I believe this has been reported before. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

I'm thinking that because your GPU isn't on the list of "Supported" ATI Graphics cards, Power Director doesn't access your Radeon 5870.

List of PD9 Hardware/Software Requirements is at this page:
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/requirements_en_US.html

Some people in the forum say that PD9 utilizes their GPU during transcoding, even though their graphics card isn't on the "supported" list. My Radeon 4350HD is not on the list. If I check the box for Hardware Encoding in the overall program preferences section, my vids are produced with lots of lines and other artifacts, so I leave it un-checked.

How are your productions turning out, Jabit? Good quality? The ATI 5870 is a really nice graphics card!

-Allen in Chicago

@Jaime: Not really helpful. I did search the forums and at least look for some other people having this problem but couldn't find an exact match or a good solution. Do you have a link?

@Allen: Yes, I got the card for gaming, 4x faster than my 4850. But anyways, the quality appears to be fine considering the source. My gramma recorded it on an old 8mm film which was later copied to a VCR tape, and now captured digitally. There is a ton of artifacts from the old film but I can't see any prominent "lines" with HA checked. That list you posted isn't very extensive ...

I guess I could look for a different program which will utilize my card, but does anybody know how often CyberLink updates their stuff to support new cards? I really like the ease of use of PD9 (not including the menu designer) so I don't want to switch and learn a whole new program.

Jabit,

What build are you using? The latest is 2702.

Cheers,

Andrew Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - Intel i7-4820 4.2 GHz - 32GB DDR3 RAM - Crucial 512GB SSD - 1TB Seagate HDD - 3TB WD Green HDD - 4TB WD Green HDD - MSI NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB

Sony HDR-PJ810 and HDR-PJ530

9.0.0.2702

@Jaime: Not really helpful.

Sorry, you must not have understood what I said. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Yes I did. I thought you were replying that this is a duplicate post. You must've meant to reinforce that this is a problem. Thanks.

The ATI 5800 series is not a GPU supported item. However, your PC should still do fine rendering HD video. Win 10, i7

Quote: The ATI 5800 series is not a GPU supported item. However, your PC should still do fine rendering HD video.

It's too bad it's not supported. Perfectly good and powerful GPU just sitting there unutilized by video encoding. I've heard other people saying HA improved their encoding time by 35%.

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