I recently upgraded to PowerDirector 17 and was having some issues with SVRT. Seeing other posts in the forum in relation to SVRT issues that were addressed with a new patch I updated to the latest version 17.0.2314.1
When working on large video projects I typically edit in smaller (approx) 25min segments and then at the end use SVRT to combine the clips without needing to encode them again. Since upgrading to 17 SVRT would report that the majority of my video would require encoding again.
For testing I had two clips both produced using the same MP4 profile. If i checked the SVRT info on each clip individually it would report that SVRT was available on 100% of the clip. Once I dragged both clips to the timeline and checked SVRT it would state 50% would require encoding. I then checked MediaInfo on each clip and found that one had been produced with a variable bitrate and the other constant. The frame rate modes for both are constant but the bitrate is different which I assume is the issue when trying to use SVRT on both as they don't match?
The video with a constant bitrate was one where I had made several cuts on the original video. The video with a variable bitrate was one where I didn't make any cuts to the original video. I then tested this by taking the variable video and cutting several sections from it and encoding it again and as I suspected it produced a video with a constant rate.
Is there a setting I need to change to tell it to produce it using a constant rate for clips where I'm not making any changes? I never previously had to do this on older versions of PowerDirector so I'm not sure if this is now by design or something?
I've attached a comparison for both clips if this helps as there are a few other differences as well - it reports different codec IDs but I don't know how as I used the same profile for both? I don't really know an awful lot about video editing to be honest, it's just more of a hobby so any help or advice anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!