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Old note, but WinDV did the trick so thank you! I don't understand why powerdirector insists on being able to control the dv signal when it is already receiving the content on the screen. Seems like a silly constraint that any programmer could remove.
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ok, well I've got an improvement after uninstalling the Intel Graphics driver for the 4000 series GPU built into the mobo. That got installed when i did the initial bring up. I say improvement because it does seem to make progress now but I wouldn't call it very fast. The Catalyst control panel says 0% activity for the GPU "most" of the time. Once in a while for a second it says 6% to 13% but never more. And progress is relatively slow at producing the output compared to using the CPU. I think maybe tomorrow night I'll try to wipe the driver and do a fresh install. Shouldn't the GPU be pegged? On my old system with an nvidia card I could see it take off and the video card fan would sound like a jet engine. This is totally negligible.
By the way PD10 always crashes when I cancel "produce" with hardware acceleration enabled.
-steve
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Discouraging, but thanks. Maybe something else is going on. I submitted a support request on Sunday but no one has responded yet. If anyone can suggest anything else to check let me know.
Oh, yeah, I can't seem to find separate media codecs with 12.6. When I go to the ATI site to get them it sends me to the 12.6 install. I did include the video converter which according to some posts I see was bundled with the codecs previously. I do have a brand new Ivy Bridge I7-3770K processor in use. Maybe Ivy Bridge has a compatibility issue.
I wonder if maybe I don't have the builtin mobo GPU disabled in the bios. I'll check that next.
steve
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Kmot,
Well I kind of did the opposite of what you suggested : . I found I wasn't on the latest drivers so I installed the latest. I'm now at Catalyst CC 12.6 and driver version 8.01.01.1253. It's not much different. Seems like it ran to 2% and then stalled instead of sticking at 0% or 1%. If you can tell me what version you are running I'll track that one down and try it.
thanks!
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Interesting. Could you tell me what version you have that works? I'm runnning catylist 2.4 and driver version 8.01.01.1243.
thanks,
steve
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I just updated to a new PC. My old one had an NVidia graphics card and hardware acceleration worked great. The new system has an AMD 7850 HD card. The buttons to enable acceleration are all available in PD10, but when I try to produce with HW accel checked I can see the CPU is not pegged (~12%), but neither is my GPU. After 5-10 minutes of not even getting to 1% I cancel the job and then PD10 crashes. This is repeatable. Is there a compatibility problem with my graphics card? I'm running the latest drivers, etc from AMD. It looks like the AMD Media Codecs are bundled with the display drivers now because they don't seem to be available. Any ideas?
thanks
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The more I think about it, this is a work-around for a work-around. What I really want is for PD10 to not lose the time stamp info that was in the source clips if I'm producing the same AVCHD output format. If I have that, then it is trivial for me to generate the subs from the final file. Is there a way to get PD10 to retain this information?
thanks,
steve
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Dafydd - You seem to be the PD10 master, because this does work! But it's pretty onerous and I'm not sure worth the effort because I have to do this for every single clip. If anyone knows of a better way let me know. Where do I file an enhancement request?
thanks,
steve
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If I have a bunch of clips, each of which has an associated SRT file, then how do I use these in PD10? I'd like PD to just carry them along with the clip, but it seems only one of the SRT files is useful because I have to overwrite it to import the next one. And since PD10 isn't associating the srt with the clip it doesn't shift the timestamps to where the clip is located. I guess this isn't going to work.
I was trying to use one of these programs that generates an SRT with the recording date/time in it. This would be nice for playback. I could also do that AFTER producing the final m2ts, but PD seems to lose the date-time information from the original MTS file. Is there any way to get PD to carry that along in the output?
Thanks,
steve
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A chapter at a time seems to be about the best I can do. Since I'm paranoid I'm saving a project for each chapter. I wish there was a better way. I'd like to select a region of the timeline and produce from that selection to create the video files. I think that would give me the best of both worlds.
steve
An easy way to extract video clip, in PD9 or 10
1 - Save the project
2 - Select the clip, should be highlighted
3 - Click "Ctrol + C" (Copy)
4 - Go under the File menu, choose "New Workspace"
5 - On the timeline click "Ctrl + V" (Paste)
6 - Go to Produce and saves.
Open the project to more clips
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There may be cases that need to use the yellow cursor, the selected portion should be golden.
Sounds promising. I have not been using additional workspaces. I will try that next. Thanks!
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Got it, thanks. What I'm working on is tapes I've made large 2 hour captures from. So I have one video file and many project files that use it to archive (along with the set of edited files I produced). This is working with a lot of redundant steps. if I could select a time range to produce it would be easier.
Steve
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A chapter at a time seems to be about the best I can do. Since I'm paranoid I'm saving a project for each chapter. I wish there was a better way. I'd like to select a region of the timeline and produce from that selection to create the video files. I think that would give me the best of both worlds.
steve
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What I'd like to do with a minimal amount of work is produce both DVD's and a set of video files per chapter. This lets me post the video files on my NAS and navigate them chapter by chapter while still burning the occasional DVD for a relative. Right now, I'm building the DVD project, saving the project and then hacking it to export each chapter without resaving the project. Is there a better way? What I'd like is to be able to export chapters as video files (H.264, mp4, etc) without creating multiple project files.
thanks,
steve
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+1, very annoying that I have to use another program for this kind of capture. Thanks for the pointer to avs4you, I'll have to check that out.
steve
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Thank you! I had no idea there was a need to set the crop end size. The online help doesn't seem to even mention this unless I'm not finding it. I think you just sold a copy :.
steve
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I did a trial for Powerdirector 9 and now I tried 10. Both have a horrible bug for video crop. I've got a lot of HI8 video I'm digitizing through a DV camcorder. The video comes through with a couple of lines of garbage at the bottom of the screen. I've tried several different computers and can't get rid of this artifact. So, I've tried to use the video crop feature in PowerDirector.
If I break my video into clips and then apply the crop I have to do it one clip at a time which is crazy time consuming. If I edit the video and then produce a new avi file then I have one avi clip to apply the video crop to. However I find that the video gets progressively cropped more and more as the video progresses. I can see this easily in the program playing the video before I even produce output. I've produced the output and it's also bad. Basically just have a long clip ~1.5 hours, then apply a video crop that removes a couple of lines at the bottom (and the left). Scroll to the end of the video and disable the crop. You can see the video at the end zoom way out when you remove the crop. Also, if you have titles already in the avi you can see they stretched off the screen because of over cropping.
I really want to like this program because of performance and ease of use. Can anyone suggest a way around this? Maybe I should not use AVI to do the edit or something???
steve
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