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QuoteHow to change speed of the movie without losing the alignment of the text I have inserted?
Changing the speed of a clip works independently of your title. To alter the speed of a clip in the timeline, hi-light the clip and click on Tools......Power Tools. In the window that pops up, select 'video speed'. Then click on 'speed adjustment' and select your range. Then you click on 'create time shift'. A blue border will appear reflecting your chosen range to alter the speed of the clip. Click on 'speed multiplier' and select your chosen speed for your selected range.
QuoteMy laptop information:
Proc : intel core i3 8130U 2.20 GHZ
RAM : 4 GO WIndows 10 64bits
- Have you tried creating a short range involving a transition, and rendering just that section of your project?
> Yes and Yes and Always in this part.
In place of the transition I just have a black video.
I tried with just a fade and it's black again on those part.
Note that I edit on an initial video in 4k converts to proxy / shadow 720 P to go out in 1080 P.
On 30 minutes of video I just finally have 3 or 4 black transition Bugs.
There are others here with far more technical knowledge than me, but looking at your specs, I don't think your Laptop is really powerful enough for video editing. You have an i3 processor and 2.20GHZ, and I think the minimum required for decent results would be an i5 processor, with an i7 or higher being recommended.
QuoteOn video editing, tracks transitions work well in preview, but during the final rendering some transitions do not work.
Especially transitions like page turning, interference, mirror, wave, ect.
Is it due to my laptop (Lenovo Yoga 520) or something else?
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Sur les pistes de montage video les transitions fonctionnent bien en apperçus rapides, mais lors du rendu final certaines transitions ne marchent pas.
Surtout les transitions du genre page qui tourne, interférence, miroir, vague, ect.
Est-ce dû à mon ordinateur portable (Lenovo Yoga 520) ou autre chose ?
The community will need a lot more technical information regarding your Laptop.....CPU, GPU, RAM etc. Have you tried creating a short range involving a transition, and rendering just that section of your project? Does the transition get rendered?
Need more than two tracks, add a third audio and/or video and then remove if you want to test functionality.
Jeff
Thanks, Jeff. They really need to write some code allowing the user to remove default tracks if necessary. On some simpler projects, I could easily remove two of the default tracks and not miss them.
There's a 'Remove Track' option in the drop down menu in PD17, but it's always greyed out and disabled. Why? It would be so useful to be able to remove a track that you knew that you weren't going to use on a project. I know that if you leave it empty and place something on all the other tracks, you can select the 'Remove Empty Tracks' option, but if Cyberlink created a 'Remove Track' option, why can't we use it?
I think that the subscription model represents the future for many software applications. I'm happy to have Microsoft Office 365 because of my usage of those products and One Drive on a daily basis, but as someone who only uses PD a handful of times a year, the stand alone product makes much more sense for me. If that wasn't available, I'd probably look at one of the free offerings out there.
Just curious... Is there going to be a regular PowerDirector 18, or is the 365 subscription model the new direction?
regards, Frank
They would lose a lot of money if they ditched the stand alone product. Heavy users of the software will tend to go for the subscription model, but people like myself don't need the bells and whistles and prefer the stand alone version. If PD doesn't offer it, other companies will.
QuoteI already asked this on Steam Community but there was no answer.
I'm new to Power Director program I was using Filmora before switching and yesterday I went to make my first clip and I wanted to add some Video Transitions in between the clips to separate them out but I can't figure out how to add the Video Transitions as there is no guide for doing so and couldn't find any tutorial videos (even on some guide apps on apknite), all are from the older PD15 which is a complete difference layout.
What I've tried so far...
Drag and drop the Video Transitions onto the clips[ This used to be the way of doing it
Right click on the clip itself and looking for a Video Transitions option
Right click on the Video Transitions to see if there was an Add To Clip Option but no dice
So if someone could tell me how to do so I'd appreciate it so my clips don't look so jumbled together like I just selected a bunch of random clips and just smashed them together
Thanks
You just drag and drop them between the two clips where you want the transition to occur......where the two clips touch each other. To edit the duration of a transition, highlight it in the timeline, right click and select ‘Modify Transition’. Doing so will open a new window. Change the duration as desired. A ‘Modify’ button will appear. Click on it to modify your duration. There are also Duration and Modify buttons on the top of the timeline which will open the same windows.
The marketplace will dictate success or failure for any software product. In my opinion, PD17 is a good video editing system as a domestic product. If you're shooting family events, weddings, You Tube videos etc, PD17 is perfectly fine. There are indeed free video editing software options out there, and there is also video editing software that is considerably more expensive than PD. It's really a question of what you're looking for. I haven't had any issues with PD17, and it renders very quickly.
QuoteHi,
I was trying to move the current selected clip with the clips on it's right in the timeline ie. RippleEdit .On selecting the clip and when the cursor changed to the "hand icon", I left clicked and dragged the clip but only the selected clip moved not the one's on it's right.
Then I tried the same method while pressing "Shift","Ctrl" and "Alt" keys in various combinations but still the adjacent clips just didn't move.
So , I searched and found a previous Cyberlink post on this topic here .In it the same steps as I had performed were mentioned .
Why is the ripple edit option not working for me in Pd17 ?
Is there an option to toggle between the ripple edit modes which I might have accidently toggled?
Please let me know how to resolve this issue.
Thanks.
Hold down your left mouse button on an empty track on the timeline and then move your cursor. You will see a box start to emerge. Every clip that that box touches will be selected. You can then move all of those selected clips at the same time.
So, I'm curious to know from those who have used previous versions of PD, whether they saved a bit of money and upgraded to the new version each time one became available, or did you do a clean install of the new version each time and keep your previous version? PD17 is my first encounter with Cyberlink and I really like the product, but I guess I'll be tempted by PD18 when it arrives at some point.
QuoteI've seen this effect quite a lot recently and I would love to recreate it... but I'm not sure how with Powerdirector?
The effect in question can be seen right at the start of this video. The titles and text are all behind the mic stand yet in front of the rest of the stage. Now, I was there when this was filmed and I can assure you that there were no green screens or any magic going on on stage... so, any ideas?
QuoteI want to split a video clip of a song, crop the video to a close-up, and then add a cross (overlap?) fade between the two without affecting the sound. In PD 13, I could do this easily by making a copy of the full video and putting it directly below the original, splitting each video and trashing the end of the first one of the first and the beginnin of the second to leave an overlap, and put in a fade effect at the end of the first and the beginning of the second. Now that I've upgraded to PD 17, I can't seem to make this work.
If I'm understanding your issue correctly, don't you just need to make an audio only recording of your song, sync it up with the audio on your video clip, and then mute the sound on your video clip? Now you're effectively editing a music video.
QuoteGo to the fx room. Some of those effects will have an icon that means it works with an amd or nvidia gpu to accelerate the rendering if you have it enabled in Preferences/Hardware acceleration. I don't use enough of the fx on a timeline to see a huge difference.
Oh. I don’t use the fx room, so I’ll leave it disabled. Thanks for the quick response.
Does enabling 'OpenCL technology' in settings really make any difference in terms of previewing/rendering? Although I have a GTX1060 card, my Laptop is configured to use the i7GPU, and I don't see a difference with OpenCL enabled. My rendering is fast so I'm just curious.
QuoteThanks everyone for your input. I ended up going with the initial model that I enquired about - the one with the NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250 with 2GB GDDR5 graphics memory
I figure for my needs it should be enough and am comforted by the fact that Dell actually offer PD17 as an add-on for this model.
Thanks again,
Anita
PD17 will run fine on that rig. You won't know whether it will utilize the MX250 until you run PD17 and then optimize it for use on your computer. Within PD17, you go to Settings.....Hardware Acceleration and click on the 'Optimize' button. Then you're good to go. PD17 doesn't utilize my NVIDIA GTX1060 card, but it renders quickly using the i7CPU. Enjoy your laptop and PD17.
AnitaJ, I'd probably do some searches and reading in these forms on laptops and discrete graphic cards with PD. More often than not, PD is not configured to use the discrete GPU via Nvidia Optimus. Because of that, PD will simply use the iGPU regardless of which discrete GPU you purchase. The UHD Graphics 620 iGPU which is part of the Inspiron 7000 i5-8265U CPU will be used by PD by default. However, many other applications can take advantage of the discrete GPU.
There are laptop BIOS settings that one can utilize to disable the iGPU so it will always use the discrete GPU but to my knowledge the Inspiron BIOS does not have that feature, unless changed recently. In Dells laptop product line, the Precision series typically have this feature.
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