CCE doesn't max out CPU? ..and other issues

[fmctm1sw]

Once more, I'm tinkering with CCE. I've cured the aspect ratio issues I had but I noticed it getting very slow tonight. I brought up my task manager and it wasn't going over 40%. Is that normal? If I close it out and restart it, sometimes it gets back to 99%. It's the latest trial from their site. Also, how on earth do I set the pulldown flag for my IVTC'd material?

[fmctm1sw]

Also, how on earth do I set the pulldown flag for my IVTC'd material?

Ok, I got this one... I don't. I have to use pulldown.exe

[adam]

I doubt it, but maybe CCE's trial version just doesn't utilize full CPU cycles. I know the full versions do, that's for sure. Try turning up the priority in task manager.

[fmctm1sw]

I forgot to mention that.... I tried cranking the priority up with the task manager, it didn't seem to do anything. I have noticed that it only seems to do this with a file I cleaverly named ivtc.avi after I used avisynth to do an ivtc and saved the avi with virtualdub. If I just open the avs with CCE, it goes up to max though. Why do these weird things happen to me?

[disturbed1]

Input/output problems?

You could have hit the threshold for your hard drive, and have a serious input output problem on decoding the avi file.

Also some avi files take a boat load of cpu cycles to decode. CCE isn't the best multithreaded app around either, hence the hit in performance.

Also make sure you have enough memory. The more the better. On my systems, CCE uses upto 540MB of RAM. The least RAM I have installed is a system with 384, and it uses 200+ on that system.

Kill your back ground tasks too, if any are running.