For years of error-free video editing using PowerDirector 9 in my Win7 environement, I decided to update to Win10. I then found out that my beloved version 9 was incompatible with Win10, so I purchased PowerDirector 13 and installed it and the lone update to same. When I tried to process version 9 projects on the new system, I ran into problems. I tried numberous existing projects and found NONE worked on the new system. Trying to isolate the source of the problem, I created new projects using only legacy video files (.avi), thereby eliminating errors due to menu font changes, etc. These also failed early in the file creation process, so I didn't even get to the DVD burning state. I continuted my investigation by capturing selected files again from my camcorder again, but these yielded the same results (failure/errors early in the process). I next tried to Produce a file from several of these .avi files, but these again resulted in the same kind of failures. To eliminate the possibility of software conflicts, I took the time and laborious effort to do a clean install of Win10 on a formatted HD and then doing a clean install of PowerDirector 13 and it's update. I was surprised to see that all of my test video files failed in both the Produce and Create Disk (create ISO and file) steps. I considered perhaps a system issue, but, again, it's the same hardware platform I've been using successfully with Win7 and PWDR13 since I built it 6 months ago. It's got plenty of RAM (16G), a stable MoBo (Asus Z97M Plus), and a fast processor (4G Intel i7). I doubt hardware is the problem. My tentative conclusion is that there is an enherent incompatibility between .avi file processing in a Win10/PWDR13 environment. I contacted web-Tech Support and set up folder CS001392828 on their FTP site, and created 5 subfolders, each containing debug data for Test Cases 1-5. This debug data contains the test case PWDR13 project file, a screenshot of the failure screen, a detailed problem txt file (generated by PWDR13), and the subject video files. Again, these were simple test cases with no special effects, transitions, or menus. As yet I haven't heard back concerning investigation of these test cases.

I'd like to hear other PowerDirector users that are running it on a Win10 platform to see if they're having similar problems. As a retired Computer Scientist, I'm troubled that I'm having so many problems running legacy project files on Win10, and will be relieved when a resolution is determined.