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Unfortunately we do not have anything available that is compatible with PowerDirector - we used to have a bundle for various versions, but this is no longer bundled, and we never actually sold anything for use with it.
Now, having said that, there is a free Compositing Host called Resolve (that is, there is a free version) that is compatible with the BCC/Continuum OFX package - this would allow you to at least apply BCC to individual clips and relay these back to PowerDirector to insert into your timeline.
I have never tried Composting Host. Anyone?
Follow up. Hoping Cyberlink grows in popularity.
Boris FX Technical Support Team <support@borisfx.com>Sep 15
The Cyberlink included plugins I believe we discontinued the
bundle a while back as well. Unfortunately I don't have any contacts at
Cyberlink to check with since we dropped Support some time ago.
Someone at Cyberlink Customer Service/Sales might be able to get you a
quick Yes/No as to this inquiry, at least.
Thank you again.
Jon
Technical Support Team
Boris FX / Imagineer Systems
http://www.borisfx.com/ 65 Franklin Street, Suite 400 Boston MA 02210
P: 888-77-BORIS (888-772-6747)
F: 508-357-8906
Thanks for letting me know! I would not have known!
FYI
This is the response I got from BorisFX:
Unfortunately we do not have anything available that is compatible with PowerDirector - we used to have a bundle for various versions, but this is no longer bundled, and we never actually sold anything for use with it.
Now, having said that, there is a free Compositing Host called Resolve (that is, there is a free version) that is compatible with the BCC/Continuum OFX package - this would allow you to at least apply BCC to individual clips and relay these back to PowerDirector to insert into your timeline.
QuoteFor anyone interested in getting additional effects or any other BorisFX video products beyond those included with the PD365 subscription, they're having a 25% off sale through Sept 11.
Here's their store's webpage, and to get the discount you can enter save25 at checkout.
Thanks for letting me know! I would not have known!
With PD 365 there were changes made when the ShutterStock content access was made.
But PowerTools were removed. It used to have a reverse and speed section where the video could be added, then sections sped up, slowed down, reversed (up to 6x), but it is gone. Or is it? Is it a combo of the new menus?
Music is always an interesting subject. It seems that you may have made this a hobby to make recorded music faster or slower to fit a video. There is no repeating pattern of beats in classical music but find the metronome article to be interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome .
You can make any portion of music fit any video that you desire by placing the mouse cursor at the end of an audio clip until it becomes a double headed arrow. Hold down the Ctrl key and drag it outward to make it slower or inward to make it faster. You can unlink the audio first if it is attached to a clip. Reposition the audio to where you want it. It is that easy.
You can use a calculator to determine the time between frames. There may be musicians among this group that may be able to offer further help here.
Video production is so complex! So interesting!
Guess AI isn't going to do it for me anytime soon.
QuoteThe PD timeline default is in Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames. The skateboard clip is 15;28 for 29.97 fps. The length of the audio is 15:872 in AD. 15;28=15.9333… in time.15.933…-15.872=.061333… which is a small difference of close to 2 frames. I see this discrepancy in my long mp4 file of several hours encoding too but the audio is correctly synced.
There is no problem using video with different frame rates. Things work out better if they are constant frame rates..
Thank you!
I thought it was time as found on a clock
Need to figure out a way to convert time in music to frame rate to sync it.
Not sure I have your question correctly understood but, as far as I can see, loading a New Workspace does not "reset" the media library to any default. So if you have a clip in the Library that has been marked in/out in the Library preview, the in/out markers are not reset by loading a new workspace and the previous in/out markers are retained.
New Project does act to reset any Library preview window markers.
I reset my workspace and wanted to work on some clips with the library preview.
But when I go there and add the same clip, it remembers where I clipped it before. Anyway to reset that, or do I have to manually drag the sliders back to their starting positions?
That used to happen to me when the mouse microswitch started glitching when doing a single click becomes a double click. I fixed it myself. Some users just replace the mouse. There are mouse debounce software out there to help you get a few extra weeks of use out of your mouse. when this happens. Other users may just replace the mouse.
Occassionally, when working in the preview window - such as resizeing a clip, the view will go to full screen and leave preview mode. I notice this most when I try to grab a drag handle to resize.
The same thing happens, occasionally when I try to drag a clip on the time line back or forth, the PiP editor opens, as if I double clicked it.
I tried the 15 second Skateboard clip with the Impressionist 2 pack and chose Painting 4.
With OpenVINO, it took 1:25 from the time I clicked on Transform Video (UHD 630 ~88%, CPU ~17%); only 17 seconds when using NVIDIA CUDA (RTX 2070 ~28%, CPU ~24%); and 6:16 when using no hardware acceleration (CPU ~80%)
It's an interesting effect:
Thank you!
Wow...CUDA helps!
Well a 2080 also makes a huge difference over a GT 635....
I need to modernize...
As mentioned prior, the minimum provided by CL for AI compatible GPU is CUDA 3.0 capability, the GT635 you reference is only CUDA 2.1 capability, so yes lacks capability per CL so the AI performance you note is your CPU.
Yes, proper performance hardware selection supporting software features can make significant difference.
Jeff
You did tell me that it was 3.0...I thought the 1 was a footnote, not a version.
I need better hardware and reading comprehension!
Thank you so much again!
If you render those clips with the higher end systems with the Nvida CUDA off, just curious how long it will take.
The AI plug-ins for nVidia capability requires as a minimum graphic cards supporting CUDA 3.0 or newer versions, so the GTX260 performance column for the AI effect had nothing to do with GPU as it does not meet minimum compute capability requirement. As such, neither would your GT635.
Jeff
JL_JL
Thank you very much for that info. I did not look into CUDA at all.
I did see this on the features page for this card
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-635-oem/features NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology1
NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks – such as photo editing – delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
1 - Requires application support for CUDA technology.
But the age of this system and the performance makes me thing otherwise!
Guess it is time to upgrade! And with you advice, I will watch my video card selection a little more carefully!
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