Jackpot ladies, jackpot. I am the one who started this thread, and here is my conclusion, which pretty much lines up with Andrew's findings. When I had issues with the jumpy pan & zoom effects in PD7, I decided to go and use my older Core 2 Duo. I never got around to posting my findings until now. Basically, everything was very smooth. At first I thought I would just install the basic PD7 without any upgrades, and that would do the trick. But since I started my project with the upgraded build of PD7, it forced me to take the update again in order to load up my project. So I did, and honetly, left out the pan & zoom effect until the morning of my event. I decided on a whim to give it a last whirl and see if I added one pan & zoom effect at a time to one photo at a time, and see what would happen. And kept adding until I was able to batch add the effect to every shot. And it played back and rendered super smooth on the Core 2 Duo.

So Cyberlink, if you guys are reading this, which I sure hope you are, you need to test the effects against the family of Quad cores. More specifically, add about 100+ shots, then transitions, then music, and once you have all that together, try to add the pan & zoom effect to all the shots and then render. You will instantly notice the jerky, choppy movement while it pans and zooms....

On a side note, the transitions never gave me an issue, but perhaps that is expected.

Thanks everyone for working thru this issue with some of us. I do hope Cyberlink come out with a patch for this issue...

Neil

No fix for me, AMD Phenom 9950 quad core and 32bit XP. Back to back tests with 50 pics in motion slide show and burnt to DVD with DVDHQ format with 1cpu and 4cpu's showed no noticable difference. Only fix has been going back to release 2227c.

Jeff

I thought you all found an easy fix for me, but I'm still getting the jerky motion even with the process affinity set to one cpu.

If you watch closely you will see the frames jump just as the previous picture has completely faded out. It never occurs during the fade, only when the fade is complete.

Looks like I need to dig around for 2227c.

PD7 ver 2519, Intel Quad Core, 64bit Vista, ATI Radeon HD 3850 Intel Core 2 Quad, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, Vista 64 bit, ATI Radeon HD 3850, Canon HF100

Wow! This is a deal breaker for someone who does video slideshows as a primary reason for using this package. I just bought it to replace an older version of Pinnacle, so need to know ASAP if there is a work around or solution, Please help!

To join in here..
I have a Q6600 processor on Vista with 4gb and Nvidia 9600gt video and PDR 7.

Over 100 images and a couple videos. On pan and zoom, the motion is unacceptably choppy and jerky. I have the latest patch installed too(2519). I refuse to lower my CPU core to try to "fix" this since it defeats the purpose of the addl hardware boost.

Please help Cyberlink!!! The pan and zoom are an AWESOME feature in this build and I use it regularly.

How can I get build 2227C? I uninstalled the version with the latest update and reinstalled from my disc. This version, however, is 7.00.1714 which I assume is before this 2227C. If I stay with .1714 what do I lose (bug fixes, features, etc?) Again, how can I get 2227c?

You may be in luck. Depending on what bug fixes were in 2227C you may not need it. Try making a slideshow with magic motion and see what happens.

I have 2227C because I didn't delete it when I updated to the latest patch. I always save the patch file installer when I download it and keep it in case I have to go back. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

I also had the jerky magic motion with v2519.
I installed patch 2227C straight over 2519 and it worked no more jerkies.

Bob B

Bob,

Have you had any other problems since installing the patch? Also, did you get it from tech support or did you have it? Thanks,
Linda

I can upload 2227c to a share site if anyone wants it.

edit:
Mmmm .... just thought, is there a licensing issue if I do that? Maybe Dafydd can comment.

Linda

No different problems to ones I had with 2519.
I had it from when it was issued.

Bob B

I bought a new qaud core computer made a combo movie & slide show production using Power Director 7 Ultra (loaded with the 2726 Patch). The motion slide show portion was jercky and unacceptable. After reading many of these posts and I tried the following:

I Uninstalled Power Director and re-installed it - installed only the patch 2227C, burned a new copy to DVD and it worked Flawlessly!

Dave

Dave,
Take a look at the sticky post at the top of the PD forum. The question/answer already posted.

Dafydd

PS http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/6466.page

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