Magic Music used in older projects - again

Anja the Dane

Contributor Location: Denmark (North of Copenhagen) Joined: Mar 03, 2011 15:02 Messages: 347 Offline

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Nov 17, 2016 15:35

hi,

I know I had the same kind of issue one year ago
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/46251.page

And I have tried the advices mentioned in that thread without any positive result.

Therefore I again seek advises.

I have a lot of older projects, where I used "Pack Project Materials", I want to work with again, but several comes up with the messagebox "Cyberlink PowrDirector will ignore some SmartSound media, because it is not supported in this project."
Exactly as in the mentioned post. And sometimes its also mentioned that a .png or .jpg file is missing eg. travel.png, boom01.png, AsienCruise02 KoSamui Bangkok.jpg, bg_03.png. boom01.png, Water_droplets.png. Witch also is strange because all files used in projects shouls be saved when packing materials.

As far as I understand NagicMusic should be saved together with the packed materials.

The only thing that differs from my last post (1 year ago) is today I run Win10 and PDR14 - that time when I packed some of the projects I runned Win7 and have used several versions of PDR whilw running Win7.

Ofcause I can't remember which version of PDR I used when packing each project - I have had PDR since PDR9.

The main issue here is the missing SmartSound because I again have been tagged with "match third-party content" on several videoes and am sure it is some SmartSound music - but it is not easy to say release the claim when I can ont see in in the projct what music have been used.

And ofcause I would like to have alle the SS tunes that came with PDR.

Two videoes of which I can not find the music in my SS libary is those used in

2006 Nordtyskland med SIF
Ambient Acoustic Guitar Solo Meditation Orchestra - Meditation Orchestra-Lydoptagelse 0:02 - 0:39administreres af: Audiam (Label)

Herculaneum (Salerno) & Messina - Mediterranean Cruise 2014. - 2/8
Ambient Acoustic Guitar Solo Meditation Orchestra - Meditation Orchestra - Lydoptagelse 0:00 - 0:37 administreres af: Audiam (Label)

Do any of you know which SS it is - and how I get it back?

And how I get the all other SS back that gives the message "Cyberlink PowrDirector will ignore some SmartSound media, because it is not supported in this project."

thanks in advance,

Anja PDR 14.0.4207.0 / Windows 10 64-bit / Asus / Intel i7-4790 3.60 GHz / 16GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / DirectX 12

ynotfish

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

Nov 17, 2016 17:02

Hi Anja -

Oh dear. SmartSound strikes again!

I can help out a little. I think that track is Bach - "Air on a G String" - in SmartSound, it's called "Bach Guitar" and it's part of the Full Spectrum album.

If you still have the Full Spectrum installer, you should be able to retrieve the music.

As far as I know, SmartSound tracks are not included when you pack a project. One way around that is to (a) produce the SS track as a WAV file and insert that in an audio track before packing or (b) remix the track in SonicFire Pro/Express tracks and do the same. That way, it becomes an actual audio file.

About the YouTube flags, just follow the links in your email to dispute the claim. Tell them you purchased it from SS & it's a false claim.

Cheers - Tony
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Anja the Dane

Contributor Location: Denmark (North of Copenhagen) Joined: Mar 03, 2011 15:02 Messages: 347 Offline

Nov 18, 2016 04:05

Hi Tony,
again you saved my day

Thanks!!!!

The FullSpectrum22k.exe did the job (found it at my backup disk) - but strange that only the SS songs from Full Spectrum dissappears?

I checked my labtop on which I run PDR11 to see if the songs shoud be there, but no. Have to run FullSpectrum22k.exe there as well. - Done.
When open SS it tells me that I must install QuickTime - why?
I remember there once was a post where it was told that QT was not necessary and we were recommended to remove QT since there was a security risk by having QT on the PC.

Also the labtop is upgrated to Win10

this Win10 upgrade, I think, is the worst thing I have done to my PC's - everything runs slower - continues to encounter problems of one kind or another. Even Microsoft can not help and always end by saying Reset your PC. Which I do not think is a good problem solving.
Fortunately, I solved most of these issues (without Reset) by searching the web and hours of hard work.

You are right SmartSound tracks are not included when I pack a project - SS tracks must be a link in the .pds file.

Browsing some af the old packed projects I saw that I in some had produced the SS track as a WAV file. I did that to be able to edit the volume, because sudently it was not posible in the SS track.

You say I can remix the track in SonicFire Pro/Express - sounds as a really good idea!
- Does SonicFire Express comes with PDR? Or is it embedded in PDR?

At Smart Sounds website there is no such thing as Sonicfire Express - only Pro. 6, respectively, Pro and Pro 5.8.

About the YouTube flags, I have become rather accustomed to dispute the claim - I would, however, first make sure that it is SS Music - I could have used music from a CD, which I sometimes do when it is for private use only. As you may know old women do not always remembers so well.

I have experienced that a claim was removed and then shortly after was there again - really strange and annoying.

I remember you recommended me using Vimeo instead of YT and I have created a profile here, but there are some limitations when using the site for free.

Thanks again Tony!

Cheers, Anja PDR 14.0.4207.0 / Windows 10 64-bit / Asus / Intel i7-4790 3.60 GHz / 16GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / DirectX 12