To be clear, there's barely any view of the Media Content pane, or the preview pane left. And if I resize the window, the timeline just grows with it leaving me in the same scenario.

It's normally a simple matter of dragging the control with 5 little dots above the timeline up and down, and the one with 5 vertical dots long the left edge of the preview window as is shown in this short screen recording:



If that doesn't work for any reason, a screenshot or screen recording would help us see your situation and give us a better shot at helping you.

Quote It's normally a simple matter of dragging the control with 5 little dots above the timeline up and down, and the one with 5 vertical dots long the left edge of the preview window as is shown in this short screen recording:



If that doesn't work for any reason, a screenshot or screen recording would help us see your situation and give us a better shot at helping you.

I have the same problem. Timeline also has a large area at the top with no tracks...

A screenshot would be very useful.

Use Alt+PrintScreen or the Windows snipping tool (Win+Shift+S) then save the image as PNG or JPG. Click on the Attachments button below the forum's text box to upload and share it here.

Quote A screenshot would be very useful.

Use Alt+PrintScreen or the Windows snipping tool (Win+Shift+S) then save the image as PNG or JPG. Click on the Attachments button below the forum's text box to upload and share it here.

I'm having the same problem with stuck view of the Media Control pane after an upgrade to PowerDirector 365. The side to side function using the 5 little dots works but the up down function cannot be pulled down lower than about one-fourth of the window size. See the attached picture.

Is there a way to reset or reload the software? If so, screenshots of where to go and how to do would be helpful. I've been unable to find any reset or reload functions in settings or under manage my subscription.

Thanks for your suggestions.

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I'm having the same problem with stuck view of the Media Control pane after an upgrade to PowerDirector 365. The side to side function using the 5 little dots works but the up down function cannot be pulled down lower than about one-fourth of the window size. See the attached picture.

Is there a way to reset or reload the software? If so, screenshots of where to go and how to do would be helpful. I've been unable to find any reset or reload functions in settings or under manage my subscription.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Hi.
I'm not at the desk but try making the timeline tracks smaller, they look maxed out to me.

Cheers,
PowerDirector Moderator

The horizontal silver line in your screenshot only appears on my system when I click and hold on the 5 dots to drag the timeline edge up or down. When I let go of the mouse button, the line disappears and the 5 dots show up again.

If you can't drag that area at all, click on the Restore down icon at the top right of PD's main window:



Then click and drag on an edge or corner of the main PD window and manually make it smaller. That will redraw the editor window and may make the dots visible. You may need to reduce the window in both height and width for this to happen.

Another option is to change the display scaling in Windows. Go to Start | Settings | System | Display and change the scale to 125% or 150% and see if that helps. You may need to close and reopen PD to see the change, and you can change the scaling setting back after you get PD sorted out.

Quote I'm having the same problem with stuck view of the Media Control pane after an upgrade to PowerDirector 365. The side to side function using the 5 little dots works but the up down function cannot be pulled down lower than about one-fourth of the window size. See the attached picture.

Is there a way to reset or reload the software? If so, screenshots of where to go and how to do would be helpful. I've been unable to find any reset or reload functions in settings or under manage my subscription.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Since your pdf shows a solid whiteish line, that to me indicates possibly an undocked window or it should disappear. Have you tried right mouse click in say the media library and does "Reset All Undocked Windows" display and help?

Jeff

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Hi.
I'm not at the desk but try making the timeline tracks smaller, they look maxed out to me.

Cheers,
PowerDirector Moderator

This recommendation worked. Being a newbie, I didn't know that the tracks could be sized. It took me a moment to figure out but the sizing is done with a left click on the section where the number of the track is rather than in the track itself.

Thank you!!

Quote The horizontal silver line in your screenshot only appears on my system when I click and hold on the 5 dots to drag the timeline edge up or down. When I let go of the mouse button, the line disappears and the 5 dots show up again.

If you can't drag that area at all, click on the Restore down icon at the top right of PD's main window:



Then click and drag on an edge or corner of the main PD window and manually make it smaller. That will redraw the editor window and may make the dots visible. You may need to reduce the window in both height and width for this to happen.

Another option is to change the display scaling in Windows. Go to Start | Settings | System | Display and change the scale to 125% or 150% and see if that helps. You may need to close and reopen PD to see the change, and you can change the scaling setting back after you get PD sorted out.

Thank you Optodata, it seems the sizing of the tracks was the issue for me.

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Since your pdf shows a solid whiteish line, that to me indicates possibly an undocked window or it should disappear. Have you tried right mouse click in say the media library and does "Reset All Undocked Windows" display and help?

Jeff

Jeff, thank your for your suggestion. That whiteish line came up when I left clicked on the five dots. What ultimately fixed the problem was sizing the tracks! Thank you for your help!!

I have tried resizing tracks, minimizing the program window so it can be resized, undocking and then resetting the workspace windows, closing and opening the program. My upper workspace is stuck and won't get bigger.

Quote I have tried resizing tracks, minimizing the program window so it can be resized, undocking and then resetting the workspace windows, closing and opening the program. My upper workspace is stuck and won't get bigger.

Thanks for the screenshot. You missed the part about dragging the 5 little dots downward, like this:

Still stuck with Timeline view. Is there a way around this?



Thanks in advance



Antti

Same issue here - click the 5 dots to resize, but it cannot go bigger or smaller. Stuck with a tiny preview window and massive timeline view. Been going on for a couple of months, and nothing seems to work to bring it back to how it was, so am ending up with the pop out window for the video preview.

Does this post help?

Quote Same issue here - click the 5 dots to resize, but it cannot go bigger or smaller. Stuck with a tiny preview window and massive timeline view. Been going on for a couple of months, and nothing seems to work to bring it back to how it was, so am ending up with the pop out window for the video preview.

I have got the same problem

Quote I've been using PowerDirector for a few weeks now, very much enjoying it. But today I started PowerDirector and the Timeline takes up most of the view, and won't let me resize it. No matter how I try to resize or drag it - it won't resize. This has happened twice now. The first time I finally gave up and re-installed PowerDirector and it fixed it. I can't keep re-installing every couple weeks. Has anyone else run into this? I'm running on a laptop with a 32" 4K monitor attached.

I HAVE HAD SAME PROBLEM FOR MONTHS -- FOUND A WORK AROUND.
1) GET OUT OF FULL SCREEN MODE - Top RIght button.
2) TOGGLE LOCK AND UNLOCK ALL VIDEOS (LOCKED).
2) TOGGLE AGAIN - ALL UNLOCKED.
3) SHRINK SCREEN TO 1/4 size of screen.
4) NOW I CAN RESIZE THE UPPER PORTION AGAIN --- FINALLY> ARGGGG.

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I HAVE HAD SAME PROBLEM FOR MONTHS -- FOUND A WORK AROUND.
1) GET OUT OF FULL SCREEN MODE - Top RIght button.
2) TOGGLE LOCK AND UNLOCK ALL VIDEOS (LOCKED).
2) TOGGLE AGAIN - ALL UNLOCKED.
3) SHRINK SCREEN TO 1/4 size of screen.
4) NOW I CAN RESIZE THE UPPER PORTION AGAIN --- FINALLY> ARGGGG.

This is the closest I got to fixing it, but when I docked everything back the TIMELINE disappeared now!! I can readjust the preview window and the library window but when I try to adjust the timeline, it goes straight back up to the top with the white line. Then I'm back to square one with no way to undo it.
I tried to add screenshots of the problem, but this is my first time using this forum so I might have done it wrong.