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In your case, maybe try lowering the preview quality to Normal as that should let PD update the overlaid maps and masks more quickly. You can increase the preview resolution whenever you need to see clear details in any specific areas.
Many thanks. That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate your time.
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Hi guys,
It's that time again. :
I'm attempting to edit our trip to New Zealand (from February) and I'm confused.
This year I wanted to produce a better map solution than I've done in the past, so I'm using 2 images of a map, one with a red line showing our route and then peeling back a mask with keyframes to gradualy display it (courtesy of Steve Grisetti's excellent youtube tutorial).
In theory it works but PD is reduced to a crawl and I can't even see the map when I'm adjusting the mask. I believe it's because I'm using massive map pictures (54 megabytes) I have 32Gbs memory and the 1060 card has 6Gbs if that is relevant. The thing is, I want to zoom in on the maps a lot, so they need to be pretty big. If this is the problem are there any cunning tricks I can use to get round it? Is there something I can do with Shadow files (which I know nothing about)?
As ever, thanks for reading and I appreciate any thoughts.
Cheers.
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There are two check boxes in Preferences/Hardware acceleration. Which one did you remember to uncheck? This might might others with the problem...
Excellent point. : I was referring to Hardware Decoding.
The other box was already unchecked.
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Hi all,
I've just been experiencing the Page Fault in non-paged area - nviddmkm.sys error, after having moved to PowerDirector 16 and updating my nvidia driver. After spending sometime googling and looking throough the forum somebody mentioned:
unticking the hardware acceleration box in Preferences
I was getting the blue screen pretty much every time I used a transition, and the above seems to have fixed the problem. Keeping my fingers crossed, hope this helps somebody.
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Thanks guys.
We did burn an image to disk and that was successful. After that I deleted a couple of files my friend had installed when first connectiing the drive, some driver update program which should probably be avoided. Then we disconnected the drive rebooted and then reconnected, this time windows saw it as BD-something or other, as it should do, we tried burning from Power Director and everything worked okay.
By the way, I always wite the disk from Power Director and never seem (touch wood) to have a problem. Apart from if I do a compilation it seems to ignore my request for PAL and go for NTSC. :-/
Thanks for your help, much appreciated. 
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Hi guys,
This is going to be slightly vague so apologies in advance. My retired friend has been spending a lot of time travelling and shooting video with his wife (who takes stills). Somebody told him to buy an editing program which he didn't get on with. He mentioned this to me, and I said get Power Director, 'cos it just works.
Well, he's got on with it very well, and burnt a dvd of part 1 of his recent US trip. He realsied his pc didn't have a blu-ray drive so bought an external one from Amazon. He used Windows 10 and after a few minutes it recognised the drive, but called it CD/DVD I think. We produced his masterpiece and then wemt to burn it.
Power Director started the authoring pricess but ay 98% stopped and sayed there for a couple of hours till he aborted it.
We're unsure how to proceed, he has 12 GBs memory.....
We checked the driver and asked Windows to download the latest, but after looking it said it already had the correct driver.
PD saw the drive as Blu-ray, not 100% windows does. :-/
Any thoughts?
I will encourage him to sort out his forum membership!
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Muito obrigado.
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If you wanted to adjust the level of the whole track, you use the horizontal slider in the audio mixer room.
Thanks Carl, I've made some progress - I had to revert to the timeline for some of it. What I was really after was adjusting the level of just one clip rather than the track as a whole.
Cheers.
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No video freezing this time, but for some strange reason, the display was zoomed in somewhat, so I was missing quite a lot of the material around the edges.
I noticed when I had originally got to the Create Disk page it was suggesting it would use about half the disk, but since then it has displayed it would use about 80%, I wonder if the page has got a bit confused with my save file?
Update for the record.
It looks like PowerDirector did get confused in some way.
I exported the file again at 1920 1080 50i 24mbps and then on the Create disk selected the same setting as my export (keeping well away from Smartfit) and the disk plays fine with no image zoom and no video freezing.
And the indicator at the bottom left of the page indicated I was only using about half of the disk - around 13 gbs. Previously (after messing around with Smartfit) it would not go below about 80% on the option I wanted to use.
I don't know if I messed up or if its a bug but it seems like clicking on Smartfit to increase the file size may confused Powerdirector and the susbsequent save file so that when I later tried to write the disk again (without the Smartfit) option things still got messed up (a zoomed in image on this occasion).
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I've usually adjusted audio levels the quick and dirty way by using the rubber band on the timeline, but I gather its supposed to be more accurate and easier using the audio mixing room. The thing is I tried it and I was all over the place, and ended up scampering back to the timeline. :-/
I'd like to, for instance, take down (or ramp up) the volume of the whole clip in one move, and I'm sure that's possible but I keep getting myself in a mess, Can anybody advise or point me at an appropriate tutorial?
Cheers.
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On my ongoing roadtrip holiday project I found some problems I'd had with the display of maps on dvd were not an issue on bluray, so I created a bluray disk to basically check I was happy with the edit.
(For the record I filmed the material on my Panasonic 700SD in HA mode which I think is 1920x1080 50i 17mbps) and on the PowerDirector's Produce page I selected H.264 1920x1080 50i 24 mbps.
When I got to the Create Disk page I noticed that the Smartfit option used up more of the disk, so I thought I'd try that. Unfortunately when I came to try the disk, the video kept freezing, but sound continued normally though.
I thought it was probably the Smartfit option that had caused the problem so I used the same exported file but this time, on the Create Disk screen, I chose the (Bluray Disc) - HD 1920x1080 50i setting and stayed away from Smartfit.
No video freezing this time, but for some strange reason, the display was zoomed in somewhat, so I was missing quite a lot of the material around the edges.
I noticed when I had originally got to the Create Disk page it was suggesting it would use about half the disk, but since then it has displayed it would use about 80%, I wonder if the page has got a bit confused with my save file?
I would appreciate your thoughts, guys.
Cheers.
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Angus -
Here's that little comparison I mentioned. Watching on YouTube will give you a clearer idea. I included a couple of stills with the maps.
Tony, that's a brilliant illustration of the effect - thank you so much. I showed it to a friend at work who is suffering from a similar problem, and he was also very appreciative.
I have exported a bit of the video to blu-ray type standard, (16 mbps) and there is no real problem there, so that's a relief, but I would still like to have a dvd option.
My thoughts are:
Bang up the mbps (as Playsound suggested) and go to two dvd's.
Try reducing the resolution of my maps to 50% and see if that helps
Or maybe just use less detailed maps? ..........I wonder if its graphic detail or physical resolution or a combination that might help.
Anyway, thanks again and have a great weekend, y'all.
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You mentioned the original maps were "big old files". What is the original resolution of the maps? You also said the "original export" wasn't any better. What was it rendered at? DVD HQ or higher?
Hi Tony.
I had one massive scan for the maps, and I cropped out various bits of it to use in the different sections, typically 4,500 x 2,500 pixels or thereabouts - sometimes a fair bit bigger.
The exported video prior to actually burning and fitting it to the disc was an .mpg 720x576 9836 kbps apparently.
I'm in the process of cropping some lower detail map images, at about the same resolution as well as second set at half the resolution.
I'll see how they work, I guess.
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In PD will have to use the best quality DVD HQ.
This only fits about 1 hour in, DVD 4.7 Gb.
Thanks Playsound. Unfortunately the production is 1 hour 25 minutes. I used smartfit to put that on one disk, but when I looked at the original export (higher quality) that was not any better from what I could see. I want to be able to fit it on one dvd, so I think I will have to re-do the maps. 
What is actually occuring here? Is it the sheer amount of detail moving across a sensor matrix causing moire fringing and interference patterns?
Is the answer to reduce the amount of detail and/or movement?
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I finally "finished" our US roadtrip video and produced it to dvd so I could go through it and list the things I needed to fix. I was expecting certainly sound levels and so on, but hopefully nothing too major.
Oh dear......
I've broken up each day with a map animation showing our route, using the Magic Motion tool in the User Defined setting, I zoom into to a still of the map, stop, put down a row of asterisks and fade into the video at start of that day.
Unfortunately now that the video is produced the maps look awful. They are big old files, but during the zoom, they look like there's a snowstorm going on, the horizontal lines in particular are horrible and are almost strobing. Once the motion stops they don't look too bad.
I'm thinking about hand drawing the maps on card and photographing them and substituting those images for the map images, but I'd be grateful for any suggestions - cheers.
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AHHHHH! Got it, you drag the point off to the end of the clip, a bin icon appears and the grab point is banished. Nice one, Ang.
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Hi,
I gather that responsible adults probably use the sound room or something, but if you have manually clicked on the audio track of a clip and manipulated the levels with the grab points (rubber band) is there a way to remove them?
I usually manage to achieve what I want with them, but sometimes I think I'd be better off starting again and I don't seem to be able to remove the pesky things.
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Hi _Angus_ -
Setting keyframes in PiP Designer is a far more accurate of controlling opacity.
Totally accept what you say, Tony, its just I'm a bit chicken. I've been on the look out for a tutorial that will hand hold me through the PiP Designer, but the ones I've seen seem a bit general to me. Even the name PiP is a bit misleading for my intended uses. :-/
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You should be able to return to the timeline view and pull the band.
Thank you, Barry - exactly what I needed.
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Never heard of the opacity rubber band in PD9. Is it possible that you are referring to something else like a fast way to set a clip opacity. See this post on the last thread: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/42199.page#217465
Let us know if this is what you were referring to. It's on all versions of PD.
Thank you - yes, that's what I was talking about, some people refer to the line as a rubber band I believe. Thanks to your post, I can now move the line up and down, but I can't seem to attach the little "bend points" to it in the same way as you can on the audio signal, allowing you to fade in and out. Is this no longer possible?
Thanks again.
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