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CyberLink PowerDirector Quick Start Guide
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1. First, ensure you download and install
the latest drivers for hardware
acceleration for your specific graphics
card.
2. Next, select > Hardware
Acceleration in the Preferences
window.
3. Select Enable NVIDIA CUDA/AMD
Accelerated Parallel Processing to
speed up video effect preview/
render to speed up rendering of some
video effects by tapping into the
multi-core parallel processing power
of your computer.
4. Select Enable hardware decoding to
use hardware acceleration to decode
the video during the editing process.
Note: this feature is not available on
computers running Windows XP.
5. Lastly, to enable hardware
acceleration:
• when producing a video in the H.264
or MPEG-4 format, ensure Fast video
rendering technology > Hardware
video encoder option is selected to
receive the benefits of hardware
acceleration during production.
• when burning a disc in the AVCHD or
Blu-ray Disc format, ensure Enable
hardware video encoder option is
selected in the Final Output window
to receive the benefits of hardware
acceleration during burning.
Tips to Help Keep PowerDirector
Running Smoothly
The following are some maintenance tips
you can periodically perform to keep
CyberLink PowerDirector running smoothly.
Deleting shadow files: if you have enabled
shadow files, it is recommended that you
periodically delete them to free up space.
To do this, select > General in the
Preferences window. Select the Auto delete
temporary files every option to have
CyberLink PowerDirector automatically
delete the shadow files every specified
number of days. You can also click the
Manually Delete button to select and
delete specific temporary files to free up disc
space immediately.
Deleting temporary files and freeing up
disk space: producing and burning discs
consumes a lot of disc space, because
CyberLink PowerDirector must create temp
files to complete these tasks.
For best results, it is recommended that you
regularly delete the contents of your
Windows Temp folder regularly and ensure
there is plenty of disk space available on the
disk drive where CyberLink PowerDirector is
installed.
Trouble-Shooting
The following are some common trouble-
shooting tips you may require when editing
and burning movie productions with
CyberLink PowerDirector.
Shadow Files and Non Real-time
Preview
When editing high definition content, if you
find that your computer runs slow or drops
frames during preview, try the following
options to make the previewing/editing go
more smoothly on less powerful computers.
Shadow Files: select
> General and
select Enable HD video processing
(shadow file) to speed up the editing of
high definition video.
Non Real-time Preview: select and then
Non Real-time Preview to mute the audio
and display a preview at a reduced speed to
help make editing much more fluid.