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I'm afraid it is what it is. Screen Recorder does not capture the actual "tools" as you see them in Photoshop.
Other screen recorders will do the job, like Camtasia, but they may cost you $$$. CL Screen Recorder is provided free with PDR. The partial screenshots below show Camtasia's recording of the Pen tool in Ps, beside CL Screen Recorder's.
I've found some inconsistencies, but not sure what they indicate. Before testing I re-calibrated my monitor.
Craig's photo DSC_2958.JPG displays "accurately" in various photo editing software I tried. It does appear to have a green cast in 1. PDR15, 2. Paint.NET & 3. MS Paint. You'll see that in the zipped attachment of screenshot.
I'll do the same test with a similarly coloured shot of my own.
BTW, JPEG Snoop indicates the photo has been edited in Photoshop. Not sure if that's relevant.
I'd agree with Frank's suggestion to shoot in RAW (or both concurrently). You'd want to process the RAW photos in a photo editor prior to PDR import. PDR just converts RAW to JPG anyway.
It's quite an involved thing shooting an eclipse from what I've read & heard (I've never done it). A couple of links that might help:
Glad you got your multi-cam functioning. I tried to replicate it here (without an LG20) but whatever combination I tried worked.
About production formats & profiles...
You're right - the profiles as they're list start at the lower end & work to the top.
If you look at an AVC H.264 MPEG-4 profile, it'll state something like "MPEG-4 1920 x 1080/30p (16Mbps)".
MPEG-4 is the wrapper
1920 x 1080 is the video resolution (frame size)
30 is the framerate & the "p" is for progressive
16Mbps is the (average) video bitrate, an indicator of quality.
It's a complicated thing, but the rule of thumb is to always produce to about the same quality (properties) as your input material. If you're using a mixture of (say) UHD clips at 60Mbps & HD clips at 28Mbps, it's probably best to produce to the lower quality - 1920 x 1080 @ 28Mbps.
Motion Tracker can track an object, but it cannot control the position of the subject on the screen.
The only way I know to do that is by using Crop & Zoom, a completely separate tool. The question has been asked before, so I can point you to this raw screen capture...
Here's one thread where this was discussed previously. There's a link to a little tutorial, showing what Longedge & The Shadowman have suggested.
Using black colour boards is fine, but I've found inconsistencies when trying to save as a template... so using an acyual black rectangle graphic is my preference.
As far as I know, there's no "Duotone" effect built into PDR. There's one called "Half Tone", which creates a spotty image with two colours.
If you have ColorDirector, you can easily generate the effect using Split Toning. Here's one I just made as a preset. That can be downloaded & installed in PDR. You'll find it under Fix/Enhance > Color Presets.
Duotone effects are also available in Pixelan's Film Touch 2 Pro, which you can purchase as a separate plug-in for PDR.
Sorry my suggestions can only offer solutions outside PDR.
I can find no reference to "100 free music tracks" on the Cyblerlink site. Conversely, I can find no reference to PowerDirector on the VideoMaker site Robert linked, nor on the Sountraxx site.
The "100 free music tracks" linked at VideoMaker is actually $35 (sorta free).
If you're referring to photos/images, you can just select them all the click Duration to change them all.
If you mean video clips, do you mean trimming them all to a certain duration or changing video speed? Either way, each clip would need to be done separately... as far as I know.
I bought my Pixelan "Ultra Bundle" in 2013, for PDR12 (I think), so this may not be relevant. I've certainly never had trouble installing them - Dissolve Master & the others.
What, if any, alert messages are you getting?
Does the Pixelan tab appear in the Transitions library?
Is this folder present? C:\Program Files\CyberLink\Shared files\Plugin\Pixelan
There are far more elegant ways to do this using Displacement filters in Photoshop (& other software), given that you want to customise the flag for your club, but I just turned
this still image... into this animated gif... in about 3 minutes flat
It's true that in older versions of Movie Maker transitions could be customised. It's not true of current versions.
In PDR, you cannot save transition settings. As Robert suggested, you can create your own alpha transitions... and they will stay as you made them and are also able to be further customised.
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(sorta free).
