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The behavior you're describing means that for some reason PD is seeing all of those projects as temporary files, and since PDS files are being targeted I'm wondering if they're in the same folder as the auto saves.
I would make sure that nothing important is stored in the autosave folder (or subfolders) and that all your individual project output folders (Preferences | File | Export folder are nowhere near where you store your main project files.
I will check that. But I definitely have the "autodelete temp files after 30 days" disabled so if it that, it is still a problem for CL. I'll take a look.
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Actually, on reflection, this must be a new problem with PD20. My project files by default are saved in my OneDrive folder so they are also backed up in the cloud. It is only since PD20 that I now get a message from OneDrive after I've left PD saying "You've deleted x,000 files, do you also want to delete them from the cloud?" I would have definitely noticed this if it had been happening before.
And this isn't an issue with OneDrive in case you're thinking of saying that, it happens when OneDrive is enabled AND when it is completely disabled. It could, I suppose, be a Win11-related issue but I don't see how.
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I have over 3,000 pds project files and I never know when I'm going to need an old one. But I notice that PD20 (and quite possibly earlier versions) are deleting any over a month old. Does anyone know why this might be? I keep a backup folder full of them but it is a pain in the butt to hve to keep bringing them back from there to my regular project file folder.
They sit there nicely in the folder until I go into PD. Even if I do no work with PD, when I come back out, thousands have gone and just the last month's remain. This seems most odd to me. Why would any program delete project files? I have looked at 10+ pages of the forum and seen no mention of this. So is it only me?
Just curious to see if anyone else has experienced this.
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I have been running Win11 for a couple of weeks and have experienced a few issues related to videos in general, such as being unable to find the process when trying to play an mp4 file. I also find myself restarting my system a little more frequently than before to clear a few hangups. As far as PD goes, a few strange things have been going on. If I update my gpu driver, PD no longer seems to ask me to optimize for hardware acceleration. In fact, on rendering, the fast rendering options are no longer available.
I also get a lot more drop frame/prerender messages, plus an error message about prerendering after completing an mp4 render (the render itself is fine though).
Of course these things may be related to my machine only, rather than have anything to do with Win11 but it does seem a coincidence that they started happening at the same time.
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There still seems to be something not quite right going on here. NewBlue just did an update to TotalFX and once again PD started crashing on loading - once for each plugin, I think. Then, once you've tried to launch PD enough times, PD magically works again.
Not sure where the fault lies. I think when PD got its last major update, NewBlue found they were installing plugins into the wrong directory, so I suspect the fault lies there again, but just thought I'd mention it. If you are using NewBlue TotalFX, you may run into the same issue.
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You may want to try running the installer as an administrator to see if that overcomes any Windows system permission issues you might be encountering. Right-click on the installer and choose Run as Administrator.
If it helps anyone, I think my original problem was caused by the NewBlue plugins issue that is mentioned elsewhere. I think it crashed for each new plugin it tried to load and when it had got through the list it was fine from then on. NewBlue tells me that after trying to load a plugin once, if it fails PD doesn't try again, which explains why I got an error a bunch of times and then the problem magically went away.
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I run a video recording lab at my church and create videos with the chromakey screen background. This past week I had to reinstall Windows 10 and all my software, including PowerDirector 365. The reinstallation of PD has given me a hugh headache. It supports New Blue Essentials Effect 6, but when I reinstalled New Blue Essentials IV, PD wouldn't recognize it.
If you ask why I don't use the chroma key feature of PD, it is fairly rudimentary, very limited adjustmet capability, no garbgage collection and leaves a green scheen on edges. I can get rid of the scheen, but at the expense of getting rid of part of the face. Essentials IV also allows me to pur a black border around the dubject that I use to create specialized videos.
Is there any way to install Essentials IV in PD 365. If not, I will have to purchase Corel VideoStudio which does support New Blue.
I recently went through this with NewBlue. Their helpdesk had me try a few things and eventually we found a way to make it work.
You need to move all the files from C:\Program Files\CyberLink\Shared files\PlugIn\NewBlue\ and all the folders under there and place them all directly into C:\Program Files\CyberLink\Shared files\PlugIn\ and then they will work. Well, it worked for me anyway.
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Oh dear, I've raised a ticket as well. It doesn't sound promising. Luckily I was able to rescue the video and finish it in PD18 which renders it in a few minutes. It looks as though I am back to PD18 and I have wasted my money.
I rendered a 2.5 minute video with titles all the way through and it took 22 minutes and 51 seconds to render at 1080p 30fps. I then replaced the titles with transparent PNGs created elsewhere and it rendered in 38 seconds - and looked just as good.
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Now you mention it yes. It's a film of an original song with rolling lyrics against a number of still images and the rolling text starts at around 45 seconds. Isn't it weird that PD18 copes with it with ease.
Weird indeed. I've been doing many videos like this a week for my work, and suddenly they take so long to edit and render that I've had to find work-arounds with other software. I raised a ticket but got a pretty standard reply.
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I have just 'upgraded' and I find that Rendering is slow, it seems to stutter every so often at a reasonable speed but when it gets to about 45 seconds into the video it gets really slow. I've read that video card drivers can play a part in this so I have just rolled back to a June driver for my Nvidia RTX 2060 to no effect. Can anyone shed any light on this or was I stupid to have changed from version 18 due to the carrot of a lifetime license and some dubious improvements?
Have you used any titling? If so, is it by any chance at about the 45 seconds mark? It is titles that have made PD19 almost unusable for me. I can see when it reaches the titles because it suddenly slows to a crawl.
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Has anyone else experienced incredibly slow editing and rendering of upward scrolling titles (e.g. End Credits) in the newest release?
Editing a 35 second set of end credits has always been slow and tedious, but now it's almost impossible, and the CPU load on my 8 core (16 cpu) i9 with Windows 10 Pro is near 100% while doing so.
Oh, and I have Hardware Acceleration set, although I've never been able to get 'pdr' to use my Nvidia Geforce GTX -1650 GPU.
I'm eagerly standing by for any comments.
Thanks,
John Hirth
I'm glad you mentioned this. I don't think it is limited to the scrolling titles. I have had a problem with all the titles I've used. They are incredibly slow both to edit and to render. I created a lyric video about 3 mins long, which I often do, and it took almost 15 minutes to render at 1080p on a PC with a 10700K, a 2080 Super and 32GB of RAM.
When rendering, you could see what was happening on the progress bar. It began at a reasonable speed and then when it encountered the lyrics, in two separate paragraphs with a simple quick fade at start and finish, it was like it hit a wall. I repeated this with other projects I did in PD18 and the same thing happened.
And, as you say, the editing is painful. I also had a strange experience when changing the font face color on one paragraph - I had it set to single color and it appeared as a gradient on the text, even though it still said single color, and I couldn't do anything about it.
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After running the update, PD crashes almost immediately on launch. I've tried launching from the app manager and directly. I've uninstalled it and re-installed it. I've tried running as an administrator. I've tried disabling the anti-virus. I'm at a loss of what to try next and I have an urgent deadline looming. Help!
And, just like that, it works. On at least the 15th attempt, it suddenly worked. Rather bizarre, which doesn't make much sense to me, so if it happens to you, I still can't tell you how to fix it, but just persevere.
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After running the update, PD crashes almost immediately on launch. I've tried launching from the app manager and directly. I've uninstalled it and re-installed it. I've tried running as an administrator. I've tried disabling the anti-virus. I'm at a loss of what to try next and I have an urgent deadline looming. Help!
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You have to have the right codecs installed. PD used to come with an Apple app that handled the QuickTime codecs for MOV files, but Apple stopped supporting it on Windows years ago. Many people here now use QTLite.
Thanks for your quick and helpful response. I had assumed that because other programs could open these files, the right codecs must be installed on my PC and PD would find them. Silly me.
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I've tried downloading 31 video clips from Shutterstock. Only 6 of them load without giving an error message that says "the file is broken, the format unsupported, protected video content, or for another reason." I can, however, open the all outside of PD.
Any suggestions?
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Not sure how that helps me with the editing question. I already know how to make the production profiles but I also want to create my videos in an editing workspace that is in 16:10 ratio.
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I've been using PD for quite a few years now and use it for only one thing - creating videos to go in PowerPoint presentations. Up to now, my presentations have been 1024*768 so I simply created a custom wmv profile accordingly.
Now I've changed my projector and wish to use its native 1280*800 resolution (16:10). Can the editor even be set somehow to 16:10? If not, why not? I imagine I could create a production profile for 1280*800 but then the aspect ratio would be screwed...
Any suggestions? Why is it so difficult? Do I really have to switch to Corel VideoStudio to do this?
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I decided I couldn't wait until morning and gave it a go. It worked perfectly.
Again many thanks! I can have fun again!
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Thanks, I'll do the regedit tomorrow and see how it goes... I appreciate the thought.
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I knew I shouldn't have done this! All my video files preview as a black screen. Argghhh! Good thing I'm not paid to produce videos!
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