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Upgrade from 4.56 to 5.03 is TOTALLY worth it


MattD

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To anyone wondering if they should pay for the upgrade from the 4.x train to 5.x, it is absolutely worth it.

For me, encoding a 45 minute 720p avi has dropped from 2.5 hours (4.56) to around 45 minutes (5.03) [windows 10, i7-2600]. Same settings, same filters.
CPU utilization went from 25% to 99%.

Thank you! :)

 

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1 hour ago, MattD said:

CPU utilization went from 25% to 99%.

 

I think you meant that backwards.

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That's interesting (and what I have been waiting for - I'll give it a try tonight and see if I get the same result).

 

UPDATE

I tried updating from 5.01 to 5.03 and my .mp4 video of 30 minutes rendered in 23:08 mins at 20fps, 8192kbs, 128kHz audio - I think this is the same as in 5.01. Additionally, CPU did not exceed about the 42% mark (overall CPU utilisation at the time 76%). Oh well, maybe the next release...

 

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Working fine for me on PC. I don't think 5.0.1 was available on PC?

I only see occasional drops to 50%, and even then the duration is short. I suspect it has something to do with hyperthreading.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Just tried it with a couple of my videos and I also saw a dramatic improvement. Videos that would take hours on the old version now take much less time on the new. Unfortunately I bought VideoPad on steam, and they don't seem to be updating that version, or responding on the steam forums anymore.

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On 2017-5-1 at 3:22 AM, MattD said:

Working fine for me on PC. I don't think 5.0.1 was available on PC?

I only see occasional drops to 50%, and even then the duration is short. I suspect it has something to do with hyperthreading.

 

jjgDJK1.png

 

Ah ha! that screenshot explains a lot (of both your effusing and my grumbling). I don't generate H264 videos; I use .mp4 because when I started with VP it took forever to generate a 20-minute H264 video (I mean, hours). So I'm generating .mp4 which doesn't use the x264encoder hence why my CPU % is a bit like yours shown against VideoPad Editor. Worse than that, 5.01 (yes, for the PC) was so bad even generating .mp4 videos that I have dropped my framerate to 20fps, not ideal but good enough for my YouTube channel. I wanted to revert to 4.xx but my video was edited using 5.01 which does the transitions differently, meaning not backward compatible.

Maybe I should retest 5.03 generating one of my existing videos using H264? :huh:

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@MattDUsing either of those settings how long does it take you to generate, say, a 10 (or 15, or 30 - so I can extrapolate) minute video? I've got a less powerful PC than you, an i5 Quad Core (no hyperthreading) 2.9GHz 16Gb and it still renders in far more than real-time (so a 10 minute video takes about 20 minutes, in H264 1080P 25fps). 

If I generate a MPEG4 video at 20 fps .mp4 it takes about 75% of real-time (so a 30 minute video takes about 20 minutes to render, or thereabouts).

Hmm, I've just seen that AMD are to bring out a 16-core monster in the summer to rival Intel's i9... :o

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