Power Director 7 - Glitches with AVCHD files

Christian

Newbie Joined: Jan 20, 2009 16:09 Messages: 3 Offline

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Jan 20, 2009 16:23

Hi,

I trying out Power Director 7 and I am seeing glitches in fade transitions between 2 AVCHD movies in the timeline. Camera is a Sony HDR-SR11. PC is running Vista 64.

Typically right before the transition ends and the previous movie has faded out and the new movie has almost faded in, a frame from the previous movie flashes. It is quite noticeable. I am outputting to MPEG2 HD 1920x1080i. In other cases in the middle of a clip it seems that the movie is going back a frame or two.

Correct me if I am wrong, but after I tried Corel Video Studio X2 and got even worse glitches, I have the impression that AVCHD support still doesn't work quite right in these video editing packages...

I am close to buying the product, but is there a patch in the works? Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,
Christian

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

Jan 20, 2009 17:43

Correct me if I am wrong, but after I tried Corel Video Studio X2 and got even worse glitches, I have the impression that AVCHD support still doesn't work quite right in these video editing packages...

Correct. AVCHD is so new, the vendors are all fine-tuning their implementations of it and there are glitches, which vary depending on your environment, and in some cases what video features you are attempting to utilize.

In my case, PowerDirector reads my Samsung MP4 files well and edits them easily. Other people have struggled with certain MP4 file formats. Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

Christian

Newbie Joined: Jan 20, 2009 16:09 Messages: 3 Offline

Jan 20, 2009 18:13

I guess I would be better off converting the AVCHD files from the Camcorder to high bandwidth MPEG2 before working in Power Director 7?

Then I would avoid the glitches but lose quality. Hmm.

Christian

David (X9)

Newbie Location: Wales, UK Joined: Aug 22, 2008 19:58 Messages: 25 Offline

Jan 20, 2009 18:30

A while ago, I had problems with AVCHD. I was using a Panasonic camera, but Cyberlink corrected the problem with a patch.

However, as an intermediate measure, I used Elecard Converter Studio HD edition
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I did not experience any quality loss.

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Christian

Newbie Joined: Jan 20, 2009 16:09 Messages: 3 Offline

Jan 20, 2009 19:07

So you converted from AVCHD to MPEG-2 HD 1920x1080i? What bandwidth did you use?

David (X9)

Newbie Location: Wales, UK Joined: Aug 22, 2008 19:58 Messages: 25 Offline

Jan 21, 2009 01:23

I have just loaded up the software and checked.
For 1080i, 25000 kbps but I also used 720p at 18300 kbps with very similar results.

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Jan 24, 2009 02:17

Converting usually results in loss of picture quality no matter how good the conversion software is.
AVCHD demands high computing power, fast processors and lot of on board memory. Installing latest graphics card helps as PD7 uses CUDA to speed up
processing

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pjc

Senior Member Location: Aus Joined: Sep 12, 2008 03:48 Messages: 262 Offline

Feb 12, 2009 01:24

mmm... more problems?