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What you can do is copy the photo and put it in the track above. Then stretch the photo in the first track (which shows in the background of the original photo) and blur it with an effect.
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I sense, looking at the original question, that the real question is: is there any way that the very last frame of the video, remains visible, even when the video (thus the last frame) has past and the video has ended.
All the methods above mentioned will cause, if correctly executed, the very last frame of the video to be shown longer. It remains visible as long as the duration of this picture/frame has been defined at creation/production time.
Hence:
if the last frame has to remain visible, for a specific duration, then lengthening the last frame as explained will be the solution making sure that the duration of the last frame is as specified.
If you want the last frame to remain visible irrespective of its duration, then the only thing you can do is look for a video player that can do that, can freeze the last frame when it comes and shows it until the video player is stopped.
(Maybe VLC)
Let us know: is that what you were asking for?
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It is not right to assume that Cyberlink will take problems seriously and look at crashes and problems customer reports?
I have submitted a number of CS including screenrecordings.
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After some digging I discovered that a HEIC translator was running in the background, that "caught" the downloads and tried and failed to convert. I removed the translatorand the Shutterstock downloads work fine now.
See my other topic on the crashes though. Version 20.7 looks unstable and the handling of thumbnails has not improved. Alas.
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Since yesterday, when I installed 20.7, I have seen at least 12 crashes and weird things. Most of the crashes happened when I was doing normal editing, like: adding media to a project, closing the eiditng of a title. Moving a title within the timeline.
As I am in the middle of making a series of slides shows (I do that manually in the timeline), I also have been in many, many situations where the thumbnails of the images are overwritten (on screen) by thumbnail of features from the various rooms. Restarting PD will set things straight again, but it is still very anoying.
I have tried the new Video Intro Room (which has no short key / F-key like the others rooms). Selecting an intro causes the download of the items. This can take considerable time. The adding to the timeline is also not fast. After several program crashes I managed to get an intro in the timeline.
It would be good that (as for other items) there is some indication that the intro already has been downloaded?
CL must have seen the reports of the crashes, at least for those where PD recognizes that there is something wrong.
It is a real shame that Cyberlink persists in added new (only nice to have) features and ignores making the program good to work with, that is fast and flawless.
I wonder what your experiences are. And I would suggest that if you are in the middleIt of critical work, do not upgrade to 20.7 yet.
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Ok thanks, I will keep trying things and let you know.
I did try a range of clips with various resolutions and both MP4 and MOV. No differences in handling.
I also experienced a number of PD 20.7 crashes. Info was sent to CL so I assume they are looking at that.
Also some weird things with Titles: empty title texts when moving and after a project merge (loading one on top of another).
when I can reproduce I will share.
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Am I the only one who gets errors when downloading (any) video from Shutterstock AND iStock?
See the error message attached. I got the error when using 20.6 and it still exists after the instalation of 20.7.
Any suggestion on how to tackle this? I have no issues with any video processing and viewing from any other windows applications..
(get the same error using ColorDirector)
thanks
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I understand what you are doing.
when uploading to YouTube directly from PD an intermediate file will be made. Have you checked that file to see whether the correct audio has been made or not?
Also from this forum I understand that there may be something wrong with the direct upload to YouTube. This may have to do with changes in PD, but can also be because of changes in the YouTube API. Checking the production result in the intermediate file will help you and CL development to determine how to solve this problem.
If production to local disk takes the correct audio channel I suggest that you use the YT file upload instead until CL has resolved the issue.
And to initiate that, I suggest that you file a error report together with the additional information discussed and a link to this foru: page.
That is I guess what can be done right now. Let us know how this continues!
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Happy to look into this but, can you please elaborate a bit? HOW did you select audio language 3, and how did you produce. Maybe give some screen shots to show.
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I also have tried to look for strange things in your PDS files. The fact that (as Optodata wrote) the PDS file with "PackedProject" in the name does not load anything, nor does it warn (me) for differences in settings, like NTSC, is in itself already very very weird! As far as I can see, the PDS file with PackedProject in the name, is NOT a project file that has been saved from the menu option: Pack Project materials, because if it did, it would carry the tag Pack="TRUE". But it may be that the name of the project has Packed, and the auto save has not.
Mind you: the most current (365) version of PD is: 20.6.3001.0 did you try that?
The questions from the moderator are still valid : does this happen fro all PDF files, have you also tested with a current project?
I am sure that you know that when packing a project a separate PDS file is stored along with all the material and settings in the same folder, and you should use that rather than any other (related) PDS file?
The only thing we can do is maybe have a look at the DXDiag file should you have one to see if anything is not good in the system settings. And if you went as far as to complete uninstall PD and reinstall it again (which would assume that you have an application that works as delivered), I would certainly open a support ticket, because something looks rotten in the state of Denmark. I would recon that Cyberlink development can quickly see what is wrong with the XML in the PDS files and help you out.
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I don't know what you mean with "current content"? But, many of the effects and other items should be downloaded directly from PowerDirector and PhotoDirector itself. See
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/01_01_02_whats_different.html
This may sound like a very efficient approach, all items available where you need them, but the implementation of this feature is poor and makes PD's room handling very slow and inadequate.
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I have had a reaction from CL customer support. They advised me to uninstall CAM and all data beloning. And then restore CAM and install PD again. They even advised me to delete a number of folders that contain cashed material.
I have done all that and that did not help solving my problem: getting weird thumbnails from other rooms into my project media and on the timeline.
Today I had about 750 images in 4 projects that were loaded into the timeline, Project saved and after the 4th project the thumbnails from the various rooms did appear again. Also PD crashed when it was closed down. I have reported this again to CL.
Together with the slow representation of the thumbnails when moving form one room to the other, I think CL can best have a good look at the handling of the media again.
Needless to say that I have a PC that easily complies with the minimum specs, with the fastest SSD drives and 32Gb memory, all the drivers are up to date.
I wonder what your experiences are.....?
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Try:
c:\users\public\Cyberlink
There are preview files too.
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I don't know either why, but the manual says how to download items from the various effects and transition rooms.
Have a look at this:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/01_01_02_whats_different.html
Now, i some cases for downloading PD refers to the CAM, and for a number CAM refers to the rooms.
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We working with a large amount of still images (1000 or more) in 10 to 12 projects, after a number of projects and NEWing each time between projects, the thumbnails in the media room get to go wrong.
I see thumbnails from other rooms at the place where my still images should be. Even when I move images from the room into the timeline, the thumbnails go wrong and are transfered into the time wrongly. I have deleted the thumbnails in the cash folder as was suggested in the forum before.
I have this problem since version 12 I think, and I am doing projects like this every year a number of times.
The way rooms are handled with potential downloads includeddoes not make the problem simpler I would recon.
I would suggest that by now the PD cashing would be corrected. Please do this. Cleaning the cash and restarting PD is not always productive.
I have (again) forwarded the above as a suggestion to CL.
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A video “editing” challenge, always nice.
Option 1: If it is only the light you want to display over the scenery taken by the drone, then I think it is best to make a still image of a light or a lighted dot. Around the dot either make a transparent or a green background. Place this image over the drone clip and remove the background in PIP designer e.g. (green screen) and size the lighted dot so that it suits your needs. Then, with key frames, move the dot following the path you want it to follow. The more complex the path, the more key frames you might need.
If it is a drawing, you want the “light” to make then there may be 2 options depending on how complex the drawing is.
Option 2 would be to use Paint designer (start in the plugin menu) and make your drawing. Now this can prove to be impossible if the scenery / the path is moving around all the time. Because with Paint designer you make a drawing that is pretty static.
Option 3 would be to use masks, and again this only works well if your scenery/path is static. Have a look at a tutorial on this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBolkDmKUbA&ab_channel=PowerDirectorEssentialsfromtheSharperTurtle
If the drone video is not static, then you may have to combine option 1 and 2/3 by making 1 first, and produce it and make it more static, and then with the result do 2 or 3.
There may be more options, and I might come with different suggestions if I see an example of your drone clip and your goal.
My two cents.
Have fun.
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Thanks.
I am working with version 22000.739. And update over the last few days. The situation above was in a version earlier than that. But as you say this is likely not Windows but to what extend an app is using the standards and is adhering to those.
I am fine with the behavior PD currently has, but I don't like the randomness at launch time.
Ticket ID: CS002515537
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I wonder whether you have the same issue and may have a solution?
I am using Windows 11, and one of the new features is that when hoovering over the application minimize button in the right-hand top corner one can select the partition in which the application should continue to run on the screen.
PowerDirector apparently does not (yet) commit to the new feature and when hovering over it the tip is displayed: Restore down. I notice that whatever size and position I have made the application, the restore down gets PD in that very position again.
Now, I am fine with that. But since I have used that once to get PD and another screen open side by side to copy something, PD sometimes, at random, opens in the at that moment selected partition of the screen. Not always, sometimes. Even after I have restated the full screen/ maximize and closed down the application.
I will make CL aware of this random behavior.
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Geduld ist natürlich eine Tugend. Aber manchmal, besonders wenn ich sehe, wie die Programme anderer Video-Editor-Anbieter schnell reagieren können, denke ich, Cyberlink: Bitte tun Sie ein wenig mehr, um Ihren Benutzern zu helfen.
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See my reaction in your other topic
Siehe meine Reaktion in Ihrem anderen Thema:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/97170.page
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In the latest version 20.6.3001.0 CL has made some changes that give some improvements to the filling of the rooms at the start of PD. This is not fast, aspecially because there are so many items to load and CL has decided that downloads directly from PD is better, which means that all potential items will also be listed.
If this indeed takes 10 minutes on your system, then there is something wrong with the system. PD does not necessarily need a fast internet connection fort he filling of the rooms. So that would to my mind not immediately bet he culprit. My suggestions:
Make sure that you have the latest version. If you have any doubt then maybe uninstall and reinstall PD via the Application Manager
Look at the settings of your system, or maybe share them with us (by sumbitting the DXDiag.txt file), so that we can advise.
In der neuesten Version 20.6.3001.0 hat CL einige Änderungen vorgenommen, die einige Verbesserungen an der Befüllung der Räume zu Beginn von PD ermöglichen. Dies ist nicht schnell, vor allem, weil es so viele Elemente zu laden gibt und CL entschieden hat, dass Downloads direkt von PD besser sind, was bedeutet, dass alle potenziellen Elemente auch aufgelistet werden.
Wenn dies tatsächlich 10 Minuten auf Ihrem System dauert, stimmt etwas nicht mit dem System. PD benötigt nicht unbedingt eine schnelle Internetverbindung für die Befüllung der Räume. Das würde meiner Meinung nach nicht sofort darauf wetten, dass er der Schuldige ist.
Meine Vorschläge:
Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie die neueste Version haben. Wenn Sie irgendwelche Zweifel haben, dann deinstallieren Sie vielleicht PD über den Application Manager und installieren Sie es erneut Schauen Sie sich die Einstellungen Ihres Systems an oder teilen Sie sie vielleicht mit uns (indem Sie die DXDiag.txt Datei zusammenfassen), damit wir beraten können.
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