PowerDirector 9 Rendering during editing.

trethomil

Newbie Joined: Nov 28, 2011 11:56 Messages: 3 Offline

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Aug 01, 2012 16:33

Hi,

I have a Windows 7 computer with an NVIDIA GeForce 210 Graphics card and I am trying to edit together a 20 minute film from .MTS clips.

In the past, when using .MTS clips, I have waited for PD to generate shadow files from the clips and used these to edit with and managed a smooth editing process without any of this rendering nonsense. Now, however, I can't watch more than a second without the software telling me it is "Rendering..."

this is the first time I have had this problem and I have been using PD9 since it first came out.

How do I stop this??!!

Any help would be most appreciated.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 01, 2012 17:50

In preferences (Gear at top) or ALT+C in the edit screen.

Hardware acceleration item on the Left pane > uncheck "Enable NVIDIA CUDA/AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing to speed up video effect preview/render".

General on left pane > Uncheck "Enable HD video processing (shadow file)".

The first one is probably causing the rendering on the timeline.

Mine is grayed out, I do not have any timeline rendering.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

trethomil

Newbie Joined: Nov 28, 2011 11:56 Messages: 3 Offline

Aug 02, 2012 05:51

Hi Carl312,

Thanks for trying to help.

Sadly, the problem persists.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

Mark

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 02, 2012 10:32

Quote: Hi Carl312,

Thanks for trying to help.

Sadly, the problem persists.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

Mark

you do have hardware acceleration and shadow files disabled in preferences?

There is no other reason that I know of that allows Powerdirector to pre-render.

Maybe someone else on the forum may know.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

trethomil

Newbie Joined: Nov 28, 2011 11:56 Messages: 3 Offline

Aug 03, 2012 02:41

Hi Carl312,

Yes, I had both those things turned off. And, before carrying on with any editing, I shut the computer down and powered it up again: I've read elsewhere on the forums that if you make any changes to the hardware settings, you should do this before using PowerDirector again.

I am at a loss as to what to do. It takes 10 seconds to render every second of the timeline, therefore taking more than ten times longer to edit together the movie than it used to.

Regards,

Mark

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 03, 2012 10:52

Did you check for a later version of your Video Driver?
You are describing effects of the Video Driver and Video Card hardware.

The only other thing I can think of is to uninstall then re-install Powerdirector.

My only other guess is something in PowerDirector is messed up.

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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

jonas_1_jonas

Newbie Joined: Oct 04, 2011 20:26 Messages: 32 Offline

Aug 06, 2012 19:24

I have the same problem with PD10.

The problem is the Nvidia drivers. PD10 works fine with the latest official drivers, 301.42. But if you install beta drivers, the problem returns, Rendering during editing.

What drivers did you install?

Adam D

Newbie Joined: May 11, 2011 19:01 Messages: 7 Offline

Aug 08, 2012 16:55

I'm having the same issue; has anyone figured out how to fix? I have installed the latest drivers. It makes editing close to impossible... it's a big waste of time!

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 08, 2012 18:02

Quote: I'm having the same issue; has anyone figured out how to fix? I have installed the latest drivers. It makes editing close to impossible... it's a big waste of time!

I saw a reply that said that the Video Card Driver was at fault.

Something was said that the beta drivers were at fault.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

deklerkt

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2011 06:34 Messages: 47 Offline

Nov 15, 2014 04:24

It's Nov 2014 and the issue still plays. Recently got a new pc with Win 8 and GeForce videocard. Rendering trouble my old pc did not have. Went into "device manager", looked up the video driver, rolled back to previous version (fortunately available) and bingo: it all works. I'm not a gamer so the old version will suit me fine I hope.

bonagege

Senior Member Location: Italia, Lombardia GMT + 1 Joined: Jun 25, 2011 16:32 Messages: 187 Offline

Nov 15, 2014 06:15

My experience.
I have a Dell PC Win 7 sk NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 Driver 9.18.13.1106 version 18-1-2013. Work with .mts files.
In PD9 Preferences:
1) in the Hardware Acceleration selected "ENABLE INVIDIA CUDA"
2) in GENERAL selected "Enable video processing (shadow files)"
Everything works "without rendering".
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deklerkt

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2011 06:34 Messages: 47 Offline

Nov 15, 2014 06:48

That option is no longer part of PD 11.
My GeForce card is a GT635 now using drivers 9.18.13.2702 from 2013-08-29