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Unlike Anders I can burn DVD's from within Power Director 11 Ultimate. However, I find it more convenient to create a disk folder in Power Director (as Carl312 does) and burn to disk using Cyberlink's Power2Go (which came as a bonus with Power Director).
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I don't know if there is an automated way to pan the audio, but you could try this manual procedure:
1. Copy the audio to another track (you may want to split the video and audio tracks temporarily in order to avoid copying the video as well).
2. Make sure the two audio tracks are in sync with each other (and with the video track).
3. Set the balance of the tracks to left and right respectivily.
4. Fade out one track and fade in the other track around the position where you want the panning to occur.
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Hi,
Don't bother. I just found a standard PD 11 effect called 'color focus'.
Problem solved (as a matter of fact, it turned out there was no problem to start with in the first place). 
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Hi,
Maybe this has been asked before, but if so I coudn't find it.
I attached a picture to illustrate what I want to achieve. I have a black&white clip and the same clip in its original colored way. I want the colored clip to appear as a cut out shaped as a circle. (You can ignore the black border of the circle in the example, it is just there for pointing out the shape). This I can easily do using a mask.
But here is the difficult part: I want the colored circle to move across the screen. But I cannot find a way to add keyframes for movement to the mask.
My question is: Can this be done in PD 11? Any solution other than using a mask is welcome as well.
TIA,
Jos
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Why the hazzle with two identical clips on two tracks? As I said before you can use keyframes to set different values of saturation at different points in the clip. Far more easy than working with two different clips IMHO.
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Another way is to use keyframes for the saturation: 0 (zero) at the start of the clip, 100 at the end of the clip.
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Hey J,
That can easily be done:
1. Create a graphic with the size (resolution) of the video format. Let's say that the logo/disclaimer cobvers the bottom 200 pixels of the screen. In that case you add a 200 pixel high rectangle at the bottom of the graphic. You can coose any color or pattern you like for the recatngle. Everything above it must be transparent. Save this graphic as a PNG-file and import it into PD11.
2. In PD11 you put the rolling credits on (for example) video track 3. Add the imported graphic to video track 4. The text of the disclaimer is added to video track 5. That's all.
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I have done this in the past (capturing with a Hi8 camera and using Pinnacle software to edit). I recall a few issues I encountered at the time.
First, the distance between the projector and the screen determines the brightness of the projected images: the closer the two are, the brighter the image.
It is very likely that your projector will create a hotspot (bright spot) in the center of the screen. Size and brightness vary with the distance between the screen and the projector. You will have to experiment with the distance a bit to find an optimum between overall brightness and the appearance of the hotspot.
Another issue was that of the framespeed. I live in a PAL country, which means that video is recorded at 25 fps. The Super8 films I wanted to captured played at a speed of 24 fps. This result was the characteristic flickering. Again, you will need to experiment to find the best playback speed of the projector.
Last but not least is the soundtrack. A projector makes a rattling noice, that evidently will be recorded by your camcorder. So you may need to record the soundtrack of the original 8mm film separately (off line) and resync it in your PD11 project.
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Hi Robert,
In PowerDirector the video on track 1 will appear behind the video on track 2. The video on track 2 in its turn will appear behind the video on track 3. And so on. So, the video you want to see al the time (on top of the other videos) needs to be on the highest track number. In your case that would be the 'triangle' video.
In addition to that you should create a mask file in the form of the triangle and apply this mask to that 'triangle' video. (As a matter of fact PD comes with a triangle mask.) The mask will make the underlying videos (on the lower track numbers) visible. Take a look at the screenshots.
HTH.
Grtz.,
Jos
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Final update (4)
I have tried several suggestion from your posts. I unchecked the hardware encoding, tried both interlacing options (top field first and bottom field first) for the clips on the timeline, but that still gave no result.
Finally I followed Carl's advise to render the project to a MPEG2 DVD HQ 720x576/50i (8 Mbps) video. I imported this mpeg file in the Content tab of Create Disk and guess what: a smooth playing DVD came out of the process !!
Thank you all guys for your help and for staying with me, even when I might have looked a bit pigheaded. One happy PD11 user on this side of the screen, now. Thanks again.
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tomasc,
I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding.
The DVD is not created based on DV AVI files but on avchd files (H.264 AVC). I used such footage in both my current project and my previous project. When I make a DVD of these projects at this moment, both DVD's are jumpy. The DVD I made a few weeks ago using the same previous project (no settings altered) and footage was okay.
So I also did create a DVD from PD using HD AVCHD camcorder files that looks great, but it seems to have stopped working now. That for me shows that the cause of the problem is not in the footage. If it was, I could not have created the DVD in the first place.
In an attempt to find a solution for the jerkiness I tried several options, one of them rendering the current project to a DV AVI file first, and putting this file one on the timeline of a new project. When this did not help I did a similar attempt with the original file being rendered to an MPEG2 file first. No luck either.
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Maybe something in this project.
It is not only my latest project, that is having this problem, but also another project when i re-render and burn on DVD. When I finished this 'old' project a few weeks ago the DVD played fine.
BTW all the footage used is AVCHD. Small projects for testing various options all used this material; no titles, transitions or other fancy stuff, just footage. All resulting in jumpy DVD.s
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Update (3)
Did an uninstall and reinstall of PD11 en created a new DVD (both newly rendered from timeline and burned to DVD). Result: still jumpy.
Next I installed PD11 on another Windows7 computer, created a small project from scratch (with the same footage I used before) and made a DVD of it. Result: jumpy playback on TV.
In other words: DVD's created on 2 different computers both play jumpy on TV. This might lead to the conclusion that the TV/player combination is the cause of the problem. However, other DVD's (made earlier with PD11) play fine on TV, which might indicate that the TV/player is okay and that the cause is in the PD11 system. But how can I explain the fact that both PC's produce a faulty DVD?
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Thanks to all for your input.
@Jaime-esque:
Yes, I have created a small project from scratch. It is jumpy as well.
@Carl312:
It most likely is not the TV/Player combination. If I play the DVD I created with PD11 a few weeks ago, it plays fine. If I now render this same project again and burn it on a DVD it is jumpy.
@tomasc:
I have created the DVD directly from the timeline, from a rendered DV AVI file as well as from a rendered MPG4 file. In all cases the video plays jumpy.
I recently installed the VLC media player on my computer. Maybe some codec or driver was affected by that installation. Uninstallig the VLC player, however, didn't solve the problem. As far as I can remember I didn't install any other software since the last succesfull burning of a DVD.
I will uninstall PD11 completetly from my computer and reinstall it. If that doesn't help I will go back to an image file of my computer, but I hope I that is not needed ...
I'll post back what the results are.
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Update (2)
Copied the TS_AUDIO and TS_VIDEO folders to another computer and burned a DVD. Result: Output on DVD jumpy, output on computer okay.
IMHO this means that it is not the burning process (two different PC's can't be wrong), but the error is inside the rendered files.
In some way PD11 (or my installation of PD11) creates a VOB file that plays well on a computer but causes problems in desktop player.
I can't think of any other option than reinstalling PD11 but before I do this, I would like to know if there are other ways to go ???
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Update:
Burned a DVD without subtitles: playback on TV still jumpy.
Burned a DVD from my previous project: playback on TV is jumpy (the original DVD still plays okay on the DVD)
Conclusion:
Cause of the problem is not within the project and not with the DVD player or TV, but somewhere in the PD11 installation and/or burning process.
I will try some other options to narrow down the problem.
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Did you use an titles in the project?
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I did use titles in my project (both subtitles and 'normal' titles). I will try making a DVD without the subtitles, but I doubt that it will have any influence on the result since the jittery playback also occurs when I put a single AVI on the timeline and make a DVD of that.
I will also try another option to pinpoint the problem. I still have the project of the other DVD (the one that plays okay on my desktop DVD player). I'll make another DVD of this project and see how that one will play. If it's okay I assume it is fair to say that the problem is within the new project. If it's not, the problem most likely is within the PD11 installation and/or burning process.
I'll report back in a few days with the results.
Gr.,
Jos
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Hi there,
I have a problem creating a DVD. Let me explain what I mean.
I have a project of approx 30 minutes. With the "Create Disk" function of PD11 I have created a DVD image on my hard disk. When I play the VOB files in the TS_Video folder they play as expected on my computer. When I actually burn these files onto a DVD it plays okay as well on my computer. But when I play the DVD in my desktop DVD player to watch it on my TV screen it plays jumpy: Every second or so it seems to jump back a few frames. The sound (music in this case) however plays without disturbance.
I have burned this project tot DVD in several ways: directly from PD11 and also by using Cyberlink's Power2Go. Always the same jumpy DVD as a result. In searching for a solution I created both an AVI file and a MPG-file, from which I burned a DVD. But again, always a jumpy DVD in my desktop DVD player whilst the files playback okay on my computer. No need to say that the AVI and MPG play flawless on my computer.
Well, you might say that the cause of the problem is in the DVD player. But the strange thing is, that it happens only with DVD's from this particular project. A DVD I created a couple of weeks ago (from another project) plays fine, without any problem. Project settings, and the settings of the original footage of both projects are all the same.
Right now I am stuck. I think I have tried everything (even changing cable connections and so of my desktop player). So any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
Grtz,
Jos
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