Response From CL

In regards to your concern, we regret to inform you that PowerDirector 8 software does not have this option to enable or disable the video thumbnails.

We regret for the inconvineance.

However, we have already passed this case to our R&D department for more product development.

How unfortunate! More product development, it WAS a feature in PD7, what needs to be developed.

Jeff

Appears to be another bug in the duration setting as well in PD8

For my type of video's I thought perhaps I could use a 10 second titles (called chapter 1, chapter 2... for instance) in an attempt to not have video thumbnails. If I set the chapter mark at the beginning of this title and if it is 10 seconds long, by setting the video thumbnail length to 10 seconds one in theory should have a "static" thumbnail that simply reads chapter 1 and so on. However, it appears that regardless how many seconds you set for the video thumbnail, between 10 and 99 IT IS IGNORED. You can test this by doing the following.

1) Simply put some sample video in the timeline
2) Define six titles of durations 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 seconds and set a chapter mark at the beginning of each title with the picture also from the beginning of the title
3) go to Create Disc module, pick some template, and set duration on the "Playback Mode Settings" to 10 (minimum allowed, see attached pic)
4) Preview disc, all the chapter buttons should have "static" video thumbnails but you will notice ONLY the 15 second duration title block is "static". Ironically, 15 seconds was the default setting.
5) Change the duration to 20 and all chapters should display a video thumbnail which is a combination of the title and the background video, however, the results are the same, the video thumbnail is STILL 15 second’s duration.

Implementation would be so simple, set duration to 0 if you want static thumbnails, (no video thumbnails). Not sure why they have a minimum of 10 seconds anyhow.

Jeff

Jeff,
Thank you, I appreciate your posts.

I'm sending the whole post in to CyberLink.

Dafydd

It is sad they left this option out, I make a lot of discs with a lot of chapters, and not being able to turn this feature off causes the burn time to be very excessive.

I thought the "Enable animated Interface" in the editing preferences was the option to turn the motion menus off, but when I deselect this option, I end up with unuasable burnt folder that takes nearly an hour to make.

I can't believe they would leave this option out...

What does the "Enable animated Interface" do??? Also, what does the "SSE4" option do, just better quality final product?

Has there been any response from Cyberlink yet, I to like to disable video thumbnails.

Best regards

John

Nothing...

Although I don't do many discs myself, it does seem strange they left it off.

Since Jeff raised it, I've kept a look out in my trawls through the PD registry but I could not find any similar key to the :-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CyberLink\PowerDirector\7.0\Authoring\EnableVideoThumb key in PD7.

Nor could I find where the 'default'value is held to see if that could be altered to 0.

I think the xml menu files might be hackable but it seems a lot of effort when it should be a simple user choice.

Cheers
Adrian


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After reading all the above problems, I would switch back to Prem Elem 8, but that's a poorly written package with it's own problems. I think CL has some of the same people Adobe has. Do you think they share technology??