VideoReDo TVSuite & Professional - General Discussion Thread

[Marayong]

Yes, and the OP was running it in a VM ... so many things could fall over. However ... and a big however .. others chimed in saying VRD had also failed for them after the latest W11 update. I can't see all of them running W11 in a VM on a mac with an ARM processor. Well anything's possible, but that's pushing the odds a fair bit. Still, tick one for VRD working fine after the latest W11 update.

[JoeS99]

I have Video Redo 4,5,and 6 on my fairly new MSI laptop. Installed them all earlier this year.
I've used all 3 versions at various times but today I was working on some Wolverine 8mm scans and suddenly there were three images (monochrome) instead of the one in the center. See Attached.

I think it appeared on Ver 6 but went back to normal after I restarted it but Ver 4 & 5 still have the problem when I open a video file.
Couldn't find anything in the settings... any ideas?

Update: Under Options - Playback Devices, I unchecked Use Video Card YUV Acceleration.
That seemed to fix it on V4 and V5. I noticed that "Video Driver" is different in each version.
Hmmmm.....

Update 2: I remember a video driver update a couple days ago (Intel).
That must have had side effects.

[Marayong]

Could be the video driver update, especially if you had the acceleration setting ticked. Might be worth going through all the settings and turning off all hardware acceleration settings. As VRD gets older and older issues with modern video drivers will become more and more of an issue. Having said that, the lack of any other comments suggests no-one else has experienced your issue (I haven't) so it's presumably related to your specific hardware & software environment.

If you are still having the issue you could try posting your query to the reddit forum - one of the VRD devs frequents that forum.

[JoeS99]

Never gave those settings a thought in the past. It's still checked ON in Ver 6 and it seems to work fine for now.

[Bridgy]

It would be good if Dan Haddix paid a visit here in this Thread, because i hate the Reddit website, it is such a pain in the butt to deal with.

Then again my use of VRD is different than it is for most other users so i guess i never run into the same issues as other users do, and from what i read there are lots of issues with it, however, a lot of those issues i dare say are caused by the user not knowing how to use the software properly.

My only regret with Dan Rosen passing when he did is that 4k HEVC development was not quite finished, i reckon another 6 months of development would have got it to a point where i would have been totally happy with VRD for my own purposes.

If i was to revert back to recording video in 4k/60p AVC i would not have as many issues with editing those files as i do with my HEVC files, but i will never go back to AVC, which is why LosslessCut has become my go to cutting tool for 4k/60p HEVC files.

[hydra3333]

If i was to revert back to recording video in 4k/60p AVC i would not have as many issues with editing those files as i do with my HEVC files, but i will never go back to AVC, which is why LosslessCut has become my go to cutting tool for 4k/60p HEVC files.

Thanks for the info. I see of LosslessCut :

LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files.

and since I use ffmpeg commandline I'm somewhat comforted by your approach, even though I mainly use QuickStreamFix and there is no other free/cheap product on the planet which does a similar thing as well as VideoReDo does (some purport to but do not, some require gui interaction rather than also be commandline usable in scheduled tasks).

I also note with great interest that DELL and HP are reportedly discontinuing HEVC support on some new PC models:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-th...-laptops-cpus/

While HP’s and Dell’s reps didn’t explain the companies’ motives, it’s possible that the OEMs are looking to minimize costs, since OEMs may pay some or all of the licensing fees associated with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support, as well as some or all of the royalties per the number of devices that they sell with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support

The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard are set to increase in January, as licensing administrator Access Advance announced in July. Per a breakdown from patent pool administration VIA Licensing Alliance, royalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from $0.20 each to $0.24 each in the United States. To put that into perspective, in Q3 2025, HP sold 15,002,000 laptops and desktops, and Dell sold 10,166,000 laptops and desktops, per Gartner.

Cheers

[Marayong]

The potential discontinuing of Del & HP support for HEVC is not unprecedented. Back in the days of Win7 & before OEM windows was often drastically slimmed down, especially with laptops & the smaller branded desktops (aka del & HP) that had very limited capacity for hardware upgrading and/or addition. These OEMs only came with drivers for the hardware in question (the full Win had almost all the drivers included) and were missing quite a few windows components - this was because of limited hard drive space combined with the need to include branded bloatware .. cutting down windows meant more bloatware could be included. Post Win7 hard drives on laptops were much bigger so they tended to come with the full install of windows. But now with branded bloatware becoming, well, more bloated, and hard drives if anything getting smaller (no need for a big internal drive when there's the cloud, eh?), the need for slimmed down OEM windows with branded devices has again become required. I daresay the removal of HEVC support is just part of a lot of features that will be removed. Of course, one can always add in HEVC support via microsoft store.


OEM window installs often come with a slimmed down version of windows

[hydra3333]

I daresay the removal of HEVC support is just part of a lot of features that will be removed. Of course, one can always add in HEVC support via microsoft store.

Of course ... although ... after reading the article I asked one of the AIs and googled and something indicated it had been changed in the MS store from a free download to a paid-for download Hard to find, and when one does then one is required to pay !

From one perspective (mine, as it happens ) h.264/avc is looking pretty healthy by comparison.

Cheers

[Marayong]

True, you have to pay for it if you get it through the store ... but hunt online with your preferred search engine to find a copy of the installer elsewhere, install that and amazing enough, MS Store detects it and then keeps it updated for free.

This is where I got it from: https://codecguide.com/media_foundation_codecs.htm

It's also here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/b5gy8y74bk0a4jo/Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_2.0.60531....ppxBundle/file

Also some suggestions here: https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/192715-how-obtain-free-hevc-heic-extensions-mi...oft-store.html

[Bridgy]

Speaking of Dell and HP removing H265 (HEVC) decoding from some of their laptops/Desktop Computers, i just got my new Dell Pro Max Slim Desktop PC (Model FCS1250) delivered today.

I immediately removed the 512gb Windows 11 Pro NVMe drive from the computer before i even connected the Power and MSI Screen, and i installed a brand new Crucial T500 NVMe drive with a Clone of my Metabox Windows 11 X-Lite Optimum Pro on it using my Hasleo Disk Clone software.

I plugged the power cable in, i then went to plug the HDMI cable from the MSI screen into the back of the Dell PC, only to discover the Dell has 3x Display Ports and no HDMI, so i was not able to power up the Dell, got to head off to the Computer store tomorrow and grab a new cable with Display Port on each end.

This new Dell PC will not be affected by the H265 decoding crap thank god.


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OEM window installs often come with a slimmed down version of windows

What do you mean by OEM Windows installations are slimmed down versions of windows.

Also, the H265 HEVC decoding thing has absolutely nothing to do with anything that you wrote in your post just above, this decoding issue is all about Licensing issues, and the cost involved in having it included in their computers/laptops etc.

Dell and HP would just need to increase the cost of those affected machines if they had to pay for the H265 licenses, and the license fee for each affected machine would be very minimal anyway, i even saw the average cost per machine to include the license fee but i can't recall what it was.

As for using LosslessCut to do my 4k/60p HEVC video edits, it seems to work best when doing cuts at Keyframes when using the files later in VRD, if it is just a cut and shut job without needing to do anything else, the cuts can be anywhere, but if i join 2 or mor separate files together then i would do the cuts on keyframes to be safe.

With my 4k/60p HEVC files the keyframes are at 1 second intervals, so it does not bother me that much to cut them at that interval, if i find a file that really requires me to do a cut somewhere between keyframes then i throw it into VRD and just suffer the lag and slow seek time to locate the precise frame i need to cut at, exporting the file is not an issue.

[Bridgy]

On another note, the new Dell with the Intel Ultra 7 265 CPU encodes a 4k/60p HEVC file about 60% faster than the i7-9750H 6 Core CPU in my 6 year old Metabox laptop.

I don't understand anything about these new Ultra series CPU's and how they really work with all these Cores that they have, as compared to the older i7/i9 CPU's, but i noted that the CPU usage is a bit lower when encoding with the Ultra 7 265 compared to the laptop, using the software encoder, not hardware based.

This is a set of screenshots from Core Temp while sitting Idle, then encoding a 720p AC file to HEVC, then encoding the 4k/60p HEVC file down to 1080/60p HEVC.


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[noemi7]

On another note, the new Dell with the Intel Ultra 7 265 CPU encodes a 4k/60p HEVC file about 60% faster than the i7-9750H 6 Core CPU in my 6 year old Metabox laptop.

Obvious: more cores (20 vs 6) and more threads (20 vs 12)

[Bridgy]

Obvious: more cores (20 vs 6) and more threads (20 vs 12)

Yes i know all that, and of course it is going to be faster, i just don't understand the way these new chips have been configured, like in the i7 you got 6 cores/12 threads or 8 cores/16 threads etc, buy these Ultra chips have Performance Cores and Efficient Cores making up the total number of Cores, but the Thread count is the same as the number of Cores, not double.

Also, i still don't understand how the cores work together during say encoding etc.

Total Cores = 20
# of Performance-cores = 8
# of Efficient-cores = 12
# of Low Power Efficient-cores = 0
Total Threads = 20

[Stez]

I've had good success with some otherwise intractable windows issues by doing a reinstall. But make sure you select repair/reinstall with "keep user data & installed programs".

If you can, I'd also suggest cloning your boot drive beforehand so if things go "poorly", you can pull out the boot drive and put the clone in. Even a buggy windows boot drive is better than a bricked one.

So an update on my issue with VRD losing audio on all input files. Recap for those not familiar with my issue - I lost audio soon after setting up my new Windows 11 machine. I could edit VRD input files and save output which played audio normally in media players but I couldn't play the audio in VRD while I was editing.

I tried many, many things as discussed in previous pages of this thread and recently did the Windows 11 re-install suggested by Marayong which also failed to fix the problem. I finally gave in and did a clean install of Windows 11 on the machine and can now happily report that I'm back in business with VRD playing audio normally.

I do have a suspicion of what the problem was. I was running the Replay Video Capture and Media Catcher apps from Applian and I discovered that these incorporate a third party "virtual audio driver" that has a rep for causing weird issues. I had been using those for years in the same environment as VRD on Windows 10 (and probably previous versions) without any issues but perhaps something about the app combination on Windows 11 caused some drama.

I'm not absolutely certain and I'm not going to re-install the Applian apps to test out the theory given the drama I had but the timing lines up.

[Bridgy]

Merry xmas everyone, seems like not much is happening in here now says, seems like everyone is using that horrible Reddit website for VRD stuff now, but i just want to let you know that i think that i have found a way to get VRD Pro activation working on a new computer, i am still in the final stage of testing, i have got it to work twice for a few days but it crashes, just need to find or isolate the culprit files.

This has been a long winded process, and without the help of a good friend of mine who knows his stuff this would never have been possible, unfortunately he is only available for a few hours a week because of his own work commitments, so i thank this guy for his help.

As we Pro version users know, since Dan R passed away it has been impossible to activate the Pro version on a new computer because of the way in which Dan set up the Pro activation service (very different than the Non Pro service) so if the computer that the Pro version was last activated on before Dan passed away decides to die, you lose your VRD Pro completely, and cloning your current Windows to another computer does not work either, as i have tested that theory out by taking a clone of my widows 10 from my Metabox laptop on a spare NVMe drive and installing it in several other laptops, and once it has booted and run the necessary windows updates, VRD is left unregistered, even if you disconnect the computer from the internet it still isn't registered any more.

Cheers

[hydra3333]

Thank you Bridgy and Merry Christmas to you too.

I must go over to that Reddit site and have a look at the latest, I think the link is https://www.reddit.com/r/videoredo/

edit: I didn't spot any new news about the hoped for similar (re)development by the only other person who worked on VRD. Oh well.

[Stez]

I didn't spot any new news about the hoped for similar (re)development by the only other person who worked on VRD. Oh well.

Hey hydra, I remember Dan (the other developer, not the deceased owner obviously) posting about that. It was something he was was thinking of kicking off while he was between permanent gigs but he posted a follow up saying he had found a new role and was shelving the project.

It's a shame as there still is apparently no alternative option that combines frame accurate editing and transcoding the way VRD does.

[Bridgy]

Thank you Bridgy and Merry Christmas to you too.
I must go over to that Reddit site and have a look at the latest, I think the link is https://www.reddit.com/r/videoredo/
edit: I didn't spot any new news about the hoped for similar (re)development by the only other person who worked on VRD. Oh well.

Yeah Reddit is just far too confusing to deal with for me, it isn't a Forum in the true sense of the word, but i think there has been several different Threads posted over there about VRD, and it just gets far too complicated to keep track of it all, however i am probably unique in that my use of VRD seems to be very different from most other users, and because i use the Pro version, i don't need to know all about the crap that is posted about features that don't affect me, especially about the non Pro acivation.

I hope i can get the activation for the Pro version sorted, it works for a few days but then it deactivates and i can't work out why.

As for Dan Haddix trying to rebuild VRD, i liked that he was at least going to give it a go, but i always believed that it was always going to be a long shot.

To be honest tho, after all the years that VRD has been around and able to do stuff that nobody else has done before, i am very surprised that nobody else has been able to build an application that can replicate it.

[Stez]

after all the years that VRD has been around and able to do stuff that nobody else has done before, i am very surprised that nobody else has been able to build an application that can replicate it.

Yes me too, and eventually VRD will age out and just no longer be as useful. I'm coming across more and more AV1 vids that VRD doesn't recognise so I have to recode them in another app before I can edit them in VRD.

Another case in point, mentioned in case others have the same issue, VRD started failing to initialise my NVIDIA GeForce 4060 when trying to use it for NVENC. Looking into this has revealed it's caused by deprecated functionality in the NVIDIA drivers. The NVIDIA release notes say:
"Applications compiled using older NVENC presets and rate control modes would stop working on R590 drivers and above. R580 are the last drivers to support them. The new presets and rate control modes were added in Video Codec SDK 10.0. Therefore, all applications must migrate to Video Codec SDK 10.0 (or above) and use the new presets and rate control modes to keep continuing working on R590 drivers and above. Users can refer to the migration guide present in the Video Codec SDK to help migrate."

The 4060 driver updated from R580 to R590 on Dec 4 so I can either stay on R580 (which will eventually cause its own issues) or switch to software encoding in VRD, which is what I've done. It's a pain in the arse as the main reason I bought the GeForce GPU was so VRD could use it.

[hydra3333]

the main reason I bought the GeForce GPU was so VRD could use it.

me too, as well as to use Donald Graft's wonderful gpu accelerated DG toolset for decoding/deinterlacing/denoising et al in vapoursynth with video piped into ffmpeg for encoding.

having said that, nowadays I only use VRD for the batch QuickStreamFix functionality, and infrequently for editing h.264 (smartedit is great, tiny re-encoding around edits so gpu is not really necessary).

VideoReDo's QSF was, and still is, the best (only?) consumer-budget-friendly tool on this planet which excels at fixing corrupted videos without audio sync loss.

[Bridgy]

Never asked this before, but does any of you who are using VRD to re-encode video file actually use the QuickSync or NVEnc Hardware encoders as opposed to Software like i do.

eventually VRD will age out and just no longer be as useful. I'm coming across more and more AV1 vids that VRD doesn't recognise so I have to recode them in another app before I can edit them in VRD.

Well VRD had not started work on support for AV1 up until the time Dan Rosen passed away, and obviously it will not support any other codecs that were born after 2022 for that matter, so if you have files in a Codec that is not supported in VRD, then you need to find another editing tool or encoder that does support these newer codecs.

I don't do AV1 so i don't know enough about it to be honest, it's hard enough for me now to get my recorded 4k H265 (HEVC) video files edited using VRD, usually i need to resort to LosslessCut to trim out and join up my files because of the Lag that i get with seeking to cat points in the timeline.

[Stez]

any of you who are using VRD to re-encode video file actually use the QuickSync or NVEnc Hardware encoders as opposed to Software

I was using NVENC to encode in VRD from when I bought the GeForce 4060 equipped machine in August until NVIDIA updated the driver from the R580 series to R590 at the beginning of December. Was pretty happy with it.

Re the source files with unsupported codecs, I have got LosslessCut but I don't really like using it. I usually end up recoding to H264 in VidCoder and then doing my edits in VRD.

[Bridgy]

I was using NVENC to encode in VRD from when I bought the GeForce 4060 equipped machine in August until NVIDIA updated the driver from the R580 series to R590 at the beginning of December. Was pretty happy with it.

Why not use Software encoder, it is going to give you better quality if quality is important to you, as it is with me as i want to get the best i can get to the Source files, and Hardware based encoders are not on my radar for recoding.

Software based encoding is going to push the CPU and is probably slower than using hardware, but i can live with that especially now that i have my new Dell Pro Max Desktop with the Ultra 7 265 CPU.

Re the source files with unsupported codecs, I have got LosslessCut but I don't really like using it. I usually end up recoding to H264 in VidCoder and then doing my edits in VRD.

LosslessCut is an amazing cutting tool, BUT it has a lot of little quirks that really peeve me off, and it took me weeks to get use to the Cutting tool, and even now it can still trip me up especially when i need to cut lots of bits out and stitch the video back together.

It fully supports HEVC and AV1, as well as several RAW formats, and there is no lag in the timeline when seeking to my cuts, making it super fast, but in some cases it doesn't play well once i take the cut files into VRD to Recode to other formats, and it seems to work better when only making the cuts on keyframes.

My camera Video files are 4k/60p HEVC so the keyframes are usually at every 60 frames (1 second intervals) so that doesn't affect me that much as i don't really need to be so precise where my cuts are.

[Stez]

Why not use Software encoder, it is going to give you better quality

My most common use case is editing the ads out of an FTA broadcast program and recoding using one of VRD's iPhone output profiles so that I can watch the file on my phone during train or air commutes. Sometimes I've got a backlog of them saved up to do and I was appreciating the speed of NVENC where small sacrifices in quality didn't matter. It was much faster than the software encoder.

If I wanted to hold on to a recoded file then I would switch back to software encoding for that job.

LosslessCut is an amazing cutting tool... It fully supports HEVC and AV1

My other common use case is taking downloaded YT vids from creators I subscribe to, editing out intro and outtro and recoding as audio only for streaming to headphones or car audio system. I have used LosslessCut for that where the downloaded vids are AV1 as the editing jobs are very simple and it lets me save to audio only just like VRD does. Nothing beats the VRD interface though - DanR created a functional masterpiece!

[Bridgy]

I have used LosslessCut for that where the downloaded vids are AV1 as the editing jobs are very simple and it lets me save to audio only just like VRD does. Nothing beats the VRD interface though - DanR created a functional masterpiece!

Totally agree with the VRD user interface, it is hands down superior and far less complicated than anything out there, And most of those other (good or bad) alternatives like LosslessCut for example, look like the interface was designed by a child, very tacky and bubblegum looking to me.

And obviously your use of VRD and LosslessCut is far different than mine, where the majority of my editing involves my own 4k/60p HEVC video files from my cameras, i also do a fair bit of screen recording using Bandicam (registered version) for tutorial videos that i make which need a lot of editing and recoding from AVC to HEVC, and some Youtube edits as well.

VRD Pro and LosslessCut are perfect for my needs.

[Marayong]

Seasons greetings and merry holidays to everyone. I'd not noticed the latest flurry of posts .. unlike that reddit forum where you can be notified of all new posts in a watched thread, here you only get notified of the first new post .. and if you miss that email or it never arrives ... you remain in the dark. Unless there’s a setting to send you notifications for all new posts?

Good news on the work of getting the pro version activation hopefully working again .. and whilst cloning/imaging works for transferring the non pro version, as you found it doesn't work for the pro. How's the project going?

I missed the news about Dan2 shelving his reincarnation of VRD. That's a shame. Moreso that activation issues, the biggest problem VRD now faces is compatibility with the newer codecs etc. From the reddit forum more and more people are running into that, as Bridgy has already done with some of his stuff. As long as I stick with my VRD vintage recording hardware, I should be ok at least. ATM, my hardware produces H264 ts files, which VRD still happily works with.

> To be honest tho, after all the years that VRD has been around and able to do stuff that nobody else has done before,
> i am very surprised that nobody else has been able to build an application that can replicate it.

I would differ here. There is software out there which does all that VRD did with frame accurate editing and transcoding and so forth. The problem is, it's high end commercial stuff with licences of $10,000 or more .. the stuff movie & tv production companies use. The genius of VRD was that it was able to take those commercial industry standard features and duplicate them for the much cheaper home user market. I suspect his advantage over other home video editing developers is that he had experience in the high end commercial market, as distinct from a bunch of computer nerds who know programming but little about video editing. As for other home user products offering frame accurate editing etc, I suspect that the number of users who would want that is sufficiently small that the companies producing current home editors don't consider it worth the effort to incorporate. To be honest, if it wasn't for VRD, none of us would be discussing the need to include frame accurate editing.

So far at least I've not had any issues with my GeForce card with VRD & I have the latest driver and hardware acceleration turned on. Do you use the Nvidia studio or games driver package? Possibly that choice may make a difference? I use the studio one. But I also have an inbuilt intel GPU on the mobo which I've not deactivated, even tho' nothing is connected to it. Maybe VRD falls back to that for hardware acceleration if the GeForce fails? VRD picks up both GPUs and has both as active. As a side note, other GPU-using software I have only picks up the Geforce card and not the intel GPU chip, so another bonus genius feature of VRD in that it can detect and use multiple GPUs.

Using hardware vs software encoders ... egads ... I used to know where those settings in VRD were but I have completely forgotten since I've not touched them in many years ... where would I find them?

On a different note .. or notes. I've just upgraded my desktop to Win11 and on loading up VRD is now occasionally asking me to check for updates, even tho' I have this disabled in the options. Not sure what's going on there. And secondly, VRD thinks I have Win10 Enterprise. No idea where it is getting that from. I originally installed it on a Win7 Pro machine, imaged that to another machine and upgraded to Win10 Pro and finally upgraded that machine to Win11 Pro. This is in options > GPU encoders > NVEnc information, which at the end gives details on the CPU, the GPU (or GPUs in my case) and the windows version. Does anyone else with Win11 have the incorrect windows version being reported? Maybe VRD can't recognise Win11 so defaults to the highest Win10 version it knows of? But I would have put pro above enterprise, which is just a cut down edition of Windows Pro.

[Stez]

Seasons greetings and merry holidays to everyone.

Greetings to you as well.

Yes, I also have Windows 10 Enterprise showing there. Probably something along the lines of what you suggest as the reason for that I'd imagine.

Re Nvidia studio or games driver - I also use the studio driver as the most recent games I've played are Donkey Kong and Galaga. I see Intel QuickSync and NVEnc in my VRD encoder list although in my case, my on board GPU is an AMD Radeon unit. When encoding to H264, I seem to get similar performance from both the Intel and Software encoder options whereas NVEnc was insanely fast before it stopped working. You can choose the encoder as an option on the Profile Options dialog when saving a video.

This is the error I've been getting with NVEnc since the NVidia driver update:

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I'm chill about it though as obviously VRD cannot be recompiled to use the latest Video Codec SDK from NVidia. I'd rather have the option of using NVEnc but Software encoding on modern CPUs is quite acceptable. After having no audio for so long, I'm no longer sweating the small stuff.

[Bridgy]

@ Maryong .... i get an email notification for every post made as well as private messages, not sure why you don't.

My project is at a stand still at the moment, as i mentioned to you just now in a reply to your PM, not sure when my friend can return to it, but no big deal at the moment.

As far as VRD goes heading into the future, yeah unfortunately it's days are numbered as far as future proofing goes, especially for those like me who are mainly using VRD to edit and recode video files recorded on Camera, and it now appears that VRD will not work on any new format beyond AVC and HEVC, with 4k HEVC having issues with adding titles and suffering very slow seeking in the timeline to locate cut points, however it does provide full support for recoding to and from HEVC which is good, thank god for LosslessCut which is clearly being developed, and not only does it fully support cutting up and joining 4k HEVC files (with very fast seeking in the timeline) but it also supports AV1 as well, from what i have tried so far.

I just wish the Developer of LosslessCut would change the way that the Cut markers work to the same way that they work in VRD as i still get confused and lost when trimming out more than 2 segments, and i wish some of the other settings were set out up a lot better and easier than they currently are.

Yes LosslessCut can have issues with cutting on non Keyframes when using the files with other tools such as VRD, but unless i want to buy a brand new editing tool such as TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 8 AND TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 6 then at the moment i really have no other choice.

And yes, if i want to have frame accurate cutting, smart rendering, add titles, and recode to other formats, i need to buy both, which is the dumbest thing i have ever seen in any software out there, and i believe that Pegasys deliberately do it this way knowing that there are people like me who need all of those features.

Dan Rosen (with the help of Dan Haddix) just did everything 100% right, they created a Great tool that was offered way too cheap in my opinion, and it has a no fuss User Interface that just works far better than any other editing tool out there, and others can try to copy it, but i doubt there will ever be anything like it again.

Using hardware vs software encoders ... egads ... I used to know where those settings in VRD were but I have completely forgotten since I've not touched them in many years ... where would I find them?

For VRD to use Software for encoding, you need to set that inside each of your profiles, otherwise VRD leaves everything set to Default.

Also, during installation of VRD you are actually asked which encoder you prefer to use, i choose Software, however this might only apply to the default built in presets as i need to set Software Encoder manually when i create each of my export profiles.


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If you want Intel QuickSync or NVEnc to run in Software mode you need to go to the Tools/Options/GPU Encoder Tab, i think it should be set to Hardware (default) unless you change it.

I have never used Hardware based encoding (QuickSync or NVEnc) with VRD but i always believed that QuickSync and NVEnc are supposed to use the GPU to do the encoding, so i have no idea why there is even a Software option in those settings, but when i have installed VRD i just set it to Software as part of setting up VRD to the way i like it to run.


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[Marayong]

Win10 enterprise is obviously an EOL bug in VRD then .. defaulting to that for anything more recent. Thankfully a minor bug with no other obvious side effects.

Hardware acceleration ... all the profiles I checked have the encoder set to default and it is greyed out. There is no option to change the output codec:

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And the Tools/Options/GPU Encoder Tab:

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It's set to "Hardware (default)". But see also below.

Quicksync info button yields:
- Auto : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Software : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware D3D9 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware D3D11 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Auto Any : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware Any : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware Any D3D9 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware Any D3D11: 1.255 , Hardware 2 via 'D3D11'
- Hardware 2 D3D9 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware 2 D3D11 : 1.255 , Hardware 2 via 'D3D11'
- Hardware 3 D3D9 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware 3 D3D11 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware 4 D3D9 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Hardware 4 D3D11 : 0.0 , Unsupported
- Processor: : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700
- Adapter: : Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, 32.0.101.6129, 2024-10-18
- Adapter: : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, 32.0.15.9144, 2025-12-02
- Windows version : Windows 10 Enterprise

NVEnc button yields:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050: 8.6
Codec: H264 supported
Field encoding: No
MBAFF encoding: No
10bit encoding: No
Look ahead encoding: Yes
Max B frames: 1
Codec: HEVC supported
Field encoding: No
MBAFF encoding: No
10bit encoding: Yes
Look ahead encoding: Yes
Max B frames: 1
- Processor: : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700
- Adapter: : Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, 32.0.101.6129, 2024-10-18
- Adapter: : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, 32.0.15.9144, 2025-12-02
- Windows version : Windows 10 Enterprise

I'm not getting any errors, so don't want to change anything ... but how would I know if it's using QuickSync and/or NVEnc?

From vague memory when I installed the current VRD (back on the old WIn7 machine) I had to disable hardware encoding since having it on crashed VRD on that machine and Dan told me to reinstall with software encoding. I've not made any changes since then.

I also dont have any custom profiles ... the ones that come with VRD are all I need with VRD.

[Stez]

Hardware acceleration ... all the profiles I checked have the encoder set to default and it is greyed out. There is no option to change the output codec:

but how would I know if it's using QuickSync and/or NVEnc?

It's greyed out for me when VRD thinks it doesn't need to recode. If you want to definitely use NVEnc, you can click Profile Options, change the Output Codec to H.264, change Output Mode to Force Recode and change Encoder to NVEnc. You said you have the latest R590 NVidia Studio driver so my prediction is you will get the same error I did.