VSX4 only using 5% of my CPU

[Sou]

Hi:)

I recently bought CVS X4 and new hardware to my computer (i5 2500k @4.2GHz, 8GB ram, SSD hard drive, 2x2xRAID etc).

I was suprised to see that when I'am trying to render a HD (1920x1080) file with no compression its taking A LOT of time and not so much of my computer powers;) CPU use is around 5% on all cores when I'am rendering the movie:/ I feel like it should be faster and use more CPU:< Do u have any ideas how to speed it up?:)

Thanks for reply:)

Sou

[DVDDoug]

I was suprised to see that when I'am trying to render a HD (1920x1080)its taking A LOT of time

How big is your file, and how long is it taking?

SSD hard drive, 2x2xRAID etc).

You might try reading from one drive and rendering to another. If drive speed is the bottleneck, you can sometimes double the speed since the drive doesn't have to switch between reading & writing two (or more) different files from two different locations on the disc.

...file with no compression its taking A LOT of time and not so much of my computer powers;) CPU use is around 5%...

If you are not encoding, decoding or transcoding, there's not much for the CPU to do!