Movie Studio 13 isn't using GPU to accelerate.

SilVousPlait wrote on 9/5/2016, 6:29 PM

I use the 64 bit version of Movie Studio 13. I discovered the option "GPU acceleration of video processing" not too long ago, and I thought it would speed up the rendering process. Despite enabling this option by having it set on my GPU instead of "Off", I didn't notice much GPU usage. I use MSI Afterburner to monitor hardware usage, and despite all 8 cores of my CPU being used to almost 100%, my GPU usage was at 2-3%. Is there another option that's limiting Movie Studio 13's access to my GPU, or is it working as intended?

Specs:

Windows 8.1 64 bit

2x4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM

Videos being processed from and exported to a 2TB 5400RPM Green Drive, but my OS is on a 120GB SSD

FX-8350 at 4GHz

MSI R9 290

I would appreciate any suggestions at what I'm doing wrong or any bottlenecks that I may not be aware of. Thanks in advance!

Comments

NickHope wrote on 9/5/2016, 11:26 PM

What format are you rendering? If it's MainConcept AVC/MVC or Sony AVC/MVC then you can switch GPU acceleration on or off in "Encode mode" in the custom settings. See #4 in this post. Other render formats cannot use GPU acceleration. I would have thought "GPU acceleration of video processing" would speed up rendering anyway, but maybe it doesn't, or maybe only if your video includes GPU-accelerated FX etc..