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Hi All, especially hoping Dafydd can help with this one!
Could you please reinstate your instruction to uninstall PD6 (or 7)? It was on the forum until it was all re-jigged and now I cannot find it.
In case you are wondering, no, I'm not displeased with PD, but sometimes when my system gets a little cluttered I need to remove and reinstall it all.
Many Thanks
Rob
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Hi Mike,
Before domestic DVD/ HDD recorders became commonplace capturing an analogue video was always difficult with a PC. I have tried various PC & Capture card setups over the years, but I have given them all up.
Now I use a bog standard VHS player, and use Scart to Scart leadt to connect it to my DVD/HDD recorder.
Once captured, I save it onto a recordable disc as a standard DVD (not an mpg)
I then use PD6 to Capture from DVD, and if necessary output as an MPG for archiving.
The results are always in sync, never had a problem.
I am not suggesting you go out and buy a VHS player and DVD recorder, but it is the best way I have found to capture analogue. Using PC capture cards just never cut the mustard.
Kintara
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Hi William,
I had a simular problem, but any clip I tried to insert between two others always ended up on the right.
A reboot of the pc and basically stopped trying to do many things at once, (E mail, browsing while editing.)
Editors do not like to share PCs!
Anyway, that solved it for me on taht occasion and on other occasions where things were not behaving.
Reboot, don't run other progs.
Kintara 8-)
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Hii John,
Tell your friend to go ahead and buy the Sony. I use a Sony HDD camera myself. I connect it to the USB port where it recognised by Windows as a USB mass storage drive. From Explorer I copy the clips (.mpg files) to my C: or D: drive. I can access these from PD6 with no trouble at all.
When you say capture, I just import them into the library (still havent learnt the correct name for the top left screen with all the clips)
Best of luck
Kintara
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Hello Douglas,
So you have moved up to PD6. Well done!
First question is, as always, do you have the latest patch installed?"
I'm just wondering if you have more than one "My Works" directory since PD5 would have created one. Worth checking by seacrhing for the produced files name.
Secondly, as your produced file appears as a clip in the library of PD6 I would think that it has been saved somewhere on your system. Check the location of the clip (I think right clicking on it does that) and see if you can then find it with Explorer (or whatever Vista calls it).
All the best,
Kintara
btw - check your default settings for you location to save files. Cannot remember off hand where it is, no doubt the mighty on this forum will let you know.
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Yeah, I be from Bristle, me lovver. But don't hold 'im against I!
Kintara 8-)
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Quote:
5. note that the total length of the movie has changed (I don't know why this would be)
Hi Y'all, Merry Xmas and New Year!
Bill (and everyone else). Is it not the case that when you add a transition (say- a simple fade of 2 seconds) then the two clips would need to overlap (by the length of the transition) and so would shorten the total timeline by that amount.
Think of it like this - in order to overlap, the clip (and everything else to the right) needs to be "pulled" to the left and laid on top of the clip to the left. That would shorten the total timeline by however long the overlap (transition) is.
So - if the chapter points are set by time from the start of the time line then it's not the chapter points that move, but the timeline! The chapter point thumbnails may be/are derived from the image on the time line at a designated timecode. If the time line is altered at point "A" then all the thumbnails after point "A" will also be altered to reflect the "New" image at that given timecode (because the clips have been moved to the left due to the transitions overlapping the clips).
Clear as mud?
Hope you can get some sense from all that (of course I may be completly wrong on all issues!)
Kintara
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Much, much simpler than that!
Have the Sermon video on the time line. At any selected point drop the Audience video onto the Picture In Picture (PIP) track, and adjust the length of the clip to suit your needs. Right click on the PIP and mute the sound. Double click the PIP and you will be taken to the edit room where you can stretch the PIP object to fill the screen and cover up the Sermon video..
Job done!
Proper Job!
If your cameras are syncronised then put the whole of the sermon on the time line and the whole of teh audience on the PIP track. Split the PIP (audience track) into segments and delete the bits where you want the sermon to be seen. The final output will then switch between the two at your discretion and will be a proper "live" audience reaction to the sermon as it is read (or whatever).
Best of luck
Kintara
PD6 v1731b
Dont forget to RTFM (available from the download section of the Cyberlink site http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/guides_4_ENU.html ) Page 130 describes how to Add or modify a Picture In Picture)
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Cheers me babber! Proper job! 'Appy Crimbo an' a gert lush New Year!
Kintara
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Deborah,
I don't have the JVC version but I do have the full version.
In my version under "Preferances" (one of the sub menus from the top line of menus) there is a section to do with saving snapshots. Here you can select where they are saved and in what format, .bmp, .gif .jpg etc. Try looking around your menus and see if there is something similar.
The reason PD opens when you try to edit your .pdf files I suspect that you have associated the .pdf file type with Power Director somehow.
Right click on a .pdf file, select Open With... then choose your preferred editing program from the list or browse for it with the Other button. Once you have found your editing program make sure the "Always use this program to open these files" box is checked.
By the way, I'm not familiar with any program that will edit a .pdf except the "writing" version of Adobe Acrobat. Most of us just have the "reading" version.
Hope this helps to soving your problem
Kinata 8-)
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"I cannot change size with the text. Text style goes, only with the size goes to nothing. Can someone help me?"
Hallo Meurer,
Ich kan nicht Deutch screchen, so I'll continue in English.
Is it the text size in subtitles or titles you are having trouble with?
It should all be straight forward.
Did you remember to highlight the text when changing text size?
If you could supply a little more information it would help us to solve your exact problem.
btw translation freom German to English was by Alta vista Babelfish
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Hi William
Just to add what Dafydd has said.
I always wondered why the DVD capture option was greyed out, even though I have a DVD rewriter installed.
It seem that it stays greyed out untill a DVD is placed in the drive.
Kintara
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Just to translate to English to give a wider audience
I have made a video, that is composed of photos or video. When I finish, I give him so that it creates the archives for me, gives an error me and it does not finish doing it. The error is code a0000005, and in the manuals the type does not come from error. I am thankful to him beforehand to
the charitable soul that knows something of the problem.
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Hi Jo,
I'm no expert either, but I think the fade in or out is worked as a percentage of the clip. So the shorter the clip the quicker the fade.
Just throwing ideas out here, not tried them and stuck at work so no chance of trying it.
Have you tried to stretch the clip, or maybe slowing it down so it plays longer? How long is the clip that you are using as a PIP object? Maybe I'll try to recreate it.
No doubt some one will have more cleaver ideas, like having two PIPs, the first being the slide and hold, immediatly followed by a second PIP which is a still frame captured from the end of the 1st which then fades. The good thing about being a still is that you can extend it's duration so the fade can be as slow as you like.
Keep plugging away at it, I'm sure you'll find a way of doing it.
Kintara
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This one demonstrates the Hold feature in PIP a bit better.
Look at the Motion section in the PIP and play with the expanded (yellow) hold sections
Best of luck
Kintara
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HI Dutli,
The above does work
I have included a script so you can see how it looks
Kintara
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Hi Dutli
Yes it is possible.
I'm not in front of PD PC at the moment, but this is from memory, and Im unable to check I got it right.
Save your project (just in case it crashes) useing a new "Save as" filename.
Place your object on the PIP track. Strech it to cover the full duration that is needed to slide in, hold then fade, say 10 seconds in all.
In PIP editor, select motion, select the path that goes from bottom left to top right. Straighten it if you wish.
Move the track pointer to the start of the track.
Position your object where you want it to start. You can use the scroll bars to start the object off-screen.
Move the track pointer to the middle of the track. Click the Add position point button and position it to where you want the object to stop
Move the track pointer to the end of the track.
Position your object where you want it to end, the same as the middle point. You can use the scroll bars to end the object off-screen.
Click the fade out box.
That should do it.
I'll check it out proper when I get a bit of free time
Kintara
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Hi Barry
Dafydd has provided a solution in a previous post
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/1856.page
See if that helps you
Kintara
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Hi Rex,
Sorry to say that it looks like you have a dufunct project. The pds file (altought it is a text file) is long and complicated and nearly impossible to repair. Your only hope (Obi-Wan) is to revert to a previously saved version of your projects pds file (you did save the project using different filenames didn't you? i.e. Project01.pds, Project02.pds etc "saved as" after every change/hour) or if you are lucky there will be a backup version of the pds file (same name but with a .bak extension to the filename.)
Hope all is not lost for you
Kintara
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I have had crashes but to be honest, and having looked at what works and what crashes, it seem to my own fault!
These are my general rules to successful operation of PD6 build 17xx (whatever it was)
Rule 1 for not crashing:- If it's in the time line or the media library then DO NOT rename or move or alter in any way the original file.
Rule 2 : Save the project every so often using sequential file names (Video 01.pds, Video 02.pds ...)
Rule 3 : Add subtitles, titles, transitions etc after composing the main timeline, and save after each one.
Rule 4 : If a .pds file will not load without errors go back to a previous one. I have only ever had problems with reloading due to me ignoring rule 1.
Rule 5 : Try to quit any backgrond programs. Turn off / unplug the internet access and shutdown your anti virus / firewall.
Rule 6 : Give PD6 time to "settle" after opening a project, ensure that all disk activity has finished.
Rule 7 : Turn off the "display sound waveform" option - cannot remember exactly what it's called, but it shows a video soundtrack as a straight line (volume level?) and not as a waveform)
Rule 8 : Keep at it.
Kintara
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