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It took me a while to figure this out using just the onboard effects and particle designer. So, I figured I would share the technique I used to make a Star Trek styled transporter effect.
Transporter
3 layers. Track 1 is the background, 2 is your subject (keyed or masked in), 3 is the transporter particles.
Track 2: Place the Wipe Soft transition at the beginning of the clip. Modify transition to Down.
Apply the Glow and Lens Flare Effects.
Glow is Blur Radius 134, Glow Level 43.
Key frame to 0 levels at the end of the transport.
Lens Flare is
Size 153, Blend 0, Brightness 144
Frame Alpha 85, Frame Size 50, Light Size 57
Lens Flare Type 4. Light and Center Positions are set to center of the subject.
Key frame Blend to 100 at the end of transport.
Regarding the particle system: Use a plain, white sparkle as the particle. Mask method using a wide, spatter design.
Emit rate 100, Max Count 500, Life 3750, Life variation 25, Size 5, Size Variation 10, Speed 50, Speed Variation 25, Wave 0.45, Wave variance 50, Wave frequency 75, Symmetry 0, Rotation 0, Rotation speed 0, Rotation variance 100, Gravity 0, Enable Particle Overlay, All Fades checked. Duplicate this particle ten times (10 layers in the system). OR just download the particle system I created using the Director Zone link.
FWIW the packed PDS file doesn't contain your source clips (you'd have to upload them separately to share the full project), but it does contain the active title. You can see on the attached screen recording that my nVidia system previews it without any issues, so it may well be that something's going on with the current suite of AMD drivers.
Hop0efuylly tech support can get it figured out!
I spoke too soon on the work-around being consistent. It worked once. All three attempts since then on other files have had bad previews AND rendered the glitch. Here is to hoping the Cyberlink team have an answer, or it is back to the basic titler.
I use their Blur Pro plugin. It has a TON of settings in it, and I am still learning as I just got it a month ago. I have used it on a few titles so far, like the one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-UQeqJwbQE&t=23s.
The presets are really neat, and I'm especially fond of the animated ones. They add a quick pizazz to things.
QuoteElynde - Thank you for the screenshots and the DxDiag.txt. You have a powerful pc. Can you trim that video on track 1 to say 30 seconds and leave that title on the timeline as is. Save it as a new project (Packed Project) and share it on your Google drive. Would like to test it on our systems to see if this is repeatable by other users on this forum. This may be an issue that needs to be reported to Cyberlink.
No amount of tinkering with preview or render options has helped the preview glitch. Only fixed the final render. Rolling back the driver didn't help either, and actually made things screwy in other programs. So, l reloaded the update. I am creating a report ticket now in the hopes Cyberlink holds the answer.
As is, the workaround is to render the title portion of the project, and just use that render in those parts. Otherwise, I get a flashy green network of dots and lines instead of my title in the preview.
QuoteThat looks really bad, but without knowing what it's supposed to look like I'm not sure what to suggest.
Can you post a screenshot of what the title looks like at the same timeline postion in the Titler Pro window? Have you tried other fonts and/or effects to see if everything is affected similarly?
For technical issues like this, please follow the steps in the Read Me Before Posting sticky thread and attach the DxDiag file so we can see the details of your computer.
PowerDirector Ultimate version 18.0.2725.0 (64-bit)
I went over the issue with Tomas Cowan in the Facebook forums. We discovered rendering with SVRT and Hardware Encoding works as a workaround. The preview of the video is still glitched, but the render is clean using these settings. ... I am personally wondering if it has something to do with the recent update to my graphics driver....
I keep getting a green glitch on both previews and renders using the New Blue Titler Pro 1.5 plugin. Is anyone else running into this problem? I am using PowerDirector 18 Ultimate, stand-alone version.
This tutorial explains how to create a hologram, like those seen in many different sci-fi shows. The cool thing is, the editing process is easier than it sounds. It takes two tracks, and a minimum of three effects.
Instructions:
Track 1 is your Background
Track 2 is your hologram
On track 2:
Fix/Enhance - Hue, Saturation, and Vibrancy to match your desired hologram color.
Pip Designer - key or mask out your actor if necessary, and position the clip as desired.
Power Tools - set Blend Mode to Screen.
Effects used to make this effect are TV Simulator and Fine Noise set to 70.
Set clip opacity to 75.
Render and Enjoy!
Note: You can either key out an actor shot against green screen for an "in-person" effect, or use PiP Designer to place them anywhere you want. (On screens, in HUD's, on panes of glass, "projected" from handheld devices, etc.)
This tutorial explains how to mimic the cloaking effect from the Predator movies. I prefer a more subtle displacement in this effect, but you can always add more by playing with the settings in the Abstractionism effect, and by adjusting the track opacity.
Instructions:
It takes two renders, and three layers to complete.
1st render with two layers
Track 1: Clean background without your actor. Effects are vertival stretch, squeeze, and horizontal stretch. Set values on effects to Degree and Offset of 3, and Size of 125.
Track 2: Your actor, keyed out. I did mine by making the actor layer into a mask using color director, which worked well. (Actor white, background blacked out.)
Render.
2nd render takes three layers
Track 1: Just your clean background without the actor.
Track 2: The first render file. Key out the black background on this track (easy if it is that mask-style, as you can just luma out the black.) Apply Abstractionism. Detail is 81, and Color Count is 13.
Track 3: Your actor, masked out just like in the first render. Apply Abstractionism again. Same settings as track 2.
Adjust the transparancy of tracks 2 and 3 to change how much of the effect is visible. Usually, 30% on track 2, and 25-50% on track 3, depending on your chosen background.
I want to edit a video clip to provide a visual effect similar to the cloaking/invisibility from the Predator movies. I have seen that some other products achieve this through applying luminescent displacement distortion to the video layer containing the subject to "cloak" (with the rest of the background of that layer removed with a green screen and chroma keying).
I can handle the green screen and chroma key work, and I can fade the subject with a blending overlay which makes a ghost-like figure, but I don't really know how to create distortion effects for that cool look from the Predator movies.
Can anyone offer some helpful advice?
Thanks!
It takes two renders, and three layers to complete.
1st render with two layers
Track 1: Clean background without your actor. Effects are vertival stretch, squeeze, and horizontal stretch. Set values on effects to Degree and Offset of 3, and Size of 125.
Track 2: Your actor, keyed out. I did mine by making the actor layer into a mask using color director, which worked well. (Actor white, background blacked out.)
Render.
2nd render takes three layers Track 1: Just your clean background without the actor.
Track 2: The first render file. Key out the black background on this track (easy if it is that mask-style, as you can just luma out the black.) Apply Abstractionism. Detail is 81, and Color Count is 13.
Track 3: Your actor, masked out just like in the first render. Apply Abstractionism again. Same settings as track 2.
QuoteIt's a nice transition. Can we have it? Do I miss it somwhere in the powerDirector 365?
Please tell me if I do, becauase I need to engineer it in Transition Designer, everytime, when I want it. And please let me know if I am making it in a dumb way:
(1) Use your camera icon to take a still of the last frame. Use that still as the image in the Designer. In Border, set Gradient color Begin with and End with to either black or white, or vice versa. Transition Made.
(2) Drag the still to the timeline right after the last frame. If I want the transition lasts 2 sec, that's how hong the still will show in the video.
(3) Drag the transition to the still.
Done.
Must I do these everytime? Is there a luma key somewhere?
If I make the luma key transition this way, I can't do a seconds long transition because I am using a still. I want that when certain parts of the screen are masked out from the transitions before the others. If the transition takes too long the viewers can tell there's no de facto movement.
Use 3 Layers. Layer 1. The scene you are transitioning from.2 and 3 are the scene you are transitioning to.
Chroma key out the lighter color in the 2nd layer (like sky) and do a quick fade ltransition at the beginning.
Set a threshold transition the beginning of the 3rd. (Reverse order of layers for classic PD transparency layer order.)
QuoteAny one else have issues with PD17 locking up randomly and crashing?
Then we you try to relaunch the program it gives you that Current User Sessions Not Supported message...only to have to reboot several times to get it to clear??
Tired of it...how can any one be dependant on this program to actual get shit done??
On the rare event I crash Power Director and encounter the problem you describe, I find killing the left-overs with task manager helps. Specifically PDStyleAgent, PDHanumanSvr Application, and PowerDirector itself. One or all of those three tasks seem to get stuck and need to be manually stopped before the program can be successfully relaunched.
QuoteI cannot figure out how to create a Matte Semi Transparent Text Box anything similar to the attached image using PhotoDirector. They seem to be used so much these days but I cannot find the weay to do it uisng PhotoDirector with my PowerDirector 365.
An alternative solution would be to use a white Color Board in a lower track, crop or mask as needed, and set a high transparency. No need to leave the program that way.
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