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Thanks Carl312,
In my previous video apps, I have always used the more straightforward way for clearing the clutter after a project, but I just wanted to make sure, since I noticed the "manually delete" button. I never had one of those on any of my previous video applications. Maybe I just never saw them.

Thanks for the reminder, too. As I advance in years, it seems quick access to my vocabulary and impatience with my own failings push me to use more generic terms.


Quote Using Windows to delete the contents of the folder is the sure way of removing the content of the working folder.

As far as I know the 'file Manager' in Windows is called 'Windows Explorer'.
I've tried using the recommended way to manually delete my working files that I have used to make disks. I finally found the button the guide suggests for such deletions, and after I was through all the deleting, I still had files remaining in my PowerDirector/16 folder that I had captured, along with two disk images (Default and Default 1) that would do no more than show a menu with a black screen, but still had 4.34 gigabytes of content in each image.

I wondered if it is safe for the application to just go ahead and delete these "work" files manually right from the PD/16 folder using the Windows 10 file manager, or whatever they call it now.

The "Manually Delete" button doesn't seem to get all of the files, and I prefer to clear the decks for each project I do.
Thanks for any assistance
Thank you, at least for the capture part of this, I have things working better. Captured some video, and spread it out, nice.
Let's see what else I can do with this.
Thanks again...



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  • be sure you have 16:9 set as your project/timeline ratio. (on top of the user interface)

  • check you are using widescreen in Create disk, if you are producing Disks.

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    Also on the timeline, if you right click the video, you can change the aspect ratio of the video. Right Click > Set Clip Atributes > set Aspect ratio.


    Thanks for the response.
    The window drop down says it's 16:9, and the screen frame is big enough, but the video mask is much more square and surrounded by a black border. There was one scene I was able to capture with a wide screen, but then when I put it in the edit mode, it was much smaller, but still wider screen, but the border was all the way around. It was a full crop of a wide screen.

    Just for a test, I took one of my previous captures that came from the same Canopus ADVC 110 device, but I captured it with the Corel VideoStudio app. It plays perfectly, and in PowerDirector it appears clearer, but everything I capture in PowerDirector from my Canopus seems doomed to the 4:3 view mode. I may try burning this pile of clips and see if it doesn't burn it in 16:9. Something tells me that's a bit of a dream.

    Not sure how to overcome this one.
    Thanks again

    My last statement is the way. Change the aspect ratio on the timeline. You can change a 4:3 video to a 16:9 video without black bars on the side.

    Standard definition video can either be 4:3 aspect ratio or 16:9 aspect ratio. Sometimes you have to tell the video editor what the aspect ratio you want.
  • be sure you have 16:9 set as your project/timeline ratio. (on top of the user interface)

  • check you are using widescreen in Create disk, if you are producing Disks.



  • Also on the timeline, if you right click the video, you can change the aspect ratio of the video. Right Click > Set Clip Atributes > set Aspect ratio.


    Thanks for the response.
    The window drop down says it's 16:9, and the screen frame is big enough, but the video mask is much more square and surrounded by a black border. There was one scene I was able to capture with a wide screen, but then when I put it in the edit mode, it was much smaller, but still wider screen, but the border was all the way around. It was a full crop of a wide screen.

    Just for a test, I took one of my previous captures that came from the same Canopus ADVC 110 device, but I captured it with the Corel VideoStudio app. It plays perfectly, and in PowerDirector it appears clearer, but everything I capture in PowerDirector from my Canopus seems doomed to the 4:3 view mode. I may try burning this pile of clips and see if it doesn't burn it in 16:9. Something tells me that's a bit of a dream.

    Not sure how to overcome this one.
    Thanks again
    I'm a new adopter of PowerDirector, after years of using Corel VideoStudio, and I just can't seem to get my output to come out the way I would like it. In other words... I would like to make DVDs, and run them on a 16:9 display through a DVD/Blu-ray player without distortion or crop bars.

    I use a Canopus ADVC110 for the captures, and it outputs mpg2 720:480. PowerDirector menu button is set to 16:9 for output. The clip I capture displays in wide screen mode during capture, which is the way the original content displays. However, when I play it back after capturing, it's in full screen mode, and it's cropped, not squeezed.

    My video properties for the clip says 720:480. I have always been able to translate that to a very good 16:9, and hopefully, I can do that with PowerDirector, with some guidance. I just can't seem to find the controls that would allow that.

    Any assistance would be much appreciated.
    I use a Canopus ADVC110, and capture in mpg2/720:480 with output in PowerDirector menu window set to 16:9 for playback. The clip I capture is in wide screen mode during capture, but when I play it back after capturing, it's in full screen mode. My video properties says 720:480.

    I'm a new adopter of PowerProducer, after years of using Corel VideoStudio, and I just can't seem to get my output to come out the way I would like it. I would like to make DVDs, and run them on a 16:9 set through a disc player.

    My machine is equipped with an i7 3770 processor 32gigs of DDR3 RAM and 4 gigs of VRAM in the Nvidia GTX960 video card, if any of that helps. I've been doing this stuff for a number of years, and know enough to find a few problems with new equipment of software, but I seem to occasionally need help solving them.
    Any assistance would be appreciated.
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