Hi Amadauss,

An image or two (or three) would really help here, highlight a clip, show us what you're looking at. Video clips being used? If you have different formats/extensions or using stills we need to know what the composition of the contents in the tracks is please?

Please read the post/guide: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/49533.page

Dafydd

Hi no problem. Picture of clip highlighted and as you can see on tool bar with the power tools or editing options showing. Next clip highlighted, same type of file shot from same camera, hothing showing.

Placed a cross transition between clips and made sure in settings that 1 second was the way it should be as you can see. Select the cross transition and when placing, it goes to a .20 speed on the duration as shown.

Am I doing something wrong or missing a setting?

Do not have this issue with PD 14 or any of the past versions which I have been using for years. Love the program. Just want to correct these issues with the newer version.

Thanks for any help, appreciate it. Windows 7 64 bit, 16 mbs of memory, solid state raid hard drives, latest version of power director 16

sorry if not in order as explained. Windows 7 64 bit, 16 mbs of memory, solid state raid hard drives, latest version of power director 16

With the stuttering video, it just gives a very jerky showing when slowing it down with the video speed option say turned to 80 percent speed or slower.

I will state that I have found over the years with the program if you are running a clean machine with not a lot on it as far as programs and a bunch of junk that accumulates over time, it works flawless. Need a lot of hard drive space and not a lot running or going on in the background for the best results.

I find If I run a cleaner or some type of program that cleans the system up, it does perform better. I never run it without running a cleaning program first. I have never tried disabling my virus protection and then just pulling my internet plug but guessing it might run better as well. Less running in the background is a good thing.

If you start to add a lot of programs and other things as is the case with any computer, I have found it does effect the performance of Power Director.

Just an update, produced a film I was working on and the dredded shake is on all clips that I slowed down. I then thought to try the video stabilizer and that did not help either. I have looked into that program Magic+PD but have not tried it as of yet. My issue with this is I really do not want to have to use another program to correct what cyber link should be correcting pr working the right way with just slowing down the video without causing it to shake. Again, I love the program and will continue to use it because it is very easy to use.



One more update, tried to produce in H265HEVC and received this error message. Windows 7 64 bit, 16 mbs of memory, solid state raid hard drives, latest version of power director 16

The duration shown in the screenshot is 20 frames not 0.2 seconds. You do show other unexplained problems in your other screenshots. Hopefully an expert with PD15 can sort al this out.

Quote: The duration shown in the screenshot is 20 frames not 0.2 seconds. You do show other unexplained problems in your other screenshots. Hopefully an expert with PD15 can sort al this out.

Regardless, still wrong. 20 frames at any PD15 timeline supported framerate is not 1 sec as user had set.

Amadauss, from what I've seen, transition duration specified is not correct when using timeline framerates of 24 or 25fps. Are you using 24fps timeline? Yes, appears to be yet another PD15 introduced bug. As a hack, you might try setting the timeline to 30fps when doing the transitions and then change back to 24fps and they will be correct at 1 sec.

I've not experienced the disappearing toolbar yet.

Jeff

Hi Amadauss,
Thank you for the images

With/without powertool image comparison. Ok, I have to re-look at the image you gave as the cursor I suspect was highlighting a clip in the Media Library. A video in the Media Library will not have the Power Tools icons, only when you select a clip in the Tracks will the Power Tools options display. Looks like a strange one this. Does it only happen with the MOV files? Could you provide the MediaInfo on a clip where the info does not display and one that it does display in please?

H265 message.
1. Contact Support - might be the quickest option.
2. In the link I gave, the information requests for you to inform us of what version of PowerDirector 15 you have. If that info had been provided we might have been able to advise you further.

I think the transition possible bug and workaround has been addressed. I'll pass that onto CyberLink.

Dafydd

Hi Amadauss -

One thing I don't get about your "Without Power Tools" screenshot is that one clip appears to be selected in the media library and another in the timeline... probably explains the lack of tools buttons.



I can't do that - it's either one or the other?

Jeff - that didn't even register with me! Weird bug. With the project frame rate set at 30/50/60fps, transition duration matches preferences, but if preferences are set at 1 sec and frame rate is:

24fps - transition = 00:00:00:20

25fps - transition = 00:00:01:05

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Hi Amadauss -

One thing I don't get about your "Without Power Tools" screenshot is that one clip appears to be selected in the media library and another in the timeline... probably explains the lack of tools buttons.



I can't do that - it's either one or the other?

Jeff - that didn't even register with me! Weird bug. With the project frame rate set at 30/50/60fps, transition duration matches preferences, but if preferences are set at 1 sec and frame rate is:

24fps - transition = 00:00:00:20

25fps - transition = 00:00:01:05

Cheers - Tony

Quote: Hi Amadauss,

........ Ok, I have to re-look at the image you gave as the cursor I suspect was highlighting a clip in the Media Library.....

Hi ynotfish, You might not have seen/read how I had to take a second look to at Amadauss' image. I have attached a quickie to show how to produce the same effect.

Thanks Dafydd -

That clarifies it. Yes, I did read your observation. That, & the screenshot, prompted me to check here & I found that both could not be selected (i.e. clicked on) simultaneously.

True - selecting the timeline clip & hovering over a media library clip "highlights" them both. That certainly explains the OP's screenshot.

The same effect cannot be replicated in reverse. i.e. select a media library clip then hover over a timeline clip, which led me to conclude that it was the timeline clip that was actually selected. In theory, the tools buttons should then be available.

In the time I've been using PDR15, I've not come across this "disappearing tools" issue that affected some previous versions, where the audio/video had to be unlinked to make the buttons show up.

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Thank you Dafydd and all for the responses. Never realized I had a clip selected in my media content and also on the time line. That explains this. Wht the duration setting, shouldn't it give me a second time frame no matter what fps I am using?



And Jeff, thank you for the help with what settings to get to correct duration on a cross fade transition.

Has anyone had any thought on the shaky video when slowing down the speed of the video? Or with my past post, just try to use a very clean fast machine and no issues. I am going to use my son's computer(we have many for our business), it is very fast with not a lot on it and see if that helps with the editing of the videos.


Again, thank you all, I really love the program and our clients rave about our videos! Windows 7 64 bit, 16 mbs of memory, solid state raid hard drives, latest version of power director 16

Quote: Has anyone had any thought on the shaky video when slowing down the speed of the video? Or with my past post, just try to use a very clean fast machine and no issues. I am going to use my son's computer(we have many for our business), it is very fast with not a lot on it and see if that helps with the editing of the videos.

Unclear to me by what shaky or choppy mean in this case. Keep in mind, in PD, if you slow a clip down 80% so it's playing at 20% speed, PD keeps a frame, duplicates that frame 5 times, then moves to the next frame, duplicates it 5 times....on and on. It does not do any frame interpolation. So if one had a number sequence video for each frame, 1,2,3, and slowed it down, you would get 1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3...., so it will not appear smooth.

Is that the choppy issue you describe? If so, nothing new between 14 and 15 that I saw.

Jeff

Hi Amadauss,
Following the above discussion on how you displayed your image, the issue you had with PowerTools not displaying when your track clip was selected, still hasn't been resolved. Please can you use a video screen capture and record the actions you do, basically click your track video and let us see what does and does not appear? I'm still interested in having the (mov) MediaInfo on the video please. All the information here has been passed to CyberLink and they are keen for the further data to resolve the problem.
Dafydd