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Hi Jerry,
Since your blurb doesn't help PowerDirector customers use PowerDirector 11, I am locking this thread -- in theory.
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I don't have PD8, so I can't help you with PD8. But, the highlight image is just a one-color shape, it can't be a multi-color image.
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If you create a text file that contains the dates of the video files, one date per line, then you can import that list as a subtitle text file.
Before importing the text file, you need to add subtitle markers along the timeline, presumably a marker at the beginning of each video clip. The number of markers should equal the number of dates in the text file. When you click the "Add" button to add a subtitle marker, there will be a line of text, "Double-click to edit," in the Subtitle column. You don't have to double-click on anything because that wording will be replaced when you import the text file.
You'll see some icons at the bottom of the subtitle room for editing subtitles. Click on the folder icon to import your text file and you will see the Subtitle column filled with the dates from the text file. The dates will display on the preview screen when you play back the timeline.
You can read more about subtitles in Help.
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If you just bought VE3, did you install the latest version without installing the older version 120817 first? If not, isn't it hard to decipher the names of the NB effects and their properties?
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60i is actually better than 30p. Where there is motion, the 60i will be clearer. With 60i, you have 60 fields per second, but with 30p you have only 30 fields per second.
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The manual for that camera shows 1920x1080 at 59.94 fields per second interlaced, which in PowerDirector equates to 29.97 frames per second (or 59.94 fields per second) interlaced; you need to select 29.97 fps interlaced in the Produce profiles. The camera also has 1920x1080 30p, which is 29.97 frames per second progressive. See page 63 of the PDF manual: http://us.sanyo.com/dynamic/product/Downloads/VPC-SH1_OM_English-36834105.pdf
Are you saying that the SVRT option was enabled, but SVRT wasn't actually used? or are you saying that the SVRT option was still greyed out?
After MediaInfo launches, I go to the menu and select Debug > Advanced Mode, then View > Text. You'll have to scroll down a ways before you see that it shows "interlaced."
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From what I could tell, your clip is basically 29.97 fps progressive, even though PowerDirector shows the properties as 59.94 fps interlaced. Do you have your camera set to a 30P setting? What make and model camera did you use?
You need to tell PowerDirector that your clip is Progressive. You do that on the timeline: right-click on the clip and select from the pop-up menu "Select Clip Attributes" > "Set TV Format," and set to "This video clip is progressive."
In User Preferences, set TV Format to "30," and set Use Drop Frame Timecode to "Yes"
To create a custom profile for producing MPEG-4 AVC:
frame rate: 29.97
frame type: Progressive
profile type: Main profile
entropy encoding: CAVLC
bitrate: 17010 (for that specific clip) (must be same or higher as the actual bitrates of the clips)
On the Audio tab, change audio compression rate to 256 kbps. (not necessary for SVRT).
Turn off "Enable preview during production."
Now SVRT should be available. Intelligent SVRT won't detect this custom profile.
A 6-second clip is too short for SVRT to actually kick in, so recompression will occur. There is a minimum production length of 60 seconds before SVRT actually is used where there is no recompression of video. These are the rules that you will find in Cyberlink PowerDirector Help:
Intelligent SVRT can be applied to video clips in the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264 and DV-AVI (Type I) formats. In the following conditions, clips (or portions of clips) do not require rendering during production, and SVRT can therefore be applied:
· The frame rate, frame size, and file format are the same as those of the destination production profile.
· The bitrate is similar to that of the destination production profile.
· The TV format is the same as that of the destination production profile. For more information, see Setting TV (Video Clip Interlacing) Format.
If all of the above conditions are met, SVRT can be used. Any clips that do not meet the above criteria are fully rendered without SVRT.
In the following conditions, clips (or portions of clips) must be rendered during production, and SVRT can therefore not be applied:
· Adding a title or transition effect
· Modifying the color of a video clip
· Merging two video clips (clips within 2 seconds before or after the merged clips will be rendered)
· Splitting a video clip (clips within 2 seconds before or after the split will be rendered)
· Trimming a video clip (clips within 2 seconds before or after the trimmed clip will be rendered)
· If the total duration of the production is less than one minute and any portion of the video requires rendering, the entire production will be rendered for efficiency reasons.
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AMD has a new driver for the Radeon 4800 HD. Your driver is over a year old.
Second, the background music "Sports.mp3" has always caused problems for me. There's something about using MP3 in menus. Cyberlink had used mp3 in earlier versions of PowerDirector, but in 11 they have switched to WMA. You might want to experiment on your system and try WMA or WAV formats for menu music.
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How about taking a snapshot of the color board when it's on the timeline. Then you can use the jpeg snapshot as the background in the Title Designer. Add your title and then do a Save As.
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I can import MOV files with Avid DNxHD 1920x1080p 29.97 444 10-bit and PCM audio. I can edit it and produce other formats.
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It has to be the CPU and GPU combination that is causing a problem. On my machine, if I produce using 8300 Kbps then I get 8300 Kbps on the actual file, according to MediaInfo, using hardware encoding. I can then take that clip and burn a DVD without recompression. My CPU/GPU combination is one that Cyberlink lists on the Specifications web page.
Hope you weren't analyzing the .VOB file that contains the menu, because that is always going to have a low bitrate.
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If you purchased PowerDirector 11, then Wave Editor will be installed when you install PD11. You can't install Wave Editor separately. If you are using the trial version of PD11, Wave Editor won't be available.
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Wave editor works here on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit with the 2707 patch. The audio I have is AAC. The video is AVC/h.264.
Maybe it's the fomat of the audio that is causing Wave Editor to crash. Have you tried other types of audio?
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You can easily find the documents on Smartsound's web site.
Outside US: http://www.smartsound.com/support/nonpro
US: http://www.smartsound.com/support/licenseinfo
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There is a plug-in from NewBlueFX called Image Mapper that works in PowerDirector (and other editors). Image Mapper is part of the NewBlue Video Essentials III collection. You can try it out for free for 14 days, I believe. Work fast. It will allow you to distort the frames with curves. It's actually for mapping video to an object, so they say. I guess I'll have to watch the tutorial. Well, it may or may not help with your problem, but it looks like it will.
http://www.newbluefx.com/product/video-essentials-iii
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You can put some meta data in MP4 and MOV files in Windows Explorer. Right click on a file and select Properties. You can search for the tags in Windows Explorer if you put the window in Detail view and expose the Tags column. There is also a Title, Subtitle, and Comments field you can modify.
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You can type over "My Video" in the Folder Directory text box:
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HDedit,
When AMD updates the developer web pages, then I'll try whatever version they list for Radeon HD.
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Sorry, but multiple languages is not supported in PowerDirector 11.
How long is your movie? If it's really short, you might be able to fit a 2 or 3 duplicate movies on a DVD, each with it's own language, each treated as a separate title in the main menu. PowerDirector supports multiple titles in one "movie." So, you would have to pick which movie you want to watch from the Main menu.
I haven't actually tried that with PowerDirector, I'm just imagining that it might work.
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That ATI file looks like it might be the MPEG Encoder library.
As of this date, developers of OpenCL are told to use Catalyst 12.10 for most of the graphics hardware according to this page on AMD, so that is what I am using:
http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/downloads/
I tried 13.10, but had to go back to 12.10 because OpenCL didn't work in some video editing applications. There were also glitches in screen drawing.
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Do you use subtitles?
If not, you could use subtitle markers instead of timeline markers. The advantage there is you can move all the subtitle markers at the same time if you select all the markers first: click on the first subtitle marker, then hold down the shift key and click on the last one. Another advantage is you can copy and paste markers along with clips if you create a range with the range markers first before clicking the "Copy" button. Clips won't snap to subtitle markers, but you can move the cursor to a subtitle marker, then clips will snap to the cursor at that position.
When you add subtitle markers, you will see the text "Double-click to edit." You don't necessarily have to edit them out with a space if you can remember to disable the subtitle track before burning a DVD.
You can jump from one subtitle marker to the next by holding down the CTRL key and using the left or right arrows.
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