I was just one week into evaluating the 2014 Premium edition and the 2015 edition was announced. I was excited to hear about 64bit support. So I timed the rendering of the same movie clips using identical settings and in each case the 2014 version was faster than the 64bit 2015 version. For a 1080p WMV export, 2014 took 58 seconds and 2015 took 62 seconds. For a 1080p MP4 export, the 2014 version took 38 seconds and the 2015 version took 57 seconds (67% longer). Also, regarding the file size, the 2014 MP4 was 24.5mb and the 2015 MP4 was 59mb (more than twice the size). This is far from scientific testing at this point but i was expecting the reverse results. Both products were installed with default options.
Has anyone else noticed any performance hits and/or gains with the MEP 2015 version? Are there default settings that may need to be changed to optimize performance?
I'm running Win 8.1 with an i7-3770 CPU @ 3.4GHz with 32GB memory and SSD drives