|
|
Thanks, Dave and Hal, for your input.
It sheds quite a bit of light on the topic but there is still a question for me left to answer:
I understand what the benefit of using this feature is now. I don't notice any difference because I don't have problems viewing my projects without such rendering.
The issue for me is I can't find the rendered file(s), which could be of some use (not such a big deal though).
I see, in Dave's screenshot, the same filename pattern as on the old thread I mentioned: team1_????????.mpg but I don't have any such files on my computer BUT my source files are *.m2ts AND I have the Enable HD video processing (shadow file) option checked in Preferences.
The folder analogous to that in Dave's screenshot is empty on my computer.
I do have the green bar above the timeline over a section I have tried to render this way, and that's why I think there is a rendered file saved somewhere but perhaps I'm wrong. I've tried searching for all *.mpg and all *.m2ts files on my computer, and sorted the search results by file date/time: nothing found...
Jirka
|
|
|
Hi there:
I'd just like to know what really happens when you use the Render Preview button, which becomes available on marking a section in the Time Line view using the yellow "arrows" next to the blue timeline slider. Can somebody explain it?
On my computer, when I use this feature, I see the rendering progress but nothing changes or happens when it's complete, neither do I see any possibilities of making any further use.
I figure the result is saved in a file or files as the rendered section remains mark so on reopening the project. I read the thread "Shadow files and Audio quality" where the files rendered this way are mentioned but I don't understand where I find them or how I tell them from other files. I've tried searching my harddisk by file timestamp to no avail.
Any insight appreciated...
Jirka
|
|
|
Hi Argonaut,
Your second decription is a different story. I notice this issue coming up every now and then here. I've never really followed these threads, which you should be able to find, but I think this problem could be caused by your video circuit driver. Whether a card or motherboard integrated, you should seek driver update.
Trying to find similar threads, I have also found one where the solution was reported through BIOS update.
Sorry, I can't help more myself...
|
|
|
Hi Argonaut,
This feature you're asking about and, presumably, asking for simply isn't there. As a matter of fact, you can't do any editing while the Media Viewer window is open.
I myself only sometimes use the Media Viewer to see the result in full defintion before I produce it but it only helps me tune up some very fine details. All in all, the two clicks to open it are not a big deal to me but perhaps I am missing your purpose of asking...
Jirka
|
|
|
Some additional thoughts to follow up on HalCon's post:
Unlike HalCon, I have always used Scene Detection "by change of time codes" (selected in the Advanced Scene Detection Settings dialog box) for DV-AVI footage from my old camera. I now use a camera with a built-in memory and a memory card socket where a new file is created each time recording is stopped.
I see Scene Detection as just the first step in trimming the footage to desired length and contents. Next, it's all manual, of course.
With my new camera, I don't really use Scene Detection, and detection by changes in time codes wouldn't work anyway. I simply use Split or Multi Trim feature or remove entire clips, that is files, from the project. Talking of Multi Trim, Scene Detection is available within its dialog too...
|
|
|
Hi James,
I think you only need to click at the bottom right (yellow folder symbol) of each clip that has undergone scene detection in the media library pane. Such clips become sort of folders containing the scenes detected and by clicking as I say you open the folder to see all the scenes as clips as if they were seperate files. You ten treat them accordingly.
I believe the Merge button is to join scenes that you don't want to have separate after the detection. If you decide to actually merge some of the scenes shown, you can select them using the CTRL or SHIFT key, and then the Merge button. I've never used this feature but it's kind of self-suggesting...
Jirka
|
|
|
Sounds like a feature improvement wishlist-to-be.
Well, it annoys me that I have to set audio volume level for each clip separately when I want to set the same level to all of them while mixing different tracks. Grouping clips doesn't help.
Perhaps there's a way of doing it I simply don't know of...
|
|
|
Another owl to Athens: Yes, the more RAM capacity, the better, generally speaking. Not always will, however, PowerDirector need so much. I'm using a 32-bit machine with 4GB RAM, and it's okay.
Don't fail to understand the basics: a 32-bit bus can address up to 4GB of memory space directly, or 2 to the power of 32 bits, while a 64-bit bus can address up to 16EB (EB = Exabyte; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix), or 2 to the power of 64 bits. Thus a 64-bit system can use virtually unlimited memory space directly.
To amuse you: I remember using computers with a few tens or hundreds of kilobytes of RAM and a few megabytes of hard disk capacity back in the 1980s. My first own computer was an Atari 800 XL then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family.
|
|
|
Hi there:
The thing you can't do in the Title Designer is bending or otherwise warping the title. You are only bound to choose from the preset effects available.
I've been thus thinking, just theoretically, of a way: Design your title in the Title Designer using the sidaways slide movement. I think you need three titles: one in front of the globe, one disappearing behind the globe and one reappearing from behind. (Not sure if or how you can acheive mirror-like font for the latter two but I suppose it's somehow possible.) You make them on, say, green background and produce as a clip.
You should then be able to size and bend this clip in the PiP Designer as desired keying out the green background. Should the effect be realistic, you would need the characters shrinking at the ends to mimic perspective view, perhaps by cutting up the three basic titles to some sections but that sounds almost like a letter-by-letter animation. This is likely to be a lot of rather experimental work one way or another...
|
|
|
Hi:
I sometimes do commercial voice over projects and I use a dynamic microphone with a separate USB adopter (that allows connecting a condenser microphone as well), both from the same reputable manufacturer. They, however, cost together about three times more than PowerDirector Deluxe 10 now.
USB microphones make the best signal processing sense as they amplify and digitize the signal as close to the transducer as possible thus virtually eliminating noise picked up on the microphone's cable. Cheap audio cards or mother-board circuitry are basically a guarantee of more or less of such noise. Good audio cards are also quite expensive and their main purpose is different from reducing analog input signal noise reduction.
There are, for example, a lot of USB condenser microphones on the market but you should do some research before you buy if you decide to go this way as some of the cheap ones may not be very good.
Oh, and cardioid sensitivity characteristics is the most suitable. I can record okay even when my neighbor's dog is barking...
|
|
|
No language barrier! By the way, I'm Czech and I have the same kind of camera as you, with built-in memory though: TM900.
My impression is that PowerDirector still has problems producing from high definition 50/60 progressive fps to (virtually) the same format, maybe only from certain cameras. The last patch really improved this feature a lot as I got a lot of frozen clips in the output before the 1703 update. It's probably not perfect yet.
In other words, I'm afraid it's very likely that you'll have to wait for another update or new version and just find a compromise workaround until then. However, I am not any authority to have the final word. Perhaps someone will have a real solution...
|
|
|
One other thing that occurs to me is to make sure you try to have the output rendered using only the CPU as opposed to SVRT or GPU rendition.
If the source files are 50 or 60 progressive frames per second, you could also try to convert them to an interlaced format outside PowerDirector...
|
|
|
Hi:
Have you installed the latest update, 1703 (http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdirector/patches_en_US.html)?
It solved a similar problem to me...
|
|
|
Hi:
I have been watching some fo the recent threads with interest as I experienced similar problems: HD output video freezing in places at the clip level (http://youtu.be/68PJlwS7ySg):
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23231.page#124867
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23194.page#124646
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23191.page#124635
I tried all kinds of things that didn't help and the problem was with all output formats I had tried. I have now updated PowerDirector 10 with the latest patch, 1703, and the problem is gone. Well, I've only produced one 7-minute video at 1080/50p, which I managed to get right only once in dozens of tries before, and there are quite a lot of specific jerks throughout but no frozen sections...
|
|
|
I see now JL_JL explained the altitude issue before me; somehow, I didn't see the post yesterday.
Anyway, sure, solid state technlogies (I mean chips, or semiconductor memories, whatever name) are not sensitive to atmospheric pressure changes or, relatively speaking, mechanical shocks...
|
|
|
|
It's actually lower atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes, not lower temperature, that may cause a hard disk failure or damage. It's because standard hard disk designs rely on flying head air lift...
|
|
|
Hi:
Have you considered using the music store on Vimeo (next time)?
Jirka
|
|
|
|
Hey, I think I once got this message too. I then located the minidump file and opened it as a plain text file. It actually helped me figure out there was a problem with a device (graphic or audio chip, I think) driver which I was able to fix by changing it (I'm note sure if I had to update it or roll back after update; either way)...
|
|
|
Hi guys,
I once mentioned earlier a problem I'd had producing from 50fps progressive edited video clips. The problem was on transitions. The produced video had a few frozen frames following some of the transititions (fade).
I haven't had much time to experiment but I tried producing just a 10-sec clip with one transition using different production settings to see if there's a setting that works. It seemed to me that even using the same setting I produced different size files with each production, and I didn't find a solution.
I don't think that PowerDirector handles 50fps progressive input videos correctly under all circumstances. I assume it's because 50fps progressive is not actually originally a standardized format and it's only recorded by some cameras for better results.
I tried to convert some of the 50fps progressive clips to 25fps interlaced, which is a standardized format, and PowerDirector had no problem producing the same footage with the same transitions correctly.
I'd like to also try to see if produced 50fps progressive video from input 50fps progressive really keeps the original footage quality and all the frames. It should presumably be true if using this Smart Video Rendering Technology.
It was a kind of coincidence I encountered the above described problem as I don't usually use any transitions. I think that without the transitions there would be no such issues but I suppose that some effects could also cause trouble as well.
Sorry my post is not very consistent but I thought some of the information could be informative or inspirative to someone...
Jirka
|
|
|
|
Well, there are only a handful of predetermined resolutions available on YouTube and the choice of those within the YouTube upload feature in PowerDirector simply match them. 1920x1080 is included...
|
|
|
Hi:
First off, "i" stands for interlaced while "p" means progressive (http://www.axis.com/products/video/camera/progressive_scan.htm).
The Mbps, megabits per second, figure is the data flow bitrate and yes, presumably, the higher this value, the better image quality. It could be useful to look at this in your source files. (However, you'll have to do this outside PowerDirector. The other day, I got a recommendation on this forum to use Splash Lite video player, which can show the video bitrate.) I think that PowerDirector can increase the bitrate but I doubt the image quality is actually very much increased by this.
I don't know any exact numbers but I suppose YouTube downgrades the image quality if it's too high. You might simply want to experiment with a short video and produce it using different profiles.
Have you considered using the YouTube upload feature in PowerDirector? A wmv file is produced in this process. Hopefully Cyberlink engineers optimized this choice from the quality and production time's points of view...
|
