PD14 and the amazing disappearing "view all" tool!

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

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Oct 12, 2015 00:32

Here's an easy one. I had noticed that once in a while the "view entire timeline" tool was missing when I was editing. At first I thought it was removed from PD14, but it was there when I started other projects and I almost forgot about the issue.

I saw it again in a new project just now. I couldn't replicate the problem in a new project, but I did manage to preserve the behavior in an empty project with just the sample clips in the media library.

The sample clips didn't cause the problem, but after deleting all my clips from the timline and library I found I had to put something in the library to keep PD from trying to load my first clip, even though I had deleted it from the project. Maybe that's a clue for CL to investigate.

Anyway, here's what the issue looks like (with the original files - the attached project has an empty timeline):

I'd like to know if anyone else who downloads and opens the attached project will see the same thing, or if it's something that only happens on my machine.

EDIT: this project was saved with v2130, but the problem also occurs in v2109.

Filename	disappearing view all tool.pds	Download
Description	broken project
Filesize	9 Kbytes
Downloaded:	426 time(s)

This message was edited 4 times. Last update was at Oct 12. 2015 03:30

ynotfish

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

Oct 12, 2015 03:25

Yep - same here optodata.

At first I thought the timeline might need to be poulated to a certain duration - NO

Then I thought it might be related to the level of timeline expansion - NO

That's a broken project. I've never seen it before - but then my eyesight's a bit wobbly. I've been known to split a clip when I just wanted to "view entire movie"... but sssshhhh - don't tell the others

Cheers - Tony
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Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Oct 12, 2015 04:28

Hi optodata,
I have passed the information onto CyberLink, your video and pds file will help a lot.

Dafydd

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Oct 12, 2015 13:39

Thanks, Dafydd!

While we're at it, unfortunately I have a couple of sequels. Here's PD14 and the Schizophrenic Cursor:

This seems to occur mainly with control panel apps and installation screens, and it's present with nVidia drivers 353.62 and the latest 358.50. Those represent to full range of Win10 drivers, but I don't know if the issue is related to the video driver, the specific codecs I've installed (for the Win10 AVI fix) of if it's something directly with the Screen Recorder program.

Speaking of SR, we also have Screen Recorder and the Glutonous WMV Encoder:

For reference, when recording to MP4 (software or HW), the usage is in the low 20% range for similar recordings. This issue is also present across the range of Win10 nVidia drivers on my system, and there's no way the computer can do anything useful with SR using so much of the CPU's resources

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Oct 13, 2015 04:55

Hi Optodata,
I had a video from CyberLink, then I looked at your video and after scratching my head, I looked at the pds file. I saw what the saved pds displayed but by expanding the track options the "view entire movie" icon displays. The icon displays all the time for me.

I'll take a look at the other two videos now

Dafydd