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This is way late but, thank you all for your help!
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I am trying to inport CineForm '422 High' 5.2k Gopro fusion 360 footage into powerdirector but it only shows up as an audio file. I also tried ProRes 422 in 5.2k but have the same result. Only H.264 in 4k works with powerdirector. Is 4k the absolute highest 360 resolution I can work with? Too bad if so as the camera supports 5.2k and I've recorded a lot of video in that format already. Just want to confirm my suspision.
Thanks!
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Thanks everyone for the help, very much appreciated! It looks like the verdict is a newer video card won't really increase editing performance. Instead it likely will speed up rendering times (which I'm not worried about right now). I will keep my eyes open for deals and if the right one comes by this fall I might jump on a 1060. As for a new CPU, my plan is to wait until ZEN is released and then decide if I want to continue to be an AMD guy or jump on the Intel bandwagon
And who knows, maybe a PD15 release will help with some of my issues
Nick
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Now that my pc has aged a few years and powerdirector 15 is around the corner I've been contemplating upgrading my video card. Editing can be choppy and tends to stall or hang at times which can get irritating rather quickly. I've had my eye on the new RX 480 and GTX 1060, but will either of these make my editing experience that much smoother? From what I read only a small portion of work load can be placed on the GPU.
Below are my current specs:
-XFX HD6950 2gb (Catalyst 15.7.1, Driver 15.20.1062.1004) (OpenCL is checked)
-FX 8350 (stock no oc)
-16 gigs corsair vengeance
-GA-990XA-UD3
-1 SSD with my os and powerdirector installed (also have shadow files enabled on this hd)
-3 WD 1TB hardrives with the raw video files. (90% of files being edited are in .mov format)
-Windows 10 64
I know my CPU is aging but I'm not ready to upgrade my whole pc at this point. I might just need to do a full system wipe and start fresh with win 10. Then load all of PD back with the latest updates and see if this improves the performance and stability. Any thoughts would be appreciated! I've got a huge project I'll be undertaking in a not too long and I want my girl running in top shape!
-Nick Welker
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From what I can tell it must be something to do with hardware acceleration enabled. Maybe instead of using 100% of cpu and adding some of the work to the gpu, it shares the workout evenly?
Edit - I just ran a rendering test with fast video rendering technology disabled and it didn't change anything, still low cpu usage. I tried rendering in mpeg2 and avi and still same low cpu usage. Also tried disabling hardware decoding and hardware cl and still no change.
Any ideas?
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Hmm that does concern me that something may not be set correctly. I have multicore threading enabled on pd13 and I've updated all my drivers to the latest. During rendering my computer behaves like it isn't working at all and is exceptionally fast. This shouldn't be the case, I would think it would crawl as rendering should drag it down.
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Hello,
During rendering my fx 8350 only runs at 20% usage. 5 out of the 8 cores are working while 3 stay at idle. I would think rendering would consume a lot more cpu usage than just 20%. Rendering times also seem to be somewhat longer than I would expect. I usually use H.264 and enable hardware excelleration.
I just want to know if this is normal or if powerdirector isn't utilizing the full potential of my cpu.
Thanks!
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