previewing a clip with a ColorDirector Color effect and fades jumps frames

RazorCat272

Newbie Joined: May 01, 2015 16:03 Messages: 9 Offline

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May 15, 2015 01:14

Hello everyone,

I am new to PowerDirector 13 and have come across this annoying (possible) bug. I have a clip in my movie that has the "Dark Daze" ColorDirector Color Effect from the fix/enhance options. The clip also crossfades in and crossfades out. It seems like the jump happens when the fade out begins. The attached picture should explain this a little better.

The clip occurs at about 10;25;00 and jumps to around 20;55;06. The preview box still says it is playing (only gives me a pause option) but the clip it jumped to does not play until I pause and then replay.

Does anyone know why this occurs or how to fix it? I have not tried to publish it and see if it works there because it is a large movie.

If not, can anyone else attempt a simple similar scenario and comfirm that this is happening?

Picture of broken section

Thanks!

ynotfish

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

May 15, 2015 02:52

Hi RazorCat272 -

You'd need to be sitting at an absolute "gun" PC, if you didn't expect it to be doing that. Your PC is working its tail off trying to display that long clip with an effect applied to the whole 20+ minute clip.

On my lesser, older PC, I get the same thing using 1920x1080 mts files @ 28MBps.

If you must have "Dark Daze" applied to the whole clip, do it, produce (go for a walk or do something else while you wait) - then go back to edit the produced version.

Cheers - Tony
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RazorCat272

Newbie Joined: May 01, 2015 16:03 Messages: 9 Offline

May 15, 2015 12:31

Thank you for the reply!

The effect is only applied to the 5 second clip, but I suppose that could be the problem. Maybe I am confused what the Color Effect does. I just assumed it was similar to a filter which I can not imagine taking up an insane amount of processing power. Can you explain a little further please?

Also, from what I understand in the response, it will work properly after producing it?

ynotfish

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

May 15, 2015 12:58

My apologies, RazorCat, I mustn't have read your post properly. I thought the effect was applied to the whole project.

Here, I replicated your scenario (now that I understand it correctly) on two PCs - one old & weaker & the other newer with more grunt. BOTH previews behaved similarly - they balked at the "dark daze" section then jumped ahead. Whatever that "dark daze" effect is doing, it's using some processing power to do it!

BUT both produced the file correctly with the 5 second effect applied & those produced files played back smoothly in both PCs.

Cheers - Tony

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