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So you want to record video with your cell phone and then edit it in a video to send to the district? You can do this with Powerdirector. You just have to import your video file after you have finished shooting the video.
Maybe explain more what you mean by two capture devices...what exactly are you trying to do?
Powerdirector also includes ScreenRecorder that allows you to capture your computer desktop. If you get the stand alone version, you can also use picture in picture to do recorded presentations, and also do live streams if you ever needed that.
https://www.cyberlink.com/products/screen-recorder/features_en_US.html
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I think I've got it going in the right direction now. There is no way to delete a message out here so I'll just reply to it. The way tracks work in PD is just enough different than Vegas Pro to throw me for some loops. It seems like I had mostly an ordering problem. Once I got them in the right order it seemed like things were coming together much better. Sorry you had to read the original topic.
FYI, you can reverse the track order of the timeline in editing preferences, if you are used to the main track being on the bottom instead of the top.
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It should be if you have 16 Ultimate. Select the H.264 option, which is the codec. It renders the video in the MP4 container. Check the attached screenshot I took in my PowerDirector 16.
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I have a very similar problem. I upgraded from Power Director 16 to Power Diretor 18. At first, the previews seemed sharper and overall better than Power Director 16, then something happened. Now, when a picture is selected in the timeline, and the view is stationary, the image is good. At all other times when the preview is playing, or when a specific slide is not selected, the picture is very bright, and mostly unusable. I uninstalled all the extra files that came with the program, and reinstalled Power Director 18, and of course rebooted the computer. The previews are atrocious.
I have tried every change I can find in the preferences section. Nothing seems to work. Older videos are equally bad.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Ken
You said you tried every preference, but you did not specify if all hardware accleration preferences are turn off. This issue does not happen for the majoirty of users, so it is most likely your GPU that is applying some kind of effect/enhancement. You should also check your GPU driver settings.
If none of this works, contact Cyberlink and provide all the info you can, including your DXDiag file, which you didn't do for us as requested.
https://membership.cyberlink.com/support/service/technical-support.do
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Hey guys,
I recently upgraded from Power Director 14 to Power Director 365. For some reason it auto brightens my clips and makes them look worse.
14 didnt do this and just imported them as they were. It's driving me nuts. Is there a way to turn this off and just import the clip as it's supposed to be?
Thanks
PowerDirector doesn't auto brighten clips. I remember this was brought up before, and the person's GPU was doing this when they added clips to the timeline.
Try turning off "Enable hardware decoding" in Hardware Acceleration preferences and see if that cures it.
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Maybe use Screen Recorder to show us how you are getting this message. You said it was from opening and saving, so would be curious to see.
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I don't think there is a problem in the PowerDirector project file, but rather with one of the videos in the timeline or library. Maybe try checking each file, and even removing some from the project until you find the culprit.
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Great analogy. But sorry it wasn't helpful. I do understand the process but I don't see away to change the Save as file. They only give one option. It does not give an option to save it as anything else.
It's hard to believe that you are still talking about saving a file after all this. Everything you need to know (and more) is in this thread now. I told you that .PDS is a PowerDirector project file (it is an XML file basically I believe). The tutorial I shared shows you how to output your video and even goes in some detail about the some of the different formats and how to edit video profiles. It is obvious you didn't watch it all the way through.
You can't just save a video file into a different format like it is an image file. If you can't understand that, there is nothing anyone can do for you unfortunately.
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Hello Ash, thank you for your quick response. But I'm sorry it did not help me save my video. Yes, it was an older version and it showed things like resolution and changing some things, but it stopped short of discussing how to transform the PowerDirector project into a video that can be used. Can you assist me with that?
As I said, you don't save the video. Click the Produce button at the top of the window. That is where you need to be to output your video.
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You aren't saving your video, you are saving a PowerDirector project. To output your new file, you need to render all the components, producing a new file.
See this tutorial for help: https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/powerdirector-video-editing-software-ultimate/217/hd-video-export-tutorial
It's from an older version, but everything is pretty much the same in the latest version.
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A good place to start is this thread:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16087.page
Also, you should attach your DXDiag file to give us users an idea what your burning environment is like.
Ash
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I don't see one here:
https://www.moovielive.com/wallpaper/index.do
But you can use your own photo as your wallpaper, so just download one and make it your wallpaper.
https://pixabay.com/images/search/brooklyn%20bridge/
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Can you share a link to the video so we can test and see if we get the same results on our devices? Best way to determine if something is wrong.
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I understand what you mean, but I don't remember PowerDirector really providing new features to the Ultra version in patch updates between versions. So it is not like they changed something. They just started a new business model for people that are willing to subscribe.
I also noticed that in the latest patch for you they did add LUTs, AAC encoding, and support for a few other things. Only missing a couple things we got in the subscription update released at the same time.
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/81040.page
Anyway...that's my take. Ultra users also can roll back updates a lot easier than subscribers currently. I know a few wish they had that right now.
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It's a known issue. Check this long thread:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/80317.page
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You need to tell us the codec for the video file. MP4 is just a container and doesn't mean too much.
For 10-bit files, PowerDirector does supports some codecs. The full list is here:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/18/enu/05_01_01_support_file_formats.htm
Ash
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This has been covered in serveral threads already. Please remember to do a search for your issue before posting:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/80794.page
You need to manually upload videos to YouTube now, mainly because YouTube changed its policy:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/81022.page#post_box_333307
Ash
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This seems like a common occurrence, so do a search of the forum to find solutions.
From what I remember, you can try uninstalling cyberlink application manager app, and then downloading and reinstalling:
https://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/application-manager/download_en_US.html
If tha doesn't work, contact Cyberlink cs: https://membership.cyberlink.com/support/customer-services.do
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It's not the MKV container that is causing your lack of SVRT, it is because you are selecting H.265 format. SVRT is only available for MPEG-2 and H.264 files:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/18/enu/98_02_00_svrt_when.htm
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From what I remember (I don't burn discs anymore), you do need a disc menu. But you have to go into playback mode settings and select the menu timeout option. You can see it on this help page:
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/18/enu/20_03_04_setting_disc_playback.htm
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Other users reported this last week, but found out it was something to do with their password. See this thread:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/81058.page#post_box_333403
Works offline for me and others in that thread.
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