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Tony,
I am not sure about how links are posted on the forums. Some forums do not allow them at all. I hope this works.
You should be able to grab it from here until Dec 2. At least as I understnad how the site works. Let me know if there are problems.
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJiK0dqQ0M1aVlUWThUQw
Thanks.
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Tony,
Oh, I will try that also. But something tells me thats not going to work either.
I downloaded the PD11 Trial and I am getting the same results from that. I also downloaded Visual Studio to try that. VS degrades the quality but it is not as bad.
I am currently uploading the file to a filesharing site. It says it will be about 45 minutes for the upload.
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Tony,
I decided to make an attempt while I was waiting for your reply. I thought maybe the lossy JPG could have something to do with the result. So I saved the image as a BMP. It didn't improve.
When I got your reply, I first attempted reducing the image by half. I couldn't figure out what you meant by horizontally half. I wouldn't want to squish my image. So, I reduced it by half maintaining my aspect ratio. That did not improve it.
So I tried reducing it to 1/4. Now at 6912x472. Again it does not improve it.
I have noticed that the qualitay appears to be fine when viewed from the Library. It changes as soon as it is inserted on the timeline. I insert it by drag & drop.
I began to think maybe it was something set for the project settings. Maybe the project was set to be a lower quality and is causing the image to get reduced when placed into the project. But when I clicked on project settings, there's nothing there for those type of settings.
I then attempted to drag & drop on the story board, just for fun. Still comes in at a poor quality.
Could it be something to do with the system?
I had an Intel Motherbaord, processor (dual core) and 4GB ram before I went on vacation two weeks ago. PowerDirector has been loaded for some time now (pre-vacation). When I came home the systm wouldn't boot, so I replace everything but the power pack (turns out that is what was bad). Anyway, the new hardware is AMD 3.3Ghz 6 core, Gigabyte MB, 8GB ram. The OS (Windows XP x64) was not re-installed nor has PD10 been re-installed.
Thanks.
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Tony,
What a nice comparison. At least in your samples you can tell you were looking at building or mountains. My project doesn't do anything close to that. I must be doing something terribly wrong. I had even tried it multiple times with using both the PIP and the Motion Magic. With PIP I couldn't find a way to start at one side of the image and move to the other side. It always wanted to start (or end) in the middle.
Is there any chance I could get you to spend the time and give me step by step on how to get the results you got.
Just so you can see whats happening to mine, I have attached a screen shot with an image viewer over PD10 so you can see what the image is compared to the image in PD.
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This thread seems a couple of months old. It appeared in my search when looking for this exact problem.
I inserted a stitched panoramic image (27648x1886) and used Magic Motion to pan though the image. It appeared that before I used Magic Motion, that the image may have had good image qualily. However, I could not zoom in for verification of quality when the image is selected in the Library. Once inserted on the timeline, selected and then zoomed at max of 400%, it was very apparent that image quailty was already gone. After Magic Motion was applied the quality had dropped so much it was became nothing but a big blur. I thought maybe the same method was being done with the image as is done with video (where quality is dropped for editing but original source quality is retained during production). I wrote out the video for a test. I was wrong and the image was completely unusable.
Thats when I came here.
Now I see that the Cyberlink is spending so much time on creating content and new versions, they are leaving the older versions broken. The updates I have applied have not fixed any of the issues I have seen or read about. I my opinion, this is bad business. It chases away the users to other software, not to have them return. The only sales they can count on in the future are of those people who have never tried their software. This is what ACDSee has done. And I can tell you that ACDSee has one less return customer for the last two versions. Cyberlink is now on the verge of losing one.
Cyberlink, are you listening? Fix your software. Never degrade an image someone inserts! For any reason!
Has anyone found it PD11 has this issue?
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I am still very new as well. But maybe this will help a little.
In all the information I have read, I read someplace that PowerDirector supports green screens. This means if you shoot your video with a green background, then you can use any other video as the background image. I have not looked at this so I wouldn't know how it is done.
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I am attempting to sync an audio clip and a video clip. I want to nudge the video clip one frame at a time until i find the "sweet spot". Is there a way to move the clip in small increaments?
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HDedit,
I suspected as much, but thank you for the conformation.
Tony,
That does seem to be one way to accomplish the stop. However, an adjustment needed for the that paticular section would not permit an undo without losing the edit. I supose PD also does not have a Heal for a split that is not applied by an Undo? It would have also been nice to Heal a removed section during this edit. As it was, I could not find one and ended up have to completely remove the track (with all its splits) and re-insert the entire movie, then start my splits all over again. Thank you for your suggestion.
Dafydd,
Yes. I did use "," & "." during the first part of the editing. It was a nice shortcut.
Yes. Undo was used alot.
Yes. Typed position was used several times.
Thank you for your suggestions, however none of these would help in what was needed. I was making a music video. Many cuts between two video tracks. The audio disabled in those live performance video tracks. The audio was processed in the studio. I needed to hear the audio track and watch the instruments to sync the two together. Frame by Frame viewing would not work for this.
As this was our first video produced, it was a learning curve on new software. I am new to this software because VedioStudio failed to install and the Corel Support would not respond in a timely manner (over a week).
Thanks again to all. This video is complete. We may tweak it a little with transitions though.
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Sorry Tony, I think I have not made myself clear.
I understand Playing any part from any point (clip or movie) by placing the scrubber at the point where you want to start and clicking play.
I have doscovered that if I split a movie (I guess this is the process of making the "clip"), I can select that portion and play just that portion and it will stop at the end where the next split occurs.
But what I want to do is Not split the movie (yet) and play just the selection made with yellow handles to the left and right of the scrubber (the selection) which allows for "cut" "copy" and "remove" that portion.
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New user to PowerDirector from VideoStudio.
When I select a portion of a video in the timeline, I want to just play that selection. With the scrubber positioned at the start of the selected area, it starts playing at that point. However, when it reaches the end of the selection it continus playing and starts moving the end selection marking to match the played selection until you click pause.
How can I play just the selection and have it stop playing at the end of the selection?
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