Quote I have a problem where when capturing to AVI with a USB dongle (EZmaker7), powerdirector cuts off the capture around the 40GB-60GB mark (never the same, just approximate) and complains there's not enough disk space; even though there's like 600 GB of free disk space.

What is interesting is that this error first occured on my external HDD, but was ok when capturing to my C: HDD. However, the problem started also happening on C: when I upgraded it to a SSD. Moreover, it has occured in both Powerdirector 14 and 365.


I'm running Windows 10 with 24 GB RAM, 6 core AMD CPU and standlone GPU. Any ideas?

If you can capture 40-60GB of avi files, let us know how many hours of recording is that and the bitrate. In the other post Barry claims only 4GB can be captured in the mp4 format which is about an hour. Looking for a correlation between formats, time, and bitrate.

If none is found here then I would suggest that you contact Cyberlink support with the information so that they are aware of a possible bug and the need to fix it. If it is a bug , not reporting it and expecting a user here to fix it is near hopeless. Engineers are paid to fix things but only if it is reported. 4 years later and no user bothered to fix it for free in the other post.

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If you can capture 40-60GB of avi files, let us know how many hours of recording is that and the bitrate. In the other post Barry claims only 4GB can be captured in the mp4 format which is about an hour. Looking for a correlation between formats, time, and bitrate.

If none is found here then I would suggest that you contact Cyberlink support with the information so that they are aware of a possible bug and the need to fix it. If it is a bug , not reporting it and expecting a user here to fix it is near hopeless. Engineers are paid to fix things but only if it is reported. 4 years later and no user bothered to fix it for free in the other post.

Looking at the past failed captures it was like 52 min (57GB), 40 min (43GB), 23 min (25GB). I believe it is the capture codec that is crashing (seems like it's a blackmagic avi codec).

Yes, I submitted a ticket and will post back if they solve it.

As the alternate, I've ditched powerdirector for capture and am using AmerecTV with a Lagarith avi codec, and then just using powerdirector to do any editing and compress to an interlaced video. Since this captures as interlaced (instead of blend deinterlacing that Powerdirector seems to force) the video quality ends up being better.

Thank you for the information. It does seem to be time related. Users have had success with the older 32 bit versions of PD. PD12 is the last version that works with dv-avi and smart rendering as reported by users. You may already have the solution. The manufacturer included PD10DE. I believe that it captures properly for your needs. Install the 32 bit version. It has more features. Try it and let us know if this fix your capture problem.

Quote Thank you for the information. It does seem to be time related. Users have had success with the older 32 bit versions of PD. PD12 is the last version that works with dv-avi and smart rendering as reported by users. You may already have the solution. The manufacturer included PD10DE. I believe that it captures properly for your needs. Install the 32 bit version. It has more features. Try it and let us know if this fix your capture problem.

I actually went a different route, and am glad I did. Capturing in AmarecTV with the Lagarith codec, then using Avisynth with a QTGMC codec, and only using powerdirector to encode to mpeg2 and maybe use one tool here or there. I will have to say that the AVI capture codec in powerdirector is lacking.