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Carl,
Thanks so much for your help - we'll look at PDR again at a later date with your advice in-hand but are "clocking off" this topic for now.
We discovered and installed (free) DaVinci Resolve 12 last night and already it seems easy to use, familiar to our existing graphic art (Adobe Photoshop) and audio (Avid Pro Tools 12) workpaths, and (so far) seemingly working perfectly through all effects and colour corrections using the same HD clips PDR has failed with.
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Carl,
Thanks so much for your reply - we've seen that you offer a lot of help on this Forum which is very much appreciated.
NO - we haven't bothered to Produce the finished product but would presume it's likely to do so OK.
YES - we assume like you it's some sort of processing lag, though (being newbies to video work) are we wrong in thinking our system which is 8-core i7 with 32GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX-970 card should be struggling with this?
Only if you have time to ponder and advise.....
Do you think (as we do) we'd be much better off treating the required clips "Standalone" in ColorDirector BEFORE we worry about editing, then Export the finished treated clips, which can then be imported to PowerDirector for editing?
Do you think we're setting up wrong in order to best utilise our system which has (in addition to the System drive) a dedicated highspeed drive for Video (which we're using here for this project) plus a highspeed Sample drive?
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Although we're experienced pro audio engineers (Pro Tools 12) we're beginning to experiment with and learn about video work via PowerDirector 14 which we've just installed.
Version is PD 14.0.2302.0 - VDE151023-03
In early operation we can't work out what we're doing wrong (given our PC - diags attached - is powerful) here:
When we open a clip from PD14 in ColorDirector (directly opened from PD14), apply a Preset, then use "BACK" to import back to PD14 this treated clip plays back in very slow motion?
The treated clip appears with the applied treatment from CD, but moves in very slowed motion - as a guide to what's happening each actual Second on the clock takes about 5 Seconds to play.
When playing back in PD14 the clips around the treated clip continue to playback normally - it's just the CD-treated clip that goes into very slow motion whilst the untreated ones each side of it playback normally?
The clip being treated is about 18 seconds long, and shot/edited at HD 1080 60fps - we've also had to set preview quality to this as every other lower resolution setting plays back all clips very poorly (unuseably).
The experimental Project this is in just has 2 clips - the treated one and a 5 second untreated one, and we've put a title intro and a subtitle on the treated clip (removing the subtitle makes no difference to the slow playback).
UPDATE: We've now ascertained that this problem occurs regardless of which clip we try to treat in ColorDirector, and we've tried starting a new Project, and also removing all other clips (i.e.just using the one treated clip) with the problem continuing unaffected.
We've also ensured both PD and our graphics card drivers (a NVIDIA GeForce GTX-970) up-to-date, and upon suggestion from Cyberlinks Customer Support have enabled Shadow Files and Hardware Acceleration.
Cyberlink Customer Support have asked us to upload a Project Pack by FTP but their server wouldn't accept the upload so now waiting on them to respond to fix this issue.
We're surely missing something obvious/making a newbie error here aren't we?
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