Power Options best suited for Video Studio

[ldor]

Hi everybody,
Processing long videos in VS can take hours, so I wonder if Windows Power Options can affect the VS performance. As far as I understand, sleeping and hibernation should be disabled completely. But what about Hard Disk and processor? If I understand correctly, hard Disk will not go to sleep if it is being used by a program, so there is no need to disable turning Hard Disk off after a certain time. And in the Processor power management section there is "Minimum processor state" which is set to 5% by default. Should I leave it as it is or will setting it to 100% increase the speed of video processing? Any other recommendations regarding power management?

[bobp]

There's different opinions. I turn off hibernation, but I like to have my screen on all the time. I turn off screensaver. I don't know that cpu and hdd setting help in this case. Turning off everything running in the background might help a little, but hard to say how much. Windows fancy graphics eat up cycles too, but enough to make a difference? Don't know. Video rendering just takes a long time. If the results are good, than it's worth it.

[TonyP]

I have no screen saver, sleep or hibernation on my computer. If I do not want to look at my monitor, I turn it off.
The processes that run Windows do not really impact it's performance. Rendering is a time consuming thing, especially if you have several effects on clips and work with 1080.
Look at TaskManager and you can see what is doing what and it's overall affect on your computer.
The only way to speed up rendering is going with a faster processor.