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My comment was not so much seeking a solution to a problem, more like making a comment, an observation on the nature of these "shadow files". As to whether MP4(H.264 AVC) is a lossless file type, I just wanted to know if that was correct, it would justify my using the format more as an intermediary, when I have a lot of clips and it looks like the resultant video may total 90-or-more minutes in length, then I'll break it down to shorter sequences and join them all up later. No need for PDS files, just the sequences, numbered or alphabetised to keep them in the order I want them in their own folder.
As to my rider which was deleted, I had my reasons for that but they are personal and I won't go into them here.
Lately I've taken to use H.264 AVC(MP4) to render sequences for a video I'm putting together. I figure MP4 to be a lossless file type(meaning I don't expect it to degrade after a couple of renderings). The camera I currently use is a Canon Legria HF R506, which shoots video in either AVCHD or MP4(selectable between either), so I've selected MP4. When I import the clips to my computer for editing, those clips show up in my "media library" with shadow files still generating(corner pip going from yellow to green). My problem is not with the shadow files, in fact, I find I can pull the clip onto my timeline and trim it down as needed even while the shadow file is still generating.
It's when I've created my sequences of roughly 5-to-10-minute lengths and rendered them as MP4(H.264 AVC) that I note there has been no shadow file created along with them. I chose MP4 as the rendering time is about the same as if I'd rendered at MPEG2.
I've taken to using MP4 to render sequences(segments, if you will) because sometimes they may have PiP superimposed video showing a scene from a slightly different angle. This thing with shadow files has sparked my curiosity since I started using that Canon camera. As I said earlier, the shadow file creation doesn't impede my editing work, I'm just curious as to why MP4 video I've created does not have shadow files attached.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Quote:Thank you soo much Neil! I converted the mp3 music track using audacity into wav. Then put black color boards trimmed to fit over all the empty areas and just like that my problem was solved. Again thank you so much. I hope this helps anyone else who might have a similar issue
No problems, Phil! Glad to be of help!
Cheers!
Neil.
(Second attempt at posting due to sluggish internet)
With the occurrence of random black frames, their duration is usually just one frame. If, like me, you apply transitions between all clips on the timeline, the transitions will effectively eliminate the random black frames, as well as provide a smooth segue between scenes.
Quote:Hello I've made a video demonstrating my issue. When I produce the video afterwards the music and videos aren't matched up properly like I made them through editing. If anyone has an idea of whats wrong please help. Thank you very much
Hello, Phil!
This is, for the moment, just a thought bubble, but perhaps before rendering your clip(in other words, producing it), try locking the tracks so they don't shift. Also I note there were a couple of gaps on the video track, that might have something to do with your problem, just a guess, a thought bubble!
Neil.
Added in edit: Yes, I think those blank spaces may well be creating issues, A suggestion might be to fill those blank spaces with a black colour board set to the required duration, might also be an idea to use WAV. audio for the music(apparently MP3 can go out of sync, so I've read), then, just before rendering, to be on the safe side, lock the tracks(as earlier suggested) so they remain exactly where they're meant to be on the timeline.
Part of your work is already done, you've processed your old cam-corder tapes and super-8 film onto DVD, As HDEdit says, simply import the clips into PD14(load the disc into your DVD-drive) and in PD14 go to Capture and select the icon resembling a DVD with camera(Capture from external or optical device), then just click "record", your content will be "ripped" from the disc into your media library ready for you to, as HDEdit puts it, let the fun begin!
Okay, now we have the content, what do we do with it? Dropping the content onto the timeline, click "Fix/Enhance" this will let you "touch up brightness, contrast, colour saturation, etcetera, but not too much. There's also "Video Denoise" which, applied moderately, really helps to clean up the on-screen image. Once that's all done, how about bringing the picture out to match wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio? Right-clicking on the video while it's on the timeline, scroll down to "set clip attributes", and from there select "set aspect ratio".
A window will appear with the choice of "Aspect Ratio is 4:3", "Aspect Ratio is 16:9", "Neither 4:3 or 16:9", choosing the first option will then ask: "stretch clip to 16:9" or "use CLPV to stretch clip to 16:9..." The latter will give you a better result and will adapt your 4:3 material to 16:9 without making people in your clips look like they've been "raiding the refridgerator"!(in other words, it retains, as near as possible, original proportions while stretching the image to fill a 16:9 screen). So there you have it! Some experimentation will be necessary in the colour/contrast/brightness adjustments, but mostly a little "tweaking" will suffice.
Quote:I hope Neil is wrong. It would be a grave mistake not to accept the suggestions Whereas upgrade to affect 15 to 80% old customers.We users have made a valuable contribution, we hope will not be thrown.
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Hi, bonagege!
I hope I'm wrong as well! But when you get a bunch of "tech-heads" (boffins) together in a room to plan and develop software like Power Director, naturally they'll agree among themselves that "this or that" should be included and that "other" should be discarded. The "this or that" would be things that those tech-head boffins who've been putting things like this together for yonks, think should be included. The "other" will be all the suggested improvements we've submitted through the "Suggestions For Power Director 15" thread over the best part of a year. The tech-heads might look at half-a-dozen or so of these suggestions and likely dismiss them with a phrase like: "what the heck would they know? They're just end-users, they haven't a clue!" Such may be the arrogance of those "in the know" that they'll just disregard anything that comes from outside their small circle of influence.
The programme, PD14(or any earlier version) needs to be activated within a 30-day period, or it will cease to function upon opening. The activation process itself is different in PD14(and back to PD9) in that it needs internet access in order to be completed. Some will want to argue that point, but that has been my experience, and I dare say it will have been so for many other Power Director users from version 9 through to version 14. It's different in that with PD8 and earlier, you only needed to type in the CDKey when prompted(after installation and intitial opening of the programme) and this action rendered Power Director fully activated and permanent on your computer. Registration was really only optional, this was handy when you weren't connected to the Internet(I was using earlier versions of Power Director on Windows XP prior to February, 2012 when I finally "bit the bullet" and put my computer "on the net"). The cropping tool might well be "greyed out" probably because your installation is still behaving like a "trial" version, as it will before it's fully activated. That's my guess at least.
September down here in Oz is the first month of Spring(starting 1st September), but up where most of you are, it's Autumn. People have been piling in suggestions for PD15 since the thread was started way back when, and the thread has exceeded 8 pages, but how many of those suggestions will make it into PD15, or indeed if any of those suggestions will be incorporated in PD15 is anyone's guess. Those "boffins" putting PD15 together are fare more likely to reject all the suggestions made thus far and only put in what they think we should have. That's as I see it, anyway.
Sorry MPEG2 didn't work for you. MPEG2 is pretty-much the "work-horse" in video editing and rendering, meaning it's a "standard" but so many digital cameras these days are using AVCHD, MP4 or other exotic file types, it's becoming hard to keep up. You may well have answered your own question though, with the format converter. Are you uploading to YouTube or Vimeo, perhaps? Others here may be able to offer better advice.
Muted audio could be down to a number of things. Here's a few to check off for any possible cause.
Check if the speaker icon for your computer is not muted(a little red circle-with-slash will appear if the computer audio is muted, in which case you won't hear any audio from anything else you have, music & such).
As Dafydd has shown, check to see if the audio track has been enabled or disabled, and, as Barry has suggested,
Check the speaker icon below the preview window for that red slash through the speaker icon.
When you've checked those possible causes, just play your clip in the media room before pulling it onto the timeline to see if you have audio. There is one other possibility, and that is Power Director not recognising or supporting the method of audio encoding that might be present in your clip's audio track, but this may be a remote possibility.
Barry's idea has merit! I've used a similar practice. If the total length of your video may run for more than an hour(an-hour-and-a-half, perhaps), then break it down into "sequences" of, say 5 to 10 minutes each, then join them all up at the end to produce your final movie. It might just cure your situation with the waveform display being out of sync, even if the actual audio is in sync with the video.
Actually, I've taken to using this practice a lot lately, even though I don't experience the out-of-sync waveform image in PD14[though I have experienced it in PD versions 7 & 8]. It makes for an easier method of assemble-editing videos. What's more, I render each "sequence" in H.264(MP4), then, when I have all the sequences I need, join them together(dropping transitions in to segue between each sequence) then render the lot in DVD-SP MPEG2 to keep my file size down.
Cheers!
Neil.
had to alter the bracket style! 8 with ) ends up as an emoticon, thus:
I don't think you can use the Paint Designer in the same manner. You can give it a shot and see how it turns out.
Thanks, Maliek, I think you've fairly-well answered my question. Prior to my being able to create PNG transparent background objects(graphics), I've been using BMP graphics which required chroma-keying to remove the background, resulting in the slightly-blurred images, I'll try my original method now with PNGs instead, and see what that gives me.
Quote:Sometimes on a long sound track the sound waves do not show all the way to the end.
Hi, Darp1!
I've also at times noticed this but it seems to be momentary. Moving the scrubber further along the timeline seems to correct the anomaly. I also note, at times, the absence of the "waveform" for the audio when dropping a clip into the PiP track(situation: two views of an event, shot with different cameras, one view goes on the master video track[Tr.1], the other goes on a PiP track[Tr.2]). I rely on audio cues to line up the two clips in order to synchronise them, I also rely on the visual representation of that sound wave to help with the syncing of the clips. On the clip laid on the PIP track, I get the sound, but not the visual representation thereof, that can cause a problem. If, for example, I'm lining up two views of a steam loco leaving a station, the sound of the "toot" is represented by a "bump" on the audio wavform, I look for the same "bump" on the waveform of the other clip(for the PiP inset) and line up the two "bumps", the visual representation allows me to line the two clips accurately. That again depends on the audio waveform being accurately synced with what's on screen, and going all the way to the end of the clip instead of vanishing part-way along. What you described, Darp, sometimes it appears that way on some shorter clips too. Have you noticed that?
Here's another "old" thread that was started back in 2014. The problem here is, you see a post dated a day or two before your own at the end of the thread, so you think it might be okay to make a comment, then along comes Dafydd B., and locks the thread! It would be far better if any posts not dated within a current calendar year be sent to archives. Then we would not fall into the trap of answering or commenting on "old" threads!
I've noticed this when I used PD7, and I think it also happened in PD8. Hadn't noticed it in PD14. I don't think much can be done about it really, it might be something to do with your computer's graphics card(a wild guess), but as long as the sound's in sync with the on-screen image, and all's well when the clip is rendered(then perhaps burned to disc), then it may be just a bug you'll have to bear.... bugbear - get it! Ha-ha! Seriously, I don't think it's much of a problem as long as sound and image remain in proper synchronisation.
Cheers!
Neil.
(had to post this again after first attempt took an obscenely long time to save)
Tomasc has your situation pretty-much covered! Often people can be caught in such a trap when editing video, When you set the "scrubber" to the end of the content on Video Track 1(master track), scroll down through any other added video/audio tracks, even down to the music and voiceover tracks, then scroll along the timelines to see if there's a bit of stray video, audio or anything else that you may have missed, then simply delete it. Something I've found useful in PD14 is, when you line up an item, be it a video or audio clip, title or effect, you can position it to be flush with the start or end of a clip on another track by means of a thin black vertical line that appears on the timeline(useful for cueing PiP video inserts, music, titles, etc.). If that line does not appear when you shift the material along the timeline, forward or back, it's very likely you've placed material on a track well beyond what should've been the end of your video.
Quote:hello i have a vdieo file (1920x1080) but in my power dvd appears w ith black borders left and right.can i do something wiht power dierctor 13 to crop,disable fix it?
The video space might be 1920x1080 but the actual video information might be just a 4:3 format - for example many older shows were filmed in 4:3 format, because that was the TV aspect back then.
Now, on wide screen 16:9 TV's or 16:10 PC monitors, it will have the black bars on sides. Sure, you can zoom in and crop to get rid of the bars, but that will get rid of some original image too.
or you can stretch the image to fill all the space, but then people and objects will look deformed.
Is no way around it.
A good read: [url=http://www.crutchfield.com/S-5pFed7ivSQU/learn/learningcenter/home/aspect_ratio.html
Actually, Sonic, there is a way around it! Cyberlink provides it as part of the editing process for anyone who's captured content from old VHS or Beta videocassettes(or even the Video 8, or Hi-8 camera tapes) that were naturally in 4:3 aspect ratio. It's CLPV and I've used it myself quite a bit recently when converting old VHS content for a friend. It does trim a little off the top & bottom of the image, but not so much as you'd really miss, then pulls the image out horizontally to almost reach the left & right sides of the screen. There remains a thin black line down each side of the screen but hardly enough to worry about. Dafydd B's graphic shows how to get to the adjustment, all you do then is to select "Video is 4:3" then select CLPV from the options in the drop-down list. There you have it! On reading further of Nicolo's responses, he says the video starts out at 16:9 but, at a given point, drops to 4:3 aspect ratio. At the point of the change, split the video, then apply the CLPV to the remainder of the video. Hope that's of help.
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