Messages posted by Dreece47

I have a Panasonic HDC-HS700 camcorder which shoots at 50p (I live in Australia which is a PAL region) and also a HX-WA30 which is a smaller, waterproof vertical camcorder that shoots in 30p (apparently they were imported without having the framerate changed for PAL). I want to combine the footage from both cameras but because the framerates don't divide into each other it reduces the quality of the 30p footage signifigantly. Is there any way I can improve the quality of the footage or will I just have to put up with it being jagged and jumpy? Any advice or info would be much apprecaited.

Cheers!

Hey there, I am having trouble when I split a segment of a clip and then increase the speed of the new split clip up. I have never had this problem in older versions of powerdirector and I know it isn't a hardware issue because I have a very powerful pc with a 3 gb graphics card. Has anyone else had any issues with speeding clips up and can they provide me with any solutions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Reece

Sorry, here is the text version. Cheers

Hey guys thanks for all the responses, but I have tried turning off svrt and that isn't helping. I am noticing that the artefacts appear ost when a transition occurs but they also appear randomly. Dafydd, I have attached the mediainfo file, so hopefully you can help me further once you have seen it.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the responses everyone. The video files are .h264 avc files so I guess I should produce the using that format? I have produced a couple of clips with this format already and there are a few artifacts in the end result. The project I produced as a mkv was seamless. I am going to burn the files to blu-ray as I have a blu ray writer and a blu ray player, so basically I want them to be as good quality as I can (nothing like 2k 4k though.)

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Having just upgraded to Powerdirector 11 I am unsure which is the best format to output my project files. I am editing full HD 50p footage and want to produce it at the highest possible quality. I tried an mkv file and it looks excellent, but I think it is still compressed as I have produced this particular clip before and the file size was 2gb (this one is 800mb).

I have quite powerful setup so I'm not worried about system requirements. If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it. Also, I am wondering why with certain output formats I don't have an option to use 5.1 surround sound? The footage was recorded with surround sound but the option is greyed out with some of them e.g. mpeg 4. Can anyone give me any information regarding that?

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I have Powerdirector 9 ultra and have recently bought a new PC (see dxdiag file). My new computer has windows 8 and I have been having A LOT of trouble with the program. Nearly everytime I open it the error message "Powerdirector has stopped working" comes up and closes the program. I have uninstalled and reinstalled more time than I can count but it still won't run smoothly. The weird thing is it seems to run better without the latest patch. Before I installed the patch I produced a 5 minute clip as a .mov file and it was over 3gb when it finished. After I installed the patch the same clip produced as a .mov file was only 500mb? It is impossible that it is lossless at 500mb because it is 1080p footage I'm editing.

Basically my question is, do you think I should upgrade to powerdirector 11? I would prefer not to, and I am worried that the same thing will happen with the upgrade version. Has anyone had any issues running it on windows 8? I am very frustrated by all of this as I bought a powerful PC to edit my HD footage and it has driven me nuts since I got it.

Any advice and help will be much appreciated.

Cheers!

Hi there, I know that this problem has been posted many times before but I have searched through all similar threads and no one else seems to be having the same problem as me. I have just bought a brand new desktop with windows 8. I have attached the DXDiag file so you can see the specs.

I have had problems with the program from the moment I installed it. At first it seemed to open fine, but after I downloaded the latest patch it came up with the error message as soon as I opened the program. I worked out that quicktime can cause issues so I uninstalled it and then powerdirector seemed to work. I opened some projects and produced them as files and all seemed to be going ok.

The next time I opened the program the same error message came up. Now whenever I simply open the program I get this message. But if I open a project file the program works fine until I try to edit the timeline. I can still produce the project to files however.

This is incredibly frustrating, as I want to get on with a buildup of footage and I can't seem to work out what it wrong. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it several times to no avail.

When I installed it the first time, I did however try and install the latest patch before I entered the cd key. I learned that powerdirector doesn't like this and then un/reinstalled it and did it in the correct order.

If anyone could provide me with any assistance I would greatly appreciate it, I am tempted to simply upgrade to PD 11 and hope that solves the problem, but If I can save $70 then I will try to fix this problem first.

Thanks heaps!

EDIT - I am also wondering if upgrading to PD11 from PD9 and opening PD9 files in PD11 will have any compatibility issues? Do they tend to seamlessly transfer between versions or can you have trouble with opening saved projects from older versions?

Quote: Of course the quality looks reduced, because it probably is.

When you are playing the video through the BluRay recorder, it is very likely up converting to 1080 to play on the TV.
But when you play back the recording, you see the native SD video (720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL).

It is likely that your BluRay recorder will do the best job of digitizing the analog video. If you can get the video from the BluRay Recorder to PowerDirector, that may be your best and cheapest method.

The other method would be to use a USB Capture Device in Powerdirector's Capture Module.

I do not recommend a USB device that costs less than about $40-50 USD.
The cheaper devices just do not work in Powerdirector, at least well.

Thanks for the reply Carl. In your opinion, do you think using a video caputre usb would result in better video quality. I have looked around online and am thinking about getting this product
http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Video-Capture-Device-10020840/dp/B0029U2YSA

I am happy to pay for a device that would allow for the best video quality possible. The one above allows you to convert the video into mpeg4 or H.264 files.

However if you think that using my blu ray recorder will yield equal video quality then i am quite happy to do it that way. Any advice is appreciated

Hey guys, I hope this is the right place to post this. I want to import footage from my parents (really old) camcorder onto my PC using powerdirector. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice as to the best way to do this. The camcorder has a yellow and a white av cable and I want to know the best way to connect this to my PC (obviously it has no av port). If anyone has any suggestions it would be highly appreciated.

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I also forgot to mention, I have a Pansonic Blu ray recorder and I have successfully connected the camcorder to the recorder with the av cables. When I simply watch the footage on the camcorder through the blu ray recorder it looks quite good. However, when you record the footage to the hardrive and then go and play it back it seems that the quality is reduced. Would using an av analog to digital usb cable from the camcorder to my PC and then import it through powerdirector yield better results? Basically I really want to preserve the footage from all the tapes in the best quality I can but I don't want to take them to a business specialising in this as it is too expensive.

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My video camera has 5.1 channel surround sound so I was hoping to utilise this when producing my project. When I produce the file as a mpeg 4 the dolby 5.1 surround sound is greyed out, however it is availiable as an option when I produce the file as an mpeg 2.

I was under the impression that an mpeg 4 was better and is used as a standard when movies are put onto dvds. Why won't it allow me to produce my project with surround sound as an mpeg4? Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

P.S. I enabled shadow files and realised the reason it wasn't working previously was due to the fact I relocated all the video files and didn't know that the shadow files had to regenerate, once they had all loaded the preview works really well.

I am pleased to say that I used the clean up kit and power director is now installed and working swimmingly - thankyou for your help, I am grateful there is such a great support base for this program, I am glad I chose to purchase it

I've noticed that several people have downloaded my dxdiag but noone has responded with any advice. Could anyone give me any information regarding the capabilities of my pc and whether or not I should persevere with it or look into buying a new computer. I understand now that the lag is due to pc capabilities - i can put up with producing the video to see the timing. I am currently using the cleanup tools to reinstall the program - i'll let you know how it goes

Here is the dxdiag for my computer

I forgot to add that I am editing 1080 50p footage if that helps, can no one give me any advice?

I've had powerdirector since may this year and when I first started using it I didnt have any problems with it - I made an 11 minute video with no troubles. I went overseas for 3 months and took a lot of video footage and when I got home I went to work on a video. I made the first clip which was about 5 minutes long, and I'll admit it had a lot more transitions in it than the 11 minute video but it seemed to work fine when I was editing it. After I had finished and went back and opened the file a certain amount of time later, maybe a week or so, when I watch the preview it starts out ok but then just lags and jutters really badly when it hits transitions or sped up/slowed down footage. The mp3 that I have running along side plays properly but goes at the right speed while the footage lags and then the footage skips and catches up, then starts juttering again. I read on another post that sometimes uninstalling and reinstalling powerdirector helps, so I did that and it didn't make any difference, then I read that updating video drivers can help, so I did that and as soon as it installed powerdirector wouldnt open - the error message said it had stopped working. Now I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it and it gets to a certain point in the install process and a runtime error occurs and it fails. I am so frustrated, we have just had our computer fixed and it cost $150 because we had a virus on it. Powerdirector worked fine after this (apart from the lag issues) so I don't think it's related. The computer is 3 years old so I am not sure if it is really powerful enough to handle the program, the specs are: Dell Inspiron 530s - Processor is an intel core 2 duo cpu, E6750 @ 2.66 ghz and we have 4 gb of ram and it is 32 bit os.

Any advice would be much appreciated as I would love to get going and finish the video so I can show my family and the people I travelled with. Cheers

Hi - I went overseas for 3 months this year and took about 100 gb of video footage which I transferred to my computer. I started editing the footage but my computer is running REALLY slow because of how much space the files are taking up, I have backed them up to a desktop hardrive, and want to use this as the file location while I am editing my videos. Now, if I copy the powerdirector save file to the desktop hardrive, delete the video files from my computers C:drive, will I be able to reassociate the save file with the files that are now on my desktop hardrive? Will this cause any problems or should it work ok? Any advice would be much appreciated.

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I have a Panasonic HDC HS 700 camcorder (pal version) that can record 1080 50p footage. It come with a very basic program that I can edit the 1080 50p footage with but it is too limited for me, I want to get power director 9 but I want to be able to edit and export the footage in the best quality possible. If anyone could tell me whether it supports this framerate I would really appreciate it.
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