Select movie mode instead of clip mode below the preview window.

Jeff

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried switching between clip/movie, but unfortunately it makes no difference. Also, you'd still expect the title to appear on the final disk burn wouldn't you? Looks like something else is going on ...

Brian

Yes, they should have shown during the Create disc operation. The clip/movie mode only controls the preview viewer and does not affect production or create disc operations. Can you attach a screenshot of your project timeline, this might give us some clues.

Jeff

I ran into another problem that I just posted (regarding libguide40.lib). Looks like there may be some underlying software/library conflicts on this particular machine as PD9 works as expected on a 2nd test machine I just installed on. I've been evaluating several NLEs (Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Vegas Studio HD, Nero Platnium Suite HD) and they may have installed something that conflicts with PowerDirector. Looks like I'll be doing a rebuild to get a clean install and see if that fixes the problem.

You know homevideo I could save you a lot of work.

I have trialled virtually all of the video editing programs including the very expensive ones and I will give you one guess which one I chose.

One thing you won't find though in just trying out the programs, you won't find out how good their forums are for those inevitable questions. The PD forum is the icing on the cake for me, it is full of very knowledgeable people who are willing to help, not something you will find in many other video editing forums. One of the programs I tried and actually liked took 2 months to receive a reply to my question and their email support was just as useful.

Have fun and hope to see you back here after your trials.

Cheers

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You should be able to insert titles on a video - however - at the end of the video you may want to insert a coloured board. This gives it more stability.

Too many video editing programs on one computer can have an adverse effect on all of them.

I've used may programs in the past (Sony Vegas - iMovie - Final Cut Express to name a few) but by far the best 'bang for your bucks' and the easiest to use is Power Director.

I totally agree with Robert's comments too. Happing editing

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Thanks for the comments. At the end of the day the two most important things to me were a) final product playback quality and b) speed. While there were some things I liked on other products better in either the editing interface, hot keys, or additional encoder setting controls, for end product playback quality PD and Adobe Premiere Elements 9 came out on top. Sony Vegas 10 tied on quality without menus, but adding menus required a 2nd encoding which tossed it out of the running. Nero was in the 2nd tier in terms of quality. For speed, it wasn't even close. Only PD used my GPU (after a registry tweak:http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/14156.page#71894) to accelerate the encoding process so that a 50m 1920x1080i uncompressed video AVI source file (360GB) rendered to 24Mbps H264 blu-ray in two hours (vs. days for some of the other products). Absent that speed difference it would have been a toss-up (for me) between PD and Adobe. I hope PD expands the out-of-the-box supported GPU list so that more folks can take advantage of that capability without having to discover undocumented tricks to enable their GPU.

As soon as I can verify on the rebuilt machine that the crash quirks go away, I'll make the PD purchase. I look forward to learning from forum members and the hospitality demonstrated to a newbie. Thanks for the warm welcome.

I am having the exact same problem, after spending about 12 hours creating a movie with video and title. In the last 15 minutes, though everything looks exactly the same, the titles are not appearing when the movie is played! I have no other similar programs loaded and am a complete newbie. What could possible have stopped them showing, and how do I reverse that???? I have a deadline of 6 pm to get this delivered...it's 1:18 now. HELP!!!!

Good grief, I just figured this out myself, amazingly....when I took a screen shot to send you, I noticed there was a little red X in the title row. Clicked on that, it changed to an eyeball which I guess means they will be seen. It works!

Yep, That's what I thought was the problem when I started reading this topic, the button is actually quite useful when producing to a disc or uploading the project to YouTube....Your project can have copyright free music on one track(used for producing project to YouTube) and on another music track you can have music from your CD collection. All you have to do is select that button to turn off the music track you don't want...but without a screenshot it is hard to tell. Glad you noticed it though.

Regards,

Kevin
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Hi,

I'm a newby too and i have the same problem with the titles. They work in edit mode but dissapear in production. I also noticed that the title track in the timeline has no enable/disable icon (the eye/X) most of the time. When I open a new workspace the icon is there but as soon as i open a room the icon dissapears.

I assume that the dissapearance of the icon and the not showing of the titles in production are related, but have no clue how to solve this. Like homevideo I installed some other video editing software for evaluation too (pinnacle and powerdirector express in my case). Ive added a screenshot and a directX diagnostic.

Has anyone found a solution that works?

Thanks, Repel

Reinstall didn't resolve anything. I finally solved the problem by moving the title to another video track. It worked fine after that (which makes me think a disabled title track, as suggested above, might have been the problem).

Just went back in and looked at Title track (has a "T" and no audio). It doesn't have an eye that can be changed to a red 'X', so it would seem moving the title to a regular video track is the solution for now .....

I installed PD9 trial yesterday and it seems to be a lot more stable than PD8. So I retried adding titles to a project.
Initially it allowed adding them and previewing them both in title window as well as playing the movie.
After adding the third title suddenly no title shows anymore and the eye/cross icon next to the T symbol at the left margin disappeared. No titles anymore and not possible to re-enable either.

The editing of the titles and adding effects in the title track works.

From this thread, it seems there is definitely a programming problem with PD9 here.

Moving the titles to a movie track indeed reshows them and makes them useful. But there is definitely something wrong.

I installed PD9 trial yesterday and it seems to be a lot more stable than PD8. So I retried adding titles to a project.
Initially it allowed adding them and previewing them both in title window as well as playing the movie.
After adding the third title suddenly no title shows anymore and the eye/cross icon next to the T symbol at the left margin disappeared. No titles anymore and not possible to re-enable either.

Could you attach a screenshot showing the Title Track on the timeline where the "eye" has disappeared? The screenshot might be helpful to see your project's contents to see if anyone else might be able to reproduce it. If it isn't possible to reproduce it on other systems consistently then the problem may indicate something is on your unique PC causing this to happen. It might have occurred during installation or be hardware related...Windows update...Software on your system....it could be many things.

Posting a DxDiag file would also be helpful.

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As requested - both captures show title in title bar as well as moved to a movie bar (where it shows)

Looking at the two pics - in both the preview window is black probably due to the direct video control of that part of the screen. But the "eye" is definitely gone in the title bar.

I've experimented also a little with one of the short movies that came with the installation - the same problem. Any new project, any restart of the program PD9 keeps the eye/cross removed from the title bar.
So it was briefly there after the installation and starting to use it, but at some point it disappeared and remains gone.

Thanks for providing the screen shot....VERY helpful. I am not an expert on mkv files. But that is what you are using.....Does it happen to have "subtitles" associated with it? I know from reading about these files that mkv video files can have subtitles associated with it and the video that you have imported is a copyrighted movie from the looks of it and that may be causing the problem. I don't know what exactly, but that would be my guess, is that the mkv file is causing the "Title" track to not work correctly. Again...simply a guess.

We would have to import the same video file to see if we could duplicate it on our systems.

Do you have this problem you described when you use any other video file type? Or just this mkv video file.

Regards,

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You answered my question with your next post! I was curious if it was happening with other video clips and apparently it does.

If I can find it....I will have to dig...but I swear that someone had posted a similar problem....if not the exact same one...of the "eye" vanishing from the track. But I can't seem to find it using the search function. It might be buried in another topic.

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