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Well, I finally had a breakthrough on this... and frankly I was surprised at what I found.
I had mentioned that I have a relatively fast computer.... which also includes a couple of SATA/300 HDDs. However, I had an old IDE 500 GB drive that I was using to store all my videos on. Hence, I was using that drive as my 'work drive' for all the PowerDirector work.
I copied a couple of clips over to the SATA drives, and tried it again... boof! everything runs as normal. It apears I just can't get enough throughput from the IDE drive to run smoothly... which surprises me. I have indexing off, have the drive defragged, etc.... but still no-go.
Anyway, in case someone else is seeing this, these were my findings.
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I'm having a frustrating problem which I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I take a movie clip and put it in the timeline... then I press the 'play' button to watch it and determine where I want to insert effects, etc.. the playback is S L OW and perhaps a little choppy, and the sound is like from darth vader... it just all goes very slow.
When I play the same clip by itself, (various programs, including Power DVD) it plays/sounds just fine. I've tried this with VOB MPEG files off of a CD with home movies, and also with my MPEG movie clips I've shot and captured via firewire. I believe the movie clips are ok, but won't play back correctly in PowerDirector Edit mode.
Any ideas? I'm running an nVidia 8500 GT with plenty of memory for display adaptor (and latest driver), and the CPU is 2-core 2.2 GHZ with 2GB of memory.... so I don't think it should be a slow computer issue.
is there a setting that I need to change in PowerDirector for this? thanks!
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THANKYOU  all these sudtle features!
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just a newbie question.... how do you find/create a simple color-board to insert into the timeline?
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