Messages posted by AJWeber

That patch did the trick!

Thank you, Carl.

Appreciate the reply.

One would think that once transcoded to MP4 we could rule-out that it's the format's fault. Nonetheless, the clip was shot on a little Toshiba Camileo H-30 in 720p (30) -- I just double-checked that, so it wasn't 1080p at all. My apologies for that mistake.

Last night I went and tried working with the clip and I _can_ edit it in PD, but it apparently renders it for preview on the fly and it makes things really slow-going. (But then whatever's been rendered has a green-bar in the "timeline" area of the screen, and that can be re-played no problem.)

The workaround is almost to import the clip, add it to the timeline and make it play the entire clip (slowly, studdering through it all, maybe overnight) and then come back and use it, because PD has rendered it.

I have "MediaInfo" Installed, so I'll give you what it spits back about the clip:
Format: AVI
File Size: 191MiB
Duration: 6m 18s
Overall bit rate: 4 239 Kbps
VIDEO STREAM
Format: AVC
Format profile: Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC: Yes
ReFrames: 4 frames
CodecID: H264
Duration: 6m 18s
Bit rate mode: Constant
Bit rate: 4 001 Kbps
Width: 1280 pixels
Height: 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio: 16:9
Color space: YUV
Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0
Bit depth: 8 bits
Scan type: Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.145
Stream size: 185MiB

Thanks again for the reply.
-AJ

So I imported a 7min 1080p AVI file (also tried converting this to mp4 outside of PD10, same results). If I try and preview the clip, it plays about the first 3-5sec then blanks-out. If I seek in the clip and then try to play, no video is displayed. It "thumbnails" the clip fine.

I notice it's trying to create a "shadow file" for this clip. It's been doing it for over two hours. This is a 4-core, 2.4Ghz, Win7 (x64) machine with a middle-road Nvidia GPU (1GB RAM). Nothing else is running on the PC. ("PDHanumanSvr.exe" is consuming 25-30% CPU pretty consistently this whole time.)

What's going on here? Any recommendations to editing this? Should I disable this shadow-file feature altogether, assuming I have enough horsepower to edit small 1080p clips? I'm not trying to edit a 2hr, full-HD feature. I'm just trying to do some minor edits to a clip from a handheld cam.

Thanks in advance for any tips, tricks, etc.

-AJ

the strange thing is that at various times during editing and previewing, I would and then would NOT hear the second audio track. I couldn't figure out what was different each time I tried to preview that clip/movie-mode, as I didn't seem to change anything.

I'm producing the final output now and hoping for the best!

Thanks for all the replies.
-AJ

AH! The Title Room is excellent! There's pre-made "Dialogue Balloons"!!!

Perfect.

Thanks all!

OK, follow-on, dumb question...
When I add a PiP object like the one of the "Dialog" ones, how do I insert the text I want into the dialog "balloon"?

Thanks again!
-AJ

Subject says it all. I have a clip that is inserted in a "scene" and the video shows where I want it to, but you still hear the audio from the 1st track. I would like the video AND audio from the second track to play during that time. Must be something I'm missing...

Thanks,
AJ

I'm thinking this can be done with one or more of the great features in PD10. How do I pop-up little balloon-dialog boxes like they do with the "pop up video" versions of movies/shows? Little dialog balloons with some text that are sizable and can be placed in different locations and orientations with short duration?

Thanks!
-AJ

Amazing! Exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks for the quick and accurate reply!!!

-AJ

Is there some way I can pop-up a second video track in a "window" overlaid on the main (#1) video track? Kind of like how PiP used to work on TVs (that had the feature)? You would be watching one show "whole screen", but in the corner you'd have a smaller view of a different channel.

That's actually what I thought this whole PiP feature was about when I bought the s/w. Seems it's not-really.

Thanks for any help.
-AJ

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm sure it has the capability to split the video file -- as I think your workaround is basically doing that, but forcing me to put the entire video into the timeline and then trim-out what I don't want.

In effect, taking the video and trimming-out what I don't want is exactly my desired task. I just figured if I know the exact timecodes as specified in the preview window, why can't I cut that segment of video out directly (using the info I have).

Will try your workaround, but seems like a nice, straightforward, and powerful Feature Request to me.

Thanks again,
AJ

Is there an easy way to extract a clip from video media already in my "library" by specifying the "From" and "To" timecodes? Since I've already scanned through the video and noted the start and end times, I would love it if I could just do so by entering the values.

Thanks,
AJ