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Can you supply a link to that post. The link is also in the above sticky: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/42357.page .You claim to have a nvidia 900 series card which requires the latest driver. The link as I remember it is for the nvidia 600 series and below which you don't have. That link is for those other users who are using those cards and would like to use HA on their pc.
Do you think that post should be removed for the sake of newer nvidia card user as an oversight...
Hi there, the link is here : http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/spec_en_CA.html
This is the standard Cyberlink PowerDirector Specs" page which lists the system requirements necessary to install and run Power Director. About half way down that page it lists :
"NVIDIA:
GeForce 8500GT/9800GT and above
GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 200/400/500/600 Series
PLEASE NOTE: For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver."
The PLEASE NOTE: section does not mention any specific Nvidia graphics cards so I assumed it applies to ALL Nvidia graphics cards, new or old. I interpreted the specific Nvidia graphics cards mentioned as meaning those were the MINIMUM required, not the ones that the PLEASE NOTE applies to. This is unclear if you read the text literally.
I have submiited my same question directly to Cyberlink customer support so hopefully they will clarify the meaing of their Technical Requirements Specs. page.
OK, I just read the post in the link you gave which clarified that the issue only applies to the older NVidia graphics cards, but nonetheless, the Cyberlink text on their Specs. web page is misleading and should be changed to stop folks like me asking the same question over and over!
Thanks.
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The technical system requirements for PD13/14 state this for graphics cards:
NVIDIA:
GeForce 8500GT/9800GT and above
GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 200/400/500/600 Series
PLEASE NOTE: For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver.
I have a very recent NVIDIA GTX970 card using the latest 355.82 NVidia driver.
Does this statement mean that I really can't use the latest graphics card/driver with PD13/14 if I want to use hardware acceleration?
The old NVidia graphics driver that is mentioned in the tech. specs page is Version 337.88, Release Date Mon May 26, 2014, well over a year old!!!
I'm hoping that this mention of this older driver on the web site is just an oversight and should have been removed a long time ago. Is that the case or do I really need to use that very old driver with my very new graphics card?
Thank you.
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I hope they've also fixed the incompatibilty with later NVidia graphics drivers that requries an install of an old version of the nVidia graphics card driver to enable hardware acceleration. See here:
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/spec_en_CA.html?&r=1
PowerDirector 13 System Requirements & File Format Support
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NVIDIA:
GeForce 8500GT/9800GT and above
GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 200/400/500/600 Series
PLEASE NOTE: For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver.
(Which, BTW, is GeForce 337.88 Driver, Release Date Mon May 26, 2014 - well over a year ago!!!) That is unforgivable by Cyberlink - depending on a graphics card driver that is well over a year old!!!
Does anyone know if that issue has been fixed so we can all use the latest nVidia graphics drives AND have hardware acceleration in PD 13 and/or PD14?
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Hi David
Did you have to purchase NB4, or is there a free trial somewhere?
I am using the free trial version. You can get it here :https://www.newbluefx.com/titling
Click on the Free Trial link, then fill in your name and email adddress and they'll send you a link to download it from. The free trial version puts a horrible watermark and big X right across your compleetd video so it's unusable for a finished product but serves to show what it can do.
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I didn't do anything different, to my kownledge, just kept retrying!
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I retried several times and eventually got NB Titler 4 to produce a .mov file that PD13 could import. Thanks.
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Here's what I've learned from elsewhere since my original post. NewBlue Titler Pro 4.0 does not integrate with PD13 at all. But you can run it as a standalone application, and import its resulting video output into PD13, or so the New Blue's web site says. However, if you want to export a video title with transparency so you can overlay it on top of your PD13 background, for example, it will only produce a .MOV file format, which is compressed. I tried this on a small test, just a piece of scrolling text and PD13 couldn't import the .MOV file. PD13 simply wouldn't open it.
Has anyone successfully tried this and does anyone know why PD13 can't open a .mov file?
Of course ideally, Cyberlink would upgrade their API's and/or interfaces to allow NewBlue Titler Pro 4.0 to integrate directly into PD13 just as they already do for NewBlue Titler 1.0.
As it is, we we're stuck with having to import an already compressed .mov file, rather than an uncompressed .AVI file, but that is NB's fault for not allowing an .avi export, not Cyberlink's.
I'll raise a feature request ticket to Cyberlink to ask for such integration support.
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Hello. I have just started using the New Blue Titler 1.0 that came with the PD 13 Ultimate Edition. I'm kind of getting used to it but it is very unpolished and is a legacy product. On NewBlue's web site their vers 4.0 compatibility list does not include PowerDirector 13 among their list of compatible Video Editor hosts.
Does anyone know if that is simply an ommission on NewBlue's part, and/or has anyone successfully used New Blue Titler Pro 4.0 with PD13?
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Hi DavidIn the text room there is a folder called New Blue. New Blue is a text editor which is a bit more than basic.If you open New Blue and drag it down to the timeline to open the editor, then go to LIBRARY - EFFECTS - ROLL & CRAWL. Here you will find several options for scrolling including fast, medium, slow and sitcom. One of these may be closer to what you want
So I tried both methods. i.e.
1) Using PD13 directly using a combination of splitting the scrolling text into smaller segments, adding additional line breaks and increasing the line spacing to adjust scroll speed. Eventually I got the scrolling text to sync. with my audio narration. However, using extra line breaks and messing with the line spacing means you have to alter the appearance of your text just to adjust its scroll speed. That is a load of nonsense to me!! The text appearance and the text scrolling speed should be completely decoupled from each other!
2) Using the New Blue Advanced Titler. Yes this has the required variable scroll speed functionality but is full of its own idiosyncrasies and is not well integrated with either PD13 or the Windows File system, in my opinion.
i) Its duration is not linked to that of the the title in PD13. If you change the duration in PD3, then re-open the New Blue Title editor, the new duration is not set. You have to set it manually by typing in a text box (that does not have intuitive input formatting, BTW).
ii) If you set fade in/fade out transitions in PD13, these are not respected in the New Blue Titler. You have to set title transitions inside the New Blue Title editor instead and you migh as well remove them from PD13 because they do not work with the New Blue Title.
iii) If you save the New Blue Title as a New Blue project (file extension .nbtitle)and navigate to some location on your disc, that location is not remembered the next time you want to save it. You have to navigate all the way through your folder hierarchy to find the same file again. What a pain!
The New Blue Title editor provided for free with PD13 is a legacy version that has good title functionality, but is definitely not a polished product!
What cyberlink need to do is to not rely on a third party product that has dubious integration issues, but instead implement their own built in advanced titler that can match or exceed the functionality of the New Blue one.
Just my 2 (well maybe 25) cents worth!
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Hi David
This will work, but I am not sure if it is exactly what you want.
Put just your scrolling text clip into the timeline of a new project, produce it as an MP4. Then import it to your project and use power tools to play it in slow motion at a speed that suits you.
Yeap, I'd even thought of that too. Sounds feasible, although I haven't tried it yet. Seems a very clutsy approach to the solution though. It seems to me that Cyberlink have completely dropped the ball with scrolling text, or indeed, text motion effects in general.
They badly need to decouple the motion speed or duration from the display duration. I hope they understand that. Like I said earlier, I have submitted a feature request ticket to them about this. I'm waiting to hear their reply.
Thanks for your suggestion though.
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One thing that comes to mind is to lengthen or shorten the duration of the title for a finer adjustment.
Yeah, but since it is too fast, I need to slow it down, but to do that means making its duration so long that it extends way past the required display time!
Thanks anyway.
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Audacity is a free open-source audio editing program that lets you adjust the speed of the audio without changing the pitch (no Donald Duck). Don't know if that woul help.
Actually I am already very experienced with using the Audacity audio editor. The length of the audio is not the issue here. Indeed, I should not have to alter my audio in any way just to suit the PowerDirector 13's deficiencies in not providing text motion speed controls independent from its duration!
As my original post said, I want to have a fixed display duration for the text i.e. it's duration property, and adjust the motion speed independently of that. I don't see a way that can be done in PD 13.
I have submitted a ticket to Cyberlink requesting such a feature.
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Hello. I have a longish title text (the partial words of a wedding ceremony cut up into clips). I have a voice recording of the wedding officiant that lasts a fixed amount of time. I am using the text motion effect to scroll the text upwards against an image of the blank script document that she used at the ceremony. The text must start to scroll and finish scrolling in synchronism to the spoken word. So the display duration is also fixed. But there is no apparent way to adjust the scrolling speed independently of the display duration.
Can this be done, if so how? Without any messing about, the scroll speed is far too fast.
I am currently messing about adding blank lines in the text to lengthen its scroll time but this is incredibly crude and messy. There must be a better way, surely?
Does anyone know how to do this?
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As I recall, the new version is usually issued either Sept. or Oct. The fact that PD is heavily discounting PD13 suggests to me (YMMV) that PD14 is around the corner.
Thanks for that info.
Cyberlink's web site is conspicuous by its absence of info. about PD14. I guess they still want to sell off as many copies of PD13 that they can before the release of its successor.
When do Cyberlink start releasing info. about what's included in their new releases? I'm guessing not until it's actually released, otherwise that would hurt sales of the current release.
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Now that PD13 is about a year old, is there any news of a new version, 14 release coming out soon and changes it might bring?
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You can use masks to determine a restricted area to display the text.
To control the movement work on text length, longer rolls more slowly.
It is not very easy, but it can be done, I have attached a project just to have an idea.
If serve, will need to create the mask (PNG image)If you are interested we can give more detail how to do
OK, thanks, I see now how you have done it. When I first encountered the problem, I immediately thought of masks but thought that that feature should be built right into the properties of the scrolling title box to begin with. Having to add a seconary image overlaid over the text to mask it seems very cumbersome, especially as I have colour gradients in my background image which must be exactly matched in my masking layer.
I shall submit a feature request ticket to Cyberlink about this.
Thanks for the help.
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I am making a slideshow at 1920x1080. I want to scroll my ending credits upwards within a defined area on the background frame. I tried the motion effects for the Title text for this "Slide" and can get it to scroll upwards but there appears to be no options for setting the upper and lower vertical limits through which the text may scroll.
At present it scrolls through the entire vertical area over the background frame.
I have decorative borders at the top and bottom of the background frame and I do not want the text to scroll through them. Also there appears to be no way of setting the scroll speed. I think the Text motion feature is very underpowered here and needs to be featured up in a major way.
Is there a workaround in the mean time?
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Actually you are right. The PiP designer allows you to alter a single picture or you can build a video wall with each picture having different settings. It's really quite versatile.Oh, and by the way, welcome to the forum
Thanks for clarifying that for me. I am actually having a ball with this. My background and work up to now has been designging, manufacturing and selling small electronic sound systems for radio controlled model airplanes, helicopters, boats and tanks. I am now easing into my retirement and am taking up new interests.
My first priority is to get my 40 year old wedding photos captured (done), retouched (done) and made into a video slideshow (on-going). My first, quite successful, attempt was done entirely in Powerpoint. While it has very good control over graphics and text, it is quite cumbersome, but not impossible, to get the timing and synching to audio done right as it does not support a timeline view.
After flirting with Adobe Premiere Elements 11 for a day or two, I tried the trial version of Power Director 13, and liked it so much I bought the full version right away.
Then I have our children's graduation photos and many historic family photos going back to the 1940's and even earlier.This will keep me out of mischief for quite a while!
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That IS the PIP designer that I have been trying to explain (obviously failed miserably)
Sorry, I didn't understand the PD terminology then. To me PIP means picture in picture, which, to my mind means you have more than one picture. I only have one picture and am simply adjusting the border properties of that one picture. Is that not so?
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You can create a glowing border in PIP designer by using a mask and giving it a border.
The picture is a VERY rough example to give you an idea
Thanks for all your help guys, but I've discovered an even simpler method. Ther's no need for any FX, or PIP actions. Simply double click on the image in the timeline to open that image's properties window. In there you can select the Border checkbox and then set border width, blur and colour. Click the Save button and its done. Simple as that!
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