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Yes, I recognize the behavior you're describing. I haven't used PD9 for all that long, but slow, jerky playback like that has always been the way the program works for me.--Not sure it's all that unusual.
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That's great news, Robert. I'm sure I'm not alone in being a PD9 user who is watching with interest any feedback PD10 users can give. Thanks!
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---oh--so, not so safe to assume one's PD9 will not go >poof<-- I'll do what I usually do - wait for around 6 months for the smoke to clear on a new release, and only jump in then if it really seems OK.
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OK. Solved it.
What happened was that the installation of PD10 caused the removal of my PD9 desktop icon.
So I assumed that PD9 had been overwritten or removed, because it's desktop icon had disappeared. ![]()
But when I go to... Start > All Programs, there PD9 is, in all it's glory, and opens fine.
I just simply needed to right click to create a new PD9 desktop icon.
And now I'm back in business, with "PD9" and "PD9 And a Half", both comfortably residing on my rig.
Great! That's a very useful report, Cranston - because there was some question about the two versions co-existing. I'm much relieved to know they can. Thanks for the post.
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Thanks for the reports - I know that every user's experience is going to be different, but it's still not encouraging to hear about P910 being slower for some users.
PD9 has been very disappointing to me in terms of its speed - It hasn't lived up to its Super Speedy! hype - and my machine is anything but under-powered. I'm not inspired yet to upgrade--well, good heavens, I've only had PD9 for a short time. I need to keep working with it more before I can think of upgrading.
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Good news about the timeline markers! That was something I contributed to the "What would make you buy?" thread.
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I saw a bundle they were doing if you bought PDR9, where thet gave you Media Expresso free. This was an on-line promotion a few weeks ago.
Oh! - I didn't realize at the time I bought PD that I was getting a special deal. For around $70, I got PD, Media Espresso, Wave Editor, Photo Now, and a group of Christmas menus. I thought PD always featured those extra apps. Glad I bought PD when I did!
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Hi, Carl - I've noticed that Media Espresso is sold separately, but it came bundled with my PD9, a regular, fully functioning version. I've been happy with the job it does - and I thought it always came with PD9.
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Isn't Media Espresso, the converter that comes with PD OK? That's what I used to convert AVIs to MPEGs, and the results look fine to me.
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Thanks for the explanation, Carl - I get it better now. If the user has AVI files which have Xvid or Divx encoding (maybe others)-- then PD has an issue, but it's not as if the user can change how the AVI file has been encoded.
Converting to MPG was what I had to do with my very first PD project. PD was completely choking - the project would have taken over 20 hours to burn!--Once I converted to MPG and imported that, then the burn was down to under an hour.
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I guess I'm kind of numb when it comes to some of these things - When I import an AVI file, I just - import it. I'm not doing any choosing of what codec to use - it's just like Magic, man--. lol. -- Really, I'd like to understand what the deal is.
But I have noticed that AVI files aren't PD's format of preference. When I convert AVIs to mpegs before importing, everything always goes extremely smoother and faster.
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Great tip, Bill - I think you'll be generally happier with "Cross" as the default action anyway. "Overlap" can cause all sorts of problems if the user isn't ready for their clips to become totally out of sync with the timing they had previous to overlapping.
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You didn't un-install PD9, right?-- Have you tried copying those items from the PD9 folder and putting them in the analogous folders for PD10? - It does seem odd that a program wouldn't automatically connect to whatever existed in the previous version's folders, but I have the impression from other posts, that Cyberlink didn't program PD that way--.
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I wonder how many wish items on this list came true with the release of PD10? Maybe some of them actually happened?
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Hi,
Experimented with 3D stuff using short video from JVC670 HD camcorder.
http://youtu.be/6nbZC9MZ3oc
It is anaglyph red/cyan glass needed.
Hey, that was fun! - I've had several old cardboard 3D glasses around for decades, so I found my pair that was distributed for a 3D TV screening of John Wayne in "Hondo," and watched your vid with it James. At first I was puzzled - then realized that for whatever reason, the colors have been reversed. In the old glasses, red was on the left. Once I watched your vid with these glasses on backwards - it worked!
The text of course was very successful, as Robert said. The footage wasn't as impressive - so much of it was landscapes at a distance from the camera, and there's no way much depth would ever show up on distant scenery like that. When you moved the camera so we could see some of the car dashboard and the scenery in the background, that popped fairly well.
Neat - Thanks for posting this!
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30 days from date of first use or 30 days from date of program install...whichever it is, it is COMPLETE LAZINESS on the part of Cyberlink to not make the component activation part of the install/registration process!!
Just my humble opinion!
OK, but I'd kind of like to know for sure if it's from the date of installation or from the time a component is first accessed. Someone here must know.
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This was true in PD9 also - features that had to be activated. I thought you had 30 days from the first day you tried to use them - not starting from the time you installed the program.
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As PlayVideo points out, Ronk, you would need to do a lot of adjusting, because you would need to be zoomed in on the 4:3 video in order to fill the screen. Composition would be out the window, and you would invariably have people's heads cut off, important parts of scenery left out etc.
Letterboxing looks fine, at least you're getting the full image. Just like the opposite, letterboxing to squeeze a 16:9 image into a square 4:3 TV screen.
But if you want to experiment to see how much damage would be done, do this to run the test:
--Set the Preview Window at 50% so there's lots of space all around the video image. With one of your 4:3 clips selected, grab the corner of the dotted line box and make it larger. You can grab the sides too. Keep going to the X at the center to move the whole image so it's centered correctly.
Eventually you'll get the whole 16:9 screen filled, and the dotted lines will show you how much of your original image will be lost.
Do that, find out if it's what you really want to do.
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Snagit. I used to use Camtasia, but Snagit is slicker, imho.
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Dafydd, can you please confirm then what is the right way to move the rest of the content (i.e. to the right on the timeline) left to fill the gap. Is it to select all and drag as I was doing?
No, what he means is in Preferences (click the gear), under Editing - make sure the choice "link all tracks" is chosen. Then when you remove a section, everything in the project will automatically move left to fill in the gap. DON'T right click and choose "leave gap"---that's what you do when you Don't want clips to move as you delete something.
I'm glad Dafydd understood what the cause of your trouble was - because, as I said, if PD9 couldn't do any video editing--it wouldn't be worth too much! lol.
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...I can't cut things out of the master file because PD can't re-arrange bits without losing all the track syncs...
Hmm, well that certainly isn't true. If that were the case, no video editing would be possible!
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