Video Encoding - Nvidia CUDA (X4)

[GuyL]

Does anyone using X4 currently have an Nvidia GPU with CUDA support that can tell me how fast the video encoding is compared to without? I'm in the market for a new video card and may go with Nvidia.

[Ron P.]

I was thinking someone should have jumped in here, providing some insight. I don't have such a video card, so can not provide any help. Hopefully someone will post on this.

[GuyL]

Well, I will post an update. I have two systems that use VS X4. My wife and I both do video editing. I'm installing an nVidia 460 in her system later this week and I'll know the answer. Stay tuned....

[GuyL]

In installed an Nvidia 460 yesterday in my wife's computer and did some testing. Rendering with CUDA hardware acceleration is actually slower - believe it or not. What a dissapointment!

The biggest headache for my wife was using auto music slowing performance to a crawl when you try and edit after you have added auto music. It slows performance down to a crawl. It did int X3 and it did it in X4. The same goes with the AVCHD blips when rendering - and rendering speed in general. I paid to upgrade from X3 to X4 and the problems still persist. I added a new video card and performance is still sub-par - actually worse.

Today, I purchased and installed a competing product (for both VS and PSP) and I'm not looking back. The rendering is much faster in my new product and a lot of the little problems don't exist. The "auto music" works just fine and there are no AVCHD problems either.

It was a fun ride since VS 6. Now I have to teach a new program to my wife. Wish me luck!

[tinybeetle]

There are some checkboxes to enable hardware encode and hardware decode. I believe (from memory) that one of them is unchecked. That could have been your performance issue with your new NVidia card.

[GuyL]

They are all checked as they are supposed to be. I have a call into Corel Support to see what is up. If I look at the GPU usage during endoding it isn't being used at all.

[GuyL]

Here is the wonderful response from Corel "Support" 4 days after I placed it:

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Corel Customer Support

My reply was that I told them what to do with their software.