Messages posted by Flapperke

Hi all,

Very nice discussion here.. :
As newbie PD-er , me too I was surprised by the behavior of PD while inserting stuff.

I had a title object in the middle of my project which I liked to copy to the front of my project.
Right clicked the title, then 'Copy'.
Moved the timeline pointer to the beginning of the project and did a paste...
I inserted the title on the video track1.. move all the rest of the track to the right... but it left the audio track 1 unchanged... so de-synching the entire project...

I support Jerry's opinion : VERY strange behavior.. :
I would have expected that my entire project would have been moved to the right...

Happily , I'm a well trained "un-doer" :
Eventualley I worked around this mmm.. 'feature' ? via track 02....

By the way, does PD knows (like a fellow editor I used till recenlty) a way to grab and drag all the content to the right of my 'grabbing point' ?

Bye now
Hugo

Hi Fred,

Weird, my other PC system which had the premiere running, had a C drive of 20GB in total. Kept about 4-5 gigs free... My premiere stuff was 'scratched' to a another internal drive (500gb) .
Never had a problem with it...

: confusing it izzzz... :

Thanks Fred.
My concerns in this discussion goes to 'speed'...
If I have my PD9 running from the C drive, which is itselve also used to 'host' all the temporar work file traffic, wouldn't the rendition times be influenced in the wrong direction ?
I mean, there was (is?) a time in video-editing where the advice was to keep programms on the root drive and all other stuff on dedicated other drives to speed up the editign/rendering process...

But if there is no way to change PD9's addiction to the C-drive : cleaning up is all I'm left to do :

I'm not into HD, only DVD. Guess a couple of dozens of Gb's will do.

:

Bye now,
Hugo

Thanks Fred,

but are you sure that I cannot deviate the working files of PD9 to another drive ?
Since even the swap file of Windows can do this...

thanks for you advice
Hugo

Hi Twain,

The wave graph not refreshing correctly is another 'topic' of mine... : Combined with this one.
If you want to do the wave form trick, first condition is that the wave graph refreshes with every move you make :. I got the impression that it doens't , if either begin or endpoint of the track is not visible on screen...

Bye the way , VERY NICE music you create there in that youtube movie...

Hi DevonBiker,

this 'wave-form-pattern-matching' trick works very well for me. Especially if you have some "land marks" in the audio like a strong beat or other high volume peaks... I start with a 'rough' estimate of positioning the separate audio track , purely 'on-sight'. Then I stretch the timeline to a very high granularity (frame by frame scale) to fine-tune the position.
Ofcourse, also 'listening' to the result learns me a lot about lagging or leading audio track position... Echo = Too far out of sync, Flanging = very close in sync , no effect = done ! :
Happy Editing !
Hugo

Hi all,

I went searching the forum to find an answer on your frequent advice : "Free up at least 100gb on your c-drive'...but couldn't find any argumentation.

I understand the 100gb , since working with video you need a lot of 'space' for temporar files.

But I don't understand the c:-drive thing. Why the c-drive ? If I put my working directory to d:, am I correct assuming the D-drive must have these 100gb free ?

Thanks for you advice,

Hugo

Hi Dafydd,

WaveForms2 : no , that's exactly my problem. The soundtrack is NOT shortened, it's really "moved" and when playing it's OK.. but the wave form graph is not 'moved' along... it is even after the move, still displayed in the 'old' location.
when I would fuzz with the timeline (zoom in or out) to force a redrawing of the timeline THEN it is displayed in its new (correct) location... Feels lik as if PD9 doesn't 'refresh' the wave form after the soundtrack moved...

Thanks for the hints on improving my hardware.

Bye now,

Hugo

Hi LittleChay,

Forget about the converter option FireWire to USB... I don't think that's a good way to go. DV streaming into your PC needs a priority lane, USB is not. Only Firewire will offer that.

So... Carl's suggestion : spend some bucks on a FireWire card, is the best option.

Hugo

Hi LittleChay,
My 'old' tool Scenalyzer is only accepting FireWire input. But I don't know about PD. Anybody ?

If the tool you found to do the splitting is not a competitor hostile enemy from Cyberlink, could you tell us the name ? (if not, pm me please )

LittleChay,

After my 'first night' with PD yesterday (I was using a 'fellow-product' before ), I visited the area in PD on importing DV footage. PD offers the same 2 functions as Scenalyzer does : splitting scenes on timestamp or 'visually' (or 'no split' ofcourse) . So , for future projects I suggest you let PD read in your footage.

I use Scenalyzer , but that only works while importing from a DV camera into the PC and only via FireWire...
It automatically cuts the scenes based on
1. Data/time change
or
2. Visual detection.

Another problem is ... although their website still exists , I don't see much 'movement' since 2005 : But my copy is doing what I need it to be doing for many years now...

Having the same functionality (automatical detection of scene changes ...) starting from an existing large video file... I couldn't find neither. Sorry.

Hi Cranston, thanks for that tip. Not only about the echo, but more importantly about VST in general. Didn't knew there was such a wealth on plugings available for PD...
Hugo

So.. members of the jury, mentioning ALL and PURE open source stuff, shouldn't offend any name-mentioning-rules then, right ? I'm a VERY big fan of using open source tools like InkScape, GimP, Notepad++, and last but not least : Abode Derniere (: ... just kidding...
As a resumé : non-commercial products are save to be listed here , correct ?
Bye now,

Thanks Scrovegni for your switft reply. So I better do a short test-run from A till Z on PD9, before I put all my eggs in that single basket.
:

(as said, I'm brand new to PD9 , bought it a couple of days back - didn't anticipated problems on such - for me - obvious features like interlacing..)

I'm new to PD9.
I also PM'd Scrovegni, but in the meanwhile, could somebody tell me if I'm using DV footage which after editing ends up on a DVD, I get any 'trouble' like the one described above ? I have a 'fellow product' (ap 6.5) : installation still running on another (XP) machine, but with the switch to Win7 I also switched the video editing tool.
Thanks for your input.

Hi there,

The PD 9 Deluxe can be downloaded for 49.99$ while Ultra needs 99.99$.

Is Ultra worth the extra money ?

Thanks for your feedback.

Hugo

Hi Bubba
When clicking the download a small programm gets downloaded and executed. Imediately after it says , download aborted. Can it be 'US only' ? I live in Europe.
Tried both, at home and at work : same effect...
any thoughts ?
Hugo

Hi Carl,

Funny thing : the link you mentioned is the one that brought me to Cyberlink in the first place. But thanks anyway for your response.
:
Google is indeed very sparse with usefull information if you would like to find a good analysis of the difference between the 2 applications...
Hugo

Hi there,
as a long time Premiere user, I wanted to see what's new/different/better in PD9. Main reason is because my Premiere is no longer working on Windows 7.
But the forum rules say : only discuss PD9 here and the trial version's download is now blocking since 2 days... so I'm stuck.
Can anybody help my out with
1. or a place where I can discuss the differences between Premiere and PD
2. or a link which I can use the download the trial PD9 to see for myself ?
Thanks !
Hugo