4 Random Questions

jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

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Jan 22, 2015 23:58

1. When I've made a 30 minute project I click SVRT on the Produce page to see what % it comes up with. It takes AGES to analyse, like 15-20 minutes. I seem to remember this happening a lot faster, seconds. It's occurred 4-5 times now. Does yours take this long? My SVRT track keeps disappearing on the Edit screen.

2. CAN YOU - apply an enhancement, eg white balance change - to a few selected/highlighted clips? I very often have to do this when a group of clips, say 5 indoor clips, look bad, but the rest of the movie is fine. It would be easier than the rigmarole of colourdirector. It would save having to adjust every single one. I don't like the round trip to colourdirector. It slows up my editing and mucks up my playing timeline.

3. CAN YOU - Search / sort unused clips in the media library, instead of trying to find the un-checked ones.?

4. (dumb question) Why are there CRR .cds files in my documents. For that matter, why is any cyberlink folder in my documents? Can I move it to somewhere more sensible without mucking up my half made projects or software? I seem to have the bulk of cyberlink in My documents folder,a nd only PowerProducer in User file. I'm not good with files, so I never change the path of anything. But not sure how they've ended up split, and in My documents.

that's it for me for a bit.... Jenny

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jan 23, 2015 12:41

Hi Jenny -

I'll get the ball rolling on your random questions. Others will probably offer different observations because we don't all go about things the same way using the same source material. What you're trying to do in PDR will affect its performance.

In general terms, from some of the things you've posted (here & elsewhere) there seems to be some underlying issue with your PDR/PC & how they perform. Even on my older & "tireder" PC, I'm not having many of the issues you report.

1. SVRT analysis of a 30 minute project (here) takes about 3-4 seconds, as you've found previously. Once I select "Show SVRT Track", it remains in place. The SVRT information (red & green bars) disappears when doing any editing - I guess because it's about to become different.

2. Enhancements can be applied to one clip at a time, or you can use "Apply to All" (which wouldn't suit your circumstance). You can apply the enhancement then use copy/paste keyframe attributes on the other clips (all at once) - assuming you haven't also applied other keyframes (motion, rotation etc)

2a. CDR round trip editing - even on my older PC, this happens reasonably smoothly. It doesn't give me the same grief it's giving you.

3. Search - the short answer is No. You can remove all unused items from the library but not isolate them within the library without manually selecting them (i.e. looking for the green check marks)

4. Documents
i. The CDR (X).CDS are CDR project files generated during round trip editing (to document changes made)
ii. The C:\Users\xxxx\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\13.0 folder is the default output folder for PDR 13. You can set that wherever you wish in Preferences. It also contains your custom effects (particles, titles etc) & cropped pictures - I know of no way to re-direct those, but it doesn't bother me so I haven't tried.
iii. Those files are stored there to isolate them from the program files & templates that are part of the installation - so that they're retained when you uninstall/re-install.

... that's it from me too.

Cheers - Tony

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jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

Jan 25, 2015 01:02

That's great, Tony, thanks.
And, well, I'd make a suggestion to Cyberlink that library items could be sorted by used/unused. I've used 3 other editing programs, none as good as this one, and they all had the ability to sort out the used clips.
thanks again,

Jenny Jenny