This leads me to believe that maybe its partially accelerated. I'm still using Free and when I play back a x.264 UHD clip in my timeline, I see about 25-35% GPU utilization, but all 6 cores (12 threads) go to about 60-65% utilization. If I understand what you're asking:ĭoes the Studio version have GPU acceleration that the free version doesn't?įrom what I read, Studio and Free should have it. I think your phrasing is confusing answers. If I buy an activation key do I still need a dongle? Is it worth getting a dongle anymore? Can you buy a used dongle off eBay and just plug it in and have it work? I'm getting mixed signals about the need for a dongle or I can choose and activation key.
The best of my understanding is that if I drop a clip or edit a clip in the timeline, it will be rendered in the playback almost instantly and be smooth with no freezing of frames while I'm trying to watch my preview.Īlso I wanted to know how to purchase the studio version. I could not find any actual examples of what this actively improves. my question is what exactly does this affect? like will it be only when I hit render, or will it be when I'm actively editing? people say it is buttery-smooth, but I don't know what exactly it is that they are referring to being buttery-smooth in comparison.
I see a lot of people talking about the h264 (de?)encoder being way faster because the encoding goes off of the GPU, not to Windows OS decoding. I had questions about the free version vs.