In 2022 I bought a new desktop with I5-13500 and upgraded VideoPad to version 11.64 64-Bit. I realized that VideoPad did not use the GPU very much during export (in most cases < 5%).
Now I upgraded to the actual version (18) and was disappointed. I received a link to version 18.39 automatically, which even isn’t listed in the “List of Old Versions”. Therefore, I downloaded the latest version listed (18.42 64-Bit-paid). This version works very well and exports much faster (GPU typically >70%) than version 11.64 64-Bit!
Congratulations, this investment of about 54€ has paid off!