Come on with Multi-core support already, Corel

[ADBJester]

Video editing is supposed to be the area where multi-core CPU's shine.

Why, then, does Video Studio 11.5 (yes, even the new November patch) use only one of my four cores for so many things?

Rendering is not the only place to use multi-core!

For example, the Ad Zapper in Multi-Trim. That's a GREAT place the software could trim 75% off a lengthy process on a quad core. Right now, it runs through the entire clip sequentially on a single core!

No, it can't do something like:

Frame 0001: Core 1
Frame 0002: Core 2
Frame 0003: Core 3
Frame 0004: Core 4
Frame 0005: Core 1
.
.
etc.

But it COULD break up the entire stream into a number of roughly equal sized segments, and run each segment's frames through its own core in parallel. For a 2 hour show with commercials, there are about 215,000 frames. Thus, it could be done this way:

Frames 000001 to 053928: Core 1
Frames 053929 to 107856: Core 2
Frames 107857 to 161784: Core 3
Frames 161785 to 215622: Core 4

Each thread races through its own segment in parallel, and then all that must be done is to briefly analyze the overlaps before spitting out the trimmed video.

There are LOTS of other places in the software where parallelism could be implemented to take advantage of multi-core technology.

If you want me to shell out for v12.0... you'll make extensive multi-core support a top priority.

Jeff W.
Reading, PA

QX6700 CPU
Vista Ultimate x64
4 GB RAM
VS 11.5

[sjj1805]

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