Hi Guys,

Re-read User Guide and re-viewed Workspace Management and Editing Tutorials.

Then decided to work on the first two scenes of the video I had captured.

The 30 minute video (was captured as a single clip and I dragged that down to the 'TIMELINE'.

I 'SPLIT' the first 20 secs or so of dross from the beginning and 'REMOVED' it.

Then 'SPLIT' the 1st scene from the 2nd scene and 'REMOVED' the remainder of the clip - leaving the two scenes on the 'TIMELINE'.

They played OK in 'PREVIEW'

I could see nothing about how to save them and they appear as C Users
Ron Videos with a number in 'FILE - 'OPEN PROJECTS - When I tried to
save it, this message appeared - 'Would you like to merge your Projects Media File with Current Media Files in the Library.

And the two Clips did not appear in the Workspace.

When I highlighted the first clip in the 'TIMELINE' and pressed 'TRIM' the original Clip appeared in the Preview Window.

I'm clearly missing something ! I also can't spot what the buttons ' 'ORIGINAL' and 'OUTPUT' do

Kindest regards


Ron

I have a feeling that I have to do something else to change the subject, but I can't see what ?

Hi,

From the oddest chain of events it appears that the problem I was having with any Fix/Enhance effects - running slow, faltering and stopping on preview, wasn't a problem at all.

It started when I attempted to open PD8 from the desktop icon this morning, without success, and I tried it from the Program File, without success.

Contacted Cyberlink about downloading another copy, still waiting.

In the meanwhile my very computer literate son downloaded a trial copy from the web and 'WE' discovered that although the Fix/Enhance Preview still did not play properly, the added Enhancements were clearly in place.

AND when we continued on to 'Produce', once rendered, it ran perfectly.

My son suggests that the Dell 1525 Laptop or the Video Card are not capable of handling the 'Preview' when it tries to play the 'pseudo render'.

It doesn't really make sense because I have been through yards of Forum material and could not see any other contributors suffering the same fate - and this Dell with a 2.10 processor and 4gb of RAM must be one of the most powerful currently available.

Then within an hour we had a very small test section of video on a DVD with a colour board. title and a fade out.

I have to thank everyone for keeping me at it !

Kindest regards

Ron

Ron,

I use the storyboard view when inserting pictures for a slideshow, but when it it time to edit those photos and add effects I switch back to timeline.

I hope your experience with PD is getting better. I have a similar laptop as yours (2 GHz with 2 Mb of ram) and with high definition video it struggles with PD. I purchased a quad core desktop for my HD editing. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT