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I'm actually using PD11, as of this week upgraded from PD10, and like it very much, so that provides the answer to your first query. PD10 and PD11 will accept AVCHD, but they will not allow me to make basic cuts to raw clips and allow me to return them to my library as AVCHD. I am making some quite complex educational videos from large numbers of clips, and I was finding that my 'raw' video library was taking up an awful lot of hard drive space without some basic trimming out of 'dross'.
However, having Googled for more information about keyframes, and checked out their use in PD11, I am inclined to go along with your suggestion and ignore them!
MichaelJ70
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Apologies. Stevek. I should have specified Key Frames although when Googled they are also referred to as 'intraframes'. I'm not having a specific issue, but I understand that Key frames are important carriers of information. When I cut a section of clip (not in PowerDirector by the way - I use a separate programme for trimming lengths of raw footage. This enables me to retain AVCHD format before editing in PowerDirector) I sometimes see a warning 'you are cutting several Key Frames; do you want to continue?'. I just want to be clear about what I am doing, and whether I am missing something important. But you seem to be saying ignore key frames?
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Thanks again for the helpful advice. I have now resolved the issue. In essence we live in a rural area where download speed is slow, about 500KB/sec and given the size of the files, the download(s) got interrupted. I have now achieved the objective successfully and PowerDirector11 is up and running!
MichaelJ70
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I am learning, if slowly! I have read this on another forum, concerning I frames: "So when you edit an MPEG-2 video all we have to do is back up to the nearest I frame and recode the few frame between it and the edit point to get a clean cut."
This is new to me. I think I now understand what an intraframe is, and what it does, but can someone explain how to back up to the nearest I frame etc. and recode or is this stuff that as a simple-minded tecchie I don't NEED to understand??
MichaelJ70
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Thank you, Cranston. Yes, I DO have the Deluxe version. My next problem is that I have bought an upgrade to PD11 Ultra (yesterday) and although I received a download of 8 files (4 of them blank application files??) I have no idea what to do with them. They are sitting in my downloads folder with nowhere to go. Any more help???
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Thank you very much as always Carl, for a clear and concise response. I have no doubt there will be more questions as I progress through the complete operating system of PowerDirector 10 (and I hope my upgrade to 11)
MichaelJ70
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I am baffled. When I import a M2TS (AVCHD) file to PowerDirector10 and view it in preview, the resolution is perfect at MediaViewer full screen size. But the moment I drag it to the timeline and run the clip from there, though Preview is set to High Preview Resolution, the resolution is lost, and in the Media Viewer full screen the whole image is degraded and pixcelled. What am I doing wrong?
I should also add that my system is a 64bit operating system, but that there is no HD option available when selecting Preview in Media Viewer, which apparently there should be.
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Basic question. I am expanding a library of clips for use in some educational videos that I will be preparing. Most of these clips include 'top-and-tail footage' that needs trimming out because is now taking up increasingly wasted space in my library system. How can I crop these raw clips and store them in my media library without incorporating them into a project? I can put them on the timeline, edit, and trim, but then I can't see how to save the trimmed clip back to the library without incorporating it into a project.
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Thanks again for this great support. Good to see the Forum is alive and well!!
Michael
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Brilliant Jirka. I might have thought of that myself, but I didn't. Thank you for the prompt and helpful response.
Michael
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A very basic question. I am half way through creating a project and I want to show it to some other people on a disc. Can I create s disc from the timeline data that I have assembled thus far, and still retain the timeline material to continue with editing and adding t the project, i.e. once a have created a disc can I then go back to the edit mode, or is my timeline wiped in the process?
Michael
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Brilliant! Thank you both for some very helpful stuff. The PDToots clip reveals a lot. I used to work in UK TV, but in front of camera, and having theoretically put my feet up in retirement, I am now on a vertical learning curve about what really goes on in edit suites!
Michael
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Thanks for coming back so promptly. I'm still not quite there on what you are recommending. OK, I have a section of stills and videoclips that I want to move on(or from Timeline1). I left click the first still to highlight it. Then hold down Control and click on the 'video'. When you say 'video' is this the small yellow screen icon that sits above the timeline in company with the blue down arrow? If so, by dragging across the section I want to move I highlighted the section (in yellow), but then couldn't see how to move it. It wouldn't drag. All I could do was to Copy and Paste it, and the only place it would paste was into the next vacant section of Timeline1.
Can you elaborate in 'idiot proof' language!!!
Michael J
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Having worked my way through most of the aspects of PowerDirector 10 without too many tears in the last 48 hours, I am stuck again on something that I am sure is very simple. I want to move a multiple section of clips along the time line. I have tried holding down Control (as indicated in the manual) and dragging over the clips. I have tried using the yellow rectangle to highlight the section, but I can't get 'Group Objects' to activate when I right click. The only options I get are Cut, Copy, Remove. What am I doing wrong? How do I physically Group/Ungroup an adjacent series of clips and then move them?
Michael J
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Thank you very much for this quick reply, Bankroot. It's the kind of very simple solution that you can miss when exploring the software for the first time.
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I have just purchased PowerDirector 10, which I have managed to find my way around more easily than I thought. However, there is one aspect that has me stumped. Why does a clip when transferred to the timeline become pixellated, and apparently remain so even at output. I checked that the problem is not with my original material because it also happens on the sample clouds/grasses clip provided. How do I eliminate the pixellation?
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