Hey Maliek! I use powedirector to make youtube video's of my daughter singing for her channel, I'm a 53 yr old car mechanic, not a video editor but all these tips and tutorials are helping me big time! I really enjoy using the software and l am learning all the time! Thanks man you're a hero 👍👍
Thanks Maliek! This was something that was NOT set up by default! I needed something as I was all ready to ditch this program, as my workplace asked me to produce a promo video for when we reopen again, And PD for the first real time kept hanging and crashing constantly. Forums were no help, (loads of other people just saying 'me too'. One suggestion was to uninstall GeForce experience. I'd even downloaded a trial of DaVinci Resolve and was about to learn from scratch how to use that. Following along with this video, my GPU was running at 1% before the adjustment, so it would make sense that with all the clips I had to use, and High quality photos, it was a lot to expect the CPU to do on its own. Another great tutorial, perfectly explained again, I bet a LOT of people never knew this one. Appreciated as always.
I'm glad you and others seem to find a lot of value in this tutorial. Yes, many people don't know these steps need to be taken to help get the most out of their GPU. Crazy what the program can do when your PC is setup with the best possible configuration. feel free to link this video to the thread in the forum if you think it will help others.
Thanks man. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years. Just got a new PC with a powerful Nvidia card and was wondering why I hadn't seen much improvement in production speed. It's amazing now with this setting on 👍👍🔥
My nephew is using an old 4th generation laptop with no visible GPU, an Intel HD 5000 graphics card core i3, he followed this video and now his edits are faster than ever. No lags, great job Maliek
There is a problem if we have integrated as well as dedicated graphics. My laptop only chooses integrated intel graphics over my dedicated AMD Graphics for some reason.
If you are trying to switch to the card you prefer you can read this thread from the PowerDirector forum. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/80955.page#333050
@@PDU_Tutorials This will never work with a laptop unless you buy one of the $4,000 mobile desktops that do not possess an integrated GPU. The issue stems from the way power director is coded and how it "sees" video cards. Laptops no matter how fancy are designed to have the GPU piggybaack off the integrated GPU which power director is unable to see past. Quite simply power director cannot be made to see 2 GPU's it picks the one that is universal which is the integrated GPU.
I remember watching this video a few years ago. As I upgrade with PD, I have to remember to change the path to the app, because it goes from 19, 20, 21 for the folder name. Just a note for anyone who watches this in the future.
Thank you for all your effort in putting these videos together, all of the content that I view that pertains to what my project requires me to do is very helpful. I have been using PD since 2007 when I needed to put together a 30 minute video with pics and video footage. Wish I had your tutorials to review then. Keep it up
Thanks for the pro tip, however after following all the steps hardware acceleration does not show up on the produce page. Using NVIDA GeForce Mx150, shows gpu running at 0% while rendering
@@PDU_Tutorials yes laptop, no internal gpu. But I read online that the Mx150 does not have a built in decoder? Would it be beneficial to buy an external GPU for the laptop? I have usbc connection so should work?
@@paulsasianadventure8050 External GPU won’t work that’s why I asked if you had one. I also found that laptops are difficult. There are some comments below of people with laptops who enabled additional settings. You can scrub the comments and see if you can find them so you can try what they did.
Will this setting make the video output more faster ??~ or just make a free ustilize from CPU so that i can do other things when output video in my computer ??
I've got a slowish PC and I fitted a GTX1650 card a couple of months ago, hoping it would speed things up. I was disappointed that it only made a marginal contribution. I've just followed your instructions. This morning, before watching your video I had just rendered a 10 min film @1080p, took about 15 mins to complete. I've just rendered it again and reckon it's taken less than half the time. A big thank you from the UK 🤝👏
I'm so happy that this helped you get your render speeds reduced considerably. Hoping this helps many others achieve similar results. Have a great weekend and stay safe.
@@PDU_Tutorials and the same to you and your family. Difficult times for us all. Here in the UK we're in lockdown, with only essential travel permitted. Its wonderful the YT community can still function and thrive though, so keep that wisdom coming!
i'm using my legion y740 with RTX 2060 GPU and i did all the steps you said and still am seeing intel quicksync option instead of hardware encoding and the cpu is doing all the work... I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
Alex Thorn If you followed all my steps you aren’t doing anything wrong. You may need to take additional steps that I’m not aware of. You can ask for help in the PowerDirector Forum.
@@PDU_Tutorials I got it. Another video from another creator also said to mark the Gpu Activity ex to high performance and now the hardware option pops up to render.
I can confirm this also works for PD-14. Fast video rendering technology option was not checked, but utilization was GPU-38%, CPU-56% for the 720p sample video I made. This was coming from GPU-0%, CPU-100%.
This was great. Thank you for putting this together, as it looks like a lot of tedious work. I am wondering if this setting will allow users to be able to “watch” the rendering in video playback speed without audio like you were able to do with earlier versions of PowerDirector. The most recent versions of PD it seems you only get a jumpy preview while the video is rendering, and I liked being able to view the rendering as a near-final quality check to see if all the elements appear okay.
Not sure if i'm doing something wrong i did all you stated and my number didn't change. I don't have that option in H.264 AVC but have that option in H.265 HEVC im running PD 365 subscription. My utilization may go to 23% but mostly stays down 10-12%
Won't work with H.265 HEVC. Not sure why you only have the H.264 / AVC option. th-cam.com/video/dFgxMwe5lRk/w-d-xo.html If you don't have that option go to the PowerDirector Users group on Facebook and create a post with a screen shot of your Produce page on the Standard 2D tab. Ask for help getting the H.264/AVC option to show up. Make sure you provide the version of the software you're using.
Although I have a NVIDIA GPU, my PD 16 does not have the "Fast video rendering technology" button turned on so I can select it. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Thanks for another helpful video that all of us can use.
@@PDU_Tutorials I think so as I just picked a video after watching your video and when I sent to the "produce" page the button was inoperative. I tried another video after your question and the button was operative. Makes me wonder if there are some videos that won't support the graphic card for some reason.
Thanks for this! I bought a new laptop (prior laptop was a Toshiba and put in 5+ years of hard work) and was wondering about setting up GPU. Also, I re-bought PowerDirector through your link. If we ever meet, buy me a Kit Kat as a kickback. lol
THANK YOU You are brilliant and you have made my day. Clear, concise information, well displayed, easy to follow, clarity of voice and a cheeky sense of humor. Useful knowledge that helps soooo much. Cannot fault this man. Thaaaaaank you sir.
Been using Power Director for several years. Currently still using 16. Bought a new PC with an I7 10th gen proc. 16G Ram and has an Nvidia GT1030 card. I watched this video over and over and followed your instructions to a T and cannot get PD16 to utilize the Nvidia GPU. Render times are not great. Bought PD19 and figured I was good but nope. Crashes constantly so went back to PD16. Tried also to change the Nvidia control panel settings to have PD16 only use the Nvidia GPU and it still chooses the onboard Intel GPU. Frustrated as heck. Thank you so much for your tutorials though, you have helped me countless times. Followed the link below to the forum but can't understand why my Same brand laptop with the same version PD16 and same brand GPU DOES use the Nvidia GPU and it is 10 times faster with a slower processor and specs. Thinking the GT1030 is weak and I hope if I grab a better GPU then PD will use it.
So many different factors to take into account when trying to get the GPU to be enabled. Wish I was more of a computer guru and I might be able to help you out. The forum is your best bet at getting some answers. Don't give up on those guys as some of them are true computer gurus who might have the answer.
@@PDU_Tutorials Thank you anyway sir! It seems that PD decides the the best option and since my external GPU is rather poor, PD chooses the onboard GPU. The forum has helped a lot to understand PD better.
I still couldn't get this to work and eventually contacted Cyberlink Support. They gave a couple of helpful hints, one of which was that Fast Video Rendering Technology is NOT used when you select AVI as the output format. When I checked that and switched output format then it worked okay.
Do you know of a program to convert the format of video files that I can purchase in one payment (as opposed to renting). The conversion programs that are offered for free on the web cannot support the larger files that I handle. So they are useless to me.
A HUGE thank you to you! I realized I wasn't even using my GPU in PowerDirector. Now video previews are smoother and rendering is quicker. I see you only checked "Enable hardware decoding." Is there any benefit in checking "Enable OpenCL technology to speed up video effect preview/render" as well? Thanks again!
WOOOO WEEEEE, I didn't know this could be done! Thank you Maliek for sharing this with us. I'm gonna hit that up right now!! Have a great weekend Maliek and HAPPY EASTER!!
Been following you for as long as i have PD365...however I encountered issue with the software where my GPU Nvidia 1650Ti is not being utilised at all. More over Nvidia Control panel also does not allow PD365 to change performance settings. The steps mentioned here are correct but still i am not able to change settings to performance due to which my Rendertime is horrific. I like the software but i am stuck with my all projects. Any help ?
Sorry, if you're following the video I don't have any other solutions. Try asking for help on the forum. The link is on my channel under the About section
Im using PD17 and an RTX 2060. It will use the GPU for rendering a video but doesnt let me select quick video rendering technology and doesnt show up as the gpu for my fx. Also in my Nvidia settings it wont allow me to put it as anything other than Intel HD for powerdirector. Is that because my power director version doesnt support the rtx 2060 fully?
I doubt it. Did you follow the steps in the video? If so, what profile you are producing to (H.265 , H.264, etc.)? As you can see in the comments this has worked for many users so it is likely to be something on your end.
I had this all set up with PD 19. I upgraded to PD 20. Now the PD.exe file is gone. I can't figure out how to get power director to use my Invidia Graphics card.... HELP!!!
Maliek. I did all of this...and still long rendering. I have the new Nvidia 3080 card so it should be lightning. I have Power Director 365. I have added the Power Director high performance to the graphics settings although I only had desktop app to choose from or Microsoft app. I did not have the classic app as an option. My setting worked in my previous computer. Any ideas?
Is there also a solution when having two graphic cards? Intel onboard and nvidia? Selecting this graphics card as seen in your video for high performance does not help.
@@Shivan149 I have no idea if you have to stick with Intel. There may be a solution but I'm not aware of it. If it can't be done I have no idea if that is an issue that CyberLink, Microsoft, Intel, or Nvidia needs to solve.
Not all projects are able to utilize the GPU. On the produce tab, select "Profile Analyzer" and see which profile it recommends. If on the "Best Matched Format" tab, you have % "as source" higher % than the one on the "Intelligent SVRT" % on the "Workload..." tab, then choose one that has better %. It will either use CPU or GPU to produce, and expedite process. I maybe wrong, but learning by trial / error. What I'm really confused is that PD has Intel CPU, and Nvidia all over, but don't have AMD CPU/GPU mentioned anywhere. And even when I'm using my AMD HD 7970 GPU, with AMD CPU (FX-8350) on my desktop, my laptop (Dell Inspiron 7000) with Intel CPU Core i5 6xxx series renders faster. It feels like PD is well suited for Intel/Nvidia. I'll try again and see if this hypothesis is true. But for my own anecdotal experience, it was. I'm going to try when I get a laptop with Intel CPU+Nvidia GPU soon, and let you know. Edit: th-cam.com/video/7LhR5EWcpp4/w-d-xo.html "Best Settings for Fast Video Rendering" I got my tips from this video; and explains way better than my jibber. And also has some technical specs regarding AMD, Intel, NVidia and what they can render, etc. FYI, some Intel or AMD integrated(onboard) GPUs are better than older dedicated GPU, and I don't know the efficacy of that compared to dedicated. However, Intel's hyperthreading does help significantly when it comes to rendering videos; namely Core-i7, or newer gen. Core-i5. (read it somewhere at video editing site). Good luck! Sorry for trolling!
Great video .. is the GPU used during video editing, adding effects, previewing etc? That seems to slow down a lot as you add more effects. So, this part is dependent on CPU and RAM then? Please clarify as that would be great to unnderstand if I need a RAM upgrade or CPU upgrade. Thanks a bunch, MR. GURU of PD!
You need more RAM and a faster processor. Your systems RAM modules help your processor work more efficiently. The more room the processor has to store data in that temporary memory, the more things your computer can do at once (more effects, preview video, etc.).
@@melodychest9020 There is no definitive answer for that. It depends on several factors. I would guess that if you have a good processor 32gb should be enough. I always go for overkill if I can afford it.
How do I change the max bitrate setting when I create a custom profile? I have a video that's 152000 and custom profile only allows 128000 max. Please help.
I have a question about PowerDirector 9. I'm getting a black screen during playback in the timeline. Have you heard of this and do you have a solution. I'm using windows 10.
No I have not. Might be due to the older version of the program and compatibility with Windows 10. The only thing I can think of is updating your graphics card drivers.
THanks as always for all your work. I notice an option "Enable NVIDIA CUDA technology to speed up video effect preview/render" I presume that should be checked as well? thank again
If you GPU has CUDA and you want to speed up the preview when you adds effects to your videos then I would enable it. Not sure if it will increase the render speed but in theory it should.
Hi Maliek. First I have PD16 and not 18 (still unconvinced the upgrade is worth for what I need, maybe this will change my mind). I have a rather old Dell XPS 15 (4th Gen i7) which has 2 GPUs: An Intel and a nVidia one. I followed your steps and to my surprise I saw a significant increase in the use of the nVidia GPU while playing the tracks in the timeline, however, when I went into producing the video task manager sowed practically NO use of neither the nVidia nor the Intel one with CPU usage at 100%. The strange thing is that with HW accelaration ON and these changes PD16 doesn't give me any acceleration option in the video production interface. The Intel one (which was always there) is greyed out (disabled). If I undo the changes PD16 let's me select the Intel HD acceleration option from the video production interface and I can see it uses the Intel GPU to a higher than 50% most of the time. I timed producing a video with both options and there were no significant changes in video enconding speed. I am tending to keep the default Intel settings as at least it leaves the CPU to other things, but I am puzzled by why PD16 uses the nVidia card for video playback within the app, but not for video enconding. Do you have a clue?
No clue. I have noticed that on my machine it uses the GPU for rendering but doesn't seem to use it for playback/preview while editing. If anyone else knows the answer to this please feel free to chime in. BTW, if you are doing fine with PD 16 no need to upgrade. Wait until there are features in the program that will add value to your editing or the output of your videos.
@@PDU_Tutorials Thanks mate. Video editing is just one hobby (the one I probably like least and since I can't pay for someone to do it for me...). Although I would prefer to use my time riding my bicycle rather than editing videos about my rides, I have always tried to do the best I can in anything I set my mind to, and you've been a great resource for that. My gratitude to you can only be paid by "Likes" for now. Hope you are well given the COVID situation in the US right now. Stay safe!
EyeCycled Thsnk you and best wishes to you on all your endeavors. Me and my family are doing fine and I wish for good health to you and all my PD peeps.
Thank you Maliek, thats awesome. Made the changes, now my Gpu is doing like 45-50% and rendering is quicker. Nice one. Have a great day, all the best kieron
hi bro, just to let you know i sent you an email a while back. Dont know if you got it, so sending you it here th-cam.com/video/ykHTo6HT6Q0/w-d-xo.html
You make this so easy and simple. Thanks! Do you know if the technique of adding programs under the DISPLAY/GRAPHICS tab is recommended for all graphics-oriented programs, e.g. PhotoShop and video games?
Hello i downloaded Cyberlink screen recorder 4 on my windows 10 machine all up to date but the screen recorder hangs and crashes, do you have a solution?
Hello there. Very nice idea, never thought to do it like this, however, for me it did not do the trick. Before your trick I had about 20-30 % usage of my GPU and after that the same amount :( Any other ideas on this?
Nope, no other tricks for this fix. Are you using an internal GPU from your video card or are you using an eGPU? Are you using HEVC H.265? eGPUs and HEVC H.265 won't work.
We Really appreciate this great effort, but I wonder if you may show us how to downdload and use AUDIO SPECTRUM on Power Director?🤔 Is there an option in PD to add audio spectra?
This doesn't appear to work for laptops.Cyberlink has been having this problem for literal years now and at this point I think they refuse to actually fix the issue.
Hello Maliek, .In PD 18 I am not given the option to choose which video rendering I can use. It only has SVRT and Intel Quick Sync. Do you know how I can go about enable this function so that my NVIDIA becomes an option? thanks
Hi Maliek - couple of things - I went to program files scrolled down and I only have a PD file not a PD.exe file - am I missing something in Power Director - also I tried all your recommendations, but it was only operating at 10% - I do have Fast Rendering Technology and Hardware Video Encoder highlighted - what do you think ? Best Wishes Robert.
Is it a PDR file or a PD file? Make sure you are able to see file extensions on your machine. fileinfo.com/help/windows_10_show_file_extensions Are you suing an internal or external GPU? Are you trying to render to the H.264 codec or something else?
Thank you for the tutorial. It helps during edits as GPU is used, but fast rendering is still greyed out (and GPU usage is at 4% during rendering). I choose H264 as the codec, and I have a laptop with a 2070M (with Optimus I think). Do you have an idea why and how to fix it ?
Great tutorial - I thought I'd already got this operating, but following your excellent step by step guide did speed up my production time. It also sped up the rendering time for sections of a clip on the timeline - which is a great time-saver when there are a lot of effects added. Thanks - and take care of yourself; DT's certainly not
Phill Ozoph If you’re using a video format like H.265 or AVI it won’t work. Also, if you’re using an external GPU it won’t work. Otherwise I do not know.
Hi Maliek. I followed the steps described in your tutorial in my laptop which has an intergrated intel graphics card and an nvidia geforce gtx 960m card. Nvdia still doent work and now i cant even use intel quick sync video now. Cpu goes to 100%.what im doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your responce
@@PDU_Tutorials Didn't work I'm afraid Malie! Win7 only has Dxdiag.exe show what you have, now HOW it performs! Dm anyway, I have hardware suport and it does render very fast. I just didn't USE it as I thought it did quicker, but lesser QUALITY video output, so I have just been using my CPU to render!
For some reason that's not working for me. In either case with Powerdirector 365 it uses the CPU more than the standard display adapter or the NVIDA GPU. When trying to setup for hardware acceleration I can not select it when producing video. Hp Pavilion I7 with Intel UHD Graphics 620 and NVIDEO MX150...
What should i do if the option in PowerDirector is greyed out and i cant click on it? I know that i was able using it years ago. Currently using Powerdirector14. I also have 2 Graphicscard in SLI
Was thinking of upgrading my GTX 1060 6GB .....BUT .. PowerDirector seems to be hardly using much of the GPU at all! In rendering a 5 min 1080p video with a couple of effects the usage of the GPU core is only 10% and the GPU video engine on average is about 25% .. that's it! It is ALL CPU which keeps going fulltime at 95-98% throughout the rendering. My hardware acceleration shows up as nVidia CUDA so no problem there and I got all settings ok. Some GPU is being used obviously but not enough to warrant a high end card beyond what I got. Wondering if it this generally the case or do you need to be working with 4K and a lot of effects for the GPU to kick in much more? In any case, seems pointless for the 1080p platform which is what is the most common out there right now. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I think the best way to solve to your issue would be to post a new thread in the PowerDirector forum. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/forums/list.page Make sure you provide your program version, and a DXDiag file of your PC specs. If you can share your project on Google Drive that would be helpful as as well. There are other discussions around this on the forum so I'm sure we can help you there. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/86345.page#357490
When I started i had "fast video rendering technology" available to me, i did the test and it was at 100% GPU. I followed your instructions to see if it would do something, including the optimizing thing, and that option is NO LONGER available, but it STILL does 100% GPU so i'm not sure if anything really changed. Not sure if i should go back and undo what I did as it seems to have not made a difference either way. Under preferences I have ENABLE HARDWARE DECODING and ENABLE NVIDIA CUDA technology selected now and they werne't before so I suspect that's why it's doing it.
Mr.PDU I need your help. So my you showed 15% while playing my video that I used power tools, to speed up my video. Now it shows 0% gpu. This didn't seem to solve the issue I have. While watching my timeline video and it goes over the part that insoed up in power tools it's all glitchy and starts to freeze up on me. Is there anyway I can get my computer to be able to read and play it in the speed inset it to?
Thank you so much Sir! Could you help me and a lot of other users of the powerdirector 18 how to solve the problem if you got 100% use of your CPU? Everytime when i start PD 18 and put some videos in my inbox the " pdhanumansvred application" gets 100%. What can I do?
Boy, do I have a question for you. I have used PowerDirector for years, and have loaded the latest and greatest version on "multiple" computer builds, and all with the latest components, plenty of ram, fast processor, etc. And no matter what build I've used PD on, it ALWAYS crashes. Not all the time but enough to where it is very irritating. It usually crashes when editing and tweaking the timeline. I can't figure out what it is that I'm doing which causes this, or perhaps it's just the program itself. My build right now is i7 processor, 2gb video card, 16gb of Ram, SSD HD, etc.
I have higher specs and hardly ever experience a crash. i9 processor, 4GB video card, 32gb Ram. I always recommend going with the highest specs you can afford. Depending on the files you are editing you may require higher specs.
@@PDU_Tutorials What a quick and kind response. Hmmm, I wonder what the issue might be. It most always happens when I'm editing on the timeline. Perhaps I'm moving too quickly and not allowing time for the process to complete. In any case, I'm curious what might be the most critical spec when editing, GPU, Ram, Processor?, as that seems to be when the problem arises. I think my build is more than adequate, but I may be wrong about that. Once again, you are so kind to respond to me on this (i7 8700, Z370 plus motherboard, 16 gb ram, GForce GTX-1050, SSD DRIVES).
@@PDU_Tutorials Hey there. I'm using an i7, 2gb video card, with 16 gb of ram, SSD HD. Is there a weakness among the setup I've listed that "might" cause instability when building and editing on the PD timeline, which might cause the crashes I mentioned? It only crashes when I'm editing, and has done so and several computer builds in which I have used PD.
I'm using a laptop with an eGPU - and I changed the Graphics Setting for PowerDirector 18 to High Performance.... Open back up PD18 , checked Hardware Acceleration but Fast Video Rendering is still greyed out. No luck....
Hey Maliek, I went to windows settings and changed power director to my high performance GPU. I also enabled hardware encoding in preferences. However, when I go to the produce tab, it still shows that Intel quicksync thingy. Is it because my graphics card is an entry level one?
Also, the funny part is that when I use the power saving gpu (intel uhd 4gb) it shows me hardware encoder but its greyed out. And when I choose high performamce (nvidia mx250 2gb) it does not show me the hardware encoder at all
Neel Narlawar Don’t have one. Try posting your issue on the PowerDirector forum and see if they can help you out. Also, try some of the suggestions in this thread. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/83077.page
Hi Maliek, I've been trying, following your instructions and still no Hardware rendering. I'm on a laptop with 2 GPUs (intelhd and Nvidia GeForce), could that be a reason why it's not working? Thanks
Windows didn't find a newer driver. So I went to NVIDIA and on the site is advised to download a different driver for "Video" etc. I did so. Now it reaches 45% on testing. The difference is: the one is for GAMES, the other (mine) is to be STUDIO.
Hey Maliek! I use powedirector to make youtube video's of my daughter singing for her channel, I'm a 53 yr old car mechanic, not a video editor but all these tips and tutorials are helping me big time! I really enjoy using the software and l am learning all the time! Thanks man you're a hero 👍👍
Stephen Dray I’m happy my videos are helping you learn the program. Good luck on your daughters channel.
Thanks Maliek! This was something that was NOT set up by default! I needed something as I was all ready to ditch this program, as my workplace asked me to produce a promo video for when we reopen again, And PD for the first real time kept hanging and crashing constantly. Forums were no help, (loads of other people just saying 'me too'. One suggestion was to uninstall GeForce experience.
I'd even downloaded a trial of DaVinci Resolve and was about to learn from scratch how to use that.
Following along with this video, my GPU was running at 1% before the adjustment, so it would make sense that with all the clips I had to use, and High quality photos, it was a lot to expect the CPU to do on its own.
Another great tutorial, perfectly explained again, I bet a LOT of people never knew this one. Appreciated as always.
I'm glad you and others seem to find a lot of value in this tutorial. Yes, many people don't know these steps need to be taken to help get the most out of their GPU. Crazy what the program can do when your PC is setup with the best possible configuration. feel free to link this video to the thread in the forum if you think it will help others.
@@PDU_Tutorials I will indeed. Thanks again.
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@ Blue: Where did you work that they would want you to produce a porno video?
@@lordofthewoods Haha. I had to take another look to check for typos and autocorrect, there!
Thanks man. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years. Just got a new PC with a powerful Nvidia card and was wondering why I hadn't seen much improvement in production speed. It's amazing now with this setting on 👍👍🔥
Dustin Dunnill Glad the video helped you improve your render speed
My experience too!
Tony Wood Awesome!
@Justin Berry He's got some great content.
This helps me a lot!! I was wondering why my CPU is always stressed up to 100% every rendering. Thanks.
Happy to help
My nephew is using an old 4th generation laptop with no visible GPU, an Intel HD 5000 graphics card core i3, he followed this video and now his edits are faster than ever. No lags, great job Maliek
Nev Harrison Comedian You’re welcome.
Enabling the GPU Fast Render stuff decreased my render time from 44 minutes to 5 minutes. Thank you Maliek!
Awesome results! Glad to help.
Bam! This!
My render preview is only using cpu. But when I produce it's using the gpu. How do I fix this
@@falakeexdrolly3938 wondering if you ever found a solution
One of the most important videos regarding Power Director. Does this work on other versions of Power Director?
Yes
Malik, thanks! Because of this video I have learned how to use my Nvidia graphics card for the first time since I purchased my computer.
Glad I could help!
There is a problem if we have integrated as well as dedicated graphics.
My laptop only chooses integrated intel graphics over my dedicated AMD Graphics for some reason.
If you are trying to switch to the card you prefer you can read this thread from the PowerDirector forum. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/80955.page#333050
@@PDU_Tutorials This will never work with a laptop unless you buy one of the $4,000 mobile desktops that do not possess an integrated GPU. The issue stems from the way power director is coded and how it "sees" video cards. Laptops no matter how fancy are designed to have the GPU piggybaack off the integrated GPU which power director is unable to see past. Quite simply power director cannot be made to see 2 GPU's it picks the one that is universal which is the integrated GPU.
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@@PDU_Tutorials So does that mean that powerdirector on a laptop can't use hardware acceleration?
@@Tankc4 If it has integrated GPU you may have to do some work within the registry to change things u and that's not my expertise.
Just found this video. I had no idea how much faster I could render a video. Thanks a bunch for putting this one out.
802 Outdoor Adventures Always happy to help. Thanks for watching.
Great video Malik ..your material is always nicely paced, clearly presented with good use of arrows etc. to avoid confusion. You are a top man!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you like my work.
I remember watching this video a few years ago. As I upgrade with PD, I have to remember to change the path to the app, because it goes from 19, 20, 21 for the folder name. Just a note for anyone who watches this in the future.
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Thank you for all your effort in putting these videos together, all of the content that I view that pertains to what my project requires me to do is very helpful. I have been using PD since 2007 when I needed to put together a 30 minute video with pics and video footage. Wish I had your tutorials to review then. Keep it up
Thank you Earl.
Thanks for the pro tip, however after following all the steps hardware acceleration does not show up on the produce page. Using NVIDA GeForce Mx150, shows gpu running at 0% while rendering
Are you on a laptop? Are you using an external GPU? Have you tried updating the additional settings that others changed (see the comments)?
@@PDU_Tutorials yes laptop, no internal gpu. But I read online that the Mx150 does not have a built in decoder? Would it be beneficial to buy an external GPU for the laptop? I have usbc connection so should work?
@@paulsasianadventure8050 External GPU won’t work that’s why I asked if you had one. I also found that laptops are difficult. There are some comments below of people with laptops who enabled additional settings. You can scrub the comments and see if you can find them so you can try what they did.
@@PDU_Tutorials thank you for the prompt reply, I will try a few more things, it's really only 4k it struggles with.
@@paulsasianadventure8050 👍🏾
Will this setting make the video output more faster ??~ or just make a free ustilize from CPU so that i can do other things when output video in my computer ??
It could do both depending on your GPU. Since your GPU is doing the work and not competing for resources it could make the process faster.
I've got a slowish PC and I fitted a GTX1650 card a couple of months ago, hoping it would speed things up. I was disappointed that it only made a marginal contribution. I've just followed your instructions. This morning, before watching your video I had just rendered a 10 min film @1080p, took about 15 mins to complete. I've just rendered it again and reckon it's taken less than half the time. A big thank you from the UK 🤝👏
I'm so happy that this helped you get your render speeds reduced considerably. Hoping this helps many others achieve similar results. Have a great weekend and stay safe.
@@PDU_Tutorials and the same to you and your family. Difficult times for us all. Here in the UK we're in lockdown, with only essential travel permitted. Its wonderful the YT community can still function and thrive though, so keep that wisdom coming!
@@Back2TheBike 👍🏾 Edit #WithMe
Would an egpu would k also (external GPU)
I don't think this works with external GPUs
Wow ! Great improvement ! I was not aware of that. Many thanks from a French fellow living in Sevilla Spain !
You’re welcome. France 🇫🇷 looks so wonderful
i'm using my legion y740 with RTX 2060 GPU and i did all the steps you said and still am seeing intel quicksync option instead of hardware encoding and the cpu is doing all the work... I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
Alex Thorn If you followed all my steps you aren’t doing anything wrong. You may need to take additional steps that I’m not aware of. You can ask for help in the PowerDirector Forum.
@@PDU_Tutorials I got it. Another video from another creator also said to mark the Gpu Activity ex to high performance and now the hardware option pops up to render.
Alex Thorn 👍🏾
You make this so much easier to learn. Thank you. 😄
You’re welcome.
Thank you so much. I didn't even know I needed this or that such an option was available. I thought my computer was just crap
Well, I can't tell if your computer is crap or not but I hope this helps. 😄
I can confirm this also works for PD-14. Fast video rendering technology option was not checked, but utilization was GPU-38%, CPU-56% for the 720p sample video I made. This was coming from GPU-0%, CPU-100%.
Thanks for the confirmation
This was great. Thank you for putting this together, as it looks like a lot of tedious work. I am wondering if this setting will allow users to be able to “watch” the rendering in video playback speed without audio like you were able to do with earlier versions of PowerDirector. The most recent versions of PD it seems you only get a jumpy preview while the video is rendering, and I liked being able to view the rendering as a near-final quality check to see if all the elements appear okay.
Thanks. Not sure this will have that type of impact on the preview. Try it out and see what happens.
Thanks... been trying to figure this out for weeks
Not sure if i'm doing something wrong i did all you stated and my number didn't change. I don't have that option in H.264 AVC but have that option in H.265 HEVC im running PD 365 subscription. My utilization may go to 23% but mostly stays down 10-12%
Won't work with H.265 HEVC. Not sure why you only have the H.264 / AVC option. th-cam.com/video/dFgxMwe5lRk/w-d-xo.html
If you don't have that option go to the PowerDirector Users group on Facebook and create a post with a screen shot of your Produce page on the Standard 2D tab. Ask for help getting the H.264/AVC option to show up. Make sure you provide the version of the software you're using.
Although I have a NVIDIA GPU, my PD 16 does not have the "Fast video rendering technology" button turned on so I can select it. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Thanks for another helpful video that all of us can use.
Are you using AVC H.264?
@@PDU_Tutorials I think so as I just picked a video after watching your video and when I sent to the "produce" page the button was inoperative. I tried another video after your question and the button was operative. Makes me wonder if there are some videos that won't support the graphic card for some reason.
ValkTV Some video codecs that you produce to such as H.265 will not work
@@PDU_Tutorials Thanks for your timely reply. Great info in your videos.
ValkTV 👍🏾
Thanks for this! I bought a new laptop (prior laptop was a Toshiba and put in 5+ years of hard work) and was wondering about setting up GPU. Also, I re-bought PowerDirector through your link. If we ever meet, buy me a Kit Kat as a kickback. lol
Will do. Thanks!
THANK YOU
You are brilliant and you have made my day. Clear, concise information, well displayed, easy to follow, clarity of voice and a cheeky sense of humor.
Useful knowledge that helps soooo much.
Cannot fault this man.
Thaaaaaank you sir.
You're very welcome! 😃Thanks for watching.
Hi am using go pro 12 to record my videos which is set to 4 k and 24fps but when I want to edit on power director it appears in slow motion
Been using Power Director for several years. Currently still using 16. Bought a new PC with an I7 10th gen proc. 16G Ram and has an Nvidia GT1030 card. I watched this video over and over and followed your instructions to a T and cannot get PD16 to utilize the Nvidia GPU. Render times are not great. Bought PD19 and figured I was good but nope. Crashes constantly so went back to PD16. Tried also to change the Nvidia control panel settings to have PD16 only use the Nvidia GPU and it still chooses the onboard Intel GPU. Frustrated as heck. Thank you so much for your tutorials though, you have helped me countless times. Followed the link below to the forum but can't understand why my Same brand laptop with the same version PD16 and same brand GPU DOES use the Nvidia GPU and it is 10 times faster with a slower processor and specs. Thinking the GT1030 is weak and I hope if I grab a better GPU then PD will use it.
So many different factors to take into account when trying to get the GPU to be enabled. Wish I was more of a computer guru and I might be able to help you out. The forum is your best bet at getting some answers. Don't give up on those guys as some of them are true computer gurus who might have the answer.
@@PDU_Tutorials Thank you anyway sir! It seems that PD decides the the best option and since my external GPU is rather poor, PD chooses the onboard GPU. The forum has helped a lot to understand PD better.
@@flipc6081 👌🏾
I still couldn't get this to work and eventually contacted Cyberlink Support. They gave a couple of helpful hints, one of which was that Fast Video Rendering Technology is NOT used when you select AVI as the output format. When I checked that and switched output format then it worked okay.
YEs, there are multiple codecs that can't use it. AVI, H.265, etc.
Do you know of a program to convert the format of video files that I can purchase in one payment (as opposed to renting).
The conversion programs that are offered for free on the web cannot support the larger files that I handle.
So they are useless to me.
The free program Handbrake is what I use. I'm not aware of any others that you can buy.
omg i missed to activate acceleration in the page of "produce" . Thank u
You’re welcome.
A HUGE thank you to you! I realized I wasn't even using my GPU in PowerDirector. Now video previews are smoother and rendering is quicker. I see you only checked "Enable hardware decoding." Is there any benefit in checking "Enable OpenCL technology to speed up video effect preview/render" as well? Thanks again!
You're welcome. Glad you saw an improvement. If you have a GPU that supports OpenCL then there is a benefit.
WOOOO WEEEEE, I didn't know this could be done! Thank you Maliek for sharing this with us. I'm gonna hit that up right now!! Have a great weekend Maliek and HAPPY EASTER!!
You’re welcome. Enjoy your Easter weekend.
Been following you for as long as i have PD365...however I encountered issue with the software where my GPU Nvidia 1650Ti is not being utilised at all. More over Nvidia Control panel also does not allow PD365 to change performance settings. The steps mentioned here are correct but still i am not able to change settings to performance due to which my Rendertime is horrific. I like the software but i am stuck with my all projects. Any help ?
Sorry, if you're following the video I don't have any other solutions. Try asking for help on the forum. The link is on my channel under the About section
Im using PD17 and an RTX 2060. It will use the GPU for rendering a video but doesnt let me select quick video rendering technology and doesnt show up as the gpu for my fx. Also in my Nvidia settings it wont allow me to put it as anything other than Intel HD for powerdirector. Is that because my power director version doesnt support the rtx 2060 fully?
I doubt it. Did you follow the steps in the video? If so, what profile you are producing to (H.265 , H.264, etc.)? As you can see in the comments this has worked for many users so it is likely to be something on your end.
Can you.please do a tutorial and the "Triggered effect" ? Haven't seen one using Powerdirector. Thanks!
Please use the tutorial request form in the video description.
I had this all set up with PD 19. I upgraded to PD 20. Now the PD.exe file is gone. I can't figure out how to get power director to use my Invidia Graphics card.... HELP!!!
Not sure what to do if the option isn’t there, You should reach out to CyberLink.
Maliek. I did all of this...and still long rendering. I have the new Nvidia 3080 card so it should be lightning. I have Power Director 365. I have added the Power Director high performance to the graphics settings although I only had desktop app to choose from or Microsoft app. I did not have the classic app as an option. My setting worked in my previous computer. Any ideas?
Sorry none. Check on the PowerDirector Forum. Someone there may be able to help.
Did you ever figure this out, I'm having the same issue with my RTX 3080 card, thanks!
I cant select classic app - instead it shows "desktop app". Is that fine too ? thanks for letting me know
Windows probably changed it so I guess it's ok.
Is there also a solution when having two graphic cards? Intel onboard and nvidia? Selecting this graphics card as seen in your video for high performance does not help.
Markus Stein Not that I know of.
@@PDU_Tutorials So in my case I have to stick with Intel Graphics card instead of my faster Nvidia 😢. That should really be improved by PowerDirector
@@Shivan149 I have no idea if you have to stick with Intel. There may be a solution but I'm not aware of it. If it can't be done I have no idea if that is an issue that CyberLink, Microsoft, Intel, or Nvidia needs to solve.
Not all projects are able to utilize the GPU. On the produce tab, select "Profile Analyzer" and see which profile it recommends. If on the "Best Matched Format" tab, you have % "as source" higher % than the one on the "Intelligent SVRT" % on the "Workload..." tab, then choose one that has better %. It will either use CPU or GPU to produce, and expedite process. I maybe wrong, but learning by trial / error.
What I'm really confused is that PD has Intel CPU, and Nvidia all over, but don't have AMD CPU/GPU mentioned anywhere. And even when I'm using my AMD HD 7970 GPU, with AMD CPU (FX-8350) on my desktop, my laptop (Dell Inspiron 7000) with Intel CPU Core i5 6xxx series renders faster. It feels like PD is well suited for Intel/Nvidia.
I'll try again and see if this hypothesis is true. But for my own anecdotal experience, it was. I'm going to try when I get a laptop with Intel CPU+Nvidia GPU soon, and let you know.
Edit:
th-cam.com/video/7LhR5EWcpp4/w-d-xo.html
"Best Settings for Fast Video Rendering"
I got my tips from this video; and explains way better than my jibber. And also has some technical specs regarding AMD, Intel, NVidia and what they can render, etc.
FYI, some Intel or AMD integrated(onboard) GPUs are better than older dedicated GPU, and I don't know the efficacy of that compared to dedicated. However, Intel's hyperthreading does help significantly when it comes to rendering videos; namely Core-i7, or newer gen. Core-i5. (read it somewhere at video editing site).
Good luck! Sorry for trolling!
@@JR-zw2vb This is a topic for the brainiacs on the PowerDirector forum. 😃 forum.cyberlink.com/forum/forums/list.page
"GPU is putting in work!!" haha thanks!!
Great video .. is the GPU used during video editing, adding effects, previewing etc? That seems to slow down a lot as you add more effects. So, this part is dependent on CPU and RAM then? Please clarify as that would be great to unnderstand if I need a RAM upgrade or CPU upgrade. Thanks a bunch, MR. GURU of PD!
You need more RAM and a faster processor. Your systems RAM modules help your processor work more efficiently. The more room the processor has to store data in that temporary memory, the more things your computer can do at once (more effects, preview video, etc.).
@@PDU_Tutorials Cool, thanks Guru. In ur experience how much RAM does PD need? Is 16GB not enough? May be I should double it
Cheers.
@@melodychest9020 There is no definitive answer for that. It depends on several factors. I would guess that if you have a good processor 32gb should be enough. I always go for overkill if I can afford it.
Hi, good clear tutorial, thanks. I have an AMD Radeon 580. Is the process the same except for also clicking the OPENCL function. Thanks!
Not sure. You can always try it out and see if it works. :-)
@@PDU_Tutorials Yes, it works. Thanks.
StevesBoston Great
How do I change the max bitrate setting when I create a custom profile? I have a video that's 152000 and custom profile only allows 128000 max. Please help.
I have a question about PowerDirector 9. I'm getting a black screen during playback in the timeline. Have you heard of this and
do you have a solution. I'm using windows 10.
No I have not. Might be due to the older version of the program and compatibility with Windows 10. The only thing I can think of is updating your graphics card drivers.
@@PDU_Tutorials Thanks
@@Frankyouknow You’re welcome.
Good job.... This also should prevent those unwanted crashes of PowerDirector.
It should reduce the crashes but not sure it will prevent them
THanks as always for all your work. I notice an option "Enable NVIDIA CUDA technology to speed up video effect preview/render" I presume that should be checked as well? thank again
If you GPU has CUDA and you want to speed up the preview when you adds effects to your videos then I would enable it. Not sure if it will increase the render speed but in theory it should.
Hi Maliek. First I have PD16 and not 18 (still unconvinced the upgrade is worth for what I need, maybe this will change my mind). I have a rather old Dell XPS 15 (4th Gen i7) which has 2 GPUs: An Intel and a nVidia one. I followed your steps and to my surprise I saw a significant increase in the use of the nVidia GPU while playing the tracks in the timeline, however, when I went into producing the video task manager sowed practically NO use of neither the nVidia nor the Intel one with CPU usage at 100%. The strange thing is that with HW accelaration ON and these changes PD16 doesn't give me any acceleration option in the video production interface. The Intel one (which was always there) is greyed out (disabled). If I undo the changes PD16 let's me select the Intel HD acceleration option from the video production interface and I can see it uses the Intel GPU to a higher than 50% most of the time. I timed producing a video with both options and there were no significant changes in video enconding speed. I am tending to keep the default Intel settings as at least it leaves the CPU to other things, but I am puzzled by why PD16 uses the nVidia card for video playback within the app, but not for video enconding. Do you have a clue?
No clue. I have noticed that on my machine it uses the GPU for rendering but doesn't seem to use it for playback/preview while editing. If anyone else knows the answer to this please feel free to chime in.
BTW, if you are doing fine with PD 16 no need to upgrade. Wait until there are features in the program that will add value to your editing or the output of your videos.
@@PDU_Tutorials Thanks mate. Video editing is just one hobby (the one I probably like least and since I can't pay for someone to do it for me...). Although I would prefer to use my time riding my bicycle rather than editing videos about my rides, I have always tried to do the best I can in anything I set my mind to, and you've been a great resource for that. My gratitude to you can only be paid by "Likes" for now. Hope you are well given the COVID situation in the US right now. Stay safe!
EyeCycled Thsnk you and best wishes to you on all your endeavors. Me and my family are doing fine and I wish for good health to you and all my PD peeps.
Thank you Maliek, thats awesome. Made the changes, now my Gpu is doing like 45-50% and rendering is quicker. Nice one. Have a great day, all the best kieron
Wow, this video is helping so many people out. Glad to see the increase in speed. Have a safe weekend.
hi bro, just to let you know i sent you an email a while back. Dont know if you got it, so sending you it here th-cam.com/video/ykHTo6HT6Q0/w-d-xo.html
So does pinnacle studio support this too? Is this NVENC? Would this work with pinnacle? Or is power director better? So many questions lol sorry
R V Haven’t used Pinnacle in a few years so I can’t say.
You make this so easy and simple. Thanks! Do you know if the technique of adding programs under the DISPLAY/GRAPHICS tab is recommended for all graphics-oriented programs, e.g. PhotoShop and video games?
Greg G Yep, it will work for any program
Hello i downloaded Cyberlink screen recorder 4 on my windows 10 machine all up to date but the screen recorder hangs and crashes, do you have a solution?
Keith's Tech and Reviews No sir. You should contact CyberLink support if you haven’t already.
Hello there. Very nice idea, never thought to do it like this, however, for me it did not do the trick. Before your trick I had about 20-30 % usage of my GPU and after that the same amount :( Any other ideas on this?
Nope, no other tricks for this fix. Are you using an internal GPU from your video card or are you using an eGPU? Are you using HEVC H.265? eGPUs and HEVC H.265 won't work.
@@PDU_Tutorials I'm using my graphics card GTX 1070. Nope, using H.264.
BenalRida Well, I got nothing. ☹️
Thanks, man! That's great!
You’re welcome.
@@PDU_Tutorials I've tried the steps, however, it does not seem to use the GPU still :(
I will try restarting and let you know :D
@@ArturTymchyshyn
We Really appreciate this great effort, but I wonder if you may show us how to downdload and use AUDIO SPECTRUM on Power Director?🤔 Is there an option in PD to add audio spectra?
No option that I know of.
Thanks for the good edumacation there Maleik
LOL! You’re welcome.
rheres any different in term of video quality? if i used GPU? Just a Little or same
Same
This doesn't appear to work for laptops.Cyberlink has been having this problem for literal years now and at this point I think they refuse to actually fix the issue.
They need to
Hello Maliek, .In PD 18 I am not given the option to choose which video rendering I can use. It only has SVRT and Intel Quick Sync. Do you know how I can go about enable this function so that my NVIDIA becomes an option? thanks
If you have a graphics card with Nvidia GPU follow the steps in the video and the option should show up for you. I discuss this in the video.
Hi Maliek - couple of things - I went to program files scrolled down and I only have a PD file not a PD.exe file - am I missing something in Power Director - also I tried all your recommendations, but it was only operating at 10% - I do have Fast Rendering Technology and Hardware Video Encoder highlighted - what do you think ? Best Wishes Robert.
Is it a PDR file or a PD file? Make sure you are able to see file extensions on your machine. fileinfo.com/help/windows_10_show_file_extensions
Are you suing an internal or external GPU? Are you trying to render to the H.264 codec or something else?
Thank you for the tutorial. It helps during edits as GPU is used, but fast rendering is still greyed out (and GPU usage is at 4% during rendering). I choose H264 as the codec, and I have a laptop with a 2070M (with Optimus I think). Do you have an idea why and how to fix it ?
Do you have an internal Nvidia GPU or external Nvidia GPU? If it is internal then I'm not sure why it isn't working.
Great tutorial - I thought I'd already got this operating, but following your excellent step by step guide did speed up my production time.
It also sped up the rendering time for sections of a clip on the timeline - which is a great time-saver when there are a lot of effects added.
Thanks - and take care of yourself; DT's certainly not
Glad it helped you out Tony. Have a great week.
Nice! vid keep up the good work. One question, sometimes when I render and upload to TH-cam the video is just black and doesn’t upload.
Thank you. That's probably an issue with TH-cam. Try producing to a mp4 video on you desktop and see if the video is black or not.
PowerDirector University thanks for the reply!! I’ll try that next time.
@@zenitram102 👍🏾
Thank you. Very interesting, had no clue. Again, thank you.
JAMES DUNN 👍🏾
Great video as always Malik.However,this did not work for me.GPU still doing only 3 to 8%.Any ideas?
Phill Ozoph If you’re using a video format like H.265 or AVI it won’t work. Also, if you’re using an external GPU it won’t work. Otherwise I do not know.
@@PDU_Tutorials Will check again later.Thanks for immediate response.
Impressive. thanks rendering time has roughly been cut by 65%. how did I miss this
What a significant decrease! I'm glad it helped.
Awesome video I'll definitely be trying this! Do you notice a speed difference in production on a 4k video?
Not much.
hi , just i wanna ask you if you could upload a new video explaining how to put two of you in one scene using powerdirector 18
oh thanks , i found it , it's the clone effect thanks a lot
Marwan Abd Al-bast You’re welcome.
Marwan Abd Al-bast Already done
tomorrow i'm getting my powerdirector 18 app and I'm so excited to use it by watching your videos, big love to you ❤
btw i have a sony vegas 14 app in my laptop but it's so confusing and i hope that powerdirector 18 is easier to use
Hi Maliek. I followed the steps described in your tutorial in my laptop which has an intergrated intel graphics card and an nvidia geforce gtx 960m card. Nvdia still doent work and now i cant even use intel quick sync video now. Cpu goes to 100%.what im doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your responce
If it isn't working change it back. If you are following the steps in the video then you're not doing anything wrong.
thanks. but still doesnt work. im using i5 5th 8gb ram hd5500 built in graphics and gforce 930m
🤷🏾♂️ If it doesn't work you should contact CyberLink
That was really good dude, but what vers of Windoze were you using? 10? I am still on 7, it doesn't show GPU performance.
Yep Windows 10. You should Google "how to view graphics or GPU performance in Windows 7"
@@PDU_Tutorials Thanks bro! \m/
DMSProduktions 👍🏾
@@PDU_Tutorials Didn't work I'm afraid Malie! Win7 only has Dxdiag.exe show what you have, now HOW it performs! Dm anyway, I have hardware suport and it does render very fast. I just didn't USE it as I thought it did quicker, but lesser QUALITY video output, so I have just been using my CPU to render!
DMSProduktions 👍🏾
For some reason that's not working for me. In either case with Powerdirector 365 it uses the CPU more than the standard display adapter or the NVIDA GPU. When trying to setup for hardware acceleration I can not select it when producing video. Hp Pavilion I7 with Intel UHD Graphics 620 and NVIDEO MX150...
Not sure why it isn't working. You should reach out to CyberLink for support. www.cyberlink.com/support/index.html?scrollTo=contactUsSection
Hi Maliek, could it be that the GPU acceleration only works with H.264 but not with H.265 input files? Regards
Simply Roman Not sure about imported files but in PD if you Produce to certain codecs such as H.265 or AVI you can’t use fast video rendering
What should i do if the option in PowerDirector is greyed out and i cant click on it? I know that i was able using it years ago. Currently using Powerdirector14. I also have 2 Graphicscard in SLI
Not sure. Could be your system, could be the file type you’re trying to produce to, etc.
Will this work for PD17?
The changes are done in Windows so it can be applied to any program
Tnks dude, you SAVED MY time
You’re welcome.
Does it make rendering faster or just take the work off the CPU?
Both
Great share of knowledge! Much appreciated.
Michael Perrett Slways s pleasure
Was thinking of upgrading my GTX 1060 6GB .....BUT .. PowerDirector seems to be hardly using much of the GPU at all!
In rendering a 5 min 1080p video with a couple of effects the usage of the GPU core is only 10% and the GPU video engine on average is about 25% .. that's it!
It is ALL CPU which keeps going fulltime at 95-98% throughout the rendering. My hardware acceleration shows up as nVidia CUDA so no problem there and I got all settings ok.
Some GPU is being used obviously but not enough to warrant a high end card beyond what I got.
Wondering if it this generally the case or do you need to be working with 4K and a lot of effects for the GPU to kick in much more?
In any case, seems pointless for the 1080p platform which is what is the most common out there right now.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I think the best way to solve to your issue would be to post a new thread in the PowerDirector forum. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/forums/list.page Make sure you provide your program version, and a DXDiag file of your PC specs. If you can share your project on Google Drive that would be helpful as as well. There are other discussions around this on the forum so I'm sure we can help you there. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/86345.page#357490
Hi. Does it also work with the trial powerdirector 365? I have a 3080ti and I can't use my gpu. It's a desktop.
Not sure. I have never had the trial version
When I started i had "fast video rendering technology" available to me, i did the test and it was at 100% GPU. I followed your instructions to see if it would do something, including the optimizing thing, and that option is NO LONGER available, but it STILL does 100% GPU so i'm not sure if anything really changed. Not sure if i should go back and undo what I did as it seems to have not made a difference either way. Under preferences I have ENABLE HARDWARE DECODING and ENABLE NVIDIA CUDA technology selected now and they werne't before so I suspect that's why it's doing it.
If your GPU was already at 100% I would just leave it like it was. You can't get any better than that.
Further research: forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/29236.page told me the file formats that could use Fast Video Rend Tech.
@@PDU_Tutorials Wow very kind to answer such an old question! ;-) I'm just happy that after 10 years I upgraded my computer so it's much faster.
@@happyron 😀
Mr.PDU I need your help. So my you showed 15% while playing my video that I used power tools, to speed up my video. Now it shows 0% gpu. This didn't seem to solve the issue I have. While watching my timeline video and it goes over the part that insoed up in power tools it's all glitchy and starts to freeze up on me. Is there anyway I can get my computer to be able to read and play it in the speed inset it to?
th-cam.com/video/3dfmUS8wt_w/w-d-xo.html
@@PDU_Tutorials thank you
Miz. Co 👍🏾
Does this pd already uses multiGPU?
Or is it still stuck in single gpu even if you have 2 or more like the tread I read in 2014?
It will only use one. You can select which one you want to use. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/85823.page#355385
Thank you so much Sir! Could you help me and a lot of other users of the powerdirector 18 how to solve the problem if you got 100% use of your CPU? Everytime when i start PD 18 and put some videos in my inbox the " pdhanumansvred application" gets 100%. What can I do?
forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7525.page
And
forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/62967.page
My system won't allow checking off hardware video encoder. It stays on svrt. Why wud that be?
Your graphics card.
Boy, do I have a question for you. I have used PowerDirector for years, and have loaded the latest and greatest version on "multiple" computer builds, and all with the latest components, plenty of ram, fast processor, etc. And no matter what build I've used PD on, it ALWAYS crashes. Not all the time but enough to where it is very irritating. It usually crashes when editing and tweaking the timeline. I can't figure out what it is that I'm doing which causes this, or perhaps it's just the program itself. My build right now is i7 processor, 2gb video card, 16gb of Ram, SSD HD, etc.
I have higher specs and hardly ever experience a crash. i9 processor, 4GB video card, 32gb Ram. I always recommend going with the highest specs you can afford. Depending on the files you are editing you may require higher specs.
@@PDU_Tutorials What a quick and kind response. Hmmm, I wonder what the issue might be. It most always happens when I'm editing on the timeline. Perhaps I'm moving too quickly and not allowing time for the process to complete. In any case, I'm curious what might be the most critical spec when editing, GPU, Ram, Processor?, as that seems to be when the problem arises. I think my build is more than adequate, but I may be wrong about that. Once again, you are so kind to respond to me on this (i7 8700, Z370 plus motherboard, 16 gb ram, GForce GTX-1050, SSD DRIVES).
@@peterpulpitpounder Not sure, I'm not that much of a techy
@@PDU_Tutorials But you sure are kind to reply to my post. :)
@@PDU_Tutorials Hey there. I'm using an i7, 2gb video card, with 16 gb of ram, SSD HD. Is there a weakness among the setup I've listed that "might" cause instability when building and editing on the PD timeline, which might cause the crashes I mentioned? It only crashes when I'm editing, and has done so and several computer builds in which I have used PD.
Thanks a lot! You're the best! :-)
You’re welcome.
excellent session thank you
PAUL POWER Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.
I'm using a laptop with an eGPU - and I changed the Graphics Setting for PowerDirector 18 to High Performance.... Open back up PD18 , checked Hardware Acceleration but Fast Video Rendering is still greyed out. No luck....
No bueno con eGPU. :-(
What about power director 15??
Same
Hey Maliek, I went to windows settings and changed power director to my high performance GPU. I also enabled hardware encoding in preferences. However, when I go to the produce tab, it still shows that Intel quicksync thingy. Is it because my graphics card is an entry level one?
Might be. Could also be the codec you are producing.
Oh, thanks a lot. But even when I tried to change the codec, it still shows the intel quicksync.
Also, the funny part is that when I use the power saving gpu (intel uhd 4gb) it shows me hardware encoder but its greyed out. And when I choose high performamce (nvidia mx250 2gb) it does not show me the hardware encoder at all
Plwase give me a solution
Neel Narlawar Don’t have one. Try posting your issue on the PowerDirector forum and see if they can help you out. Also, try some of the suggestions in this thread. forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/83077.page
Hi Maliek, I've been trying, following your instructions and still no Hardware rendering. I'm on a laptop with 2 GPUs (intelhd and Nvidia GeForce), could that be a reason why it's not working? Thanks
I don't know if that is a reason. If you are using a video codec like H.265 or .AVi it won't work. If you have an external GPU it won't work.
@@PDU_Tutorials I'm using h.264 with the computer's GPUs
@@langlaisavecjojoetjay Then I'm not aware why it isn't working for you. I recommend contacting CyberLink for support.
Great video
Thanks!
It's a very good video! Bravo!
Thank you.
Really I am looking for it thanks bro
Welcome
I did the same thing.... But it still shows Intel sync..... Why?
If you have an internal GPU, you're using a supported file type like MP4, and you did exactly what I did I don't know why it still shows that.
I have NVIDIA GetForce GTX 1650 and it does not change much. Just about 30% instead of 8% before that. It is a i7, 32GB RAM.
Windows didn't find a newer driver. So I went to NVIDIA and on the site is advised to download a different driver for "Video" etc. I did so. Now it reaches 45% on testing. The difference is: the one is for GAMES, the other (mine) is to be STUDIO.
Hans-Jürgen Stoffels yep
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