory is low but Powerdirector is getting no attention.
How much this is caused by modules like PDHanumanSVr or interrupts by windows, I don't know. In that situation using the keyboard or the mouse too much often causes PD to hang.
The big enhancement of a dedicated Graphics Card, much RAM I haven't seen yet. Last week I tested a I7 7700 system with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB card and 32GB RAM. The realtime performance wasn't better than with this card removed, using the build in graphics Intel® HD Graphics 630 of the I7. During rendering it used max 5 GB of RAM!! 3D didn't even function correct with the GTX and PD14 so we removed this $ 300 card.

Is there anyone (specialist at cyberlink?) who can say what realy does matter looking at realtime performance during editing of UHD in Powerdirector 14 / 15!!!


Hi

First I appoligize to the other members of this forum for writing in Dutch. I am from Belgium and everything I write here has already been published in other posts. So, it is for Jan that i write especially.

Hallo Jan, ik heb ongeveer hetzelfde probleem. Ik werk met PD14 op een Asus portable met i7-3630 QM en een GT635M. Voorts 12 gb intern geheugen en ssd enz. Wat je cpu load betreft heb ik hetzelfde ondervonden. Iedereen spreekt over 32 gb ram, maar ik zie ook zelden meer dan 5 gb dat gebruikt wordt. Ik weet niet of je de discussie volgt over het falen van NVidia kaarten, maar bij mij werkt de gt635m voor geen meter. Het heeft gewerkt blijkbaar tot en met versie 13 van PD, maar nadien zijn er problemen gekomen. NVidia zegt dat het een Cyberlink probleem is en omgekeerd. Via NVidia Inspector zou je het moeten kunnen klaren, maar het is niet simpel. Zelfs wanneer je op je bureaublad rechts klikt en je programma opstart met krachtige grafische processor, vertikt de NVidia om te werken. Vorige week heb ik een MSI laptop gekocht, 16gb ram en Geforce 1050Ti met 4 GB en het ding werkte nog slechter dan met mijn 4 jaar oude laptop. Waarom? Omdat ik in de bios van mijn oude laptop het videogeheugen dat bestemd is voor mijn HD4000 ingebouwde gpu van Intel kan aanpassen. In de bios van de MSI ging dat zelfs niet en was het max geheugen beperkt tot 128 mb (megabyte, kun je voorstellen). Gelukkig kan ik het toestel terugsturen naar Coolblue. Mijn videobewerkingen komen ongeveer overeen met die van jouw (simpele aanpassingen via Color Director enz.).

Ik zou je willen voorstellen om eens te kijken naar de NUC van Intel

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html

Daar zit nl. een Iris Pro 580 in als grafische kaart. Geen simpel geval. Die dingen worden trouwens ook in de Macs van Apple gebruikt ( en die werken met Final Cut Pro, het topprogramma bij uitstek voor video). Google eens uitgebreid. Voldoende tests en specs.

Ik denk dus dat het feit dat de GTX 1060 geen verbetering gaf, ligt in het feit dat die kaart gewoon niet gebruikt werd door PowerDirector.

Veel succes verder nog met je zoektocht naar een oplossing.

groeten

Louis V (België - Belgium)
Quote
Quote ... bought a MSI GE72 7RE (7700HQ,16GB,1050Ti with 4GB), total cost 1599 euro's (same in dollars for the moment). I knew it was risky but rather than changing back to Premiere, I wanted to give it a try. Outcome: nothing. Back to the iGPU with only 128 mb.
Too bad you didn't see my post about the MSI laptop. I bought the GE72VR 7RE model here in USA. MSI uses the nvidia Optimus which is similiar to MSHybrid mode on other laptops. These laptops boot with iGPU and then automatically switch to dGPU only when the app requires it or triggers it. Unfortunately, Power Director is not compatible with this technology. I sent the laptop back even though it cost me a lot to do so.

I just ordered a Sager NP8174 which has similar specs and it actually has a BIOS option to completely disable the iGPU.




Thank you for your quick response. Unfortunatly I missed your contribution. I bought the MSI from CoolBlue (something like Amazon here in Europe) and I have a 30 days return and money back guarantee. It is going back tomorrow. Whilst I received your message, I was composing an email for a local vendor who sells Clevo's (= Sager). I think I am going to take the risk of bying a Clevo 15 inch N650DU. This laptop has a desktop cpu i7-6700 with (hopefully) a desktop iGPU. No dGPU onboard. It is in fact a business laptop, but at least I hope that the rendering with the faster 530 (over hd4000) will make my work more pleasant. I only have to inform about the bios settings and the max of memory that can be set for the iGPU.

I hope you enjoy your Sager!

Thx and a very nice day.

Louis V (Belgium)
Quote I just read your dxdiag.txt file.

You have serious problems with your video driver.

Try this version for the Video driver for your AMD 5700 series video card.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

AMD download Center: I you want to select your own driver.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download




I am using PD for many years now. Started with the Adobe series and ended happily with PD. Nevertheless, I am thinking of changing my video editing programs (PD,ColorD,PhotoD...) because I just can't use my NVidia cards for rendering. I have read about everything on this forum about the difficult relationship between Cyberlink and NVidia. I guess one has a fifty-fifty chance the NVidia card wil work. Last week, I took the chance (I am rendering now on a HD4000 because my NVidia refuses) and bought a MSI GE72 7RE (7700HQ,16GB,1050Ti with 4GB), total cost 1599 euro's (same in dollars for the moment). I knew it was risky but rather than changing back to Premiere, I wanted to give it a try. Outcome: nothing. Back to the iGPU with only 128 mb. There was even not a setting in the bios to change it to a bigger amount of mb (for the moment, I can use 512 mb on my old pc). I think it is time that the Cyberlink community must aknolwedge and warn for the combination PD and NVidia. Probably thousands of people use there iGPU without knowing. For the price there is nothing better than Cyberlink products, bu please let them work like they should. I am as a customer not interested in whose fault it is, the fact remains that rendering stays a problem. I have recommended PD to a lot of people, but I dare not do it in the future. Don't love the Adobes, but what is the alternative? Linux editing progs are not bad, but they have a very heavy learning curve. How come that this problem stays on in the last versions of PD? PD15 is also troublesome, so I guess PD16 in the future will not be better.

The Cyberlink Community is fantastic with super enthousiastic contributors. I have learned a lot of them, so please don't consider my comment as a personal attack. I know you all do your best to help us, simple users. Maybe the pressure on NVidia and CL must augment.

PS: NVidia Inspector might be a tool to solve the problem, apparently changing the pdr.exe file could sometimes help, but this is not as simple as to change the name via explorer.

grz

Louis (Belgium)
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