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Thanks! Didn't know these patches could be downloaded from the website.
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I downloaded a patch (v3516) for PowerDirector 13 the other day, and I've been looking on the forums to try to find some info about it, but haven't seen anything. Is there patch info posted somewhere, or does anyone know what this patch did?
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I agree with you about going with the times, but the thing is, we use an expensive set-up with 10 year old video switching software (NewTek VT4) on a 10 year old computer that's picky with the video format. DV video was the standard back then, and that's about the only kind of video format that can play inside that software, so it's what we're forced to use.
The dots will appear with any kind of video source however, so the source video isn't the problem.
Thanks for your response though.
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I no longer have a working video capture device, so I can't say for sure about changing video fps. Although, from what I can see from capturing microphone audio, there's a profile button in the lower right area in the PowerDirector window where you can change the sample rate, and that's possibly where to change fps too for video devices.
To change audio device settings, you right-click on the volume icon in the system try of your computer and select recording devices. Then right-click the device and choose properties. Then in the advanced tab, you can choose the default sample rate.
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There are lots of reasons depending on many things why it might happen.
One reason for audio desync I've just recently learned is differences in the sample rate of the audio set to be captured/recorded and what the sample rate is set to record with the audio driver. (not sure if this applies to power director or not, but some software it does)
Over a long period of time, capturing at a non-standard frame rate can cause audio desync (like 30fps instead of 29.97 or 60fps instead of 59.94)
About large file sizes, the less the video is compressed, the less processing power is needed for the saved video data, which in turn may improve capture performance.
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When I produce videos to DV-AVI, the resulting video has faint dots in a pattern like the dots and boxes (squares) paper game. At work, I use Corel Visual Studio 5 and it does not have this problem when it produces video to DV Type I, so I'm led to assume that there is something wrong with how PowerDirector encodes with DV-AVI.
This is not new to PowerDirector 13 (happens in 11 also, probably in 12 too, but never used 12), but I have not seen any mention of this on the forum or elsewhere.
I have an example picture here:
That same picture zoomed in 4x (upper left corner):
Another example zoomed 4x:
I'm curious if anyone else has the same results when producing to DV-AVI. I'm surprised I could find no mention of this problem whatsoever.
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Just upgraded from PowerDirector 11 to PowerDirector 13 and encountered this problem with crashing from opening the particle room.
I also had no idea why hardware acceleration never worked for me before in PD 11 even when I had it enabled.
But now after seeing this thread and downgrading to driver version 334.89, I don't crash in the particle room, and I can finally use hardware acceleration on some video formats.
I hope someday there will be news that updated drivers can be used once again for these graphic cards.
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