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Brilliant idea, Neil.

With PD as the fundamental basis, we could share tips and tricks for getting even better results from our cameras and editing program.

It would, I believe, become a very valuable and worthwhile thread, and if used properly would not detract from the original forum posts.

Robert Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

I tried to create a thread some time ago asking such questions about general video characteristics - with the hope of learning how to improve video quality in my editing.

I didn't want to offend those that seem to take offense at those of us with very elemental questions about such issues. I think this sort of thread would help 'free up' any inhibition anyone would have in asking such questions.

'Off Topic Chat' - Good idea if such issues could be discussed in it, as some just want 'resolving PD problems' to be in the main forum- just my opin.

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Nice one, Tony! A real crack-up! Ha-ha! But seriously, folks, the original Off-Topic chat was exactly as CS2014 described its purpose, for "questions about general video characteristics" and anything else that related to video editing, but wasn't directly related to the various versions of Power Director. For example, I create my own title graphics in Microsoft Paint. I found that certain transition effects applied ahead of and behind them on any of the overlay tracks in PD14 produce some great visual effects effects. All you need is your title graphic produced in bitmap(don't really need PNG), set the white background to "invisible" using chroma-key, set a colour board(any colour but white is best), then drop a transition effect in ahead of and behind it, not all the transitions will work, but some experimentation with black as the background colour and colour board(gotta try a bit of that myself, actually, come to think of it) may be needed as some transitions will put in a black background that masks out the video you're superimposing your title over. Like I said, experimentation needed. But with those that will work with a white background chroma-keyed out, the results can be amazing! If you create a title referring to ghosts, try the ripple 1 effect for instance. You can truly create some jaw-dropping title effects here!

And suggestions like that above would go down well in an Off Topic Chat thread.

Cheers!

Neil.

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CS

Hi, CS! What happened here? Were you writing a reply that got inadvertantly deleted? I found a trick that works well here, highlight your post's text and copy it to "clipboard"(Ctrl+C), then, if you click "submit" and the system goes into a spasm and your post gets blown into the ether, simply open a new reply panel and paste(Ctrl+V) the text into that new panel. The second time you submit should get through.

Cheers!

Neil.

.... had submitted something (in quick reply) and realized it was already stated. SO in order to remove my response I edited the original entry - back-spaced/deleted what I wrote but that leaves a 'empty' response - so I added 'deleted entry'. No conspiracy this time.. lol - no big deal.

CS
PD13 Ultimate - Build 3516, WIN 8.1, 64 Bit, 16G RAM, Intel Core i5 4460, CPU @ 3.2GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT720, Graphics Memory(total avail.)-4093MB
LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray Drive