I don't seem to have any issues with the current 2024 version of Deluxe. I have 24 gig of DDR4 RAM, with an i7700 Kaby Lake CPU, overclocked @ 4.7 GHz, coupled with an ancient NVidia GTX1050Ti with 4 gig of built in DDR5 RAM, and all my 2K / 4K edits that are an hour or more long, seem to render in real-time, or the length of the actual edited piece. Which is okay with me. I do plan on building a new 'puter soon, as Windows will stop supporting Windows 10 Pro, in 2025, and my current CPU isn't compatible with Windows 11. BTW, I heavily edit my clips. Sometimes I use up to 9 cameras, and I have to do massive color matching and or lighting corrections, and I'm still able to render in real-time. It's rare that I have to wait like the old days and burn something over night. In fact, it's not happened since Video Deluxe version 2022. (The last version of 'MEP')

@Iris-Willis

That processor seems to not include an iGPU (according to this page) but on the screenshot you provided (many thanks for that), at the right hand end of the entries against Import, Processing and Export do you see the drop-down arrow? If you click on each of these, in turn, what options are shown?

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Do you mean the Import/Export Tab to the right? If so, all the boxes are checked. Here is a screenshot.

Perhaps everything is as it should be. I guess I just expected the burn process to go much quicker. It's not terrible (I guess)....I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

@Iris-Willis @emmrecs

Hi

I think emmrecs means the the display options in your earlier response " Does the Intel iGPU appear in the Device option GPU settings? and you have answered with - No. Just the Nvidia -the dedicated graphics card." but there should be some other options showing if you click the downward arrow to the right of the 3 boxes as he suggested.

It would help us check whether GPU HWA was occurring during rendering / mixdown if you start task manager with Ctrl >Alt> Delete and take a screen shot of the Performance Tab whilst the mixdown is occurring.

Peter

@Iris-Willis

If you're trying to create a Bluray, it could be the AVCHD "no hardware accel" bug:

https://www.magix.info/us/forum/hardware-encoding-for-mpeg-4-export-stopped-working--1329535/#ca1890684

Remember there's two components to burning a disk. First, Magix has to encode the video into BD format. If yours is the same as that post, the AVCHD encode is taking a lot of time with no hardware acceleration. Then the disk has to actually be burnt. That also takes time.

@Iris-Willis

Hi

The topic @AAProds linked to has been superceded by a more recent topic on the Mixdown issue which is a limitation of the RTX 2000, 3000 and 4000 series GPU's- see here.

The Intel processor in the laptop has no iGPU iso all encoding is done by the CPU.

I also tested burning a 1 hour long project, using the RTX 2060 and got the same times as you are having - computer spec is in my signature.

Using the Intel UHD 630 in my processor the times were reduced to real time as @mojoaudioguru is getting.

John EB

@Iris-Willis @emmrecs

Hi

I think emmrecs means the the display options in your earlier response " Does the Intel iGPU appear in the Device option GPU settings? and you have answered with - No. Just the Nvidia -the dedicated graphics card." but there should be some other options showing if you click the downward arrow to the right of the 3 boxes as he suggested.

Yes. It appears there are three options:

Do I have all the right boxes checked?

"Video Output activated" is unchecked. Only one option appears here (GeForce...)

"Video mode" had nothing selected.

"De-Interlacing" says '"no de-interlacing" LOL......I don't even know what half of these things mean (sorry).

also, I have these options (circled in red)

@Iris-Willis

Hi

Leave the 3 settings as the RTX 3080, the other 2 options CPU and Warp will not help, and the other options at their defaults.

The Blu-ray standard for h.264/AVCHD video encoding is interlaced only.

The GPU will hardware accelerate h.264/AVC and h.265/HEVC progressive video formats only, as and when it can, depending on effects added to the video on the timeline.

Changing to MPEG-2, a lower compression format, may give you a slightly faster render before burning, however it also, is not hardware accelerated.

John EB