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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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Indeed, a snapshot of the picture fully zoomed in is a good option and you avoid having to use keyframes.
The other option but a bit more difficult, is to set the required motion style and then open the motion designer, point to a position in the timeline that is the required number of seconds before end, and press duplicate keyframe and select duplication from next keyframe.
My experience is, that once you get the hang of it, it is faster to click the user defined and set the keyframes as required. This goes fast enough and you can set both the keyframe at the beginning and end so that the zooming starts a few moments after the picture is shown, and ends a few moments before the picture ends. The zooming can also be set very precisely.
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I think that you are looking for Magic motion on still images?
have a look at this tutorial: https://youtu.be/_yKurLEZF7I
There are a number of presets to pick from. In all cases you can fine tune the motion if you need to.
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Hmmm, I dont know precisely what effect you are looking for....
Maybe it is panning what you want to do? Object goes to left, you want the picture to follow that movement?
Here is a suggestion: have a look at the Crop/zoom/pan option. Start with a keyframe at the beginning of the clip and zoom in (as you may not want any black outside the screen? If you dont mind the black borders then don't zoom in) and position the screen in the vacinity of the object. Then move the clip forward to a place where the object has moved a bit and move the screen again in the vanicity of the object and add a keyframe. If you make keyframes with a proper space, then PD will move the screen with the object from keyframe to keyframe. I would assume that you you have to play a bit with the position of the keyframes to make sure that the object is followed like you want, adding more or dropping a few keyframes may get it right?1
If this is not what you are looking for, maybe send an example?
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Just for my understanding: do you want to select a object in your video and then when that moves you want the whole picture to move along. Is the effect of that then that this selected object is fixed in one place, irrispective of its movement?
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With the release of 20.6.3001.0 I see some improvements, as in PD is faster in collecting the inventory of the various rooms.
It is good to see that CL is making efforts to improve. It still takes considerable time though and seems best to after the start leave PD for a minute or so, to let it do its thing. Moving from one room to the other is also not seemless. That CL is adding more items to the rooms, including the items that can be downloaded, does not help of course.
I wonder what the experiences are of fellow members.
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Any chance you are confusing BorisFX with vitascene or something? BorisFX never had a standalone installer with my installations so one couldn't install the PD (suite) and then 3rd party effects of BorisFX as no installer was supplied, it's buried in part of the PD install bundle. Two 3rd party products from ProDAD (adorage and vitascene) were supplied as standalone install files with the PD download.
Jeff
You are right of course!
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The order of installation in previous versions was: PD (suite) first and then the 3rd party software. So Boris after CL installation. I have done this (new or re-installation of Boris, Andorage / ProDAD) after I installed the 365 suite. I have kept and saved the 3rd party installation kit. Hope you still have it too. During the installation Boris recognized that you have PD software installed (and any other editing software should you have that and should it support Boris too). You can select for which you want the installation to be in effect.
After that the 3rd party Boris effects (and titles) became available again.
I dont know whether the trick works for both 17 and 365 (and the same time). But I would certainly give it a try.
Interested to learn whether this worked for you too.
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If this stain is really in the way, you might give it a go with ColorDirector and use the tracking function. Select the stain and track it as good as possible, maybe a bit wider then it is, and if need be using the frame by frame tracking to ensure that the spot to covered correctly. Then use the color of the jacket to "paint" over it, or to change the color to that of the jacket. That should be doable.
Whether the stain will be left properly unnoticed is to be seen.
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And alternative would be to put a sticker of a smilly face over it instead of the color change, just to make it even more visible that something is wrong there. (Depending on the application of the clip). And/or make it even more ridicullous by pointing to it with an arrrow etc.
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It strongly depends on what it is you are looking for.
My suggestion would be to start with the director zone and see whether there are any Magic styles that would suit you:
https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/pdr#MGS_-1_downloadCount_0_ALL_WORLDWIDE_thumb_1
There is also the PDTemplateZone:
https://oneclickmobi.com/powerdirector-templates/graphic-resources/
Maybe even a combination of the above with an expressproject?:
https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/pdr#EXP_-1_createtime_0_ALL_WORLDWIDE_thumb_1
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I understand your problem. What is best in situations like this, where the object is very mobile, (after you have tried the fast tracking first) is track the object frame by frame.
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/09_08_00_mt.html?q=motion
Use the E button from the picture in the manual.
Keep the white box as small as possible and as precise as possible on the middle of the object. When stepping forward, make sure that the white box, which is changing from shape, is kept on the object.
Once that is done, select the blur, and make sure that the blue box is large enough to cover the object. Also, here it can make sense to follow the result by stepping through the clip and to adjusting the blue box where required.
Je comprends votre problème. Ce qui est le mieux dans des situations comme celle-ci, où l’objet est très mobile, (après avoir d’abord essayé le suivi rapide), c’est de suivre l’objet image par image.
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/09_08_00_mt.html?q=motion
Utilisez le bouton E de l’image dans le manuel.
Gardez la boîte blanche aussi petite que possible et aussi précise que possible au milieu de l’objet. Lorsque vous avancez, assurez-vous que la boîte blanche, qui change de forme, est conservée sur l’objet.
Une fois cela fait, sélectionnez le flou et assurez-vous que la boîte bleue est suffisamment grande pour couvrir l’objet. En outre, ici, il peut être judicieux de suivre le résultat en parcourant le clip et en ajustant la boîte bleue si nécessaire.
C’est très faisable! J’ai essayé quelques secondes de votre clip!
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There are a number of YouTube videos on removing the watermark which is generated on the free download version of PD.
Now I assume that you have some kind of other logo-watermark that needs to be removed, like the logo of a broadcast station? What you see other broadcasting parties do is blur the part of the screen where the watermark sits. Try and test the results of bluring (maybe in combination with coloring) and the various options available for that which suits best for you.
The other option is to zoom/crop the footage so that the watermark drops of the screen. Of course it depends pon where this watermark sits.
If the watermark is a piece of large text that say sits in the middle and covers the whole clip,then there as some (high school) options which involve making an as close as possible copy of the text and position that over the watermark. Then try blending. It is not easy and the results will not be perfect.
And.... it does not matter too much that people see that you have copied a clip from the competition, does it?
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I agree that the results are not constant all the time. It depends a bit on how distinct the subject is in its environment, so that the program can find and follow. I have better results when you make the white box as precise as possible, and make sure that (if need be frame by frame) the subject is being followed. The blue box can become a bit larger and try to “play” with the “adjust distance” and “adjust effect size”, maybe that helps.
Also try the tracking of ColorDirector (if you have it), it may be a bit more precise and you may have more options to blur.
Otherwise maybe upload a brief example of what you try to do, so that we can see where the problem sits
Je conviens que les résultats ne sont pas constants tout le temps. Cela dépend un peu de la distinction du sujet dans son environnement, afin que le programme puisse trouver et suivre. J’ai de meilleurs résultats lorsque vous rendez la boîte blanche aussi précise que possible, et assurez-vous que (si nécessaire être image par image) le sujet est suivi. La boîte bleue peut devenir un peu plus grande et essayer de « jouer » avec le « ajuster la distance » et « ajuster la taille de l’effet », peut-être que cela aide.
Essayez également le suivi de ColorDirector (si vous l’avez), il peut être un peu plus précis et vous pouvez avoir plus d’options à flouter.
Sinon, peut-être télécharger un bref exemple de ce que vous essayez de faire, afin que nous puissions voir où se situe le problème?
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Have a look at the effect room (F4) and Style Effect: Beating, is that what you are looking for?
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Did you look at tutorials like this:
Avez vous regardé des explications comme celui-ci :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ2ApAHT2s&ab_channel=PowerDirectorUniversity
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It will likely take a lot of "editing" to get yourself or anything for that matter, inserted BEHIND an actor in the clip. I dont think that there is any video editor out there that can do that with a preset function.
What it takes is
A copy of the clip in the background.
On top of that a clip of you, taken with a green screen, removing the green, so that you are present as part of the clip
And then on top of that a copy of the original clip (already in the back ground), in which the actor who needs to be in front of you, is all masked out. This masking should be done very precisely, otherwise you will see what trick is being played. Not trivial at all. Probably a frame by frame setting. I think that the options in the most recent version of PD (20) is better suited to do such masking.
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The PDM's suggestion is a very handy way of precutting the clip. There are even more ways to precut, like the precut option:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/05_04_01_precutting_video.html?q=precut
It is especially handy for longer clips that can be cut into pieces before adding (and ordering) them to the timeline.
There is also the trimming tool:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/win/enu/08_02_01_trimming_a_video_clip.html?q=video
Using that will probably enable you to also see the result of the cutting better, by selecting multi trim, do the trimming and select output(H) and play the result. You will notice that there is a brief hick up in the playing when the deleted part is skipped.
Many ways to solve your problem.
As a side note: If you have recorded the clip with a higher frame rate (frames per second) then there are more frames to select between, which can make the cutting more precise. This only works of course when you have selected the same or a higher frame rate for your project (in preferences) which is then reflected in your timeline. But be careful: if at production time the frame rate differs from the recorder frame rate, the result might be influenced. Some experimenting may be in order.
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For what I understand you want to do is:
From clip A take out a part in the middle (A2) and from clip B also a part somewhere (B2);
You like to see what the result of taking out A2 and B2 is, and if necessary redo a bit add or take of a few frames at the end of A1 and/or A3 and likewise B.
To do this is fairly easy. When you cut a clip, what PD does, is only remember where the cut has been made. It always eaves the original untouched and show, in the timeline, the result for after the cut.
So, make the cut at point A2 and A3. Then delete the piece between A2 and A3. You can decide to close the gap between A1 and A3. Look in preview what the result is. Should you need to change e.g. the end of A1 a bit do this: move A3 (and the rest of the clips behind A3) a bit. Then select clip A1 and move to the end of the clip until you see and marker with two arrows. This means that PD is ready to move the edge of the clip to make it shorter or longer, depending on what it is you need to do. PD can do this, because it still knows what is behind A1. What you do is change the marker that PD should remember as the cutout point. Once you are done, close the gap by moving all clips and look at the result. You can repeat this as many times as you need to.
If there are many clips behind A3, you can also decide to move the clips temporarily to and used piece in the timeline (e.g. at the end) and change the length of A1 and A3 until you are happy and then move them back to where you want them.
Hope that this makes sense. Also have a look at tutorials like this example (there are more):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7HS94fXEz4&ab_channel=PowerDirectorEssentialsfromtheSharperTurtle
At around 2:17 you see how you can shorten or lengthen the clip.
Let us know whether this helps (and whether I understood you questions properly).
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On YouTube, there are a number of tutorials that show how to add a watermark in your videos. There are even more that explain how to get rid of a watermark.
Most of the them are showing older PD versions, but the principles are the same.
Have a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvzzn-QVDs&ab_channel=PowerDirectorUniversity
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8VMUzvxkak&ab_channel=PowerDirectorUniversity
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5f7F8rhi6k&ab_channel=muwen360
There is also a method using blending mode, which can give nice results too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQsWYkUrhM&ab_channel=PowerDirectorEssentialsfromtheSharperTurtle
Looking forward to seeing what you have done with your watermark.
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Hallo!
Erstens, obwohl PowerDirector 19 noch verfügbar ist (und vielleicht ist auch 18 verfügbar), wird es zu einem Preis kommen, für den Sie genauso gut PD20 kaufen können, was die aktuelle Version ist?
Für all diese Versionen, einschließlich der neuesten, würde ich sagen, dass die GPU für die tägliche Bearbeitung von Videos von geringerer Bedeutung ist. Die GPU wird von Zeit zu Zeit eingreifen, um bei bestimmten Formatkonvertierungen und FX-Übersetzungen zu helfen, aber das ist es. Wenn Sie die Freiheit haben, wählen Sie einen Computer mit einer schnellen CPU, vorzugsweise mit SSD-Festplatte und mindestens 16 GB RAM (mehr ist besser).
Hi,
Firstly, although PowerDirector 19 is still available (and maybe there 18 is also available), it will come at a price for which you might as well buy PD20 which is the current version?
For all these versions, including the latest, I would say that the GPU is of less importance for the daily editing of videos. The GPU will kick in from time to time to help with certain format conversions and fx-translations but that is it. If you have the freedom select a computer with a fast CPU, with preferably SSD disk and at least 16Gb of RAM (more is better).
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Sounds like a very good idea!
Did you also submit the suggestion through the suggestions panel in PD in the file menu?
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