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The only (and most accurate) place for files to be listen in projects, is… in the project file. So I guess that the only option (well, the easiest without e.g. manually scanning all project files) us, to open the project file and browse for the missing file(s). If more missing files are in the same folder a the first missing, PD will see that and open them. Important is to SAVE the project to prevent this form happening again, at least if you don’t intend to move the files around again. If you decide to ignore the missing files, PD will open the project as, you say, without these files. If you the save the project, you will definitely lose the list of files originally used!
The project packing option is there to make sure that all used files are kept together with the project file. As long as you move the folder in its completeness, all project files will be found at open time.
It is what it is….
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I see two issues: the first being the mixed SD and HD material and the second being the fact that you don’t want to redo all the work to define the chapters
Another problem is that you cannot “trust” PD to correctly render SD based material for a HD disk (larger files). Correct?
To change the disk creator to handle 4:3 material better is something you have to ask CL. There are some options setting the video format, and there is the smart fit, which allows PD to select the bitrate; but that is about it.
W.r.t. the chapters, I understand that you have set these chapters in the disk creation step. I don’t know of a way to preserve the chapters if you redo the project.
I assume that you want this disk production to be perfect and last at least until your golden wedding celebration, with likely more work, I would recommend the following:
- Look at your SD and HD collection of videos that should all end up on the disk. And group the videos you want to keep together in the end product. Maybe that is “just” the wedding and the silver wedding, but it may also have a different grouping like, years, or family, etc. Then make a project per group of videos. It is handy to keep the SD videos together, but that is only if you want to prevent that a mix of 4:3 and 16:9 material alternates on the screen.
- Aim for a HD disk in all projects, so set them to 16:9. Do the “normal” editing in the timeline, delete the unwanted, apply transitions, titles etc. and…. Maybe you have done that already and can reuse it. Also define your chapters in the timeline. Once defined in the project, your chapters are preserved and available in the disk creation process. I can imagine that this approach already takes care of some of the chapter settings, because you already have grouped at project level? It is at least something to think about. What do you want with these chapters and more importantly: how will the disk-audience use the chapters (if at all). (Maybe you can make a screen shot of the chapter list in your old disk content list, so that recreating will be easier?
- For the SD material, likely in separate projects, you also set the project to 16:9, with the black bars left and right (you can change the color by using color boards, or change the background in other ways, if you want to.) My experience is that with SD video you also may need to improve the video quality a bit with color enhancements, denoising, etc. Experiment with applying a LUT to the material. You can both set the coloring and the ambiance in one go, which might make the material look more attractive?
- Save each of the projects (now containing chapter information), and give each project a name that will help you during the disk creation process: by year, by type or the like.
Then start the disk creation process and include the above projects, with a HD (Blu-ray?) disk as output.
It may involve a lot of extra work, but maybe you can reuse much of your work?
Hope this make sense and helps you a bit.
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Thank you both very much!
I've corrected the link. Hope you enjoy the tuts!
Thanks Steven, the link works just fine now, but it still displays with the DFR7at the end?
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Ok I'm an idiot. Or they moved something. Or added something Never had to do that. Thank you.
Maybe you are not. I recall (but am not sure) that in previous occassions the import screen opened with Shutterstock with music. It now opens (in my version) with iStock without the music. I see that iStock has music in the offer, but apparently not for PD 365 users...
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According to the manual
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/05_02_02_download_gi.html?q=istock
Video and images are included from IStock Images (which you apparently selected on the attached image), NO music by the looks of it. When you select Shutterstock, music can be selected.
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Yep: Green of the third kind!
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Hi Steven,
Thanks for again for making some great tutorials available. I love them very much.
The link to the playlist you gave, does not work in my system. It points somewhere to a general YouTube page, not your tutorials.
The link below gives a better result and points to your PowerDirector playlist. Is it me or is the link wrong (DRF7 at the end)?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpVJuTmZEi04Lypg7Vc9MDtYF8yG08je
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If there is a larger green band above your video, then likely you have switched on the SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology) option. You can switch it on and off by right clicking the mouse with the cursor in the fields in front of the clips in the timeline. When you do switch it on you will get additional information in intelligent SVRT. A green band means that, when you use the same output specification at production time, SVRT will give a very speedy production time. See also: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/19_01_00_profile_analyzer.html?q=svrt
IN the video clip there is a very small green line, which is the opacity line. If you point to that with the cursor a small information window will open to explain what the current opacity is and how you can change it.
There is a third green line, which shows in the yellow stripes depicting the time and frames. THIS green line tells you that the green range of clip has been pre-processed to smoothen the pre-view. You can do this by (selecting a part of the clip) and click on the render preview button under the preview screen. This feature will help you viewing the (part of the) clip after somewhat more complex editing (LUTs, transitions, many video layers and the like).
Btw: all three green lines show a slightly different tint of green (at least on my screen).
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Thank you Warry for your attention.
I don't feel too capable to do all the tests. For now I can manage to produce a DVD with Power 2Go. I don't do a lot of them anymore, but I happen to produce some for friends. With PD, I can choose the chapters on the Timeline. The creation of the menus is more elaborate than with Power 2Go, where you cannot create chapters.
I thought this problem would be easier to solve.
Regards
Michel
A wise decision.
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It is with great interest that I read the instructions of CL support.
It shows, that they are really willing to help you out, and are probably as curious as you are, why the program does not work…
They actually ask you to help them watch what PD is doing when you open the disk production process with DBGview (debug viewer, which can be downloaded from internet, browser for it….), but they also instruct you to replace some of the files that are standard to the PD installation with files provided in the file that they should have attached. I presume that the files they provide are debug-versions of the PD production files, that contains information that is helpful when one needs to debug software.
Even without the extra files CL should have included, with DBGview running while starting PD, you can follow a bit what is happening under the hood. WITH the CLfiles there is no doubt more information that should make sense to CLdevelopment.
I suggest:
- ask CL for the additional files, but only if you feel confident to execute their instructions, and fiddle with the CL installation and within your windows system
- by all means make windows restore point before you start
- execute the instructions very precisely
you can copy the files they instruct you to, but I would recommend making a backup of the whole folder structure/ tree of c:\program files\cyberlink\PowerDirector21. Doing that will give you a better position to restore the PD installation as it was.
At the end of the instructions, you can restore the backup of the whole folder but even better would be that at the end of the instruction list they would have written: and now un-install and re-install PD (if only to make sure that you operate with all the proper files)
- you can also run DBGView without changing and replacing the files CL asks you to. It is saver, and there will still be some information, that might be helpful, but apparently not as helpful as CL development expects it to be with the (not yet) provided files. But you can send it any way and see what CL development can make of it.
Hope this helps a bit.
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What the View Entire Video does is make sure that both the beginning and the end of the video in yourtimeline is visible. If need be the clips on in the timeline will be made "smaller" in order to make them all fit on screen. The video is zoomed out to fit on screen.
There is NO way of automatically going back (Zoom in) to the situation you were in when you pressed the button. The only thing you can do is go to the point where you were editing and use the CTRl-mouse wheel combination to enlarge (widen) the clips on the timeline (or make them smaller). (or used the - and + icons below left (Zoom in and out)
However you make it sound like something bad has happen ("View Entire Video" icon by mistake"), so maybe something totally different has happend?
Let us know if this helps.
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OK, I see and understand. At least your windows system should be in better shape now :![]()
I also understand why there are no crashes visible in the DXDiag file, because the error situation is captureed and handled by PD itself. Which in itself is good, because that should give CL an idea of WHERE things went wrong, at least if you have (hopefully everytime it happened), allowed PD to send the information to CL?!
If not, please do so, and indicate in the message space what you were doing and refer to the forum page of this conversation.
I don't think we, here at the forum can help you any further. It is for CL to solve. For now I would suggest that you produce video files that can be burned to DVD etc. with another (working) program...
Maybe others have better suggestions....
(Little side-note if you allow me: I see that you have used and inserted images photos with the original size. I cannot see what output format you use, but it is likely 16x9. If that is the case you see that there are black areas at the left and right side of the photo on screen? What I do in such situation (and the photos allow me to, I crop the photos to the 16x9 format so that they fill the whole screen in your video). The cropping can either be done within PD, are with a photo-shop-like program, whichever you fancy.)
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Maybe you can explain why spell checking is somimportant to you?
Professionally, I have been involved in spellchecking, mostly for extreme difficult texts. I think you are asking CL to add the checking of texts, that is only a very small area of the functionality (although they tend to make it far bigger with the fancy title stuff), in that many languages, with the high possibility that there are unlisted words.
As you say, there is the option to check the texts outside the program, like for subtitles (export and import). I would rather ask CL to focus on a flawless video editing experience. Would you not agree?
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Select the clip in the timeline and click on Fix/enhance. The Dereverb is in the list of options. The AI Dereverb is only available when your CPU and GPU support it.
See: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/08_11_00_fix_and_enhance.html?q=DeReverb
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Looking at the DXDiag.txt file I see three things that catch my eye:
1 I don’t see any PDR crashes?
2 You have two DVD writers. There is a (very) small possibility that PD is not able to handle and select from the two? Maybe try to disable the one and if that not helps the other. Or even disable both and try the portable writer.
3 Your windows update process has stopped. This may be because there something wrong with the system (which I think is the latest version). Nevertheless, I would suggest that you fix that first:
Here's the steps you can try.
-Click Start, type CMD (or terminal) and run it as administrator
-Copy and paste the command below and hit enter.
Sfc /scannow
(look at what windows reports)
Wait until the pc finishes scanning and repairing any corrupted system files then proceed with the next command
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
(look at what windows reports)
Once done proceed with these steps.
- Press Windows key + X
- Go to Settings
- Click Update and Security
- Click Troubleshooter then Additional troubleshooter.
- Look for Windows Update and run the troubleshooter.
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I have no idea, HOW you got this (I am not able to remove the options screen in my version).
Does it help/did you try to go with the cursor to the 5 dots on the left. I see that the mouse pointer changes into a small bar with and arrowpointing left and an arrow pointing right. Holding the left mouse button, and dragging to the right should thn reveal the options again?
Does that work?
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So, there are many solutions and also many interpretations of what you ask for 😊
I assume that you don’t have problems with getting a clip from your phone to the computer (and after that loading the clip into the media room), is it? (If it is the problem, then browser the internet for a number of solutions, including the one that lets you connect the phone to the PC and drag the clips into a folder etc.)
What I understand of your question is, that you have the clip from your phone available on the PC, but that you want parts of the entire clip selected and readily available into the media room, so that you can add them to the timeline at will.
If THAT is the question then a possible route is, to include the entire clip into the media room, then right click that clip and in the menu select the PRECUT tool. In the windows that is opened you can either select one part or multiple parts of the original clip. After you have clicked OK, the precut clips become available in the media room readily available for addition to the timeline.
See also: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/98_01_05_how_to_trim.html?q=precut
Hope this helps.
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As Optodata writes: look around this forum to see what has been advised. I regularly make Blu-ray disks. I don’t use PD for the actual creation. I use MPEG2 with the highest possible settings for Blu-ray disks: (PAL) 1920x1080/50i (25Mbps). It is important to have set the project settings accordingly.
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To start with:
The obvious is to check whether the sound track has sound when played from the media room? (indication whether sound in PD works).
If in the timeline, check whether the sound track has been disabled. (Yellow lock)? or the volume has been turned down?
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If you have two "PIP" at the same time and they overlap each other, then you have two clips on two tracks. In the normal settings the clip on track 1 is overlapped by the clip in track 2. If you want to reverse the situation, simply move the clip on track 1 in track 2 and the clip in track 2 in track 1. See also: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/03_06_01_timeline_view.html?anchor=timelineorder&q=order You can also disable track 2 by clicking on the small lock at the left of the track, the lock turns yellow. What you then see is the clip on track 1. (for locking see: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/win/enu/03_06_01_timeline_view.html?anchor=lockingunlockingtracks&q=locking) A third option would be to select (the clip on) track 2, and when you see handles either in the previews screen (they are white balls in the corners, or in the PIP designer (there they are white blocks). and with these handles make the clip smaller so that the clip on track 1 underneath will show.
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Try and apply Effects from the effect room like Quake on the title, maybe there are others that work for you.
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