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Thanks for the tips everyone.
To recapitulate, my problem was my 16:9 PowerDirector 11 slideshow, consisting of mostly pictures, was coming out with horizontally squished images when creating a DVD formatted as "Regular Display (4:3)". This was on an older non-widescreen TV. If I produced a Widescreen DVD it looked perfect on a widescreen TV.
After some experimentation the following process worked:
1. Changed my project from 16:9 to 4:3
2. Remove images from the slideshow one at a time, leaving a gap in the timeline
3. Add the same image back into the timeline. Re-adding an image back into the timeline, PowerDirector formats the image with what I think is a 4:3 aspect ratio.
4. Do 2 and 3 for all images in the timeline.
When I produced a "Regular Display (4:3)" DVD with this 4:3 project it now produced a DVD that looks great (non-squished) on older non-widescreen TVs.
This is kind of a tedious process because I had about 100 images in my slideshow. I guess what I did here was basically created the project anew as if I had started with a 4:3 project to begin with. I had to re-add my transitions between images since they are lost when you delete an image. The good thing about this method is I was just removing and re-adding back images in the order I had already decided upon.
Anyway, there has got to be a better more efficient way of doing this, but it worked for now. I saved my 4:3 project under a different name and now I have two projects (a 4:3 and a 16:9) that I need to both update if I decided to make a change.
Again, perhaps there is a better way to do this.
Thanks
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I created a 16:9 PowerDirector 11 slideshow with pictures, 1920x1808 video clips, music and transitions and produced a widescreen DVD with it and everything looks great on widescreen TVs. On an older non-widescreen TV the images are squished horizontally so I thought I could just go back to my 16:9 project, select "Regular Display (4:3)" when creating the DVD, and that would fix my problem, but the images still look skinny on non-widescreen TVs.
Is there a way to fix this without having to re-create the entire project starting with a 4:3 project?
Thanks
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Hello, I have a very large collection of family photos categorized first by year then by date of event (MMDDYY). When I add the root directory containing all my photos to the Media Library, it removes the directories containing the year and all I see is subdirectories of photos which makes it difficult to search for a particular event.
This is an example of what my photo directories look like on my disk:
D:\Photos
2012
010112 - New Years
030312 - Dallas Trip
2013
070413 - Fireworks
080613 - NY Trip
When I add D:\Photos\ to the Media Library I don't get the directory hierarchy, just this:
010112 - New Years
030312 - Dallas Trip
070413 - Fireworks
080613 - NY Trip
It would be much easier in PowerDVD to navigate to the year 2013, for example, then locate an event there, but since I have hundreds of photo event directories, they all appear flat and hard to navigate.
It seems this is just the way PowerDVD works, unless someone knows of a way to preserve a directory hierarchy?
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Thanks Dafydd, your solution works really well for bypassing the minimum video bitrate constraint of 13Kbps that is shown in the UI. I created several 5Kbps 1920x1080 custom profiles for MPEG-4 and H.246 AVC in an attempt to reduce file size while keeping as much of the quality.
Unfortunately at 5Kbps PD11 (which reduces my video size to 1/2 original size) momentarily produces blocky artifacts in video when the scene pans around a busy scene. It is great otherwise. I toggled most settings in the profile, but it wouldn't go away. This does not happen with the built-in PD11 profiles, but those don't reduce my file size.
This is unfortunate because I love the PD11 UI and it is very fast at all encoding settings (about .5x video duration). TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 and Handbrake produce better quality 5Kbps (and smaller file size) video, but they are slow at anywhere from 2x to 4x the length of the source video.
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I have a number of 1920x1080 .TS video files recorded at about 13000Kbps that are taking up a lot of space on my drive. I would like to resample them to save space, but without losing too much quality. I experimented with resampling with both TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 and Handbrake and determined that outputting to an MPEG-4 1920X1080 at 5000Kbps produces very good video that only uses 1/3 of the space. The problem is these two apps take 2x the duration of the video to do this. TMPGEnc has CUDA hardware support which is very fast, but I did not like its quality. I would like to see if my PowerDirector 11.0.0.2516 can output quicker with its hardware support, however all the MPEG-4 and H.264 AVC outputs only let me set a minimum of 13000Kbps when outputting to 1920x1080 sized video. Does anyone know of a way to make it use a lower video bitrate than 13000Kbps when outputting 1920x1080?
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