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Your Asus laptop has been upgraded to win 10. You need to ensure that shadow files in the lowest resolution is selected and enabled. You will have to wait until all the shadows files have completed generating before trying to edit (green icons). There is no problem editing four SD video on multicam on your laptop. It is HD and 4k resolutions that you will have problems with if not using the right shadow files on multicam.
I think I'm grasping what your saying. I just found that setting and put it on the lowest resolution. It wasn't turned on before. So thanks for alerting me to that. Do I have to load all the video's in the timeline first and not in Multicam Designer? I'm not sure how to see if shadow files are ready. I put 4 videos in the media area. One has a green film strip looking thing, two have yellow film strip things bottom left and one doesn't have any. They all have green checks. In my case I'm putting in 30 minutes videos. Will that take a long time to generate the shadow files?
I guess they eventually turned green but I went ahead before that and it worked for the first time. I actually paid for the upgrade to Vegas Movie Studio 16 which continues to be completely unusable for multicam and sync.It was taking hours to sync audio and video and even then didn't do it right. After your kind tip this Cyberlink program seems like one I can make progress with. Many thanks!
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In multicam mode I have four videos and an extra audio track. I click record. The sounds goes but the individual video previews don't move or just every once in a while. As it records in multicam mode I click the different cameras without being able to see whats happening. I click stop and OK and when back on the main window it shows only 10 seconds when it should show 3 minutes. It did this several times. I watched the timeline as it was in multicam designer and instead of recording minutes its only recording seconds. I am including the dxdiag file. I actually made it just now as the program crashed. Thanks for any tips. I need some kind of video editing program without a steep learning curve for multicam projects.
I am using the trial version. I'm trying to figure out if my laptop is too slow for multicam editing. I thought it was fairly powerful. Processor: Intel i7- CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.5GHz Memory: 16384MB RAM Available OS Memory: 16268MB RAM.
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It was
1280x800
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none worked. On your question of what dpi I couldn't see where it said dpi for the monitor. I did adjust % down to 100 when it was 175% and for the 1st time youcam would open without that error message. So thanks for pointing in this direction. Very, very vague error message.
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Normally I've just been fooling around with Youcam 7 Deluxe. I've been using it on my external monitor connected to my laptop. The other day, the first time I actually was really counting on using it, I was using the laptops display. I got this message "Youcam does not support this resolution". And that was it. No amount of uninstall or reinstall could get around it. On the web I saw one who said maybe it had something to do with the laptops display resolution but no amount of changing it got around error message. Not clear in the error message if the resolution they refer to is for laptop display or camera resolution or capture resolution? I finally had to give up using it at all.Thanks for assistance with this.
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Very small number of filters on Youcam. I had many more and better ones on the now discontinued Logitech free software that came with the webcam 10 years ago. I hope they will remedy this. I've been trying any programs I could find that put live effects on a webcam. This is needed for a live performance (on a small budget). It's really only the filters and a few of the distortion that could be used. I've been trying other programs recently...like altercam (bad lag) and manycam (difficult interface which makes you go to a tiny box and close one effect before changing to another}. If anyone can suggest another program or a way to use Youcam in this way (or even another forum where I could get more info) it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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I've looked at http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/youcam and see no downloadable filters at all. There are only a few on the original install of Youcam. Am I missing something? Also when I open Youcam and click on the DZ tab and the login I am told I have the wrong password...but it's the same one I'm using here (see photo)?Thanks for info.
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I am searching for many of the effects I got with my Logitech webcam. They are no longer provided in the Logitech software for windows 10. Is there any chance I could download similar ones for Youcam? If so where? My other question is if there is a way to see the selections (like for effects,distortions etc on my laptop but to see only the actual video on a second display?Thanks
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I just installed PDU8 on a win 8.1 laptop. I just use it for one thing now. I capture with my Logitech c310 webcam and put in some extra audio with an external sound card. I found this program easier than my main program Sony Vegas for doing this. However the install of PDU8 on the new pc won't show anything in Capture but audio and avchd. The webcam works. I downloaded the latest drivers and Logitech Webcam software. I can capture with this Logitech software. But PDU has my webcam (s) greyed out? Any tips? Thanks
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i've been using a digital multitrack recorder for all my audio, then export the individual tracks to my pc. then when i add them to pd8 they'll already be syncronized since they were originally recorded that way. in my experience this is better for the audio quality too, as you get the deeper hands on approach to equalization/mastering etc.
I appreciate the reply. I've tried doing that with live performances before and even though the tracks recorded on the multitrack are in sync with themselves I never felt like I could be sure the starting point of the video synced 100% accurately to the starting point of the audio. I can record multitrack on the PC but would appreciate knowing of an affordable consumer software program that allows at least 3 or 4 audio tracks to be recorded with the video capture. Thanks.
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I found it on the old hard drive. Thanks
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I reinstalled my operating system recently and don't see the download for PowerDirector 8 Ultra on my backup or on the Cyberlink site. Only the normal version. I bought it online last year. I sent Cyberlink Tech Support a question on this last week but no answer. There's a kind of circular response on the website which goes nowhere which tells me to go to my orders but when I go to that part it's only empty.Could someone here tell me where the link is for Ultra? I've got my registration code. Thanks
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Thanks for the replies. I know how and can capture multiple tracks and have some Samplitude software which works with an external audio interface. But the one thing I hope to avoid is trying to exactly sync the sound made in one program with the video made in another. In addition to adding that much more hassle I've never had much success doing it when I tried in the past. I was just hoping PowerDirector had this feature of being able to specify multiple sound sources in different tracks in the Capture phase (not the production phase). I'm sure there are other programs out there but I'm not yet aware of a decent, inexpensive one.
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Well, that's my question. By the way I'm not trying " to remove parts from a single audio track". I simply have at least 3 different sound sources that I want to keep separate as the video is captured. If anyone else knows if PD Ultra could do this let me know. I'd also be interested in hearing about other,hopefully inexpensive, software that can do this. Thanks
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Hi FrancoisT
Welcome to the forum ![]()
PD8 has up to four audio tracks - near the 'magicians hat' there is a white rectangle with stars in it - click on that to open the Track Manager - however you can use a 'workaround' to get another nine!
To have another nine audio tracks do the following:
1. Drop one audio file into an audio track
2. Go to produce and produce as an MPEG-2 file.
3. Use the PIP tracks to add these 'music' MPEG files
Hope this helps
Good luck
Thanks. Is this for capture? I need to record at least 3 audio tracks from 3 different sources as the the video is recorded.
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This is what I am trying to do. I am trying to record a practice session where I have an instrument sound, a microphone, and played back music. I have an external audio interface that can handle 8 inputs. I'd like to keep the different audio tracks separate and then adjust their levels after the capture is completed. I'd prefer to record the various audio tracks with the video capture so there won't be the hassle of synchronizing them. I have PowerDirector 8Ultra. Thanks for any info.
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