Preview Screen is Black when using new monitor

tspnyc2013

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Oct 11, 2018 14:51

Hi.

I have started using a 1080p 42" TV (LG brand) for my workstation monitor, which works wonderfully for my music recording software and all other programs, except PowerDirector.

But in PowerDirector, the Preview screen that should allow me to view the video while I am in editing mode is just black. I have found no way to fix this.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or must I return to using a smaller computer monitor when editing videos?

I use PowerDirector 11 because modern versions do not allow audio to be synched to video at 100th of a second, which makes later versions of PowerDirector unusable for someone making videos of musicans, because the audio soon goes out of synch when using a10th of a second, and by the end of even a short video it is WAY out of synch.

I know this because I paid for an upgrade to PD14, which proved a waste of money.

If anyone knows if later versions returned to 100th of a second audio synch, I would be happy to know it. Thanks.

PepsiMan

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Oct 12, 2018 02:30

welcome back.
you must go to REGEDIT- Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink\Powerdirector 10/11/12/13/14...
and change VideoRenderer VRM7 or 9 to VRM9 or 7.

it'll also work with green Preview screen, too.

happy happy joy joy

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Oct 12, 2018 05:04

Quote Hi.

If anyone knows if later versions returned to 100th of a second audio synch, I would be happy to know it. Thanks.

Hi,
Just on a quick test - as far as I can see the last version to have a 1/10th frame timeline division was PDR14. More recent versions only go to a single frame timeline division.

With the 1/10th frame divisions, audio keyframes could still only be set at 1 frame intervals, but an audio track could be positioned in 1/10th frame intervals. So if the timeline fps is set to 30 then the smallest audio slide was 1/10th frame and if the timeline fps is 60, again 1/10th frame audio movement is available.

In the more recent versions from PDR15 onwards, the maximum timeline division is the project fps so the most accurate audio slide available is a single frame.

So the maximum "accuracy" would be available with a project set to 60fps.

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JL_JL

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Oct 12, 2018 08:19

Quote

Hi,
Just on a quick test - as far as I can see the last version to have a 1/10th frame timeline division was PDR14. More recent versions only go to a single frame timeline division.

With the 1/10th frame divisions, audio keyframes could still only be set at 1 frame intervals, but an audio track could be positioned in 1/10th frame intervals. So if the timeline fps is set to 30 then the smallest audio slide was 1/10th frame and if the timeline fps is 60, again 1/10th frame audio movement is available.

In the more recent versions from PDR15 onwards, the maximum timeline division is the project fps so the most accurate audio slide available is a single frame.

So the maximum "accuracy" would be available with a project set to 60fps.

Cheers
PowerDirector Moderator

PDR15 onwards simply added a setting in pref that needs to be turned on for the 1/10th audio frame adjustment. By default it is off. Pref > Editing > "Enlarge timeline scale for audio track"

Jeff

AVPlayVideo

Senior Contributor Location: Home Joined: Apr 06, 2016 19:03 Messages: 703 Offline

Oct 12, 2018 18:01

Adding to what PowerDirector Moderator showed
In PD14 I work with 60FPS and can split, 1 second video and audio in 60 parts.
Preferences, General, Frame rate 60 FPS
I bought PD16 came with AudioDirector gift, I think I have full accuracy for audio editing.

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pmikep

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Oct 12, 2018 18:02

Interesting. I thought "Enlarge time line scale" was supposed to make the audio track taller. (It never did when I clicked on it.)

In any event, the setting doesn't persist across restarts of PD15 for me.

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JL_JL

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Oct 12, 2018 18:47

Quote Interesting. I thought "Enlarge time line scale" was supposed to make the audio track taller. (It never did when I clicked on it.)

In any event, the setting doesn't persist across restarts of PD15 for me.

As I indicated, the default is unchecked, if you check it for a project and save that project, upon reload of the project it will be checked for that project only. I assume maybe CL did it like this as I'd say it's non default to have to shift your audio perhaps so the default remains off.

Zoom in to the frame level, you will have 10 audio frames in every video frame. See attached pic for P15 with the audio moved 1/10 of a video frame.

Jeff


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