Hi Folks, I’m sorry if this post I a bit long winded but I think Cyberlink has a seriously flawed program there selling to people. I have just built myself a brand new £1700 fast PC and just bought the subscription based PowerDirector 18 365 suite. I thought that this was going to be a great combo for editing my 4K drone videos but to my horror rendering is extremely slow. If it helps, here is my PC spec.

  

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

  

MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Motherboard

  

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super Windforce 8MB

  

Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB 3600MHz Ryzen Tuned

  

Noctua Dual Radiator CPU Cooler

  

650W Power Supply

  

My OS and programs are on a 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

I work off a 2nd 250GB M.2 NVMe both Samsung 970 EVO

  

Now just as an example video I used 3 4K Clips 24fps from my mavic 2 pro, added start and end titles with a FX in them, I sped up the clips a bit, added some colour correction like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrancy, and a MP3 track to finish, and made the video 3 minutes long.

  

I thought to myself at worst this should take 10 minutes to produce/render it but it took 45 minutes, I thought, there’s something way wrong here.

  

I have got the latest driver for my GPU the Nvidia studio one and it’s a clean download, not downloaded over the previous one. In program files I have set PDR.exe to high performance and this tweak brought the render time down to 25 minutes but still way to long I think for a 3 minuit video.

  

When I was using my old PC I was editing with Davinci Resolve 16 free version and even 12 minute long videos were only taking 10 – 15 minutes to render.

  

For some reason I can’t seem to activate SVRT to help it along. Is there a fix out there anyone knows about.

Kind Regards.

The biggest issue here is that there are so many variables when doing video editing. It could be software only or it could be software having issues with a certain piece of hardware that you have in your system.

I would open a case up with Power Director support group and explain to them what you are doing.

Another option would be to do your own test with the same video you described above. Try making the same video but take out all the video adjustments like you mentioned (some colour correction like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrancy). Just have the titles and the music and see what your rendering time is.
Then run anther test with nothing done and just the music. By doing this you can see what effect or addition might be causing the slow render.

On a second note rendering can be time consuming and can tax a lot of a systems processes. When I make a 2min video using Adobe Premier is can take 30min to an hour depending on the effects and transistions and color corrections. You may come to dicover that this is just what it takes to make the video on your system.

Hope some of this helps and that you can figure this out.

HurleyBird Productions Posted at 5-22 09:57
The biggest issue here is that there are so many variables when doing video editing. It could be software only or it could be software having issues with a certain piece of hardware that you have in your system.

I would open a case up with Power Director support group and explain to them what you are doing.

Thanks for your input, i'll try that, i'm just really starting out in video editing and don't know that much yet, but like you say it could be down to the amount of FX and color adjustments iv'e done and it take time to render.

Munro Flyer Posted at 5-23 06:30
Thanks for your input, i'll try that, i'm just really starting out in video editing and don't know that much yet, but like you say it could be down to the amount of FX and color adjustments iv'e done and it take time to render.

Feel free to keep us posted or if you have any other questions/issues.