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When undocked, the preview window is off monitor limits. Since it has no icon on the taskbar of it's own, I find no way to move it back. I can redock it by restart with an empty project, but I want to use it undocked fullscreen on the second monitor. Any idea how to get it back into the viewport?
Edit: haha, after writing this, it appeared like magic. I put the system into one monitor mode and restarted PD; when undocking at first it still went away. But after taking PD out of focus to write here, and going back, it appeared within the limits of PD but undocked....
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I see what you mean now. I hadn't realised you'd made the "shapes" in Shape Designer.
You're right again, though. Custom shapes made in Shape Designer are not available in Motion Tracker.
For now, the only workaround I can think of it to simply make the shape in graphics software. Then it could be imported into Motion Tracker or imported into PiP Designer to save as a regular Video Overlay/PiP Object... then into Motion Tracker.
I agree with your thinking. This appears to be an oversight.
Cheers - Tony
If these shapes had no advantages over externally created material, they would not be any worthwhile addition to the program. The results are stored in the GUI right with any other PiP object. It is completely counterintuitive to not find them for mt, esp. since using them mit motion tracking makes actual sense...
I opened a ticket with Cyberlink; I hope sth will be done about this - well - probably oversight... 
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Hi voom -
You're right.
For some reason not ALL custom video overlays are available in Motion Tracker. In the attached screenshot, you'll see there are 15 custom video overlays, but only 13 are available in Motion Tracker.
I haven't worked out... wait... hang on. In my case, it's the 2 Box templates that are missing in MT. I checked in C:\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\17.0\MyPinPs & the related folder for 16, 15 etc... and the box templates can't be found (yet).
So - it's got something to do with how you've assigned your PDR Export folder (where those MyPinPs are stored). Those in the default location show up in MT. Those that aren't, don't.
It should be corrected.
Cheers - Tony
The two shapes this is about are in the default ...\PowerDirector\18.0\MyShapes - Folder.
Though the path is not the regular path on c, because I have all libraries on B under "/Bibliotheken" making it:
b:\Bibliotheken\Dokumente\Cyberlink\PowerDirector\18.0\MyShapes
While that is where Cyberlink put the folders on installation since these are the default library-paths...
So - wait until this is fixed, or is there a workaround?
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I define a shape and store it in the PiP Library under "user defined". Now open the motion tracker and try to add this shape to the motion - I see all shipped overlays and PiP but my self created shapes don't show up. This was especially advertised, to create shapes and use them with motion tracking. What could go wrong here?
Also when adding my own Tags to sort my own creations in, they don't show up in the motion tracker menu either... (the whole tag / folder doesn't)
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It appears that after activating "shadow files" in the settings the problem has almost completely vanished. After the first generation of thumbnails changes of the view in the timeline now appear almost instantly. I suppose that the shadow files include a cache of the thumbs? That would be IMO the only explanation, as before they where seemingly generated from scratch with any small change.
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Hi,
My information is that, in PD16 the generation of thumbnails has been changed to optimise system performance by reducing hard drive reads etc. when other editing or playback operations are being carried out.
I suppose that will affect different systems differently and be more noticeable for some, than for others. I have no idea how many users have the thumbnail generation on or off but there have not been any other posts on the issue as far as I can see.
Cheers
PowerDirector Moderator
Well my system is quite performant and has been configured to go well with PD. This way is has the exact opposite effect of being optimized because I never missed performance with editing or playback operations but the repetitive wait for the thumbnails throttles my workflow noticeably.
While I have no idea how to work at all without seeing at least to some extent where to click. Turning them off is no option, would make it even worse. The problem is not that thumbnail generation throttles other operations of the program, but that I need to wait until I can see where to click before I can procede.
Any way this could be an option: faster or slower thumbnail generation with more or less effect on the performance?
If the "optimization" comes from less hard drive reads, even working on an SDD will not help.
Also: how about generating thumbnails faster when there are no concurrent operations being carried out? The worst situations in my case are as said when really nothing else is going on.
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Since upgrading from PD15 to PD 16 the thumbnails are more like thumbsnails... Every little change of view in the timeline - like fitting the whole project into the width of the window etc. results in a re-generation of the thumbnails and that is really really slow. I have been working with many versions of PD over the years and it was never so slow. Until there are thumbnails I have to stop working - so it is really an issue.
Now this is not about going from 1 second to 1 minute but definitely like going from 20 Seconds to 1 Minute. And in computer terms that is a very noticeable difference. Anything I can do about this?
Edit: v2313 and this is already true without any effects etc. added, just a pure single video added freshly to the timeline. I do understand that the first time the file needs to be analyzed, and may take a little while. But then even if I pull the timeline accidentally a little, it all goes back to black and thumbnails start to slowly slowly appear from the first frame up, often much slower than the first time.
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If you add the transition in storyboard view and switch to "cross" from there, it also does not show. So whatever you do, a "cross" transition does not show up in the storyboard.
I usually never use storyboard either, but in order to get a quick look at all the transitions I found it to be quite useful - except for that "glitch". (I have "cross" set as default)
I reported this with a support-ticket but I am not sure they really understood the problem. Will point them to this thread in the next answer.
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It does not show at all, see attached img
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After a reboot this got better. Now there are visual clues about where a transition exists and adding a transition is possible in less extreme zoom levels.
What remains is that transitions don't show up in the storyboard view if they are set to "crossfade"
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I have recently upgraded to Power Director 15 Ultimate from PD14. I noticed that the Newblue titlers from PD14 are not shown in my PD15. I have extra Titles in PD14, not just the standard ones.
Is there someway I can still uses the titles from PD14? Do I have to move any files from one to the other? If so where are they stored in both versions?
Thanks!
Have a look at c:\Users\<user>\Documents\CyberLink\Powerdirector\
In my case there are 14.0 and 15.0 directories. My old titles are in the 14.0 dir but PD15 found them there anyway without moving anything manually.
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In versions prior to PD15 I could drag a transition between two clips with standard zoom. In PD15 it looks like I hit the right point, but the transition does not get added. I need to zoom in almost to maximum to add a transition by dragging it to the timeline. Is there a better way or is this a new bug? It was never really easy to add a transition, to hit the right point between clips, but now it is impossible unless zooming in, making a really bad workflow... There should be a much greater threshold, assuming that when dragging a transition onto the timeline, it is supposed to got to the nearest split between two clips!
Edit: on top of that, in any standard zoom you can't even see in the timeline, where clips have a transition. It becomes visible only if the whole visible timeline maybe covers 3-4 minutes...
I also tried storyboard view, but here the transitions are only shown when using overlap and not crossfade.
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I wonder why nobody has mentioned the new blending tools, they where the reason for me upgrading from 14. They may seem like a small feature, but actually they offer great possibilites.
I only hope I won't be affected by performance issues. Importing large MOV files has already proven to be a problem, working with those makes PD freeze badly.
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Ok, thanks I wonder why they restrict the downloads, since it can only be installed on a valid copy anyway...
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When I installed my PD14 it did not work at first, so I never installed the content packs. The download of the Essential pack was corrupted, when I realized that, the link and PW was not valid any more. Is there a way to officially redownload the content pack?
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"Icaros Shell Extension" seems to break nothing. I am not sure how it works, it is very lightweight (download is 7MB) so seems not to install any codecs, but still enables thumbnails on almost any format. You can even add formats (see discussion on linked page) and enable thumbnails for those as well.
"Shark007 Codecs" on the other hand are a complete codec-pack with optional 64bit components. Those are used e.g. to play otherwise unsupported videos in Windows Media Player. These codecs seem to mix things up in many ways with video editing software.
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> Do not install any codec packs, there should not be a need. <
This solved it! I simply uninstalled Shark007-Codecs, rebooted and now it is ok!
To get video thumbnails in file explorer back for all videos I installed Icaros instead. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/icaros.html
I needed the codecs only for the thumbs anyway. Icaros Shell Extension does not get in the way.
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Yes, never installed it in the first place
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The support has just made it happen that PD14 works at all after about 3-4 months... (It crashed upon startup, another iGPU/dGPU NVidia-issue)
This was the first time I was able to use PD14 at all so I have been trying the new features and found this. Everything else seems to work.
I have some codec-packs in use, though, I know I don't need them for PD, but for other reasons. I might try to uninstall those anyway.
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Exactly, only in this window and only while it is processing "step 2". The result is as it is supposed to be. As long as it is a short clip and the tracking is supposed to cover the whole clip, it does not matter much. But in case I need to visually control what is happening, e.g. to find the right and point and such it is more than inconvenient.
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