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This is an observation and I haven't tried to quantify the performance loss, but it's a little more than anecdotal.
I shoot and compile videos of football games. To make the final version I add a running clock (minutes and seconds) and scores and team names. I use a pre made MP4 video of a running timer that I created from a Sharper Turtle video a few years ago in an earlier version of PD.
I wanted to improve the running timer so I started creating a new version, this involves multiple tracks, and will end up with nearly 8,000 one second clips, 800, ten second clips and 120 one minute clips, tedious but it works is infinitely customisable and once produced can be used in multiple ways. Basically just using copy and paste and minimal editing, it isn't hard just time consuming.
Currently I have created 50 minutes of the timer and the performance of PD2024 perpetual is awful, editing any of the one minute clips takes a long time and the display jumps as PD processes the change.
Much slower than PD19.
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I'd say by design as it does offer a little more flexibility when working in gap areas. For the PD21 type behavior, obviously the "Trim Only" is the option needed.
I wish it would let you lock on to a setting for a period of time. At times I want the "Trim Only" for many edits, but now it adds an extra click which slows down editing. Other times I'm opening up an area and would like the move feature for several edits. Really too bad one can't establish a default in the pop up and change as needed.
So many real changes could have been envisioned for a real GUI modernization effort for improved editing proficiency.
Jeff
I thought "Trim" worked if you want to shorten the clip but if you want to make it longer ie extend you get the same message. Just had another look, arghh. Apparently "Trim" works to shorten and extend a clip. My bad. I should perhaps "Trim" the next weekend into a four day jolly.
Just didn't want to rearrange a carefully laid out set of clips on multiple timelines..
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I've used a number of iterations of Power Director and am currently using 2024 Perpetual for my sins. I have come across a challenge with a feature I have used many times before to change the time (length on the timeline) of an image, title or colour board by dragging the end of the clip.
Without pictures and in words:
I want to change the length on the timeline of an image to fit in an odd time slot
Select the clip - you get a little hand which will allow you to drag/move the clip to another point on the timeline. Works well..
If you move to the end of the clip you get a little double headed arrow, if you select with the mouse you have the option to extend or reduce the length of the clip.
In PD21 this worked you could extend or reduce the clip length to fit.
In PD2024 the clip length alters visually as it did in PD21 but rather than altering the length of the clip when you take your finger off the right mouse button, I (you) get a pop up message that says:
- Trim Only
- Trim and Move Clips
- Trim and Move All Clips
Am I missing something or has the behaviour been changed by design..
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Though not directly related to your issues for years I had issues (ie I couldn't) casting video from PowerDVD to Chromecast. In the end the replacement of the Synology WiFi router resolved my issues. I tried all the supposed remedies, restarting rebooting upgrading nothing worked. The Windows desktop on which Power DVD was installed had no problem casting from Chrome or VLC but PowerDVD would never work.
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Yes they've clearly changed the behavior. While you can easily change the size, the aspect ratio seems to be fixed to that of the project (eg 16:9 or 1:1).
However it's fairly simple to change that by holding down the Shift key and dragging one of the corners to change the height and/or width of that corner relative to the other sides. Once you release the Shift key and try dragging any corner again, the board will scale in the new aspect ratio. You're also free to use the Shift key again to freely resize the board.
There is an Maintain Aspect Ratio tick box in the object settings tab, untick it and you can alter the aspect ratio. Doh..
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I have been using Power Director 16/17/19/21 for some years and have a number of ingrained habits. Today I tried to resize a colour (color) board something I have done many times before. Couldn't do it. Unless I'm doing something wrong the "handles" appear to be missing from the edges. See attached image.
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I did an upgrade today to PD2024 from PD21, paid the money, downloaded the files, clicked on the one that had upgrade in the title, watched it install and the deinstall PD21, and then reinstall PD21, complete and ask for a license key. Ran it and lo and behold it was PD21.
Looking at the Upgrade file it is actually named 1_Cyberlink_PowerDirector21_Upgrade_VDE............
My bad.. I'm sure there is a simple answer to this ...
Resolved with an apology..
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Yes, I agree. The new waveform display is definitely worse than the previous version. I hope this gets fixed in an update.
Ignoring the colour difference you can enlarge the audio and video track height by grabbing and dragging on the left hand menu.
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I did an upgrade today to PD2024 from PD21, paid the money, downloaded the files, clicked on the one that had upgrade in the title, watched it install and the deinstall PD21, and then reinstall PD21, complete and ask for a license key. Ran it and lo and behold it was PD21.
Looking at the Upgrade file it is actually named 1_Cyberlink_PowerDirector21_Upgrade_VDE............
My bad.. I'm sure there is a simple answer to this ...
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Perpetual user licences probably present a marketing problem for Cyberlink. I'm sure they would like to move every user to a 365 environment like pretty much all software companies these days, guaranteed income stream, less product maintenance etc. I'm a perpetual licence user and I am envious of the regularity with which new baubles are added to 365. Do I need them all, probably not but "shiny toys" are attractive. It will be interesting to see which new features appear in PD22 if it gets released..
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I know it is a marketing ploy by Cyberlink but as a PD21 perpetual user I find it disappointing that 365 seems to get endless updates and add-ons that aren't available to non-365 users and it is unclear if any of these will ever be available in later versions of perpetual PD.
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I only wander past this forum when something doesn't work or I'm looking for an idea. Today I came across this thread, I've never thought about Intros/Outros, as a PD21 perpetual user (fully patched 2902) I had a look at my version of PD2. I have the Intro/Outro menu items but no content, should I have or is it for me to download from the net. I'm not losing sleep over it just interested.
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I have been videoing my daughter's football matches for a number of years. In the post production phase I have used resized colour boards and multiple tracks to create a space for the scores and team names, then I have gone through the video editing it to add the scores. Obviously tennis has very many score changes than a game of football. I have then put these videos on YouTube. More recently I have been "playing" with live streaming and using OBS to stream games to YouTube. OBS has a number of add on "Scoreboards" for a variety of sports, and it is possible to update these scoreboards in real time as a game progresses. You can also use OBS to record video as well as stream.
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From your description, it sounds as if your PD pref > General Timeline frame rate: is set at 25fps.
Jeff
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THank you for this wonderful answer.. I can only say yet another hidden gem in Power Director 21, roll on PD22.
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Thanks for having a look at this issue. The two attachments show the Time Stamp set up, I cannot set the frame count to 30. and a piece of video that attempts to show the frame counter..
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I want to add a countdown timer to a video clip. The exact time is important to the video. The TimeStamp I am using in Power Director 21 has what I consider a bug. I can set the timer to count down from 20 mins but with the FPS set to 30 the most I can set the initial time to is 20:00:24 (ie 20 mins, 0 seconds 24 frames). If you manually advance the timeline one frame at a time the frame count decreases to 20:00.01 and the next frame the timer displays 19:59:29. From this point on each second is 30 frames. Any suggestions on how to resolve ?
Buggy feature ?
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I have a question and I am not sure where to ask it. I do a little bit of drone videography for fun. The raw drone footage (4K 30fps MP4) plays well in PowerDVD 22 but will not play on a Chromecast Ultra to a large TV using PowerDVD to stream it. However, the same raw drone footage can be viewed in VLC and VLC can stream (render) the video clip to the Chromecast Ultra with no problem. Same PC, same router, same network, same Chromecast.
In an attempt to resolve the problem I processed the raw 4K video clip in Power Director as a 1920x1080 clip rather than a 4K clip in the hope that changing the format would make it playable, but it was still unplayable on the Chromecast.
So my question comes down to what is unique about the video format from the drone that VLC modifies and Cyberlink products don't.
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Had HA set in PD21 taken it off and all is hunky dory.. Interesting.
Well I spoke too soon. Everything I now do in PD21 seems to require a "Preview Render". Apart from the delay every time you make a change to the clip it seems to be functioning OK. Even adding a stock image from the media library seems to initiate a preview render.
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You can check for the HA and preview settings on the PD19. Make the settings the same or lower in PD21 if needed and it should help as it doesn’t happen yet on my pc.
Had HA set in PD21 taken it off and all is hunky dory.. Interesting.
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I have been working on a short video clip for a number of weeks (on and off) with no issues. Today I decided to create a text title as the first 5 secs of the video. Simple title, one word, keyframed small to very large over 5 seconds, and "blended" with a simple JPG. This caused PD21 to "render the preview" for the whole clip. I can't find a way to stop this and It seems a major overkill.
To test a theory I created a new project, used a stock image from the media library, added a text title, keyframed from small to large, blended with the image and get the same issue, PD21 insists on preview rendering.
PD19 on the same desktop, does not force Preview Rendering for an identical clip.
PD21 appears to have an issue with titles.
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