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Hello, georgiejr!
Welcome to the forum! Yes, you can rotate a clip in PD14, Drop the video onto the timeline, then, in "Tools", select "Power Tools", Here you have the options of 2D to 3D, Video In Reverse(good for comic effect), Crop & Zoom, Video Speed(Benny Hill used this for his end-of show chase sequences, all those girls chasing "him"! ha-ha), and the one you want, Video Rotation. Just check the box next to the tool you wish to use.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Maliek!
I've had my own routine for "voice-overs" or "narration". I tend to complete my editing to a stage where I have all my clips in place, all transitions, titles, music(not always used), opening and closing visual effects and any captions. I render this once, then, either immediately, or perhaps later, I'll open up the finished render and watch it via Windows Media Player(I'm still using Windows 7), with an empty "Word" document opened. I view the video, then, pausing at points through the video, I type in what I want to say at that point. When that's complete, I print out my "narration script", then I record an MP3 audio "track", which I import into PD14(or 8 if I decide to use it) along with the video, dropping the video onto its timeline first, I play it until the point appears for my first comment. I drop the narration track onto(in PD14) any unused audio track, or(in PD either the voice-over or music track. I play until I reach the end of each "comment", split the audio track at that point, then,(with Ctrl+X) cut the remaining audio track and paste it at the point of my next comment, repeating the process until all comments are in place. Labourious, yeah! Time-consuming, yes to that too! But I do get the result I want. "It works for me!" The audio software I use: Sony Sound Forge!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Have the need to convert stereo audio files to mono and the quickest way to do this is if PD14 would allow me to do this right in the timeline. However, I don't see any options other than to drag the file to another app and save it, then reload the mono file. I cannot edit it with WaveEditor as the only thing it does is give me a "File Not Imported" error message.
Am I missing something?
Hi, Ken!
I really, honestly, don't think it is possible to drop stereo audio content back to mono in any of the Power Director versions that have come and gone in recent years. About the only way it can be done is through a third-party audio editing software. Clearly Wave Editor isn't doing what you want, so you're really only left with using the third-party software option.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi Everyone, I started a new job and haven't been able to catch up on these posts but I look forward to reading them soon. I also realize that my downloaded version of PD might (not sure) be the culprit so tonight I uploaded from the DVD because the problems happened after I downloaded. Will read the comments and try my new program over the weekend. Thanks so much.
Hi, Angela!
I hope whatever action you've taken finally resolves your problem, and, by the way, congratulations on your new job!
Cheers!
Neil.
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PD TooTs is easily found on Youtube.
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There are also some links to those YouTube PDToots through this forum in various posts, just thought I'd mention that.
(Another link detail appeared just ahead of my sentence that I did not insert myself, I saw it only after I submitted my post. It appeared just below the shaded quotation box).
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Hi, AIS!
Yeah... that newbie's avatar is a bit on the gory side! Spooky! But I just thought this forum needed a bit of "perking up". The topic of video editing can get like the topic of finance and stock markets.... very dry and dull! So if anyone can drop a bit of humour in on occasion to lift the mood.... so much the better. Dafydd himself even admitted that he needs to lighten up a bit. We can't all be, as the Americans used to call it, "Sad Sacks"!
On the topic of how much RAM my computer has, I'm not exactly sure, to be honest. I bought this computer a couple of years back, "off the shelf" and never really bothered to check out its specs. I'm guessing now that I mght have more than 8 gigs of RAM, but tech issues with this computer are best left with those who know their way around the innards of a computer. My abilities lie with the use of, rather than the building of computers.
Cheers!
Neil.
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To Angela, Tony and all who are in this thread,
My apologies if my comments, based on my own genuine experiences with VOB files may have been misleading. I'm rewording this post from an interrupted earlier attempt to post here because my accursed AVG(Anti-Virus Guard) got in my way and required shut down/restart of my computer. Anyway, Angela, your OP said you were able to get video only, no audio when you attempted to "rip" content off DVDs sent to you by the TV station, to which you've submitted content. Though I'm guessing, it still seems to me that the incompatibility lies with that station using Apple Mac-based DVD authoring software. Under normal conditions, Power Director should be able to "rip" or "capture" content from a home-burn DVD or a commercial DVD (that did not have embedded copy-protect) by putting the disc in the drive, opening PD in Capture mode, selecting disc capture and allowing whatever time needed for the process. The only guess I have remaining to me is that the software used by this TV station, "Fine Cut Pro" might be, just might be, embedding something into the final authoring which is preventing you from "ripping" the content from that disc, or those discs.
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The GeForce Experience issue I thought had been fixed with the latest driver offered by Nvidia. Perhaps you could test it for us Neil? 
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I don't believe I have it on my computer! I was simply making an observation on another poster's experience with Nvidia GeForce. Seems to me the GeForce issue has not yet been resolved, based on comments I've read thus far on this forum in various threads.
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Seriously Neil, your addition to this thread's topic added nothing of real worth. kmjk333 had already given a superb answer and pointed out the deficiency of only having 8gb of ram.
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Dafydd,
You really do need to "lighten up"! I was trying to inject a little humour into an otherwise dull subject. It seems to me this forum is often very "dry", devoid of any humour. My attempt may or may not be welcome and some of them may not be as funny as hoped, but at least I am trying to "brighten up" an otherwise overly-serious forum. As to 8 gigabytes of RAM(Random Access Memory), I think it might be more than what my computer has but I rather leave that side of my computer to those who are more skilful than me to manage such things.
Neil.
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Dafydd,
for a start, I honestly did not know of any capture devices which connect with computers via HDMI, and in any case, there are still quite a lot of computers out there that may not have such a connection, be they laptop or desktop(tower) systems. So I was going on the more univerally-available capyure devices which use USB ports to feed captured analogue content. I may look up these HDMI connections, I am aware of them and know they provide audio(left & right channel stereo) plus high definition video in one connection, but it gets back to what's more widely available. As yet I've not seen any of these HDMI Video Capture Interface devices, though I may stumble across one or two in my "travels". But for Theolilou's immediate needs, I suggested the more universally, and readily-available USB-based device.
Neil
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Digital cameras come in different qualities, as do their capture settings, and sometimes dark or oddly lit places can cause problems. I think the owner of the video footage should be the judge on whether Denoise or other "fixes" are necessary. I mean, really Neil, did you see the video?
Barry,
put it this way, you don't have to hold your hand over a naked flame to know that fire burns! So no, I didn't see the video, but I was assuming that Chproto may well have been using one of the latter generations of cameras which shoot in either AVCHD or MP4 file types. When viewed directly, before any attempt at editing is made, these "clips" come up so sharp, you could cut your finger on them!
I did, however, cover one possibility that may require a minor touch-up in Fix/Enhance, that of dark shots where a tweak of the brightness might help. But I stand by what I said about Video Denoise, it really comes into its own when reviving old analogue tape content, it really helps in "cleaning up" that old stuff!
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Hmmm... I note GeForce is still making its presence felt, but in a ba-a-a-a-ad way! NVidia needs a stern talking-to, ay?
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Hello, ChristopherDeanHoward!
I'm a long way from being an expert(X = unknown quantity, spert[spurt] = a drip under pressure) but even I would know that perhaps 8GB of RAM might not be enough to handle video editing. The computer would be "working its guts out" trying to process all that content and that RAM chip might turn into a EWE(sorry, sheepish computer humour there, I'll take it baa-aa-aa-ck, shall I?) Seriously though, a word with your computer tech support could advise you of what you need for editing videos. Your computer may very well be a "muscle machine" in some aspects, but video editing with any so-designed software, let alone Power Director, could be pushing that RAM drive toward shear... er.... sheer exhaustion!
Cheers!... Sorry for the excruciating puns!
Neil.
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Yep, Dead-easy when you get the hang of it, ain't it?
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Hello, and Guten Tag, Theolilou(my only other language is German).
I use a K-World capture card for analogue-to-digital conversion. I don't know about HDMI for this purpose as these devices usually feed the computer though the USB port. In any case, HDMI wasn't around in those dim, dark days of analogue video. I've not yet struck such a device that converts analogue to HDMI, but some smart dude, somewhere might invent one, but until then, its yellow RCA for Video, red & White RCA for left and right stereo audio, into a little device not much bigger than a matchbox, then via USB to computer, suck up all that old analogue stuff and start fiddling.... er.... editing!
Cheers, & Viel Gruss!
Neil.
P.S. A thought just occurred to me, I don't think there's a provision in capture mode for HDMI in any Power Director, Version 14 or earlier, but then I could be wrong.
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Hello, Chproto!
What has already been said by Barry and Jirka, I endorse those comments. Barry's idea of breaking the project into smaller projects, much easier to handle! Jirka's suggestion of producing(rendering) the video might straighten out the audio/video mismatch. but what has me puzzled is, assuming you're shooting with a modern digital videocamera that produces AVCHD or MP4 video files, which, by their nature, are high definition, why would you want to touch them up with Video Denoise? By their own nature, AVCHD and MP4 videos are "pristine", clear, sharp and well-defined! They need no touching up at all! If the image is dark, you might want to brighten it a bit, but you use the brightness setting in Fix/Enhane for that purpose.
Video Denoise comes into its own when capturing old VHS, Beta, Video-8 or Hi-8 cameera tape content. When captured the image quality might appear a bit grainy, Video Denoise cleans up that graininess beautifully, add a bit of tweaking of the contrast and brightness, plus, if you've a mind to do it, convert the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 using CLPV and you can, jokingly, lie to your friends by saying you shot the clips digitally! Ha-ha. They'll never know the difference or the truth, but you will. It'll be your little secret! But for content already shot digitally, Video Denoise is not necessary!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello all, and particularly Angela123!
Going on my own experiences, I've always used my DVD-drive and directly extracted content into PD, thus avoiding the need to fiddle with the VOB file contents*. It seems there are some file compatibility problems that might arise from the TV station using am Apple Mac-based disc authoring software, as well as SteveK's suggestion that copyright-protection may have been embedded into the disc. A combination of these factors may be hampering your attempts to extract the disc comtents for your own use, Angela.
*In relation to VOB files(folders containing portions of the videos in MPEG2 file type), I've toyed about with these and found that, while I can load them into Power Director, stringing the files together to reconstruct the video isn't as straight-forward as it might appear. If a VOB file has, for example three portions of the total video, and there may be three such folders on the disc, each containing three portions, as you join the portions together, you'll notice a "jump" from one portion to the next, particularly noticable if a portion comes to its end in the middle of an action, like opening a gate into a garden, for instance, there might be a displaced frame so when you add the next portion, the gate swing might be further advanced(a sudden jolt) or the last frame of one portion might be repeated as the first frame on the next portion, this can be fixed in PD14 by snipping off the surplus frame.
But all that to one side, If the disc is home-burn or a commercial disc that had no copy-protection embedded, it's just a matter of dropping it into my DVD drive, opening PD, selecting the appropriate mode in the capture window and the entire video comes in without any hiccups unless it's a long freature film whose total file size may go beyond 4 gigabytes, then, the remaining few minutes will show up as a separate capture which I have to join on to the rest to complete the video. There you have it, my experience of extracting disc content into Power Director.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Carl,
I was trying to give a simpler method for Gram from FT to use, as Gram is obviously just starting out with this magical world of video editing. I wish Gram well in her efforts. Some of the "tricks" available to more seasoned Power Director users can be somewhat daunting to somone just starting out, so it was my intention to give a simpler method to achieve what Gram from FT wanted.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, JimMurch!
Ah, I see, it was the screen recorder you wanted to set for some degree of permanency, as Ynotfish says, that's not possible! For myself I'm not all that impressed with it. In its current state it's a facility that could be done without. I've tried it a few times and am not pleased with the jerky hit-and-miss results. In hit-and-miss I mean it misses several consecutive frames as it records, resulting in the jerky, jumpy final capture. This is one that should be taken "back to the drawing-board"!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Angela!
Final Cut Pro operating on an Apple Mac platform, ay? That fairly sums it up! You have AVS on your Windows PC which obviously has provision to capture content off a DVD made in Final Cut Pro and convert it to a usable file type that Power Director will accept, there's your workaround solution! Humouring Barry for the moment, if you load the disc into your drive to access the VOB files directly, could you copy and paste those files(they'll all be in the one VOB folder) to a spot on your hard-drive and access them from there? Just a thought! If not, then you have that AVS software as your back-up.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Gram from FT!
Shadowman, has neatly summed this up but I might try to explain it a little clearer(if that's possible). Based on what you say, you start with a tape which has several different items contained on it. those old camcorders sometimes had the facility of date-stamping shots with date and time of shooting, if that info is present on the recordings, it will help you work out "what's what" on those tapes.
As you've already "captured" the content of one of these tapes, it's a simple matter of pulling the capture onto the timeline, viewing it until you get to the point where you wish to separate one subject from the next, at which point you simply "split" the video on the timeline. A symbol to look for here is two arrows pointing away from an "equal" sign turned on end(rough depiction: <-ll-> ). The material on the timeline after the split can be discarded. You won't lose it altogether, though, as the original "capture" will remain intact in the "media library". All you need to do is give this new short clip a name, and produce it. We'll assume for the moment this was the first item on the tape. Okay, having produced that clip, let's now clear this one off the timeline(highlight it and press delete, it won't be lost, just taken off the timeline, it'll still be in the library, alongside the capture). Pull the capture onto the timeline again, watch for the point where you split to make your first clip. Split there again, then highlight and delete the content before the split, view the content now until you get to the end of the next item, split there and delete after the split, simply repeating the process will separate each item into individual clips.
I did have another idea on how to do this, but after you said that trying to produce a "highlighted range"(orange area between two points) PD wanted to produce entire timeline, that scotched the idea I had. So what was explained in the last paragraph should help.
Cheers!
Neil.
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