You will probably have to live with it.

The audio wave form comes and goes with no reason as to why.

I have PD8 and the audio wave form is a maybe it will show, maybe it will not show.

That does not affect editing the video, as long as you can hear the audio, you are OK. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl,
Thanks for the feedback. By trail and error, I have managed to trim sound tracks. It is a lot easier with the wave forms. At times, I use the wave editor and import the song directly and edit & save - then import to PD9.

I have found sometimes it takes a while for the wave form to show up but it does show up eventually, I think it is calculating in the background. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Hi

It does take a while - several seconds maybe.

Do you have 'scroll in timeline' activated (the button under the preview screen on the far right hand side)?

When this is 'on' it gives the impression that the wave form has gone as it compresses all clips to be viewed at the same time. Happing editing

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Hi Neil,
Unfortunately, I could not locate scroll in timeline anywhere in PD9. It does not appear to be an option under the preview screen and I could not find it in any of the menus. Perhaps they dropped the option in PD9.

Kuroshio,

Could you attach a screen shot that shows the complete edit window? It might make it easier for us to determine if the problem can be corrected.

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Sometimes if I stretch out the timeline and squeeze it up again, that will trigger the wave line. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Hi,
Attached is the screen shot. Also, I tried to compress and expand the timeline, but it did not produced the desired results.

Try switching off shadow edit files. Your library indicates that shadow files of many of your clips are not generated. If you're system is powerful enough you may not need them anyway - I haven't used them in PD8 or 9, they give me too much trouble.

Alt C>General>uncheck Enable HD video processing.

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In preferences, I turned off shadow files. I am running an overclocked i7 core machine with 12 GB of memory and a GTX 490 graphics card. I have set the Windows 7 priority for PD at high which should enable it to use all eight processors. Unfortunately, the waveforms did not appear. Also, tried changing the timeline compression/expansion.

It may not cure existing problems but it's a long time since I researched with the shadow files. Certainly in some implementations they were completely unreliable and appeared to cause several issues relating to .pds files becoming "corrupted" and not functioning properly.

Shadows are stored in
C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\9.0\WaveForms

Technically, any wave form that is deleted will be rebuilt when called for again, but I cannot be certain with this build. It may be worth copying your wave forms to a temporary folder, deleting them in the PD9 waveforms location and then seeing if they will be rebuilt - from memory they may take some time but your system is more than powerful enough. You can then replace them manually from the temp location if that is not successful and you should be back in your current position and no worse off.

Might be worth a try???

Cheers
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Shadow file and wave form generation are part of the same function in PD. PDHanumanSvr.exe function.

I suspect the problem you're experiencing will only be resolved after you've allowed shadow file generation to complete. Or you carry out Adrian's suggestion of deselecting file generation.

As Adrian has already stated, if you have a powerful enough PC, shadow file use is unnecessary. I would delete all shadow files, wave form text files as pointed to by Adrian, allowing the program to find and generate wave form after a new startup.

Dafydd

Gentlemen,
Thank you for the additional information. I am on the road presently, but will try your suggestion within a couple of days. I did notice that PDHanumanSvr.exe usually is set to low priority by Windows 7. I have set PD to high priority as my default (which should give it access to all 8 processors on a priority basis). I will delete the recommended files and set PDHanumanSver to high priority and see what happens. I will report back. Thanks again.

Can't say in this version but I recall that PDHanumanSver used to be constrained to operate at a max of 50% of the available, not the total, CPU. So even with nothing else running it used 50% max, if anything else is going on, say taking 25%, it would be constrained to use 50% of 75%.
Whether than is still the case in PD9 I don't know?

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I want to report back that I deleted the files recommended and turned off shadow files. This did not make a difference. However, I returned to the project today and using PD for another project and all the waveforms were shown immediately at the time the timeline was loaded.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.