Quote: Power Director seems to produce excellent H.264 compressed files, but H.265 has been unusable for me due to all sorts of
artifacts introduced including frames going into negative and other strange stuff. Does anyone else have experience of this or ideas for a solution? Thanks!

If Hardware Acceleration is checked in Produce, try producing with HA unchecked.

Unless you have a very new Video Card with the latest Video Driver, H.265 is not properly supported.

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.

Thanks. I will try that. I hope this will be supported soon because H.265 files are half the size and the quality should be just as good as H.264.

Thanks again for your help.

Quote: Thanks. I will try that. I hope this will be supported soon because H.265 files are half the size and the quality should be just as good as H.264.

Thanks again for your help.

There are some Video Cards now that do support hardware acceleration on H.265 files.

I am sure that I have seen in the forum, editors that have found some new video cards that are H.265 compatible.
Maybe a search of the PD 13 Forum may find those posts.

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.

Thanks -- do you by any chance have an answer to my other issue? When taking snapshots (for stills) from 4k video, the stills appear at much lower resolution than in the original video (whereas if the snapshots are taken from the 4k while within the camera, they come out at full resolution). Is this to be expected and is there any fix since choosing frames on a tiny camera screen isn't easy! Thanks again.

Quote: Thanks -- do you by any chance have an answer to my other issue? When taking snapshots (for stills) from 4k video, the stills appear at much lower resolution than in the original video (whereas if the snapshots are taken from the 4k while within the camera, they come out at full resolution). Is this to be expected and is there any fix since choosing frames on a tiny camera screen isn't easy! Thanks again.

No, I have no answer for the snapshot issue.

You can check what the snapshot resolution is by right click and checking properties.
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.

Yes, I did and the size is reduced compared to the original data. Thanks.

Have you tried freeze frame. You still get a saved image and it should be the same resolution as the video. I will try both next time I have PD open. __________________________________
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Thanks for the idea but haven't encountered that yet...

Is there a list of accepted video cards? It seems that before forcing us to invest in high dollar hardware, we should know what to look for.
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Quote: Power Director seems to produce excellent H.264 compressed files, but H.265 has been unusable for me due to all sorts of
artifacts introduced including frames going into negative and other strange stuff. Does anyone else have experience of this or ideas for a solution? Thanks!

I have noticed some H.265 playback issue within PowerDirector .
Have you tried to play the rendered files outside of PowerDirector ?

Or, as mentioned, play them back inside PowerDirector without hardware decoding/acceleration.
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