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oops spoke too soon.
It burnt with no sound. I never use full speed for burning disks and always drop it down a bit.
Resolved but strange: Had to go into my DVD players setting and fiddle with sound settings. TV would play properly.
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SVRT was my problem. ConvertXtoDVD found errors in the mpg-2 file created with SVRT on. Also PD9 would not show bytes produced or remaining with SVRT on while producing..
Reproduced show with SVRT off and it burned like a charm.
No more not enough space error.
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Actually where is the PD9 cache ?
I'm getting the Not Enough Space burning error and need to do some cleaning myself.
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George you style is definitely right up my ally.
I estimate about 2 hrs per minute of video for composition so far. I pretty much go through my whole music collection visualizing the clip as I'm sampling the music.
Keep up the good work and maybe consider pegmedia if you want your videos out on the airwaves.
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Good points.
I'm doing the vernal pool now that may be a life long project. Some clips are 30 seconds but the music from SS is enchanting and most important. The salamander swimming underwater is cool and Jules Vern music is in the background.
Now do you merge the projects or do you just added the produced files together in the Create Disk part of the program?
Not too many people see:
A sandy bottom vernal pool.
Tadpoles hatch - mystical
A male frog dragging a female frog to the bottom and pinning her. - suspense
Salamander eating frog eggs-mysterious
Wood frogs chasing each other down-frolic
A woodfrog mating frenzy - hillbilly
Voracious water beetle - heavy beat
Water beetle swimming off - western
Tad pole leaving nest - surf music
It all has to come together music and video.
If I feel going from one species to another is choppy then I use a transition with the ripple the favorite in my case.
I've just finished my first revision so far 1/2 hr long.
Its very hard keeping the crowd's attention for a 1 hr documentary of any kind. I fall asleep watching Life and Planet Earth who have been my inspiration for my documentary.
The black in the transitions of PD9 are the major blemish though.
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Give Cyberlink Power2go a try. Thats a free download for burning.
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Well I found a work around.
The solution was to create a dummy clip (gage block) the exact length I wanted to move the clips to. I aligned this clip to the shortened clip and grouped all clips downstream and butted them up against the dummy clip.
May be more than what was needed but I like precise positioning when I have half second clips aligned in the video.
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Whats the best way to move a selection of clips by a certain amount of time.
My video is complete and feel one clip can be enhanced by speeding it up. So went to power tools and increased the clips speed that shortened it by 15 seconds.
Unfortunately, even though I have link tracks selected, all my voice and sound clips did not follow the shortening like the video did. Now everything needs moving over by 15 seconds. I have hits and stingers precisely positioned and need them accurate.
Is there any better way to do this? So linked tracks only works when adding or removing a clip?
I think this is a much needed enhancement for this software for linked tracks to operate with lengthening or shortening a video clip.
What is the best way then to accomplish what I would like to do maybe there is a work around.
I assume the best option is to unlink the tracks and then group everything downstream and drag them up against the shortened clip ? But that doesn't work because the video downstream automatically close the gap created.
I would like to move the scrubber to the exact location and drag the group to it, but the scrubber automatically snaps to the selection.
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Flight Sim X is an old program. Can your computer handle the new Storms of War Battle of Britain coming out ?
LOL J/K
If you do get it figured out, please report back Jan.
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Jan I am having the same issue.
I do have the latest sound drivers for my 3-4 yr old SB X-Fi card. Maybe the card is too old?
But the program is memory intensive and at times may tie up memory and not give it back immediately (always been an issue with windows) (and DOS needing memory managers if I can recall). I believe that may be part of the issue. It's par for the course with PD9 and I think most of us have the issue you are referring to and just deal with it as a quirk of a memory intensive program.
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"The Hotkeys, "Page Up" and "Page Down" switch to Clip mode and Movie mode respectively and can be helpful. "
Its about time I programed my flight controller for this program.
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Thanks for the response. That helps a lot. I see its a little tricky because the programs switches you automatically back to clip mode when you select a clip. You have to make sure you click back on movie mode.
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When I click on a clip and hit the home or end key, where can I find my exact position. Shouldn't there be some readout someplace I can see where the marker is when a clip is at the Home or End Position.
Thanks
PS
It's not in the preview window as that turns to 0 when I hit the Home Key.
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Well if you can see what PD9 can do when it wants to work properly, I'd shed a tear or too. A little humor there Carl.
It is exhausting getting a production complete. Some of my voice clips seem to mysteriously move on me for no reason and I have to go through the whole time-line checking to make sure nothing has moved when doing the smallest changes. I lose confidence in the program.
I agree with Bubba, on using a separate disk making program. PD9 tries to be a jack of all trades and it thus does it in a mediocre fashion.
I'm going to give convert X to dvd a try and I have a few other options also.
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That's the problem. How do I produce a Mpeg-2 with MPEG audio layers I or II instead of AC-3.
PD9 practically demands QT yet doesn't support the QT audio formats of mpeg-2 that are Layers I or II according to their specs I posted above.
I understand Mpeg-2 is the best to use for producing a 16:9 Standard definition disk from 16:9 .MTS files so I assume it is also widely used.
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I just purchased the mpeg-2 plugin for Quicktime and to my dissatisfaction get no sound form a mpeg-2 file produced by PD9.
I noticed this on the QT website:
What audio formats does the QuickTime MPEG-2 playback component support?
The QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component supports the playback of MPEG-2 files (.mpg, .mpeg, .vob, .vro, .m2v, .m2a, and .m2s) that contain MPEG audio layers I or II. The MPEG-2 Playback Component does not support audio playback for MPEG-2 files containing PCM, DTS, or AC3 audio.
Surely PD9 that integrates religiously with QT must put out a mpg-2 compatible with sound. I thought it was a sensible assumption.
[b]Does the mpeg-2 produced by PD9 then consist of either PCM, DTS, or AC3 that is not compatible with QT?[/b]
This is very new to me so I apologize if the answer is starring at me and I don't know.
I have no addon codecs installed at this time.
Thanks
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"you can simply "copy" all the files you want to use and put them in a folder dedicated to that project."
Good point and it can easily be done automatically using the file export command.
Be careful if you edit a newly unlinked wave file as it gives no option to save where you want it and the edited wave automatically goes into the export folder. I learned this the hard way also. It also does not let you name it what you want to either.
I'm always having to close the project and moving the edited wave file back into my sound folder and reopening the project and browsing back to the file. At least I know now to do this and....
A work around is better than no work around.
If there was only a PDS editor where we could edit file names and locations.
Still enjoying the program though and getting used to it not being especially made for me.
We can make it work.
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Max your browser may have a setting in place for where downloaded files automatically go if you did not specify a location yourself. Check your browser setting.
In win-7 maybe the "download" folder under your user name on C drive.
It could have also ended up in your browser cache or as you say windows temp files for IE.
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Ralph it needs to give us more control kind of like a CADD program does for directory and file structure. It already window selects like a CADD program and I like that.
Actually Powerlink developers can learn a lot by the way Autocad is implemented. I see more and more professionals switching to PD as it gets enhanced but it should IMO allow better customization to be on top of the others.
I just finished the pre-release of my video and I say its not far from being a professional animal planet like film.
The potential of PD is enormous.
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I create a directory named after the project and have separate voice, video, photo directories under it. I don't like junking lots of files together especially video and photo.
One thing to be aware of that happened to me recently:
I stretched my photos to 16:9 in the program and for some reason the next time I opened my project it was looking for the stretched files suddenly in my USERS folder on C: drive under renamed files of the date I did the stretch.
I believe this could have been caused by me not saving right after the stretch and the program crashed. Upon reload, it looked elsewhere for the photos.
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