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Hey all,
I'm sorry if this has been answered, but I've been trying to find this info and have not been able to find concrete information.
Here's the details, if you want to skip to the question it's down below:
I have a Lumix G7 camera and shoot 4k, H.264, .MP4 files @ 24fps.
Now I know this is a HORRIBLE combination for video editing but please hear me out.
I have a custom built PC with an i7-8700K processor, 16GB or RAM and a GTX1070 GPU, running Windows 10.
Premiere runs perfectly, with the files mentioned above.. scrubbing, playback, Fusion, all work great with no optimized media needed.
I don't want to use Premiere anymore, I HATE the subscription model and LOVE how I pretty much get one stop shopping in Resolve.
Resolve (free version) on the other hand does not work as well on this machine.
Scrubbing is really bad and playback is choppy and not the full 24fps.
I have similarly spec'd laptop that has very similar performance.
Settings don't matter, I've tried every combination you could think of, over the past several months, and nothing makes a significant improvement.
Now here's where it get interesting (to me anyway).. I have a 2013 27" iMac with a 4th gen i7 and GTX 780m GPU and the free Resolve 15 works GREAT with the files mentioned above (no optimized media).
Scrubbing, playback, fusion, all work great!
I would use this as my primary editing machine, but the desktop and laptop are much more powerful (from a strictly spec perspective) so would like to use those to speed up processing time in fusion and render times.
OK, so here's the question(s):
Is the Studio version more efficient with H.264, MP4 files on a Windows based machine?
If so, why?
From what I've been able to piece together, in the free version the decoding is limited to CPU based only and will not take advantage of the hardware decoder on the GPU, but the studio version DOES take advantage of this.. is that accurate?
I have another thread about why the Mac version works better, on a much lower spec'd machine, so won't go into that too much, but what I'm guessing is that the decoding available on the mac takes advantage of the GPU decoding by default.
Thanks for reading this somewhat long post.
I LOVE resolve and have no problem paying $300 for it, but I want to make sure that there really will be a performance improvement with the paid version.
*** UPDATE ***
The Studio version does indeed work MUCH better with H.264 MP4.
Everything is working PERFECTLY with studio version on the same hardware!
I'm sorry if this has been answered, but I've been trying to find this info and have not been able to find concrete information.
Here's the details, if you want to skip to the question it's down below:
I have a Lumix G7 camera and shoot 4k, H.264, .MP4 files @ 24fps.
Now I know this is a HORRIBLE combination for video editing but please hear me out.
I have a custom built PC with an i7-8700K processor, 16GB or RAM and a GTX1070 GPU, running Windows 10.
Premiere runs perfectly, with the files mentioned above.. scrubbing, playback, Fusion, all work great with no optimized media needed.
I don't want to use Premiere anymore, I HATE the subscription model and LOVE how I pretty much get one stop shopping in Resolve.
Resolve (free version) on the other hand does not work as well on this machine.
Scrubbing is really bad and playback is choppy and not the full 24fps.
I have similarly spec'd laptop that has very similar performance.
Settings don't matter, I've tried every combination you could think of, over the past several months, and nothing makes a significant improvement.
Now here's where it get interesting (to me anyway).. I have a 2013 27" iMac with a 4th gen i7 and GTX 780m GPU and the free Resolve 15 works GREAT with the files mentioned above (no optimized media).
Scrubbing, playback, fusion, all work great!
I would use this as my primary editing machine, but the desktop and laptop are much more powerful (from a strictly spec perspective) so would like to use those to speed up processing time in fusion and render times.
OK, so here's the question(s):
Is the Studio version more efficient with H.264, MP4 files on a Windows based machine?
If so, why?
From what I've been able to piece together, in the free version the decoding is limited to CPU based only and will not take advantage of the hardware decoder on the GPU, but the studio version DOES take advantage of this.. is that accurate?
I have another thread about why the Mac version works better, on a much lower spec'd machine, so won't go into that too much, but what I'm guessing is that the decoding available on the mac takes advantage of the GPU decoding by default.
Thanks for reading this somewhat long post.
I LOVE resolve and have no problem paying $300 for it, but I want to make sure that there really will be a performance improvement with the paid version.
*** UPDATE ***
The Studio version does indeed work MUCH better with H.264 MP4.
Everything is working PERFECTLY with studio version on the same hardware!
Last edited by eevnos on Sat Oct 13, 2018 11:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.