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Borgus1 was right on. Changing from mp3 to wav fixed that problem.
Stevek, I read some warnings about not using oem drivers because sometimes pc manufacturers write their own custom driver code that would be lost by updating to OEM drivers.
I've cleaned out most bloatware, probably not all, but a lot. I use a tool called Winderstat to see what big files exist that I might have lost track of. I find it useful...and it's pretty colorful too.
I use msconfig frequently to keep background stuff from sneaking in.
I also turned off the internet the last time I did the "Produce" function in PD. Not sure it contributed to my problem, but it's a good step to take as a precaution.
I was surprised the the CPU usage during rendering is 90-100%. Guess if has nothing else to do it might as well do something constructive 
Guess I'm okay for now on the delays. Thanks for the help guys. Nice of you to be willing to lend a hand to those of us who need it now and then. Peter
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I'm using PD10, HP DV-7, intel i7, 8GB ram.
My video runs along ok when I view the file.
However, when I "Produced" the file as an MP4 and view that file, the music ends about 4 slides short of where it should end. The next piece of music starts again correctly in sync with the slide it is supposed to start with. I used Windows Task Manager to observe my CPU performance. It pegs at nearly 100% usage whenever a slide is displayed that has been edited with "Fix/Enhance" (to adjust colors)." (See attachment.) In an area where there is little slide editing the music stays in sync pretty well with the slides.
Why does the CPU usage peg when it processes a slide that has been edited.? I suspect this is causing a slight delay in the music during "Produce" that is cumulatively significant in the MP4 file.
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Steve thanks for the reply.
1. I checked with HP and they say all drivers are current.
2. I have an SSD as my C drive and all my data is on my D drive, 500GB HD.
I "packed" my video so as to have all the resources retained in one folder. I copied the folder to my C: drive and opened it from their with PD. The same delay problems occur there. I read a Forum comment regarding an unrelated video issue and the author said one should have at least 100GB available on the system for Hi def editing. I have less than half that on my system C drive. Maybe that's part of my problem. It's a small SSD, maybe I should move up now that prices are coming down.
3. I checked for overlaps by highlighting the video track, expanding the scale, and could see no overlaps or gaps.
I'm working around the delay issue by following a previous comment by Jaime-esque. I'm making my scrolls into an mp4 file and inserting it into my video timeline. That works fine but not very convenient.
Anyway, I'm going to burn a DVD and see what other problems show up.
Thanks for your help., Peter
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I'm using pd10, hp DV7 laptop, intel core i7, 8gb ram
I want to adjust volumes on several music tracks i am using in my video.
From within pd10, I select the track i want to edit.
I click on "edit audio". Wave Editor opens and shows the music track. I adjust the audio.
When I click on "File" all the options are greyed out. There is no way to save the track. So I click on the "X" to close Wave Editor and it ask's if I want to save the file. I say yes and the file gets saved as a new file name. (Took me a while to find the new file.) So, is the new edited file put in place on my video? It does not look like it but I would think it should since that's the file I wanted to edit.
I tried using Wave Editor separately from PD10. Opened the file, made changes, Clicked on File and all the choices for saving it are there. Why are they not there from within PD10? AAARG!
Some advice on using Wave Editor as I described will be appreciated. Thank you, Peter
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Thanks Jaime-esque for offering to take a look. Hope something simple is found. Peter
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I have PD 10. I'm using an HP laptop, core i7 Intel proc, 8 GB ram.
I'm using a scroll "Ending credits 002" in my video. It works but it delays starting for 2-4 seconds and jumps in to the middle of the credits before displaying. I've tried running it on different tracks with and without my mainline video on track 1 active. Makes no difference. I had trouble with this on an earlier project too. Any suggestions? Thank you, Peter
Follow-up. I opened a new file and the only thing I put in was the four scrolling files, one after the other, that are available in the Title Room. They all worked perfectly. I have no other apps running on my PC except the usual background stuff.
So, what is wrong with my main video? I have a lot of slides (approx 900) displayed for 3.5 seconds each. No transitions, no fancy graphic tricks. I also have an audio track. The video is about 45 minutes long. Everything runs well except the ending scroll. It behaves the same whether I have it at the end, the middle or the beginning. AAARG!
For what its worth, I opened task manager and watched my CPU usage when the ending credits came on. Nothing unusual; stayed about 25% +- where it's at during most of the video. One surprise I did see was when I displayed a slide that had "fix/enhance" color correction done, the CPU hits 100%. Does this on all of the corrected slides. Another AAARG!
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Thank you, I'll do that. I have had no responses to date.
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I have PD 10. I'm using an HP laptop, core i7 Intel proc, 8 GB ram.
I'm using a scroll "Ending credits 002". It works but it delays starting for 2-4 seconds and jumps in to the middle of the credits before displaying. I've tried running it on different tracks with and without my mainline video on track 1 running. Makes no difference. I had trouble with this on an earlier project too. Any suggestions? Thank you, Peter
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Well I thank you for the prompt, and accurate answer. I have PDv10. I looked under the "view" tab and sure enough there is a sort option. It does not look like like the image that you posted but it is there.
Thanks for the help. Peter
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I want to create a video containing several hundred photos. I want to import by date taken not by photo name. It looks like powerdirector sorts them by name even though I presort them by date. Can PD import by date or do I have to use an an external renaming program?
Thank you, Peter
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Thanks for the reply Carl.
My Analog Video Settings box shows:
Capture device: "Dazzle DVC100"
Capture Source: "Video Composite." A second choice in this window is S Video.
Audio Device: "Microphone (Hi Def Audio Device)" (which is the built in mic in my laptop.) No other choices.
Mixer button has nothing about the Dazzle.
I forgot to mention that I have installed the trial version of PowerDirector 10 in this laptop. I have the full paid version in another laptop and it recognizes the Dazzle video and audio just fine. Is the trial version lacking some features that the full version has?
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I have Power Director version 10 and win 7.
I am trying to capture video from my vcr through a Dazzle dvc-100.
I think I have all the latest drivers and software. Device Manager sees the dazzle video and audio.
PowerDiector sees the video but not the audio.
Any suggestions please. Thank you Peter
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Using win 7 HP. 64-bit. PowerDirector10 Ultra, build 1129b.
I have a 1hr, 20 min video on tracks 1. On the end I want a vertical scroll credit list.
I chose one called "scroll up" from several choices and populated it with my credit names (doesn't seem to matter which scrollong effect I use, the problem seems to be with all I tried) . When my video hits the last frame before the vertical scroll efffect, it stops for about 8 seconds, then jumps about 4 or 5 seconds into the scroll line (still no display on the screen) then after another 4 seconds or so the list of names start to appear scrolling normally until the end.
Any ideas why the several second stop and then further delay before displaying?
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Thanks to all who replied.
I found the Hardware acceleration check boxes. The first one was unchecked and the second checked (opposite to Hal's screenshot.) I now have both unchecked per Andrew's recommendation. I was able to get through the rest of my edit and burned 2 DVD's w/o a glitch. YEAH!!
Per SoftDeko's reply: (MY COMMENTS IN UPPER CASE)
1. Update your graphic drivers will hopefully clear up the display issue.
Driver Date/Size: 9/9/2010 18:29:16, 616960 bytes (ACCORDING TO ATI WEBSITE, MY DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.)
2. HDD (hard disc drive) and file source location. The HDD could be failing and slow to provide data. That looks a distinct possibility. File source location and slow response leading to a white opaque screen is triggered by access issues and HDD slowness. I BOUGHT THIS PC IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE IT HAD INTELS I7 QUAD CORE AND IS A 64-BIT MACHINE. I BOUGHT CYBERLINK BECAUSE IT IS TAILORED TO A 64-BIT MACHINE. I WAS DISSAPOINTED THAT HP PUT A 5200 RPM HD IN IT INSTEAD OF A 7200. I MIGHT UPGRADE IT TO A 7200 RPM IN THE FUTURE. IS THE ATI UPGRADABLE TO SOMETHING FASTER IN A LAPTOP?
2-1. I see you have a partitioned drive, what's on D drive? RECOVERY SOFTWARE AS SHIPPED FROM HP.
3. Clean up your HDD, defragment it. Clear out the temp files and then see what effect that has. MY DEFRAG IS CURRENT AND I DID A DISK CLEAN TO REMOVE TEMP STUFF.
I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING ANOTHER VIDEO EDIT SOON TO SEE IF I CAN GET THROUGH IT WITHOUT ANY TROUBLES. THANKS AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLIES.
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Andrew, I do not know where 'Edit'->'Preferences' -> 'Hardware Accelaration' is located. I looked in the Device Manager and found the ATI but there is no way to change the accelerator settings there. I will appreciate more description.
I'm going to try SoftDeko's suggestions now.
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I'd say it hangs. When I execute a step, I can tell it is going to hang because the screen will "blink". It remains looking normal. I wait a few seconds for my command to execute and nothing is happening. When I mouse around the screen and click on things there is no response. Then after 20 seconds or so when I click on something again the screen goes white (opaque). I open task manager with ctrl, alt, delete and it says PD is not responding. I can terminate the program with task manager. When I restart PD it asks if I want to run the last saved file. So, I can recover most of my work but what a pain  Hope this helps. Peter
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My HP laptop, 64 bit, Intel core I7, crashes frequently when running Cyberlink PowerDirector 9.0.0.3305.
I have approx 1-hour of AVCHD video I am trying to edit. I cannot say that it crashes on the same operation; it seems to be random.
I have reinstalled PD 9 several times and it does not help. It not only crashes on HD video. Before I had this camera I used a Sony analog tape camera and my PC crashed randomly with that.
I have attached a DXDIAG.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Peter
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I fixed it.
The error message had the answer.
I had the wrong folder name that contained my images.
Don't know how that happened but as I said earlier....old age is scaring me.
BUT, thanks for the info you gave me about packing a finished project. I was not aware of that.
AND, I will be sure to bring all images in to the Media Room, not left in a stray folder.
Blessings to the experts on the Forum.
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Thanks for replies.
I have all my source images in a folder on my C drive. I don't think I moved the source image folder but I could be wrong...old age I guess.
I now have them all in my Media Room.
I no longer get the message "An error occurred trying to open this media file" but it still does not open the images to my timeline.
My timeline is black (see screen shot) and all timing info is shown for each image.
I had edited the length of virtually all of my images.
If I drag one of the images froom the Media Room to it's place on the timeline it does not fit. It is it's original size.
Is there a way to tell where the timeline image locations are looking for the missing images? i.e. what folder location on the C drive. If I have to manually reinsert and adjust the images I'll chalk this video up as a learning experience and move on. I have a DVD of the video, I just wanted to tweek some things.
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I'm new to PowerDirector 9. I created a 1 hour movie made up of photos and flv video files. I've burned it to DVD and all is well. A week or so has passed and I just opened my PD9 movie file to edit some more and all the frames and transitions are there on the timeline but there are just a few images that are located in the Media Room. Most of my images are in a folder separate from PD9 and I think I imported them 1 at a time as needed and placed them directly on the timeline. My video is one hour long. I think I did something very wrong Someone help me restore my lost images, please. Thank you.
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