How do I enable HEVC on my computer, once I've paid for and udownloaded it?

mojoaudioguru wrote on 5/8/2016, 10:52 PM

I paid for the HEVC capability, and downloaded it, but I can't seem to get it to work on my MEP2016 plus software. I'm running a Windows 7 Ultimate OS, with 3.5T of SDD drives, 10 gig of DDR2 RAM, a Q9550 CPU, overclocked to 3.5 GHz, an NVidia GTX-750Ti GPU, with 2 gig of DDR5 RAM. How do I enable it to work, in order to render my created high definition videos, faster? Has Magix made the move to support the NVENC decoder yet? (Or, have they at least addressed the lack of CUDA support from NVidia?) Any help or information on this subject would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Scenestealer wrote on 5/15/2016, 6:48 AM

How do I enable it to work

What have you tried so far? It should install from Help > Install additional content and i imagine you were emailed a serial number to enter in the following window that led you to the purchase of it.

in order to render my created high definition videos, faster?

It will be slower because HEVC is more highly compressed than H264 (if that is what your HD clips are?) and will require more processing during compression. Even if your clips are already HEVC I do not think it will be faster than H264 to H264 because of HEVC more higher and likely more complex compression.

Has Magix made the move to support the NVENC decoder yet?

It is very unlikely they will as they appear to be putting all their efforts into the Intel CPU's and iGPU's and Intel codecs with their built in optimisations for HEVC and H264.

mojoaudioguru wrote on 5/16/2016, 1:29 AM

Yes, I installed it with the given serial / code number. Is there a feature that enables it, once you buy and install it? Or does it automatically just work? All my HD videos are shot in AVCHD. When CUDA was being supported by NVidia, my HD renders were fast. Once NVidia stopped it's CUDA support, I was back to overnight rendering. Some edited video to Blu-ray renders would take 15 hours to render. Which is unacceptable to me. I am unfamiliar with the H265 HEVC codec. I have tried some NVENC supported softwares, and my HD rendering times were back to normal. (Utilizing my GTX-750Ti GPU's NVENC capabilities) But, I want to stay with MAGIX, and not have to migrate to another editing suite. I don't understand why MAGIX will not support the NVENC rendering capablities, now that CUDA is defunct. It makes no sense to me. It's only going to force me to start using Adobe, or make the jump to FCP, and go MAC based. (I'm a professional videographer and have been using Magix since 1999. I rely on it for my business)

Scenestealer wrote on 5/17/2016, 7:28 AM

I have not installed the HEVC H265 codec myself but the normal procedure would be to to choose H265 in the file export settings and and choose an availble preset in the dropdown.

I don't understand why MAGIX will not support the NVENC rendering capablities, now that CUDA is defunct.

Probably because of quality concerns in the exported file with hardware encoding solutions presently availble, just as they experienced with Cuda Acceleration. For instance NVENC does not support B frames for H265 and possibly other optimisations that are important to quality that are not yet implemented.

mojoaudioguru wrote on 5/24/2016, 1:51 AM

Scenestealer, I figured it out. The HEVC is strictly for rendering clips for putting onto devices. Not for rendering Blu-ray media. I was hoping that MAGIX had addressed the 'no longer supporting CUDA' issues with it. I'm back to square one, rendering BDRs and AVCHD discs over night.