Slow, and poor quality playback

Myemerald

Member Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Dec 15, 2016 12:21 Messages: 76 Offline

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Dec 15, 2020 20:32

I have some concerns with PowerDirector. It's possible that I have something set in such a way that is causing all of this.

I'm editing underwater videos and it's become very time consuming and tedious because the playback is extremely slow, and the quality is poor. It seems to be jumping from frame to frame, rather than smoothly playing. I can't tell when I have the colors the way I want them, because they look so different while playing the clips. I just rendered (I think that's the right term) approx. 8 min of video and it took 18 hours or so. Is this normal??

Thank you in advance for your help!

I'm trying to remember how to edit my signature - I currently have PowerDirector 19, and am working on a different computer than in my signature. Processor: AMD FX (tm)-870K Quad Core Processor 3.60 GHz. Installed RAM: 16 GB

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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Dec 15, 2020 21:19

The easiest part to answer is your signature. Click on My Profile at the top of the page then scroll down to the bottom. You won't be able to change your avatar (if you wanted to for any reason) until you reach 50 posts, though.

As for slow rendering, I've got some bad news. The change from the i7-6700HQ (in your current signature) to an AMD FX 870K was a big step down in computing power. The minimum recommended benchmark for working with PD is 10,000, and 20k or higher is really needed for 4K videos. Having a barely 3k CPU is going to be miserable unless you're doing simple edits.

The other issue is color correcting. No matter how powerful your system is - CPU, GPU, RAM, SSDs - it takes a terribly long time to produce clips with any color presets or Color Look-Up Tables (CLUTS) applied. They're very computationally intensive and the task has to be done by the CPU, so more cores and higher computing power is the only way to make a difference.

You may have slightly different results with Color Director so you should also try that, although the difference won't be 1 hour vs 18.

I'd be happy to run your project through my 32-core, 39k-rated CPU and see how long it takes. If you'd like to share it with the forum, use Pack Project Materials and upload everything to a cloud folder on One Drive or Google Drive and paste a publicly shareable link to it here. See this FAQ for more details.

If you'd prefer to not share it, send me a PM and I'll give you an upload link to my OneDrive account.

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Myemerald

Member Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Dec 15, 2016 12:21 Messages: 76 Offline

Dec 15, 2020 22:43

Quote The easiest part to answer is your signature. Click on My Profile at the top of the page then scroll down to the bottom. You won't be able to change your avatar (if you wanted to for any reason) until you reach 50 posts, though.

As for slow rendering, I've got some bad news. The change from the i7-6700HQ (in your current signature) to an AMD FX 870K was a big step down in computing power. The minimum recommended benchmark for working with PD is 10,000, and 20k or higher is really needed for 4K videos. Having a barely 3k CPU is going to be miserable unless you're doing simple edits.

The other issue is color correcting. No matter how powerful your system is - CPU, GPU, RAM, SSDs - it takes a terribly long time to produce clips with any color presets or Color Look-Up Tables (CLUTS) applied. They're very computationally intensive and the task has to be done by the CPU, so more cores and higher computing power is the only way to make a difference.

You may have slightly different results with Color Director so you should also try that, although the difference won't be 1 hour vs 18.

I'd be happy to run your project through my 32-core, 39k-rated CPU and see how long it takes. If you'd like to share it with the forum, use Pack Project Materials and upload everything to a cloud folder on One Drive or Google Drive and paste a publicly shareable link to it here. See this FAQ for more details.

If you'd prefer to not share it, send me a PM and I'll give you an upload link to my OneDrive account.

That's actually a bit of a relief because the better computer is my laptop and it's out for repair. I'll wait until it comes back to continue working on them.

Thanks for letting me know about things that slow it down.

I just upgraded to Director Suite so I could get Color Director. I think everything will look a whole lot better on my laptop😉
That's quite a computer you have!! Thanks so much for the help.😊 DirectorSuite 365 | Win 11 Home | AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics 3301 Mhz, 8 cores, 16 logical processors | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 2TB SSD