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CBH, Thanks for that message. As for proof of purchase, I don't think I can supply a receipt docket as it has been some time back since I purchased it. PD8 came in a package with a Kworld video capture device(capture card for converting VHS, Betamax or any other videotape format to DVD). Regrettably the installation key number is also missing off the disc label or the sleeve it is in. Also in the package was a driver(installation) disc for Media Show DE V4. This was the only disc that had the CD-Key. I've uploaded an image of the PD8 disc label as proof it is not a copy but a genuine cyberlink installation disc.
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Personally speaking, and to be brutally frank, I just don't see what the fuss is about. Having viewed 3D TV sets in retail stores,3D ain't all it's cracked up to be! As I see it, the best use of two cameras is to grab a shot of your subject from two completely different angles.
Zum Beispiel(er, that's "for example" in German, by the way!) If you're shooting a video of a steam locomotive passing through a station, take one camera yourself and set it up(best with a tripod) to shoot the loco on one platform and your wife, girlfriend or a friend, takes the other and shoots the same loco from the platform opposite you, and maybe a bit further along the platform. As the loco comes into the station, when it passes a predetermined point, you both start recording. When the train stops, or if it passes though without stopping, follow it through, panning left or right as it passes.
When it comes to editing, choose which angle will be on the main(native) video track and which will go on the PiP(Picture-in-Picture) track, then it's simply a matter of sliding the PiP track until you achieve synchronisation. When synch is achieved, mute the audio on the PiP track. Next step, on the PiP track, count in two or three(more if you want) seconds in from the start, then split the video. Count the same number of seconds back from the end and split there as well. These short bits at the beginning and end are to be animated for an effective - and impressive - entry and exit. If you've placed your PiP in the bottom-right corner of the main screen, click on "modify" size the PiP using the grid-lines as a guide, there is also a grid-line showing a "safe" zone, inside which, your PiP won't be cropped by the edge of your TV screen(this should be done before splitting start and end, sorry I forgot to mention that - oops!). On the animation effects, select an arrow with straight line(l-to-r, r-to-l, bottom-to-top, top-to-bottom). On the monitor screen in the programme there will be the start point for the animation, and the end point, plus two intermediate positions. These intermediate points can be used or discarded at your discretion, or you can add more if you need to do so. For the beginning few seconds, move to the end of the animation line part from the play, stop and frame-advance or backward buttons, you'll see a set of buttons with a diamond/left arrow and diamond/right arrow plus diamond/+ and diamond/- buttons, the latter to add or remove intermediate points. Using the diamond/right arrow moves to the end of the range for your effect, at this point, using your up/down/left/right keys or mouse to position, set the clip to where it should be, bottom-right of screen, moving back to start of sequence(diamond/left arrow) place the image at the point from where it is to enter(slide from bottom-left, top-left or top-right, even from bottom-right). If you want the PiP to enlarge to its predetermined size, at the corner of the Pip(any corner), pull into centre. Using the intermediates you can grow the image in stages(experiment) or, deleting intermediates, grow the image evenly from any point on the screen to end where and how large you want. Follow the process in reverse to make the end piece fly out of shot in whichever direction you choose, you can even make the image spin clockwise or anti-clockwise in our out, rotation settings should be set to at least 360 degrees for best effect. 360X8=2880 degrees for a rapid spin(suggested). When you've done this, produce your final clip and give it a title. This is all based on a hypothetical steam loco vid but should give an idea which can be applied elsewhere. sorry for the space taken to explain the process.
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Carl312,
I don't think you understood what I was saying. I'll explain step-by-step.
1) I had PD8 TEMPORARILY installed on my computer(for evaluation), found it to be a "Bare Bones" version as it came off the installation disc.
2) I unsuccessfully attempted to download the patch which would bring PD8 up to a full working "build" to give me all the features PD8 was meant to have, I gave up after 3 abortive attempts.
3) I reinstalled PD7 and have continued with it ever since.
Thus I was unable to utilise PD8's Video Reversing tool as it was not enabled on the "bare bones" PD8.
I'm using PD7 for: a) Capture from videotape
b) Occasionally complete editing, some partial editing(assembling segments edited elsewhere[other software])
c) Inserting narration and music
d) Final DVD authoring[burning] including setting chapters and creating menu pages.
I find PD7 excellent for the above tasks, particularly for inserting narration. For this purpose, I would view the edited clips and write down some lines which I'll read to describe the scene. When I've recorded all the narration(using Sony Sound Forge 10) I'll save the narration track as an mp3 file and import it into my workspace, I leave a bit of a gap between each "description" so I can split the narration track at this point. I then cut the remainder into "clipboard", I play the video further until the next part comes up where narration is required, I paste in the narration, splitting and cutting the remainder into clipboard, I continue in this fashion until all narration parts are in place. Sometimes I do an "ad-lib" narration straight to the narration track. This is where PD7 has it over other software I've used. And it's the capture from videotape(via capture card device) function that puts Power Director head & shoulders above Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7 as that programme makes absolutely NO provision for capture from device, very disappointing of Windows not to provide such a facility.
As for the PD8 installation disc, it remains unused, and will continue to be unless I can successfully download a patch to render it into a full working version.
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Hi, Carl312.
I'm aware that Power Director has improved and advanced by at least 4 or 5 new versions(PD13 in the offing, perhaps?) in recent times. I had PD8 briefly installed and viewed some of its features, one which I've wanted for some time enabled videos to play in reverse, this feature was in PD8 but I was unable to try it because of the "bare-bones" level of the version contained on the installation disc I was using. I had since acquired(and have been using for edit-and-produce-only) Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 which has the video reversing effect. I still use PD7(reinstalled after abortive attempts to download PD8 upgraded build) for final authoring, adding audio narration and other editing. I tend to do a mix-and-match, sometimes using a mix of PD7, Corel and one other(unnamed) editing software, to get the best of each, but the final burn-to-DVD goes through PD7. Why? PD7 allows easy creation of menu cards, plus allows me to put up to 2 hours and nearly 20 minutes of content on a disc without worrying about how big the file size might be in gigabytes(PD7 appears to compress the file-size somehow). If I have items with a combined playing time of 2-hours+, then I'm easily able to "cram" them onto my disc. That's the beauty of PD7, and likely PD8 too, if only I was able to download and successfully patch in the build upgrade to make it a full version, instead of the bare-bones version on the disc.
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Bird sounds wouldn't be too expensive to come by, they'd come "cheep"!(oh dear, bad pun... slap on the wrist for little me!)
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First of all I should state that I'm still currently using PD7, but a purchase of a capture card device some months ago(last year, to be precise) brought a DVD installation disc for Power Director 8 as part of its package. Also included was a disc for Media Show and Power Producer Version 5. I note when logging in that there is an upgrade available for PD8. The only trouble with the PD8 installation disc is that it is for a "bare-bones" version, where a lot of the features won't function unless I download an upgrade. Having tried this before, three attempts met with failure of the upgrade to "take", and the functions I wanted to use(reversing the video is one useful feature, especially for comic effect) were still unavailable. I have to state here that I have bought and installed Corel's Video Studio Pro X5, which also has the reversing effect. I have been using a combination of both VSP-X5 and PD7 in recent times. Video Studio for editing and PD7 for adding narration and disc authoring, plus adding title overlays(which, more often I create myself, using Windows Paint). I'd like to know(seeing I already have the PD8 installation disc) If it would cost me in $Australian to download the upgrade build. I'll await an answer before I attempt to do the installation.
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Hallo, Bert! Bei meiner erfahrung der Power Director(Ich habe PD7), Ich muß leider sagen daß was Sie machten wollen, ist leider nicht möchlich. Weil gibt es nur zwei Tonspurren. Eine ist für Sprach, die andere ist für Musik. Daher mußt mann in eigenter Sprach reden(Englisch, Deutsch oder andere). Die system erlaubt nicht mehr als einer Sprach zu benutzen. Bitte entschuldigen Sie meine Deutsch! Meine Muttersprach ist natürlich Englisch.
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I actually did manage to sort the problem so the curse is lifted(did I just hear you heave a sigh of relief?). This is how I did it.... First I went to "Control Panel" - Add/Remove Programmes, took off some that would go(Power Producer and other related bits & bobs), then to "Programme Files" and opened the Cyberlink folder and deleted the Power Director folder and the Power Producer folder. There was still the "ghost" of Power Director 7 still haunting my computer so, loading in my DVD Suite disc, reinstalled Power Producer & Power director 5, not because I wanted version 5, but it would overwrite the remnants and clear out what remained of PD7 from the problematic installation.
Once PD5 had done its job, I then loaded my PD7 installation disc and it then overwrote PD5, so now I have PD7 back, working properly as it should. The problems I had can be traced back to when I accepted the chance to "upgrade(?)" PD7. I certainly won't be doing that again - once bitten.....! PD7 is working properly again and I was able to finish(up to a point, still waiting on some more MPEG clips from a friend to finish off the "Steamfest" video we shot over the past weekend here in Australia.
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I have begun to curse Cyberlinki because PD 7 absolutely refuses to uninstall from my computer and I'm fed up. In control Panel I click on remove and it proceeds to do the exact OPPOSITE to my command, then tells me the programme already exists, do I want to uninstall, then after clicking yes, tells me an error has occurred and programme ident is lost. So I try to remove by deleting the folder from "programme files", only to get an "access denied warning from the two remaining folders, Power DVD and Shared Files. Quite frankly I've had a gutful. All I wanted to do was uninstall and reinstall to try to remedy a problem of spontaneous crashing. The PD7 files have been deleted but their ghosts haunt this computer. I cannot reinstall because, as said, the computer thinks the programme still exists and i go through the whole cycle again to end up even more frustrated and infuriated when I get the error message yet again. There's no actual change option as clicking "change/remove" only starts the remove process, which, as stated does the opposite. WHAT NOW?
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