How to speed up hardware acceleration/encoding? Movie Edit Pro Plus

Mr.Gamer99 wrote on 2/26/2018, 10:59 PM

Hi all, sorry for another post but I'd like to discard the other one since I no longer have that Computer and I went back to my old Alienware x51 R3 for the time being until I figure out what kind of pc I want. So before I put the specs and other additional information I wanna address my problem. Before I had Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus 2017 on this pc, and it used hardware acceleration making 10-20 minute videos render in about 20 minutes or less, which is amazing. When I got my new pc, I reset my current old one to factory settings I believe is the right term bc I thought I wasn't gonna use it anymore. However, now I'm using it again, and I redownloaded Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus back on, and now it takes 3-4 hours using hardware acceleration/encoding, I recently updated Movie Edit to the newest update so the app kinda changed a bit, and I believe it's called 2018 now instead of 2017. "Hardware Acceleration" turned into "Hardware Encoding" however my issue is how come the exporting is taking a while now? Before it went quick, if you're curious, I tried updating all my drivers and it says it's all up to date, and I scanned my PC to see if there's any system updates, and it shows that everything is fine. Before I couldn't access my NVIDIA Control Panel, but I went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded the most recent driver and now I have access to that, not sure if I'm suppose to alter something on there to speed things up. Any input would be appreciated, below i'll leave specs of my computer, and yes I know it isn't the best pc however it exported videos from magix movie edit pro super fast so I know it can do it again, or at least I hope it can. Thanks for reading, images below is things I've tried, one last thing I wanna mention is do I need to do anything on the Intel (R) HD Graphics Control Panel? If so I can't access it, every time I open it, it doesn't start. Not sure if thats the issue, but if it's not.. I'm not too worried about it.

PC Specs: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit), Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz, Physical Memory: 8.00 GB, Storage: 1TB barely used since I don't really do much besides edit videos, and delete afterwards, Video Cards (2): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 & Video Card - Intel(R) HD Graphics 530

Below is an example of the video taking a while + movie format which is mp4 as you can see hardware encoding is activated but also you can see the time it has elapsed so far.

Here is my NVIDIA Control Panel I've tried switching the "Auto" setting into each specific graphics card my cpu has however nothing seems to happen when it comes to the program.

The last picture just shows that PC is up to date, so I'm not sure what the problem is..

Sorry that the pictures are sideways can't seem to change the way they post even though i took the picture upwards, anyways thanks for reading.

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Mr.Gamer99 wrote on 2/26/2018, 11:00 PM

This picture failed to upload, this was the first one I shared about format/elapsed time.

emmrecs wrote on 2/27/2018, 6:39 AM

Hi.

If you do a search on the forum for HWA and NVidia cards you will find a number of posts relevant to your problem, I think. Essentially, HWA (Hardware Acceleration/Encoding) when using NVidia cards depends on the card and driver supporting CUDA. Unfortunately, NVidia ended support for and provision of CUDA in 2014. Thus your "new" driver is almost certain to not support it even if your card could, as it apparently has in the past.

However, I think your i3 6100 graphics processor may well help you here! If I read its spec correctly you do need to be able to access it and set it as your main or joint graphics processor; MEP will then be able to use its HWA to speed up your exports.

If you look at my signature you will see the spec of my computer; although I use a faster processor than yours, the same integrated HD530 graphics can be and are used for exports concurrently with my AMD Radeon card.

In order to "activate" the graphics on your processor I think you will need to be able to access the BIOS settings. Many computers offer the opportunity to access these settings whilst booting up but please check carefully any change you make to those settings since it is entirely possible to completely "brick" your computer if you make any "wrong" changes. If you're not sure, the advice of a computer technician would be invaluable.

Just one other thing; you wrote above

Here is my NVIDIA Control Panel I've tried switching the "Auto" setting into each specific graphics card my cpu has

That control panel accesses your GPU not your CPU. The GPU is your NVidia card, the CPU is your intel i3.

HTH

Jeff

Mr.Gamer99 wrote on 2/28/2018, 5:35 PM

Thank you i'll look into that a bit more. however i encountered a new issue ive never seen before. I decided to deal with the slow rendering for today but while im exporting my video exports for about 2 minutes and then after that it turns into a black screen the entire time.. this is troubling because my entire income depends on making videos daily. any way to fix it?

jerancampy22 wrote on 2/28/2018, 6:21 PM

This is not true about Nvidia cards. I have the same issue as you but it is not true that you do not have CUDA support. You do

johnebaker wrote on 3/1/2018, 1:15 AM

@jerancampy22

See this comment in your other statement

John EB

Mr.Gamer99 wrote on 3/1/2018, 2:30 PM

So... what do I do about my black screen? Now when I’m editing my entire video turns into a black screen.

johnebaker wrote on 3/2/2018, 4:22 AM

@Mr.Gamer99

A bit of a long shot, however try changing the video mode in the dropdown in the program settings tab shown below

HTH

John EB