Hardware acceleration

Depending on your hardware specifications, VideoStudio lets you optimize the performance of your system by optimizing hardware acceleration. For example, you can take advantage of nVidia CUDA or Intel Quick Sync. Experiment with different settings to achieve optimal results.

Hardware decoder and encoder acceleration requires at least 512 MB of VRAM.

To change hardware acceleration settings

1 Select Settings > Preferences [F6].

2 Click the Performance tab and select the following options under Hardware acceleration:

• Enable Hardware Decoder acceleration — enhances editing performance and improves clip and project playback by using video graphics acceleration technologies of the computer’s available hardware

• Enable Hardware Encoder acceleration — improves the rendering time required for producing your movies. From the Type drop-list, choose an option.

If the feature is not supported by your system, some hardware acceleration options will be grayed out.