

My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages.

Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Not positively making that choice might render both versions inoperable. With regard to the forthcoming (re-)release of VPX13: I realise this is not current Magix' policy, but, in order to avoid repeating the debacle of the (obviously far too early) previous release of VPX13, is there any method by which any existing installation of the product, in this case VPX12, could NOT be automatically uninstalled by the installation process of VPX13, but the user could be granted a "grace period" of, say, 10 days, to check that everything in the new release "works"? At the end of the 10 days he/she would then have to choose to either uninstall the earlier version in order to continue to use the newer, or vice versa. The version now installed in 18.0.1.95, which I think, was the last release.

are fully picked up and available in VPX12, without any intervention from me. I can confirm that the procedure you gave in your original post does work without problem VPX12 now reinstalled and, so far as I can tell on a very quick check, all third-party plugins, effects etc. We will publish it in a timely manner, so that you can work with the latest version as soon as possible. We are currently working hard to provide you with a satisfactory update of Video Pro X13.
