Messages posted by dweezilz

I have a bunch of video clips recorded on a SONY FDR-AX43 camcorder recorded in XAVC 4K 60Mbps at 30p frame rate that I want to create 1080p BRD's and SD DVD's. I was curious if there is any differene between producing those files at 4K 60Mbps 30p and then creating the disc image to 1080p / 480p or producing to 1080p to start with and then burning to 1080p images/discs? Not sure if one way will produce sharper video or it's basically the same.

Was there any resolution to this issue? In my previous versions of PD editing titles with scrolling text for 'ending credits' has been PAINFULLY slow. PD 365 is absolutely no better. Each change to the text or scrolling up/down takes 3-8 seconds at best and editing text size/color is the same. Painful. I have a pretty powerful PC too but maybe it's AMD Ryzen CPU's PD has an issue with?? I have a pretty strong Ryzen 5 3600X which is still up on the CPU Benchmark list. 32GB Ram. I had a GeForce GTX 1070 video card and updated to a Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB last month and still, no change, horribly slow. Everything else for the most part is good in PD although once in a blue moon audio will get all out of sync and I have to restart and then it's fine.

Anyway, I guess it's back to taking an hour to edit a title that should take 10 minutes...

I'm not sure if my memory is failing but in the past I thought I could create 4 volume keyframe points and then drag the middle 'bar' between the inner keyframes up to raise the volume in just that tiny section so that I didn't have to raise one keyframe, then try to raise the other inner keyframe to the exact same point (I know I can do it by typing in the number in the keyframe section).

Is this functionality I'm recalling from a different product or is there a way to do that (or has that ability been removed)?

Thanks!!!

Hi everyone. I am trying to take a video of a local kids play I recorded and change one character to ICE during one scene. Basically I want to create a 'frozen' type of effect and have the little girl turn a shade of blue. I've figured out how to do this using ONE mask which is the filled in body of the child creating a hole. I then put a blue color on the track above and then keyframed opacity on the mask so it fades in and out just for that scene. This it works fairly well even though she moves her arms a bit. The problem is that another character walks partial in front of her for 1 or 2 seconds thus the inverted blue mask shows on her for those seconds she's blocking the other child. I'd love to apply multiple masks to the video but I don't think it's possible. I tried creating a second mask on the color track but couldn't figure out how to make that work at all. That wouldn't solve the issue fully anyway.

Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on this. Also, when I fade out the mask for some reason I see the blue color on the outline of the screen for a few seconds as well. Not sure how to fix that either. Thanks!!

Well, it's very odd but it appears that it actually was the copying and pasting the names of the chapters from a PDF of the musical's program which created bad characters that caused the problems! Renaming all of the chapters manually without copy/paste, re-producing, and burning fixed the problem.

It's very strange that the bad character casused it to burn only half the video but it seems that's the case. Just to test, I put the pasted version of chapter names back and the issue returns.

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Quote The post production video however seems fine, plays in it's entirety and has a normal file size of 17GB (or 13GB if I use H256 etc.).

It may be typo that you use h.265 to encode a blu-ray disc.

Obviously I fat fingered that typing (ie a typo) ...probably doesn't matter much as far as the question goes.

I've used versions of PD for the last 8 years to create DVD/BRD of our local musical production. I'm using PD14 as I did last year sucessfully, however this year I can't get the burn process to produce a working image, folder, or BRD. I have a project just as I do each year, with multiple video tracks containing snippets of video and audio. I created my chapers as I always do and produced the video. The resulting video looks perfect. All the chapter structure is there and the video plays perfectly through the entire show.

Now for the problem. When I burn it, I've tried multiple formats and outputs and get the same results. The video seems to only be half burned but contains the full menu system. It has all the chapter thumbs which show the motion previews of the chapters. That said, if I click on ANY of the chapter thumbs from the menu (using the actual BRD or Folders or mounting the image) the video starts at the beginning not the chapter. If I try to move forward it pauses and restarts the video from the beginning. If I try to go too far forward, I get a blank screen. When I look at the BRD, it's obvious that only HALF it's capacity is taken up even though my video should take up about 85% at least.

I've tried all different production file types, removed and recreated chapters, changed the menu to the menu I used last year which worked. No matter what I do all formats result in exactly the same issue. As I said, even the mounted image does the same thing. The post production video however seems fine, plays in it's entirety and has a normal file size of 17GB (or 13GB if I use H.264 etc.). The only thing left that I can think of is that I pasted the names of the chapters from a PDF and I noticed one of them had a little square at the end. I'm currently removing that and trying it all over again. I'm not sure if a bad character in the chapter name would cause the burn to think the video is done half way through. With all of this, I get NO ERRORS at any point.

Let me know if anyone has any ideas or has seen something similar. Thanks in advance!!!

Don't know what you mean but I intended to say re-produce the video not re-project. Powerdirector is working great for me and has for years.

Anyway this did fix the issue. I've noticed now that cutting and removing chunks of video from tracks leaves tiny frame fragments far down the timeline which is what caused this. You can't see them unless you expand the timeline to frame level so they are hidden otherwise. Never had this issue with PD7-PD13 so must be a new bug. Definitely not good but at least fixable if you know what to look for.

I think I figured it out after finding another post that was similar. Sorry if this duplicated the question. I exanded out as far as I could go on the timeline and somehow found a tiny audio file at the very end of the project. No clue how it got there out over an hour on the track. I've removed it and will re-product...hopefully that's it!

I'm not quite sure what's going on here but my project is a combination of two HD videos of a play combined together using different tracks along with synched external audio on separate audio tracks. The video ends at about 2 hours 20 minutes, however, after I produce the file (well within size to fit on a blu-ray) the disc creation shows I don't have enough space on the 25GB disc. I tried to use SmartFit which DID work, however, the resulting Blu-Ray actually has over an hour of blank space at the end! I'm guessing this extra hour of time is what's causing it to be too large. How do I get rid of that? I want it to go back to the menu at 2:20:00 anyway and that extra hour prevents that...for an hour of blank screen. I'm sure this is the size issue. Anyone know what the problem could be? I did notice a subtitle track that I had checked above all my tracks which is empty. Before re-producing the project, could that be the issue? Even when I uncheck it, my timeline goes to 3 hours and 38 minutes.

I was wondering if anyone knows how a large sized HD file might effect the final project size at disc creation if it's been edited to just a tiny portion of it. So I have four 11GB HD files from a musical performance (2 performances of the show, 2 files each). I am going to use two of them for the main video but I'm going to cut out specific scenes that maybe weren't as good and edit in those scenes from the 2nd performance (3rd & 4th files). So, the question is, if I add a 3rd or 4th 11GB video file to a new track, and cut out 90% of it leaving just one scene, is the entire file still included in the final project? So if I use say 800MB worth of the 11GB file will only 800MB be added to the final project or 11GB? Is it better to edit it externally so that file is only 800MB to begin with? That obviously is WAY less convenient than just adding the entire file to the track and cutting out everything except the one scene. Thanks for any help on this subject!!

I was wondering if anyone knew if PD13 includes the entire video file in a project even if the video has been cut or edited? So if I put 4 different 10GB files on the timeline and then either split and delete parts or edit them marking in and out points, will the final burned project still be 40GB plus (if it includes the entire files even though edited) or will the final burn size be based on just the actual video that will be included in the production? I have 4 HD recordings of a musical and I want to use different parts of each, but I don't want to have say 10 minutes used of one of the videos yet still have the full 10GB file included in the burn. If that's the case I'll have to edit them externally. If I do, what is a good program to do that and keep the same mts file format?