Attention Color Director hardware acceleration is not usable

CasaPaschino

Newbie Joined: Jul 31, 2022 11:36 Messages: 2 Offline

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Feb 25, 2023 18:42

In my company we edit a lot of films. For example, I have a package with 900 4K films that take an average of 30 minutes to color. I noticed that each film takes 8-10 hours, while coloring with Adobe Premiere Pro only takes 20 minutes. Although I have Geforce RTX 3090. I prefer working with Color Director as it is much more detailed compared to Premiere Pro. But the time investment is considerable.

At first I thought my hardware acceleration wasn't working properly, so I reinstalled everything. Until support confirmed to me that all color and pixel adjustment effects in Color Director are only supported by the CPU. Which surprises me, because Color Director's main task are color and pixel adjustment effects! The hardware acceleration is more of a web fake than helpful. What are your experiences?

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Feb 26, 2023 09:33

Quote In my company we edit a lot of films. For example, I have a package with 900 4K films that take an average of 30 minutes to color. I noticed that each film takes 8-10 hours, while coloring with Adobe Premiere Pro only takes 20 minutes. Although I have Geforce RTX 3090. I prefer working with Color Director as it is much more detailed compared to Premiere Pro. But the time investment is considerable.

At first I thought my hardware acceleration wasn't working properly, so I reinstalled everything. Until support confirmed to me that all color and pixel adjustment effects in Color Director are only supported by the CPU. Which surprises me, because Color Director's main task are color and pixel adjustment effects! The hardware acceleration is more of a web fake than helpful. What are your experiences?

Color enhancements being 100% CPU process has been reported in the forums for years, (a recent post here: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/97049.page#post_box_390411 ) so yes, everyone's experience will be the same. Nothing to do with AMD/Nvidia or reinstalling everything.

The GPU will still be used for encoding if configured, but the process of color enhancements is handled by CPU so basically the GPU is just waiting for bits to encode.

Jeff

CasaPaschino

Newbie Joined: Jul 31, 2022 11:36 Messages: 2 Offline

Feb 27, 2023 07:06

Yes and why is this not changed? After all, it is the main task of Colordirector. Technically it is possible, as in my example from Adobe Premiere. How are you supposed to edit tons of films full-time if it takes half a day!?

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Feb 27, 2023 08:02

Quote Yes and why is this not changed? After all, it is the main task of Colordirector. Technically it is possible, as in my example from Adobe Premiere. How are you supposed to edit tons of films full-time if it takes half a day!?

You'd have to contact CL Support and ask why it's not changed. I could only offer a user's view which wouldn't shed much positive light on the situation.

Jeff