Lancelot Chan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoujcOKqm6E I seem to have found a clue what would cause the low CPU, GPU and encoder usage. If the video does not start at the beginning of the timeline, it will become slow. Otherwise, if the video start at the beginning of the timeline, it will have high usage and fast export speed. Take a look.

Yes, I like this editor very much too, despite me often posting about its problem. Well, if I ain't using it that much, I wouldn't care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hln6qJocgCwThis is a video I illustrates the problem. When exporting the full project, the video part would be slow and low usage on CPU, GPU and encoder. However, when that video part is isolated in a new sequence to export, it was way faster with much higher usage, faster than Videoproc Vlogger. So there must be something wrong in the full project that slowed the whole thing down.

That's about two times faster than on my computer!!! Mine is I9 9900k and 1080TI. :| Strange, when I test the portable project I sent you, it was very fast like your result again. 26% CPU and both GPU 16% and encoder 27% are showing a lot more activities than in the competition. This result is faster than videoproc vlogger! Head scratching. Whatever. Please test the full project: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MasVSCUy4AksrCbwU745U6tJmQ0Cq6xq?usp=sharing This seems to yield slower result in sequence 3, despite the mid part video and overlay and color correction are the same thing. This is the problem I faced. Maybe the full project has something that slowed the mid part down?

Let me make you a test project so you can check speed. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13fXJZYQoEQQyYTt35VTscb-ZhSCADTZ-?usp=sharing There's an issue in this project that the audio of the video became slightly longer than the video file, with reason unknown. In the competition above, I exported to h265 14000kbps at 60fps constant.

Adding CPU usage during the competition: Videopad 13.21 CPU 16% Videoproc Vlogger CPU 23% Adobe PrPro CPU 50% So it was not just GPU usage and encoder usage difference, but a big difference in CPU usage too. The source content was AVC already. My old cam can't record HEVC stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILP63EopPJ8 Here's the latest competition, h265 14000kbps export, with 1 overlay effect and 1 color adjustment effect. Videopad 13.21 vs Videoproc Vlogger (CUDA) vs Adobe PrPro (CUDA) Adobe Premiere Pro 18.03 secs with 43% encoder 22% GPU Videoproc Vlogger 24.12 secs with 15% encoder 11% GPU Videopad 13.21 41.81 secs with 8-9% encoder 10% GPU

Yes, both up and down for the video and audio dragging track. Sometimes it appears, sometimes not.

Gosh, need reinstalls.... man.... I reinstalled and the drag and drop track shows up once. Then I closed the program and start again, load again, the drag and drop tracks are no more. Please report it for poor me.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pp1-qL7s3Tcsnt74ys0cROcvwaWvGmxI?usp=sharing Please take a look. Sequence 2 and 3 do not show the "drag and drop here to add new track", both video and audio.

I have it on sequence 1, but not 2 and 3. http://www.rsw.com.hk/vp1321-2.jpg http://www.rsw.com.hk/vp1321-3.jpg Because of this I can't open a new track without copy and pasting overlay to create a new one.

It has drastically improved! With simple graphic overlay, the export encoder usage is 25% (full is 50% since there are two encoders on my card, so 25% on two streams is actually 50% on one encoder), which in versions before were 10% to 5%. GPU usage also improved during this export, obviously helping the overlay job. In addition, I've checked the color adjustment effect + overlay effect and still retain a 11% encoder usage, which also improved over the past versions. Hope the GPU can take up more and more effects so that the hardware encoder can work in higher utilization. Please keep up the good work. This is now at around the same speed as Videoproc vlogger. If you want to know what kind of effects I use to prioritize moving to GPU, I use the following the most: 1. overlay 2. Color adjustment 3. Sharpening 4. Color balance 5. motion (with scaling and rotation and positioning keyframe animation) 6. shake 7. opacity changes 8. text and picture overlay 9. timer counter effect 10. preferably noise reduction as well but currently it uses up too much time so I don't use it.

Here I compared the 3 meter displays from VP1309, VP1321 and WP. All three were after normalization, with VP done in the auto normalization during import, and WP done as auto normalize. http://www.rsw.com.hk/vp1309.jpg http://www.rsw.com.hk/vp1321.jpg http://www.rsw.com.hk/wp.jpg One can notice the top display in WP, is closer to VP1309 than VP1321, where there're some clipping displayed. Sound the same. Wish it can use the WP display as a standard. BTW I took the time to compare the meter reading of clipping in both wavepad and VP, actually the current VP reading at 13.21 is accurate to wavepad level.

Yup, that's what I tried. Thanks. Now if I dun have to goto wavepad to do the noise reducing, hard limiting 12db boost, that'll even be better LOL. But yeah, wavepad's dynamic compressor with graphic did the job for me. Thank you for such a nice program. It ROCKS!

Thanks for following up on this. Yes the meter is important for I use it to decide how to set the volume level. Better make it accurate. The sound was in fact the same.

Yes, wavepad can do it.

Totally. For now I think my solution is to do those color correction, sharpening and watermark with the CUDA accelerated editor first, then pass on to VP to do all the cutting and titles I like. Man, many editors I tried just couldn't do the star wars style scrolling text and in VP it's just 1 click. Not to mention those counting timer or counting down timer. In PrPro it takes tons of steps but in VP? 1 step.

This shows an idea of no CUDA effect.... http://www.rsw.com.hk/nc1.jpg http://www.rsw.com.hk/nc2.jpg A 6 min h265 60fps video with a logo overlay, color correction and sharpening effect, took 35 mins to render. With CUDA effect it would be just 1 to 2 mins.

Yes, I do this all the time, having a project called "daily usage" to store everything I work with my videos with. I premade all the effects on those items as well, so just drag them on the timeline and edit the text will do. This is one of the things I love videopad with! In PrPro, I would have to store them on a sequence, for it does not allow me storing the effects in the media bin. :|

I can confirm that when using GPU, videopad does not use x265enc3.exe or the 64bit version of it. The main program controls the GPU work, though most of the work were during editing. When exporting anything with effects / overlay, the encoder become very little utilized. Now only when I do lossless editing in h264 does videopad summons up the x264enc7x64.exe to deal with it.

Yes, already left several suggestions there, including audio hard limiter. I've just finished trying videoproc Vlogger, which claims to have 3 tier hardware acceleration. It's pretty easy to use, but lack the functions I found in videopad, namely the stopwatch timer, and a way to make Star Wars style crawling text. It also lacks audio hard limiter as well. In terms of exporting speed, it is in between Premiere pro and videopad. Fast, but not as fast as Prpro. So I uninstalled it. LOL. Videopad is pretty strong in terms of functionality, really. Fast editing, just not fast exporting. I still like videopad very much Things that is 1 click in videopad would often take a complex skill to do the same thing in PrPro. Like a timer, or reversed timer. Man....

I would like to be able to have a hard limiter for my audio effect, since I often have to boost the volume but want to avoid clipping.

Good to hear about possible improvement. The point why I still want videopad to get faster and better is that I like videopad more than adobe premiere pro. Doing the same editing on PrPro takes more steps, longer time and often with more crashes. Videopad is so much better in getting my job done in the editing terms. It's just the exporting that needs CUDA boosts to render those effects. Right now just a simple image overlay would take away all the speed it has compare to no effect.

https://youtu.be/vVomfc40fsw This shows a performance difference between CUDA supporting PrPro and Videopad 13.09, using the same video project with same graphic overlay, with the same hardware encoder h265 14000kbps output, with PrPro encoder at slowest setting. One can see a huge difference in CPU and GPU encoder usage during the export. The base encoder usage for this recording was around 10% to 18%.

I've compared that software (CPU) rendering actually is better than hardware rendering in terms of quality, if you're nitpicking like I am. But speed will be the cost.