Movie Studio 2023 does not use GPU to export to MPEG-4

John-Krout wrote on 1/2/2023, 10:22 AM

Hello, I installed and bought a license for Movie Studio 2022 about 10 months ago. I was using Windows 10 at the time. That computer died and I installed Movie Studio 2022 on a new Windows 11 computer. The Windows 11 computer includes an NVidia graphics card and the Movie Studio 2022 product gave me the opportunity to export to MPEG-4 using a GPU. That export using a GPU improved export speed from 15 minutes to 70 seconds for a video I update every month. When Movie Studio 2023 became available, I installed it. Movie Studio 2023 still offers the CPU option for exporting to MPEG-4, but that option does not work. The render time now takes about 17 minutes. I believe it may be possible that Movie Studio 2023 somehow disabled use of the CPU or removed a lib enabling GPU access. The Movie Studio 2023 version is 22.0.3.167 (UDP3) UG code 8472 KA1.

Hardware specs: Processor Intel® Core™ i5-12400F Processor, OS Windows 11 Home 64-bit, System Board ASRock B660M-C, System Memory 16GB (2- 8192MB) DDR4-2666 288-pin DIMM, Hard Drive 1TB NVMe Solid State Drive, Video AMD Radeon™ RX6600 8GB, Sound Integrated Audio CODEC ALC897, LAN Dual Band Wireless B/G/N/AC/Bluetooth (not used), LAN Intel® Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet.

Please advise.

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johnebaker wrote on 1/2/2023, 10:48 AM

@John-Krout

. . . . AMD Radeon™ RX6600 8GB. . . .

Are the drivers for this GPU up to date - the latest version is Adrenalin 22.11.2 12/8/2022 - v 22.20.29.10 or 31.0.12029.10015 depending on whether you have got them from AMD or Windows installed the Microsoft version.

In the Program settings, Device options tab are the Import, Processing and Export options all set to the RX 6600 ?

Do note that the RX 6600 only supports hardware acceleration for h.264 (AVC) and h.265 (HEVC) for both import and export up to to 4K resolution and AV1 decode.

HTH

John EB
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John-Krout wrote on 1/2/2023, 2:06 PM

Processing was set to CPU. I changed that to match the Import and Export settings.

Rendering time after that change was reduced to about 95 seconds. A very welcome improvement.

I have not checked driver version yet. Will look into that today.

Thanks!

The other John

johnebaker wrote on 1/3/2023, 8:25 AM

@John-Krout

Thanks for the feedback.

John EB