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Are you looking to do a split screen?
Do you want to see them side by side or one above and one below?
--Jim
Yes... figured it out, but it would bee nice if there was a Camera Truck in this software instead. I have to go through all the clips on the bottom track and move it over half way and then when I am done, move them all back over. Camera trucj would just be a check box on each track and muliple preview windows would appear side by side for syncing b-roll material.
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Is it possible?
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PowerDirector 12, Win 7 Enterprise, Service Pack 1, Intel i7-4900MQ CPU @ 2.8GHz - 2.80GHz, 64-bit, 16GB Ram
I don't know what happened to my 23+ minute video but the very next day when trying to open the 2111mb file it came up as being broken. I thought this meant that the links to the media was broken, but that turned out wrong. I tried everything I could think of to retrieve the edits in this file or fix what was wrong with it, following various directions found on the web and in forums. Like locate the *.pds.bak file and remove the .bak suffix (no such thing on my computer), or open a good *.pds file, copy the last four lines while open in Notepad and replace the last four lines in the broken file with them (NADA), and then there was a reference to a patch file put out by CyberLink to fix this very problem (couldn't find it anywhere). Finally I checked my Preferences>Project>Save location, went there and found my AutoSave file. No wonder my searching couldn't locate anything similiar to it, the whole address was strung into the name there. Copied that file back into my working directory, so it could access the files in there and double clicked on it. I had to go back a few autosave files before one would work but finally it did. I then changed the name of the pds file and am now incrementing the file name with each save.
The day before I had a RoboHelp CHM file I built and maintain corrupt a single internal htm file, messing with its masterpage. Turns out RoboHelp 9 doesn't work well with multi embedded tables and I had to remove all of those before I could fix the problem. I finally fixed it and then ran into this video problem. Made me think that maybe I had a virus or something so I did a 3 hour check and McAfee came up empty so I can't really say the two are related now.
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Why not just use the PIP generator and create your own route?
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This same problem happens in other programs that can produce a screen capture movie; Captivate, Camtasia, etc. I found that, at least with corporate controlled computers, never choose an alternate saving path, especially one on the desktop. The desktop is limited in size and depending on other settings in the OS, can severely limit file sizes. Some automatic updates include resetting the desktop and can also erase files placed on it. It is just a desktop after all.
The next thing I do is in Control Panel, I change resource allocation (RAM) to manual and set both min and max size to the recommended amount, usually twice the amount of installed RAM. This requires a reboot of the system. This will produce a contiguous area on the hard drive to swap material in and out of.
Also, fragmentation of the hard drive can cause problems in live recording if there isn't a contiguous area large enough, so I have a specific USB 3 drive I store all finished file on and only bring stuff directly to the hard drive when I want to work on it. That leaves me plenty of room to record in.
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ALWAYS SHOOT B-ROLL MATERIAL - These become your band-aids. The better and more relevant you shoot them the more they blend in and hide production fixes.
To sync audio, this is what I do:
1. I always include a good closeup zoom on talking heads in places where I am going to be inserting B-Roll in post-production editing. So my shooting looks like this - talking heads together, separate, never crossing the line, then at 3-4min mark, zoom in, after a few seconds of recording yell freeze to the talent, record room tone, end video clip, move camera position at least 3 feet (I place masking tape "X's" on the floor before shooting.) This zoom in allows me to see lips for syncing audio if required. The zoom will be "L" cut with B-Roll or back to the other talking head closeup. The camera moves are so that if I go from one shot type and cut directly to the same shot type it won't look weird.
2. Detach audio from offending clip.
3. Click off the clip so that everything isn't selected, then reselect the audio.
4. Drag both the front and end of the audio part of the clip inwards to shorten.
5. Expand the audio and video time lines in length and width.
6. Watch video in preview screen and move the audio forwards and backwards until they look right.
7. Next time use some type of tool to make a visual and an audio mark in the production; clap board, smartphone app, tablet app, talent clap.
If the FPS of the video is different than the recording speed of the audio, as happens with "L" cuts, you could place each clip in their own project and output at the FPS you want, then import into the final project. What I have found is that every few seconds or so in the video, dissimilar speed audio will unsync so don't think it will just be one correction you have to make with long clips.
This is a good argument for recording as short of clips as possible during production. I never exceed 4 minutes; usually my clips are between 2-3 minutes long.
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I find that turning the option off and applying and then turning it back on and applying under Preferences>General>Show sound waveform in timeline usually does the trick. It seems to get stuck or run out of resources.
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Depending on how you cut things, you could loose audio sync with talking heads.
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I make Aerospace instructional videos on high-tech industrial portable 3D metrology systems for shop floor operators. A mouth full I know. I am using PD 12 and regularly produce videos with the H.264 AVC codec, then change the suffix from wmv to m2ts so that I can embed the videos in a chm help file and have them play inside of Windows Media Center. The WMV Player can't really locate files easily inside of the chm so I changed the default player on my wmv's to WMV Center and they then play fine.. as long as users do the same on their computers. I change the suffix because the chm file doesn't support it, nothing more. I often have to change the chm file suffix inorder to transmit over Lync becuase it thinks it might contain a virus. I change it to txt and ask the recipient to change it back to chm.
I have a 8;53;15 video, at 1280x720, 2600kbps, 23fs & 48khz, 256kbps audio my file size is 1,762,370 KB. Too large for my chm to port out. VERY GOOD, but won't open in the wmv player called out in the chm file.
I changed settings from those above to a total bit rate of 3000kbps and the file size was reduced to 228,228 KB. VERY GOOD, and opens in wmv player.
I made one last file, everything the same again but at 1700kbps as one of the suggestions here. It made a file size of 77,511 KB. UNUSABLE. I also edited the Profile.ini to this. The editing didn't stay though. Reopening PD12 brings the defaults back into play.
I just went through the numbers I posted above on the bit rates to make sure I had them right becuase I am not using comas in them. It can get confusing and you can go cross-eyed looking at all the zeros.
I am including labeled screen grabs from the same location in the finished video. The 1700kbps bit rate file also had a time slip of about 5 sec from the other two so if I had included talking heads I would have to resync audio for them... but the video is so poor that I don't really think anyone would notice it.
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