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Hello, Dafydd!
It is good to be back on the forum, I have missed my participation.
I've avoided using music on my videos for upload(since I launched my YT channel at the beginning of September) because I remembered all the to-ing and fro-ing of comments on a thread posted early this year or late last year about YouTube "flagging" people who had music in their YT uploads, even when that music got in by accident(camera microphone picks up radio or stereo from nearby house or passing car). I decided that if I were to upload to YouTube, I would not use music, it would only be used if I were burning to disc. For the moment, that's they way it will remain until I can investigate this possibility a little further. Naturally, I will credit Kevin MacLeod on my videos if and when I decide to use the material he creates, composer, title and source, and if you've viewed my Steamfest 2016 video from the link I've provided in my return thread "Dipping Toes In The Water", you'll note I acknowledge Cyberlink Power Director 14 Ultra as the software I use for editing and production of my work(I also acknowledge Sony Sound Forge for recording narration for these videos whenever I apply narration).
P.S. It isn't bandwidth I'm concerned about so much as file size. The greater the size of file, the quicker my data reserve gets swallowed up.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, E3T, Tomasc and, yes, Dafydd B.
I have, in the past month launched a YouTube channel, intending originally to do Ghost Hunting videos with a couple of friends, but until I get that going, I've uploaded videos under a "Trams & Trains" heading.
Up to this point I've avoided adding music to any of the videos I've uploaded, but I have seen Kevin MacLeod's name credited on some that I've viewed from Chris Halton's "Haunted Earth" videos. At a future point I might start using these works provided they don't swallow up too many megabytes in the download. Monetarily they're free but since starting the YouTube channel I've become painfully aware of the limits of my internet service provider's limits on the amount of data I receive with each top-up. Yes, I'm on a pre-paid arrangement and my unused data rolls over to each new top-up but I have to keep an eagle-eye on the amount of data I use lately. A few kilobytes won't kill me but those megabytes do add up.... and up..... and up..... and before I know it, I've got hardly any data left!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Clark!
Glad to be of help!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Clark711!
Yep, you've got Tony's method to work, all well and good, and you've likely also had success using The Shadowman's method. Terrific!
Okay, just to advise, there is an inbuilt third option, thus:
- After dropping the clip onto the timeline, to which you wish to add a title, open the "Title Room"(click on the "T") and a range of templates will be available, including two "defaults" one for 2D, the other for 3D, We'll ignore the 3D default for this exercise.
- Drag the default "My Title" onto either the dedicated title track or Video Track 2(will work on either), edit your title(type in your desired title after right-clicking or selecting "Modify"), you can set the font style and size as well as colour, border & such(if you wish).
- Once you have your title determined, you want it to fade in and out, at the top of the title designer window you'll have three tabs, labeled "Text", "Effect" and "Motion". Select "Effect". This will open up an alphabetised list, with thumbnails, of all effects for the title, but they'll be grouped under "Starting Effect" and "Ending Effect" which you may first have to open to see what's available. The may, alternately, automatically open.
- Once opened, you can scroll through the effects in Starting or Ending Effects, you'll find a fade effect contained therein.
- When you've applied it, you'll see, under the preview screen, an adjustment that lets you select how quickly or slowly the title fades in and out. You can, if you wish, make that adjustment, or simply leave it as it is, that's your choice.
There you have it, Clark, hope that's of use to you.
Cheers!
Neil.
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It is NOT labor intensive in any way shape or form. A child can do it.
Barry, what I meant by "labour-intensive" is the amount of work needed, and I made the comment about my own method too, in case you missed it. Your suggestion was to take the clip and double its speed, take the new clip and double it again, 4X original speed. If taken again and doubled, brings it to 8X original speed, along with resultant audio, that should be adequate, and avoid too much rendering.
My method may need a bit of calculation as to what pitch to set the audio, as it involves splitting the audio and video, then processing separately. The video could then be set directly to be sped up to 8X normal, but the audio would then need to be processed in Wave Editor or(if available) Audio Director to bring it to the same pitch(and length). That's what I meant by "labour-intensive".
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, LeigoAndre9999!
It may be a bit labour-intensive but Try Barry The Crab's method and see how it goes, keeping my menthod(also somewhat labour-intensive) as an alternative. Let us knowe your results, okay?
Cheers!
Neil.
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A general comment here if I may,
to thesteved111, the transition can be as long or short as you wish it to be. But, as you've noted from other comments here, the freezing come from using the "cross" effect instead of the "overlap". This has been somewhat of a disappointment for me, as I jumped from Power Director 8 Ultra, right up to PD14 Ultra, When I discovered the option, I thought: "yeah, this could be useful as it doesn't shorten the length of my overall video(beyond what I chop out)", but in using the cross effect and noting that freeze at the beginning and end of the transition effect, spoiled it for me, so I've now reverted to using the overlap instead. The other disappointment was that if I set "cross" as the default in preferences, the audio component had to be added afterward instead of being added automatically at the same time as the video component of the transition, thus adding to the editing workload for this "little black duck"(quack!).
To Laserdoc, when applying the transition, while it's highlighted, click on "modify". You'll see the choice between cross or overlap there.
For what they're worth, those are my thoughts on the matter of transitions, and for thesteved111, I generally have my transitions at 5 seconds duration, so you can have yours at any length you wish, you can even set your desired length as a default in preferences.
Cheers!
Neil.
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With a bit of hesitation I pop in here with a short remark and 2 questions:I probably will never use 4k and MagicYUV, but at the time, I followed Ron&Co's massive work on the matter and it was admirable.
The questions at the (hopefully) end of this thread goes to Neil;
1)Have you ever considered starting a blog?
2)What kind of videos do you produce and where can they be watched?
Nina
Hello, Nina!
In answer to your first question, no, I really haven't considered such a move, I don't think I have much interesting to say outside the to-and-fro of forum websites like this. And to your second question, I've toyed with the idea of starting a YouTube channel, or perhaps Vimeo, but never really got beyond the realm of thought. My videos are mainly personal, of family and friends, and as such they usually go straight to DVD. I also edit content on behalf af a couple of friends, and certainly would not put their content into the "public domain", as it would be on YouTube or Vimeo, without their prior consent. So I guess anything I produce is for private consumption.
Cheers!
Neil.
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...it remains essentially mono as there's no variation between the two channels. However, if you move one channel's content about 20 miliseconds left or right on the screen, you'll achieve a delay effect which will give a degree of spacial effect to the audio. Just thought I'd mention it.
Yes, what I've really created is monaural audio. I like the suggestion of adding a delay to create more of a stereo feel. Thanks for sharing. 
Hi, Maliek!
The delay effect is good for a spacial effect, but my development of the effect goes a couple of steps further if I use Sound Forge to manipulate the audio. As well as the delay, I also apply a graphic equaliser effect, to each channel in turn. If the graphic equaliser has ten faders across the range from bass to treble(I'll give them numbers to illustrate the settings), on one channell you set as follows:
01, 02 - Boost; 03, 04 - Cut; 05, 06 - Boost; 07, 08 - Cut; 09, 10 - Boost. For the opposite channel you reverse the settings, this is more for music than voice, I should point out. If you have some old vinyl 45s or LP tracks of instumental music that you might want to use as background to a video, and it's only mono, this graphic equaliser setting, combined with the delay, can give quite a convincing pseudo-stereo effect. The only warning I would give here is watch out for YouTube "flagging" the music on copyright(as we've read elswhere).
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello,
It was I who started the original thread, "Curious Thing - Shadow Files", intending it only to be a comment on their nature, an observation, nothing more. I made the original comment because I had started rendering to MP4(H.264 AVC) to try to keep my file size small without losing too much image quality in the render. I just noticed that anything I render(using what is effectively a default setting for H.264 AVC MP4 at 25fps) did not develop a shadow file. I should say that I've not really experienced any real dramas while editing these MP4s, even when the shadow files had not yet been fully generated(dragging them off my camera's SD card and onto my computer hard drive, then into my media library of PD14 Ultra). Same applies to AVCHD files pulled off cameras belonging to a friend, which I edited on his behalf. Those shadow files, fully generated or not, have not caused me any real bother, I just pull the clip down onto my timeline, snip it down to get rid of "spare" frames, drop in some transitions to segue between scenes, add my titles and effects... bang!... Job done! No different than working with MPEG2!
As to this thread, "More on Shadow Files", I'll just leave it to MattC and others to carry it on as long as they want.
Neil.
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Hi, Al(AIS)!
Yep, by the time I finish with my computer tonight(it's now 4.48pm, Sunday, 3rd July where I am), Magic+PD will be gone... Banished from my computer forever! Sorry to those who've put all their time and energies into developing the programme, but for me it's just not suitable. The images I put up in my earlier post bear this out.
Neil.
As of just now, I have uninstalled Magic+PD and deleted the installation app from my downloads file, plus the PDF file, for which I have no further use. So that's it! Now all I have to do is delete that AVI file to free up a valuable 7.87 gigabythes of needed hard-drive space on my 2TB external drive. A-ba-tha... a-ba-tha... a-ba-that's all folks!
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Hi, Al(AIS)!
I don't think my MP4's are high def. after rendering, probably explains why no shadow file emerges, mainly because when I go to render them(after editing a few scenes together or if I'm creating an insert clip with a PiP giving two angles of view of an event) I use the default setting for the MP4 file that gives me my 25fps frame rate butkeeps the file size down.
Speaking of file sizes, what I insert here will give a clear picture(pun most definitely intended - ha-ha!) of the difference between the AVI result after using Magic+PD and the original MP4 clip as it came off the SD card of my Canon Legria camera. I think this will well and truly sum up my situation with Magic+PD. You'll see the file size of the AVI is massive at 7.87 gigabytes for just on 1 minute and 40-odd seconds, against the MP4 of just 213 megabytes for the same duration. For me, that means I'm uninstalling Magic+PD.... It just doesn't suit my requirements.
Neil.
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Provide option to customize library transitions for example. If the default transition is say "swipe from left" give option to swipe from other three sides.
Hi, BabIndia!
Yes! That's already available! You select the direction of the wipe by placing the transition into your video, and while it's highlighted, you click on "modify" to select behaviour(overlap or cross) and wipe direction, up, down, left or right. By the way, the default direction is actually "up".
Cheers!
Neil.
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Words again! ... and I realise it was just a typo.
Just for clarity: Waco is a city in Texas, made infamous by "that" seige. Wacom is a Japanese company that makes interactive pen tablets and other devices.
Since you already understood that "tablet" had more than one meaning i.e small computer/round pill/stone with writing etc., it is incorrect to assume that any use of the word "tablet" refers to a particular meaning.
Cheers - Tony
Yes Tony, I missed on the 'M'! Blame it on "keyboard gremlins". Sometimes when typing you strike the letter on the keyboard and it doesn't register.... result: a face full of egg!(I'll have mine scrambled, thanks - ha-ha) Anywhay, I was haing a bit of fun with the terminology... just my warped sense of humour!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, LeigoAndre9999!
I think what you've experienced here is the default for when videos are sped up beyond 2- or 3-times normal speed, or even 4-times normal, probably because it's assumed with the sound getting so "garbled" by the speed-up process, it's no longer listenable. That's my theory, for what it's worth. I've used speed-up effect before, for comic purposes. I've usually opted to mute the audio. I have a clip of myself packing a tent at the end of a camping weekend, sped up it reminded me a bit of those old Benny Hill Show scenes where he was being chased by all those girls(closing credit sequence) with "Yakety-Axe" playing over the top of the scene! That's where I got my inspiration for my tent-packing video, I can tell you it got the desired laughs! Perhaps that's what you're after - speeding up a video for comic effect, along with the sound... I wonder if Wave Editor may be able to give you the appropriate sound speed-up, then you could import that back to PD14 and use it to replace the muted audio in the sped-up video clip. Just a thought.
Cheers!
Neil
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Robert - I think it's just a misunderstanding of how it works and why to use it.
Exactly! Thank you, AIS! Clearly you and Tony(Ynotfish) are on the same wavelength on this matter.
An analogy: it's like someone who's looking for a station wagon because a sedan no longer suits his needs, but gets offered a utility instead(our American & canadian friends refer to these as "pick-ups"). Get my drift?
Cheers!
Neil.
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Neil
Every piece of this information was available to you from the very beginning had you bothered to read it.
Now you are telling us what you think about the program, and your thoughts are nothing but negative ones. My concern is that your comments will deter genuine editors from trying M+PD. I think it would be good if you made a statement admitting that you have never used the program and frankly have no idea whatsoever it does.
If you do use it, I will help you, but until then, please, no more negative comments.
Shadowman!
I don't think I'm being negative here. I've downloaded to programme to "suss it out" so-to-speak. And from what I can see, I just don't think it fulfills my own requirements, that's all. I've already explained what I want/need in processing video. I'm trying to avoid using video files of too great a size(in megabytes, up to gigabytes), even temporarily, I just don't want large files choking up my computer's hard-drive, and external hard-drives don't come cheap. I don't want to appear to "knock" Magic+PD, but I'm afraid I have no use for it myself. Others, however, may find it useful. As I've already explained, I need something that will allow me to create AVI files of 1 gigabyte or less for up to two hours of content, much like those websites which offer feature-length movies for download, these movies are downloaded as AVI and often they're not much more than 700-to-800 megabytes in file size, usually less. That's what I've wanted all along!
I think it's been more of a misunderstanding of my needs and my comments being misinterpreted as being negative.
Neil.
Actually, I think Tony(Ynotfish) summed it up neatly in his latest post on this thread:
"Neil - There's almost certainly no advantage to you in using Magic+PD since you're not recording ultra high definition clips with very high bitrates, as far as I'm aware".
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Just for those who may not understand: a Wacom tablet is NOT a tablet computer. It is an input device, used with a stylus, to allow you to draw as you would with a pencil or brush as input to your computer software (instead of using a mouse).
Dan,
Thanks for clearing that up! With technology such as it is these days, and the terminology used to describe it, one could be forgiven for some degree of confusion when one product is referred to as a "tablet" that fulfills one function, then along comes another product, also referred to as a "tablet" but fulfills another function entirely. And that's the trap I've fallen into(Mia Culpa). I assumed, because this Waco(brand name, I assume) product was referred to as a "tablet" I thought it to be a tablet computer.
Guess that's one "tablet" that's going to take a heck of a lot of water to wash it down! Ha-ha!
Cheers!
Neil.
(Once again I have to copy my post and re-enter it due to sluggishness in the save process on this forum).
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Hi, Maliek!
Here's a little tip to get a bit of spacial effect. What you've described in this clip is basically how to get the same audio content across both channels but it remains essentially mono as there's no variation between the two channels. However, if you move one channel's content about 20 miliseconds left or right on the screen, you'll achieve a delay effect which will give a degree of spacial effect to the audio. Just thought I'd mention it.!
Cheers!
Neil.
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I momentarily had a thought: What if I could render back to MP4 using Magic+PD but opening the programme blew that idea away like a puff of smoke hitting a fan. Magic+PD only provides for rendering to AVI! AVI = "huge files" No thanks, not even on a temporary basis! For the moment I'll leave Magic+PD where it is on my computer, but if I don't/can't come up with another use for it, then it's "Bye-Bye, Magic+PD!"
Neil.
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Hello all!
In regards to the disc menu when burning one of my videos to disc, I tend to take the "path of least resistence", meaning I tend to use only the pre-existing templates, changing only what's necessary, from "My Videos" to whichever title I want, and perhaps reposition the title a little. Beyond that, I don't change much at all. I found PD5 and 7 much more compliant when it came to creating "custom" menu templates but not so easy with PD8 or 14, That's the drawback, it inhibits a user's creativity. Thus far I've only used PD14 to author one disc successfully(an earlier attempt failed) and that problem hangs on the ability to set the grade of video to be authored, as I've commented on elsewhere. But for menus, PD14 has effectively discouraged me from trying to create my own templates. Such a shame, really, as personalised DVD menus add that bit extra to a home-made video presentation.
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