More keyboard shortcuts to "nudge" elements and tracks for alignment would be a productivity improvement. Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

I'm currently using PD12. Just bought it a couple months ago so I'm not planning to upgrade to PD13... UNLESS...

When I rename Color Boards, the names of Color Boards get saved with the project.

also

When I create Custom Colors in the Color Selector, those need to be saved with the project as well.

Thank you for your time,

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In play mode, when the cursor reaches the end of the clip or movie has to stop. Instead, return to the beginning of the clip or the movie. very annoying
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Stop al cursore nella timeline, per rifinire la fine del clip.
Con attiva la modalità riproduci, quando il cursore raggiunge alla fine della clip o del filmato si deve fermare. Invece ritorna all'inizio della clip o del filmato. Molto fastidioso.
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When upgrading to a new version, please transfer the following customized settings and entities to the new version. In the past 6 upgrades this may or may not happen. Make it consistent.
+ Downloaded or created effects, PiP objects, titles, and transitions
+ Program Preferences
+ Custom video rendering profiles
+ Downloaded or custom disk templates.

In short, anything that can be saved or customized by the user, should be remembered after upgrading to a new release.
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Quote: PLEASE can we have some form of velocity smoothing to apply the the start and end of motion

Even though it's not implemented in PiP Designer & other modules where motion is applied, there's some evidence of it in SlideShow Designer. In Camera, Collage, Scrapbook & Montage templates, photos "ease" into place.

Quote: When upgrading to a new version, please transfer the following customized settings and entities to the new version. In the past 6 upgrades this may or may not happen. Make it consistent.

Custom & downloaded effects - titles, PiPs, particles, menus etc - are always available in any new version (because they're stored separately from the program folders.
You could save your custom video rendering profiles by keeping a copy of your Profile.ini & replacing the "new" one with it.

Like James' idea, this is a small thing too. I'd like to see a more generously sized Font Picker in Title Designer. NewBlue Titler PRO has it. Word has it. Paint.NET has it. I find scrolling through fonts in Title Designer to be quite annoying - purely because it has such limited real estate. Comparison screenshot attached.

It's just a small thing but I wish it was bigger!

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Quote: Like James' idea, this is a small thing too. I'd like to see a more generously sized Font Picker in Title Designer

We also need the ability to type the first few letters of the font name so we don't have to scroll. I have over 500 fonts. CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


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"Custom & downloaded effects - titles, PiPs, particles, menus etc - are always available in any new version (because they're stored separately from the program folders."

Hmmm. I wonder what I've done wrong. Several times in the past when I've upgraded I've lost custom titles, templates, etc. I'll watch for this on the next upgrade.
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A very convenient feature would be to save ALL the parameters of a project INCLUDING the output formats.

PD13 still behaves like all it's predecessors with the screen windows being altered sometimes when switching between video clips. A very annoying behaviour ! Win 10, i7

I strongly agree with you. Scrolling the fonts is another problem.

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Quote: Like James' idea, this is a small thing too. I'd like to see a more generously sized Font Picker in Title Designer

We also need the ability to type the first few letters of the font name so we don't have to scroll. I have over 500 fonts.

Lossless formats!

That and the ability to encode using the Constant Quality features of H.264+.

VP9 would be nice too

Here are some more requested productivity improvements...

1. Media Room -- ability to show unused clips

2. Hot Key for "Mute Clip". Right-click of clip allows mute clip, but it has no hot-key (nor menu access). "Customize Keyboard Hotkeys" (Alt+H) provides no ability to assign a hot-key to this action.

3. Audio Mixing Room -- ability to apply volume change to entire clip. Currently to apply volume change to current clip must select clip, press home to position to beginning, change volume via Audio Mixing Room which only changes the beginning volume, press end to position to end of clip, change volume via Audio Mixing Room. The entire clip now has the volume change, but requires too many actions.

4. "Remember" the "Snap to reference lines" settings in each designer pop-up, and save with the project. Currently have to keep turning off "snap" over and over again.

5. Motion Designer -- each time entered, default to maximum selection box (entire image). As previously suggested, also provide ability to maximize selection.

Hopefully Version 14 will include these basic functions not included in the previous 13 releases.




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I know this is video editing software. But when I'm making the DVDs for my church, I also make CDs because some of the older folks don't have DVD players. They'd rather just listen.

So my suggestion is...

Add the ability in the Create Disc section to select CD-Audio. Give us options as to the quality KBs and filetype. Let us optionally, select a folder to place the files into and then produce the audio only, making a separate file for each chapter. Then burn to a CD.

This would make my file SO much easier.

Here's what I'm doing now...
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-Edit the MP3 into sections based on topic/scripture
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What would be nice is the ability to drag a folder into the media library and have PD automatically make a new tag with the contents of the folder in it.

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In addition to the previous improvements for Magic Motion, allow the following:

In the Magic Motion motion style dialog, put a checkbox next to each magic motion "style", along with a "Select All" button. The user can them select the styles to use for the "Apply To All" button. For example, if the user only wants the Zoom In and Zoom Out styles to be randomly applied to all images, they would just select those two styles.

Thanks!
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I'd like to be able to put markers on video/audio snips that stay with the snip (not just sticking to the same spot on the timeline). It wouldhelp identify parts I might want to use elsewhere.

Quote: I'd like to be able to put markers on video/audio snips that stay with the snip (not just sticking to the same spot on the timeline). It wouldhelp identify parts I might want to use elsewhere.

To amplify... we would set the timeline marker where we want it. Then... right-click on the clip and select "Add Timeline Marker". That way, PD knows what clips are associated with what markers. CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9


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thanks jcardana - that's what I'd like!

Quote: ...I think it would be an improvement in this program if the next version allowed one to determine what the play head should do once it reaches the end of the movie. I'm sure a simple check box could be added in Preferences...

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Over the years since PD-1, the interface has gotten kind of "dusty". Some activities require too many mouse movements and clicks. The more that can be done without taking your hands off the keyboard, the higher the productivity. This suggestion is that the entire user interface be re-thought considering modern concepts (like context sensitive menus), and make the interface consistent in look, feel, and operations no matter what the user is doing (e.g. the same keys do the same thing everywhere in the program). Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

Seeing I have a bunch of PCs on my gigabit LAN and 802.11ac wireless LAN at home that are all capable of running PowerDirector, I would very much be interested in network cluster rendering capability.

Most of the PCs would only need to run a network agent to run in the background, not the full version of PD.

Since a 4K rendering in H.265 with 3-4 effects stacked can easily take 10 minutes for each minute of video even on my 8-core 4.6 GHz FX-8350, it would be particularly nice to be able to split a single rendering job between 4-5 PCs and bring the total rendering time to something more reasonable. Obviously, any GPU acceleration would have to be disabled for such jobs, since the various rendering PCs may have different GPUs.
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