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It is not a choice between Program Files and My Documents, for the love of thoughtless carless twits. 
Yeah I shouldn't use names, but isn't this a bit offensively obvious? To microsoft and the other handful you mention?
Like a lot of people, I created a folder on a drive and configured PowerDirector to use it. All good. And it's not part of any install. Unfortunately, some part of PowerDirector not only ignores this, it knows better, chosing to mix it in with my business correspondence and billing records and taxes. Sure, it's a file, every file is a file, but it's #$%&@ not "My Documents".
Thanks guys. Support ticket opened: Question ID = CS001903805
https://membership.cyberlink.com/support/service/inquiry-response-page.do?pId=CS001903805&m=tjhorton@hotmail.com
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I set all the preferences to put PowerDirector output into D:/video editing, but PowerDirector (and Microsoft Visual Studio and IIS) insist on creating folders for non-documents in My Documents folder. Why? Can it be changed? I can't see where.
My Documents folder is where I keep .... my documents (surprise!). I don't want programs spewing clutter into My Documents.
I also back up the folder every day or two, but THOUGHTLESS CARELESS TWITS WITH DIFFICULTY READING FOLDER NAMES think it's a reasonable place to leave unrelated entrails, as though we haven't configured a perfectly good place for it.
How do we keep Cyperlink barf out of My Documents (which is helpfully called My Documents, in case you forget)?
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In PD you can create and save project in parts. Example: Project 1, 2, 3 ...
Lastly, join them all in 1 complete project....Complete project in timeline, make adjustments if needed and save as complete project.
Follow to Produce the whole video at once.
That's great, I might go that way. I see the limitation is that once you see/share the result, you have to go back to the subprojects, and recombine each time you do so? Even so, I can see making it work if it's as easy as you describe. I'm not using many transitions so I won't have to recreate the project transitions each time.
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The key is to plan and use SVRT properly and then the use of multiple sub-projects doesn't require any re-rendering (other than joining transitions etc) so degredation is not an issue and rendering time is greatly reduced.
Thanks Adrian, but I'm not concerned about rendering. Most of my 80 clips are static images, so the rendering is not the problem, beacuse it goes extremely fast. What's a problem is that if I move one image, or tweak one audio clip, everything else gets tweaked, and the editing is dangerous and difficult. I'm looking to edit in sections because of the editing logistics, not the rending.
Thanks, and sorry if I missed your point? Cheers
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One approach is group the components in a section (tutorial here) . --Jim
Great suggestion. I can lock the 20 clips in a section together on a track. And super thanks for the link to the tutorial!!
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What's the best way to work on a video in sections? I can't find any discussion of it.
I'm making a 12 minute video with 80-100 clips, and a separate voiceover track. It's tricky getting the clips to align with the sound, and any small change to the audio track or a single clip screws up the whole alignment quite easily.
Here's what I thought of:
1. Create separate projects for each of half a dozen chapters, then another project to import the produced outputs. I'm not sure I'll retain fildelity of the original clips, and I can't adjust the audio properties together as I edit.
2. Put each ection in a different track, with half a dozen tracks. Unfortunately PowerDirector does not make it easy to use a lot of tracks (using the scrollball over the track list scrolls the timeline instead of the track list), etc.
3.Something I don't know about?? I was hoping PowerDirector would support editing chapters as separate timelines.
I cannot be the first person to have this logistic problem. How is it usually solved? THANKS!
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Blank video means no video, only audio. There is no screenshot.
I tried to upload the "Produce" page settings, but there is no way to insert a screen shot in my reply here. The popup for insert/edit an image demands an https URL. What?!
I found a posting to set the registry entry for VideoRendering to VRM9, which worked, although the movie is now 30% bigger.
This is silly. I've had the product for a few days, and I can't tell you how many ridiculous things I've learned. Does Cyberlink ever test their product designs with novel users? All the way through, every feature? I know not.
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Fresh install on a new system, PowerDirector produces MP4 videos with blank video. I've tried every possible way to create one. PowerDirector16, windows 7 64-bit, all updates applied.
What kind of product doesn't get the most popular format right from the very start?
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