Loilo Super Loiloscope Overview and Benchmarks

Super Loiloscope Overview

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Welcome screen

LoiloScope is characterized as “high-speed GPU-based video editing software with a game-like ultra intuitive GUI” that was developed by two Japanese ex-game creators.

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Main screen

The company behind the software says it’s the one and only movie editing software that has a high speed movie processing engine and movie processing system using GPU and high speed encoding using CUDA-Accelerated Encode.

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Main video editing workspace

The user interface is as simplistic and modern as it gets when it comes to video editing programs. Users can drag and drop multiple files onto the workspace and then drag them onto the editor and start adding filters and in and out points intuitively.

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Main screen with top option menu

There are four main menu options at the top of the workspace called Home, Share, Effect, and Art. This is where you can re-configure the program options, add filters and affects, and choose which video format you want use to output your project.

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GPU video playback options menu

In the home menu under option settings, users can enable GPU video playback to let the graphics card handle the playback workload instead of the CPU. This should make video play very smoothly, but an added benefit is that users can still do other tasks while the video is playing because the CPU is freed up to handle more tasks. Imagine being able to watch a Blu-Ray movie and still edit video in Adobe Premiere or create high-resolution graphics in Adobe Illustrator.

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DVD software options menu

Loilo also gives users the option to use Windows Movie Maker as their primary DVD software to help basic users create simple video projects. This built-in program comes free with XP and Vista and most general users will benefit from having this option available in Loiloscope.

Loiloscope lets users output their project into WMV, MOV, AVI, CPU-accelerated MP4, and CUDA-accelerated MP4 formats. Users can also select the YouTube button and modify their individual settings manually. Loilo claims their video editing software can encode HD video 10 times faster than the CPU. This is a pretty hefty claim, but from what I’ve seen from CUDA it might not be too farfetched. Our benchmark results will be able to validate their claims or squash them where they stand.

 

Super Loiloscope Benchmarks

We matched Super Loiloscope against our standard CPU-based transcoder HandBrake again to see performance differences between CPU-based transcoders and GPU-accelerated transcoders. We also added a blur effect to increase the workload during transcoding. The outputted formats include 480×270 MP4 for use with the iPhone, 720×480 MP4, and 1920×1080 MP4. We tested Super Loiloscope with CUDA enabled and disabled to monitor CPU usage differences as well as benchmark overall transcoding times for each application.

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Overall transcoding times

 

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Average CPU usage during transcoding

Now these benchmark results are closer to what we are looking for. The CPU usage results are definitely better than PowerDirector 7, but we think they are still a little too high for our taste. We’d like to see more work being taken care off by our GPU’s 128 stream processors instead of our AMD X3 720 three cores. I don’t know about you, but I never only have one application running at a time and I prefer multi-tasking. Transcoding times were a little over a minute long for the 30-second 720×480 MP4 file and 32 seconds for our iPhone video transoding benchmark. The most eye-opening benchmark has to be the 5-minute clip of Bolt we converted to a 1920×1080 MP4. Super Loiloscope made easy work of transcoding this file by completing the process in 6:25 (CUDA enabled) and 9:05 (CUDA disabled). HandBrake only managed to export the file in 20:15, which is over double the time it took Loiloscope with CUDA disabled.


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