PowerDirector 11 being murdered by ColorDirector.

jdvos

Newbie Joined: Oct 05, 2012 05:19 Messages: 20 Offline

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Oct 06, 2012 09:54

So I've spent the last few days painstakingly filling the PD11 timeline with clips as my workflow was going to be the following:

1. Choose Clips and create basic outline of the final movie (rough cut)
2. From PD11 access ColorDirector to make the necessary color adjustments to the chosen clips (as advertised!)
3. Add effects, titles, transitions etc where needed
4. Produce.

Reality:

Completed step 2 and hit a brick wall: The preview window in PD11 becomes completely un-watchable and redundant due to the 'tedious' work load where PD11 has to handle the color changes in real time from ColorDirector. Even when setting the preview resolution to the lowest possible setting the preview freezes and skips up to 5 seconds at a time, sometimes skipping clips completely. The funny thing is that my pc seems to be using less than 20% of its memory and processing power and my graphics card driver is up to date and should be running just fine.

Whats the point of having an integrated color editor and advertising it as such when in practice it completely cripples the video editor to the point where you can not even see what it is you are editing?

Is anyone else experiencing this?

My source video is CineForm AVI (from Neoscene) clips so I'm sure the problem is not there either.

This is adding to a growing list of problems I've encountered in the last three days while using the new suite...I really hope the updates start appearing soon...

My system specs:

Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
64 Bit Operating System
16GB RAM
Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
64 Bit Operating System
16GB RAM
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Mau1wurf1977

Member Joined: Jul 14, 2012 00:55 Messages: 58 Offline

Oct 06, 2012 11:04

You might also have the Nvidia driver bug. Create a 3D profile for PD11 and disable OpenCL.

Michael8511

Contributor Location: U.S.A. Indiana Joined: Jan 14, 2012 16:12 Messages: 374 Offline

Oct 06, 2012 16:47

I had the same thing some what and I don't have a Nvidia card. I was doing it on a i5 on a laptop with the Intel HD 3000. I was able to edit the video and produce it ok. Video trun out ok. It did make the computer work harder. Intel i7 5960X overclock to 4 Ghz 16 GB of ram.
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jdvos

Newbie Joined: Oct 05, 2012 05:19 Messages: 20 Offline

Oct 07, 2012 02:06

Thanks Mau1wurf1977,

Just to confirm - To create a 3D profile:

Right Click Desktop ->NVidia Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings ->Program Settings Tab -> add PD11 and assign the NVIDIA graphics card as high performance processor.

I went ahead and created a 3D profile and disabled OpenCL in the PD11 settings but it made no difference.

Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
64 Bit Operating System
16GB RAM
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Mau1wurf1977

Member Joined: Jul 14, 2012 00:55 Messages: 58 Offline

Oct 07, 2012 04:05

I have a screenshot of the Nvidia settings here:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/24941.page

jdvos

Newbie Joined: Oct 05, 2012 05:19 Messages: 20 Offline

Oct 07, 2012 05:10

Thanks for that, I've just made the switch (CUDA - None) and I'm busy processing a massive project right now and will let you know how it works out for me... Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
64 Bit Operating System
16GB RAM
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the King

Senior Member Joined: Jun 30, 2010 04:10 Messages: 296 Offline

Oct 07, 2012 23:26

Quote: and my graphics card driver is up to date and should be running just fine.

I had the same problem with my GeForce and I found the root cause is nVidia's new driver v306.23
you can use the previous official driver v301.42 to solve this problem.

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jdvos

Newbie Joined: Oct 05, 2012 05:19 Messages: 20 Offline

Oct 08, 2012 09:05

Thanks King,

Tried rolling back but did not make much of a difference. Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
64 Bit Operating System
16GB RAM
Spyder3