Will VideoPad ever be available for 64 bit?

MiddletonPlays

Just wondering if VideoPad will ever be available for 64 bit?

borate

Videopad runs fine on 64-bit machines. A 64-bit VP version reportedly is in the works, with no target date.

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We are slowly working towards a 64-bit release, not just for VideoPad but for other NCH applications. This is a huge change but hopefully we'll see 64-bit applications released sometime this year.

beznazwie

Any results? We have almost 2020. My notebook is converting one movie now for almost 24 hours and CPU runs on half its power (it's x64 but VideoPad is 32 bit).

borate

In the works, but no published target date. How long is your movie, what format and resolution? For most projects, VP does a peppy job.

beznazwie

My movie has over 13 hours. It contains 2 clips. Each clip is added twice. Each of those 4 video tracks is crop to 1/4 original size. And this 4 small rectangles create one result movie. There are also 2 tracks for static texts. Each of them is as long as whole file.

Source clips and result file are 1280x720 30fps. Sound tracks are muted.

This is mix from 2 live records.

Output file is encoded as x264. I don't know which codec is used in source clips. I think there are the same.

borate

Tests were run with a single seven-minute clip; no effects. Using Mp4 and default quality settings, the 1280 x 720 the MPEG compressor had an approximate 20% speed advantage.

At 30fps export took 90 seconds. 15fps cut that time in half.

At 1024 x 576 the H264 compressor was fastest. At either frame rate, export spit out the project in about eight seconds. (lossless)

All results were of acceptable quality, IMO. Quality settings or container - AVI or MP4 - made little noticeable difference.

Export speed depends on many factors, but is primarily affected by the following:

Computer's hardware specifications (CPU, hard drive, memory, etc)
Complexity of video (number of clips and effects, length)
Video export settings, including format, encoder, and rate factor/bit-rate.

Keeping effects to a minimum is good practice.

Simulating your project on a small scale, a seven minute 1024 x 576 AVI was laid out: four stacked tracks, with a single SPLIT SCREEN effect to form the quad...

             Horizontal 2; upper left A, zero vertical bias; upper right B, zero bias; lower left A, 1.00 vertical bias; lower right B, 1.00 bias.



Export was at 1024 x 576, using H264 at default quality with one enabled audio track. MPEG4 compressor results were nearly the same.

                                                  30fps = 4 minutes, 18 seconds. 15fps = 2 minutes, 15 seconds.

The 7+ minute project was then made one-hour long by duplicating it eight times into Sequence #2. Exporting Seq 2 @ 15fps with the above settings took 16:45.

Extrapolating, had it been 13 hours long, export might have taken roughly 3.5 hours at that resolution, or perhaps 8+ hours at 1280 x 720.

As video editing is resource intensive, gaming-class hardware is often recommended. This machine generally meets that requirement.

13 hours is quite a task for any NLE, much less one running on a home PC. Merely loading a project of that length might prove problematic. Memory issues can arise.       Breaking it down into more manageable segments - perhaps each an hour long - is worth considering.

It would be enlightening to compare VP export speed with that of a 64-bit app.