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Brilliant, thanks for your help David.
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Hi. I recently downloaded a free trial version of PD17 and now want to go to the full, paid for version. Can anyone tell me how to do this please? There was an option for an upgrade but this seems to have reinstalled the software but not asked me for any money. I don't really want to subscribe to the 365 option at the moment but don't want to be stuck with a watermark on my projects?
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Great, thanks for your help.
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As an extra thought - would PD17 work with an external disc drive ie., does it still have the facility to export to a disc?
Thanks.
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Thanks very much for this but as a not very techie, techie, I'm not sure that it answers my question? Part of my reason for using PD is to provide other people with short (30-40 mins) videos which I currently do via DVD. With my ancient PD version and steam driven laptop, this is easy. I can then "produce" and archive the films for myself and store them on an external drive.
If my new laptop doesn't have a disc drive, my question is - how do I use the new version of PD to achieve the same thing? The people I produce the DVD's for currently are not necessarily "friends" where I can share the film on Facebook or whatever ? Is the only option via Youtube? Not sure that would suit some of my "customers" as they prefer to watch on a TV and not all have the facility to connect TV to internet ?
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Can somebody tell me what the options are for outputting completed videos please? On my current ancient version I'm used to exporting to DVD for playback on my TV. However the majority of new laptops now dont seem to have disc drives and I'm sure tech has moved on. But I still need to be able to watch on TV. Thanks.
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Brilliant, thanks. That's decided me then - i7 it is :
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Thanks for your help guys. Would I need an i7 processor or would i5 or i3 be acceptable for PD17?
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Just after some advice please. For 10 years or so I've been using a (now very) old laptop with Windows 7 and successfully, the PD version new at that time. I am just about to invest in a new laptop and obviously want to upgrade my PD. I am by no means a professional but am looking forward to getting to know a new version with updated features. My question is - should I go straight for Version 17 or is Version 16 more established with less "glitches" for a mere home user like myself? I consider myself reasonably tech savvy but don't know enough to be able to work out what might cause things to go wrong. Apologies if this question is a bit vague - just trying (perhaps in vain) to save myself headaches and frustration getting to know a new system after so long, if the new version is too complicated for my needs. Thanks in advance for any tips.
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Hi. I've just tried to capture some video from our old digital tape camcorder using PD10. The previous version of PD I had could do this as well as import newer digital files from our new digi camera. This version doesn't seem to have the option to capture direct from the old camera - is this right? If so, anyone know a way I can get the taped footage into PD? I wouldn't have updated one of our older versions if I'd known this woud happen! Grrrrr 
Any help appreciated.
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Thanks for that. It seems mainly to be talking about PD11 whereas I'm using PD10 but if it's the same problem, looks like there's not much to be done until a fix is found!
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OK thanks I'll give that a go.
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I'm having serious quality issues trying to edit HD video from my new Panasonic. The original uploaded video is fine but as soon as it's on the PD timeline, the quality is degraded, especially with things like railings, roofs, boat masts etc. which flicker to the point of being unwatchable. I've disabled the hardware accelerator. I've checked the DVD output quality which is also poor, so it's not that the preview window setup is wrong (I have it on the high quality HD option). As soon as the clip is on the timeline, poor quality!!
I've had a trawl through other posts on this Forum and the following info may be helpful to my cause:
The display adaptor on my HP PC is NVIDIA GeForce G105M and the driver 8.17.12.7600. I'm not very techie minded so don't really understand what this means, but I'm willing to try and learn 
Any advice gratefully received.
Thanks.
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I'm having very poor quality issues transferring HD video from my Panasonic. The uploaded quality is fine but as soon as it goes on to the timeline, it is degrading, especially things like railings, roof tiles, boat masts etc. which flicker to the point of being unwatchable. I've tried disabling the hardware accelerator. I've tried outputting to DVD in case the preview window is giving a false image, which it isn't (I have it on the best HD quality option). The video is in AVCHD and I've made sure the output is the same with the same 1920 x1080 as the original.
It's not just the DVD quality that's degraded, it's as soon as the clips go on the timeline. Can anyone help? I'm a novice and not very good with technical jargon but am happy to try
Thanks!!!
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We've done an experiment and copied the video from the camera to the PC via Windows Explorer, not using the Panasonic Writer and the resulting picture is fine and much more stable! I've imported a few clips into PD10 and made an AVCHD HD dvd which plays fine on our BluRay player. So it would seem that the fault lies with the writer. We'll continue to pursue this to see if we can improve it somehow.
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Hi again. Thanks for your help: Yes, it's a 1080/60. I've been back to the preview screen in PD10 and changed it to full HD preview quality but the same wavery unstable problems are there. I must say that the DVD I've produced I used an ordinary DVD which I now realise doesn't support HD in PD10 so would understand if that made a difference to the DVD quality.
Is the preview screen in PD10 not brilliant HD quality even on HD? I guess I will have to get some Blu Ray DVDs and try to output the video again. We have two players, one Blu Ray and one not and the quality is equally as poor on both.
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OK sorry I got my terminology wrong, I know it's not film and it's stored on disk. The writer software supplied with the camera does indeed COPY the video from the camera to the PC and that's what I've done. It's just that the quality is rubbish when I've done it and I was wondering if there was a way around having to use the supplied writer to import the video into PD10.
I thought there was a reply suggesting the use of a firewire cable just now but that seems to have gone? I've used the cable supplied with the camera but perhaps that's not of sufficient quality?
Do you mean the disk on the camera might need to be finalised before uploading? Don't think it says anything about that in the manual?
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Ah yes, I've used a USB cable and I did indeed use a Firewire from my other camera. Thanks for your speedy reply. I'm gonna give that a try.
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I've just bought a Panasonic HS900 digital video camera and are very pleased with the picture quality of the original film. However I've just tried to edit the first section of film in PD10, via the Panasonic writer supplied with the camera to upload the video, and the picture quality is degraded terribly eg., in some scenes railings, roofs and timber decking pictures are all wavery.
Is there no way video can be captured directly into PD10, as I used to do with my previous digital camcorder, or does anyone have any advice or experience of this problem please? I've tried checking all the settings on all software/devices and haven't done anything wrong that I can see.
I don't think it's PD 10 as I've used it for a while and never had this degradation of picture quality before. Just not sure why I can't capture directly from my new camera - the option to capture directly from camcorder is greyed out if I hit the"capture" option.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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Many thanks c2hopper - I'm gonna give that a try. Really appreciate your advice. It does seem a faff to achieve something that should be so straightforward. Even when I was using the very basic MovieMaker they managed to make adding music work - goodness knows why PD10 can't!!!
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