yep...there are problems even on 2220C :
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/8801.page

You mentioned in that older post that you would experiment with enhancements...well, welcome aboard...

What I did find is that closing PD8, re-opening it and reproducing will often remove the anomaly (but not always). Sometimes, you have to remove the enhancement and re-apply.

I quit using fix/enhance until the results become more stable, so keep in touch, ok?

Hi Fred -

Now I feel doubly stupid, because that exchange had completely gone out of my head! Next week, I'll be able to hide my own presents and spend all day looking for them! Anyway - thanks for reminding me that I'm not alone.

The odd thing about the video in question was that I'd repeated almost the same process dozens of times before without that happening.

Cheers - Tony


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The good thing is, it shows (the failure) on the preview screen, so no need to actually produce it. Re-applying the enhancements after removing them, often causes the issue to reoccur..I will let CL do their beta...I am waiting to see if they fix it..

I have had the same split screen produced video also. It was about a month ago and I don't remember what I did to get rid of it and I have not had it happen again. Although I must say I have been staying away from the enhancements lately, just to get my videos out. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

This has happened to me in the past.
I think you can use the enhancements, preview the effect in split-screen, but remember to un-split the screen before producing the file.

ps.
Take a snapshot from the split window, it probably will have the split effect.
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Like..I should HAVE to uncheck the button before proceeding??? Sometimes it fixes it..sometimes NOT...does not seem consistent...however, I have moved to a new machine and I am still getting used to it.

As I mentioned..I will let CL do their own Beta on this..I am sure I will find many new "enhancements" to uncover in the next release, so I am saving my energy for that

Barry & Fred -

You're both right. Unchecking split screen does (sometimes) result in the produced file expected... and, NO - it really shouldn't be necessary to do this. Silly really.

Since that first post, I've repeated the process various ways:

1. Applied enhancement without split screen, then applied cropping throughout - no problem in produced file.
2. Applied enhancement without split screen, produced - then applied cropping throughout - no problem in produced file.
3. Applied enhancement with split screen, making sure I unchecked it before exiting enhancement editor - 3 of 4 produced files were OK.

Cheers - Ynot
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Love the avatar Barry.... and the pic I saw ha ha ha.

Ok, I've done a report on this to R&D and see what I get back. I haven't had it happen (thank goodness )

Thank you everyone.

Dafydd
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Ok, I've had a report back.

The issue is similar to a previously fixed bug. The "split screen" problem isn't easy to replicate, as the "bug" goes on holiday often, then more investigation is needed by CyberLink.

Dafydd
[Moderator]

Hi there, I also discovered this bug when you use enhanced features and check the checkbox to preview
it in split screen. This way you can preview how the effect looks against the original video.

But what this does when producing.. (is a bug) it applies the splitscreen param to all videos when producing.

There is a very fast fix for this.
(Make sure your have notpad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ or install it on your computer)

First locate your project video file. Usally in your profile -> documents -> cyberlink
C:\Users\yourprofilename\Documents\CyberLink
Make a copy of your project file and rename it to someting else. (It does not matter what the name is.)

Now open this renamed file.

Then open the video project file with notepad. Your project file has a .pds extension and when you open it
in notepad++ you will see that it is in xml format. (for none of you developers it means readable text)

When you have notepad++ open press control and the letter f on your keyboard. This opens a new dialog.
Then press the tab replace

PARAM NAME="AEFF_VIDEO_BSPLIT_VIEW" VALUETYPE="INT" VALUE="0"/><


And copy the text line above (or in in the attatched text file ) to the field Find what:
(note. I can't post it in this texearea because it get's parsed differently)

And make sure the field with label: replace with is: (must be empty. just type a space and backspace in the field to make sure)

Next click on the replace all button and save the file and you can open this project file with cyberlink and
it will not produce any split screen when producing.