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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
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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.
Cheers!
Neil
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Thanks Neil,
Yes, it is short for Anthony but only my mother calls me that, and even then when I'm in trouble ;
I do want to keep it simple
I create cycling videos so I'd like to modify the breaking news titel and maybe add a frame so I can suggest HR range etc.
I may be able to create a frame in photoshop but can't see how to create a custom title so am looking for advice or help.#
Thanks again, much appreciated.
Anth.
Hi, Anth!
#You could easily create a custom title in Microsoft's Publisher or Word, using WordArt, copy what you've created there to Paint to tidy it up a bit, save as a Bitmap or PNG, then carry that over to Paint.Net and make a PNG transparency. There's your custom title produced, mport it into PD14 and drop it onto a PiP track(all video tracks from Vid. Track 2 upward are PiP tracks but can also lend themselves to other purposes). Once on the PiP track you can manipulate its size, position, duration on screen, motion effects, whatever!
There's also the inbuilt title creation facility called up by clicking on the "T" at left of the contents library. There's a range of presets which you simply change the text(and font style) to suit your project, or there's the default "My Title" which you manipulate to suit your needs, and, I think this has been available from PD9 onwards, "My 3D Title"! These can be edited and manipulated to your liking and can be put on the screen via the dedicated "title" track OR one of the PiP tracks! I did say the PiP tracks can lend themselves to other purposes! How cool is that!? PD14 has a few shortcomings but overall there's a heck of a lot more that can be achieved in PD14(and back to PD9) than had been possible in PD8 or earlier.
Hope that's been of some help!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Tony and Bouyscout!
Your discussion about dialogue bubbles started giving me some ideas on how to use these and have them follow the opbect on a timeline via the use of "Motion Tracker" but, Tony's experiences, "I made a new template containign a speech bubble and text - saved it - all good - went to modify it and BAM! Exactly as you've described. The graphic does not appear on its own track and is unselectable." Granted, Tony was working on a Windows 10 platform and I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium, but nonetheless, I'll hold off until an answer can be found to the problem is sorted.
A thought occurred to me as I write this, there could be a workaround but it involves using Microsoft Publisher which has a selection of shapes labelled "callouts", these shapes include several styles of thought or dialogue bubbles which can have text typed in, adjust the thickness of the bubble's border, add a colour, then copy and paste to Paint, or Paint.Net(if possible), save as a PNG transparency which can then be superimposed on stills or video clips and size/position adjusted in "modify". If you can't paste directly to Paint.Net, then paste to Paint, saving in bitmap or png, then import that to Paint.Net and create your png transparency that way. It's a drawn-out(pardon the pun) process but it might work!
Cheers!
Neil.
Hi, I should've included a reference to Microsoft Word, in the event that Publisher may not be on some people's computers. Having a quick look at Word shows the "callouts" are available there as well. It's simply a matter of creating the callout in Word(or Publisher, if you have it), adding in the desired text, copying it across to Paint(or, Paint.Net if that's possible), create your image for superimposition. Because you've added the text whilst creating the callout in Word/Publisher, that'll save having to create the text in Title Designer. You then just drop it into a PoP track and manipulate size, position, duration and any motion effect like you would any other superimposed image you'd insert.
It should be noted that Word and Publisher are usually included together in a "Microsoft Office" bundle, along with a bunch of other goodies, like Excel, Outlook, etc. But often needs to be seperately activated. Quite a few may not have any real use for Publisher but it is a great tool for creating titles that can be copied to Paint and then converted into transparencies through Paint.Net. I will soon create a step-by-step instruction for creation of titles in Publisher or word, so "watch this space!"
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Hi,
i've been producing hobby videos (I'd like to sell them but nobody's buying) but there are a few things I'd like to be able to do that I'm struggling with:
- I'd like to create a custom Title based on the "Breaking News" or similar to include my website header rather than "News"
- I'd like to be able to add hr:min:sec & min:sec to my videos
- I'd also like to be able to add a countdown timer for say 5-10 seconds down to zero - quite big
I'm wondering if there are people out there with this capability that might be prepared or set up to help. Can you help?
Cheers,
Anth.
Hello, Anth!(assuming that is short for "Anthony")
Doubtless there'll be facilities in PD to create your desired effects, but my advice, for what it's worth, is to "keep it simple", don't rely too heavily on gimmicks. Reading through other posts you may find something in this forum to match your enquiries, or someone like Tony(Ynotfish), Carl(312) or Dafydd B. may jump in on this thread with some useful advice. As they say in the classics, "Watch this space!" (Do they really say that in the classics? ha-ha)
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi again!
Just whacking a sentence in here to keep this thread going. I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried the idea I mentioned in my OP. As I've already said, I've had to back down from a comment made in that OP about this effect being possible in PD7 or 8, An attempt in PD8 went "pear-shaped", as the British so colourfully express it when referring to bad results. But with keyframing from PD9 onwards, the effect will work well in combining transition with "fx", it's just a matter of experimentation to see which effect(fx) works well with which transition. You know, "suck it and see!"
Cheers!
Neil
(P.S. before responding to this thread, read the OP first!)
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Thank you again, Neil!
No Worries! Glad to have been of some help!
Cheers!
Neil
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@ Neil.F.1955
Thanks for the input.
Here, powerdirector 13 is available for around 40 US on amazon.
I wonder if powerdirector 14 will drop to $40 when PD 15 is released???
Hi, Offthemark!
PD13 is as cheap as it is because it has long since been superseded by PD14, which, itself is about to be superseded by the soon-to-be-released PD15. Depending on how much spare moolah you have to "splurge", you could possibly buy both(they will both live happily side-by-side on one computer), but it's up to you entirely! Meanwhile US$40 for PD13 (unsold stock, obviously) sounds like a bargain!
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My MultiCam sample clips are of Splice grafting, showing a successful graft has taken. 
Dafydd
Graft! Graft! and corruption! Oh dear! Only jokin'!
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Hello, Don!
It's all in the wording of the phrase to get a point across. Sometimes(often) I'll stumble with what I'm trying to say or explain, but eventually the message gets through - somehow! I get your meaning now. You render an edit once, view it, and think "Could've done with a different transition in that spot" or "possibly a bit too much/too little content". Probably the only thing I could advise is, before rendering(producing), watch the clip through on the timeline first, then add/subtract content as needed or change/modify transitions or other effects prior to render. That's about the only thing I can suggest at the moment.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, James!
There is the "Multi-Cam" feature, but admittedly I have not yet tried it myself as I've had no call to use it myself, Others on this forum will have used it and will be better-placed to advise on its use.
If you've shot 4-5 videos of a car race on the same camera(assuming that means just the one camera, rather than four or five cameras of, perhaps but not necessarily same make & model...duh! Dumb remark, I know, but just covering bases here!), then it follows that you'll have 4-5 sequential clips rather than 4-5 shot at the same instance(all cameras recording the same event from different angles at once).
I've successfully combined two clips of the same event together using Power Director versions 7, then 8, using the audio(and to a degree, video) as my cue, and I've adapted the same practice to PD14. It's generally what I've shot on my camera, combined with a shot taken by a friend on his camera(generally different make & model). I'll put my shot on the main screen(Video Track 1) and superimpose his on the PiP(Video Track 2) appearing in either corner of the screen. As both cameras' microphones pick up the same sound(train whistle, perhaps), I use that cue to line up the two clips.
To do this, I listen for the sound in my clip, note where it is in the sequence, then temprarily mute the audio, I then place my friend's shot of the same event on Vid.Track 2, listen for the same sound and split the clip just ahead of the sound so I cal line the two up by matching the wave forms below the video in each track, when aligned, I simply "grab" the front end of the clip on Vid.Track 2 and drag it out, restoring the previously "snipped" content. Naturally, the Multi-Cam function would do this utomatically, but, I've not yet tried multi-cam so I can only assume that it does.
In order to bring the PiP image into view, I take advantage of something that wasn't available in the previous versions of PD that I've used(versions 7 and 8 ), that is the ability to use transitions on the PiP tracks. I insert a colour board(usually white, a neutral shade) make it transparent with chroma-key, copy it and paste at the end of the PiP clip, I then choose a transition effect which does NOT affect the image on the main screen, experimentation required here, a bit of the old "suck it and see" business!, Usually a fade or wipe, perhaps the "Burning" effect, whatever you're comfortable with.
So there it is! I'm sure someone will pop up soon enough with advice on the multi-cam feature, perhaps Maliek Whittaker(PD University) or Tony Fisher(Ynotfish - PDToots) will put up a tutorial video on the subject, we can view it and say "aah, so that's how it's done!"
Cheers!
Neil.
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Don, hi!
If you're referring to the sample content that appears in the media room upon opening of Power Director, you can stop this by going to preferences, select "Project" and untick "Automatically load sample clips...." Preferences are accessed by clicking on the cogwheel at right of the aspect ratio detail at top of the screen.
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Thanks for the quick reply but I was not referring to the sample content. When you complete the editing process and render the final product, a copy of the final product is added to the project media, even if it was just a test render. It then has to be deleted. Same applies to snapshot. If you make a snapshot of one frame of video, a copy of the snapshot is added to the project media. I use the snapshot tool frequently but the snapshot is usually for something outside the video so the snapshot has to be deleted from the media room.
Hello Don!
That's curious! I don't think I've seen that sort of thing before. I know that a clip appears in the "media library" under the name given to it once produced(rendered), or if a still image is taken from a frame of video, but "test renders"? I was never aware of such, I didn't knowyou could do a "test render"! That's a new one on me!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Me again!
I should point out that what I suggested is possible with Power Director versions as far back as PD7, just in case anyone out there might still be using any of those earlier versions.
Cheers!
Neil
(no doubt I'll get a message in my email in-box telling me I've received a reply to my post..... hmmmm!)
Adding this later on in the same day(Australian east coast time, that is) I wrote it:- Er.... whoops!I have to recant a bit on what I said, a bit of experimentation in PD8 of my combining transitions with effects(fx), not quite as easy as I thought! PD versions 7 and 8 don't have the ability to "keyframe" the effect and I found that to be a bit limiting. Sorry 'bout that, chiefs! However, I expect PD versions 9 onwards to have the "keyframing" controls needed to make this effect work.
Cheers!
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Hi, Offthemark
Power Director has features that not everyone is going to find a use for, but you can do some fairly basic edits even in the most elaborate of software! It's really up to you to decide which of the features you want to use, and if you don't want them, just ignore them! Your fourth requirement in the list from your opening post: basic audio tracks (right now, just a music track with no voice over, but possibly in the future, music plus voice over), well, all video editing software will include(along with the native audio track from the video itself) a narration(or voice) track and a music track! It doesn't mean you're compelled to use them!
As to the price of PD14, I notice they're really flogging it off at 60% off the original asking price(in American dollars, mind you) Wouldn't know what the discount price would be here in Oz, or even if a discount applied, but then it would differ from shop to shop. So it's back to you! You could make a few enquiries, of course, if you're a-lookin' to save some moolah, but with PD15 iminent, remaindered stocks of PD14 will start to go at "canary" prices(cheep, cheep! er cheap, cheap, that is! ha-ha). I'll leavi it with you!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, all!
I've been doing a bit of experimenting lately and this might be of interest to a few who might want to try this for themselves. Here's the scenario: You have two clips on the timeline, each clip different to the other by reason of location, time of day or any other difference and you want to segue from one to the next, Put a fade transition(I usually set my transitions at 5 seconds duration, up to you how you set yours), then apply, from effects(fx), "blur". Keyframes: zero effect at start(effect should be placed directly under transition and set to same length, by the way), 2 seconds in, apply keyframe and set effect at maximum at that point. 3 seconds in, another keyframe, effect again set at maximum, then, at the end, add final keyframe with effect set at zero, one scene blurs into the next neatly without losing image(the blur transition on its own will also fade to black or chosen colour), another effect that can be used with the fade transition is the TV wall or the mosaic. You might want to toy around here and come up with other combinations!
Have fun with your experiments!
Cheers!
Neil.
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I usually do not want to add a video snapshot or produced video to Media Room. It would be nice if PowerDirector would ask what to do before adding it automatically.
Don, hi!
If you're referring to the sample content that appears in the media room upon opening of Power Director, you can stop this by going to preferences, select "Project" and untick "Automatically load sample clips...." Preferences are accessed by clicking on the cogwheel at right of the aspect ratio detail at top of the screen.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Perhaps, with the iminent release of PD15(within the next 3-5 months), a new thread should be started: Suggestions for Power Director 16! I really don't see that anything else could be added to PD15.
Neil.
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Hi, Tony!
That clip was interesting! What probably made it easier to create was the fact that(obviously from PD9 onwards) you can use any video track, including Track 1(master track) as a defacto title track. That's something I've put to good use in creating closing credit sequences, that's something I've been doing of late, using the regular title track plus a video PiP track as a defacto title track, but what was in your tutorial gives me an idea or two for later exploration.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, JoeZ99!
The fellow you spoke to may well be right. I still have Apple Quicktime on my computer and have had no issues with it at all. In some post it said there'd be no more updates, that's been quite a while back, I had an update sent to my computer for Apple Quicktime within the past month-to-six-weeks or so. This talk of security problems might just be a scare campaign, nothing more.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Paul!
You're a year younger than me! There are a few features that Cyberlink should've had, and quite a few fixes they should've implemented in PD14 before starting in on developing PD15. The features you mentioned may well have really "made" PD14! Obvously you've experienced these features in other editing software(Corel Video Studio, perhaps?) so you know what these effects can do.
As for me, having splashed out over 140-odd Aussie dollars for PD14 Ultra last November, when PD15 arrives, I'd be "umm-ing" and "aah-ing" as to whether or not I'll buy it. And if I do, it'll want to be a retail package(installation disc[s] in presentation box). I don't favour downloads, the internet is far too insecure for my liking, but that's just me, I won't take an unnecessary risk when it comes to video or audio editing software.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Swisskiss!
In either PD8 or PD14 I've not seen the Cineform option anywhere, in AVI or any other file type. My only guess here is that such an option is perhaps available via a third-party software. Produce your clip in PD13 to MPEG2 HQ, MP4(H.264) or whichever, then import that to whichever third-party software you're using(if you have such software) and convert to Cineform in that software. Sorry I can't offer any other suggestions.
Neil.
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Hello, Dogmonster(woof!)... sorry, just having a bit of fun with the pseudonym!
Light Blends and Motion Blends Transitions? Could be something for the "Suggestions For Power Director 15" thread, but as Power Director 15's release is iminent, perhaps Light Blends and Motion Blends Transitions could be included in Power Director 16.
Cheers!
Neil.
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