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Hi Folks. I have gotten the hang of PD13 and finally finished my documentary. It clocks in at a running time of 2 hours, 48 minutes, 44 seconds and weighs in at 11,414 MB, and I have not even added the menu image and chapter breaks yet.
The way to mass-produce this video, Diskmakers tells me, would be to break it into two parts and put it on two dual-layer disks. Is there any way to comporess this into something that can fit on one disk? Either single or dual layer is OK, I just want to get it down to one disk.
The files I have been editing are MPEG-2, 1280x720/30p (20 Mbps) and I don't want to lose quality.
Thanks for all your help!
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Ah, I did not remember that shadow files had to be "enabled." Just did that. Thanks!
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I just got a new laptop with Windows 10 and downloaded PD14. I opened up a project I had put together in PD13 on my old computer. After i found all the files all the project opened up and I notied that the little icon in the lower left corner of all the hi-def footage files that woudl indicate whether a "shadow file" had been generated did not show up. I pressed "play" to watch the video, and I noticed that the video was dragging behind the audio, and as it continued, it got worse. This is exactly like wathing hi-def footage before the shadow file is generated in PD13 on my old computer. But this effect also occurs with the standard-def footage, and also when I click on a clip in the library to watch it, which always worked before.
Why is this happeneing? What can I do about it? I can't edit videos like this.
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Never Mid, I found the topic by clicking on my name on another topic.
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Thaks, I just ot my ew computer, windows, 10. Let's see if it works.
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I asked this before, but forgot the answer and i can't find a "search" function on the forum...
I am getting a new laptop. How can i move my powerdirector13 program to it?
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That did it! Awesome! Thank you!
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for some eason the sound does not seem to be working. I try to play a video in the library, it plays, but no sound. Sound is working on youTube and on my widows Media Player, and the little speaker icon on my Windows 7 laptop indicates that the speaker is at 80% volume, and it was working just fine earlier today (ad e very day before). I had closed the program after working then, closed my laptop and removed the ext HD with the files, then later plugged the ext HD back in and opened the program. Though the files are not playing in the program, those same files are playin just fine in Windows Media Player.
The little sound box is checked on the track, and the volume ad gain sliders are all in position for there to be sound. Even the litle wsound wave track underneath the video track shows the blue sound waves.
What am I missing here?
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I consdered that, but I wanted to use the sound tracks from al the camera angles. The ting was that I only wanted to use shot clips from each camera angle. When I cut the clips and deleted the excess, the sound went with them, so I took the sound track that was o the clip remaining and stretched it to fill the scene. Unfortunately I stretched it too far, covering over a clip that had different sound.
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Thanks, guys.
the reason I was caught in that position was this:
I had two (or more) camera angles on a competitive sword fight, and I edited the clips to get the best shots through the fight. But I wanted the sound from all three angles to be running simultaneously, so I took the sound track from one of the clips on each track and stretched it to cover the whole track of each camera angle. The trouble was that I extended it too far, and it covered over the sound track of a clip that it was not supposed to.
I did a bunch of editing after that before I realized my mistake. To go back and undo it would require me to undo all the edits I had made since then, and then re-do them all, so I was looking for a quick fix.
I suppose the way to avoid that is not to drag the sound track over the sound tracks of the other clips, but just to drag it until it just meets the other clips.
Of course, accidents may happen in the future, so now I know what to do.
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Hnn...so that puts the audie trak in th library, but I am still left with a sound-less clip on the timeline. I suppose I still have to go to that workaround (stretch out the length of one end of the soundless clip in the timeline, then align the soundtrack with the video, then edit it back down again.
It seems I can save a step by simply dropping a copy of the whole clip into the timeline and doing the same thing. Extracting the audio only adds an extra step.
So there is no way for an edited clip o the timeline that has had its sound removed to get its sound back other than one or another workaround that involves dropping a new track into the timeline?
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So I dropped a short clip into a project, trimmed off the ends of it, then took the sound from the clip next to it and exteeded it over the sound in the new clip. Then, after doing a bunch more edits, I realized my mustake: I sould have kept the original sound.
Raher then doing "edit: undo" a bunch of times, and then re-doing everything I did after my mistake, is there a way to take a clip that has had its sound removed and restore its original sound?
I know another workaround would be to pull another copy of the clip into the timeline, synch it up somehow (if the clip had been synched by sound with another clip I could just do that again, or else I could extend an end of the clip to its full length and just match it up to the end of the copy) and then drop the copy into the original's place, and trimming it to the desired length.
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That's clever! So when you are done, the files of the same name, though of higher res, will be in the same folder in which the program has been finding them, so the program will think they are the same thing! Am I right?
OK, one thing I forgot to mention is that I have done a lot of editing already, so if I am reading the logic of your workaround correctly I should be able to do the following:
1. Make my new low-res files.
2. Either...
a. Move my original source files out of their current folders, or...
b. simply detach the external HD and attach a new one with the new, lower-res files.
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If a, then when the program looks for the files it will find the lower res ones, and BOOM! off to work I go or...
If b, then when I get the little pop-up telling me to locate the files, I select the files in the new folder in the new ext HD.
Either way, the new files will be read as the old files, already edited and everything. I continue working 'till done, then go back and either a. move the files back to where they were or b. put the old ext HD back in, select the old files, and we are good to go!
Does that sound like it would work?
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Hi. I have been having a similar issue, waiting for days for the files to generate their shadows, but then losing those shadows on occasions when, for instance, the external hard drive on which the original files were stored crashes and I have to use the backup files, replacing all of the originals, or I ran 360 Total Security on my computer. Your solution (copying the files into lower-res, editing them, then replacing with the originals) sounds brilliant! Just three things:
1. You suggest using Format Factory. I have tried downloading it from Download.cnet.com and from the official website and both times that triggered some sort of "don't do it!" warning. Is there any other way you could suggest to copy the source files into lower res?
2. How do I "replace" the files in my PD13 project with other files o the same name? I assume it would be through a process like the one that happens when the source files have been "moved" (like when the original ext HD on which the source files were located is not plugged in) and the program prompts you to search for them,but how do I do that when I want?
I am already halfway done with the actual editing. Can I just replace the orig source files with the new, lower-res files , finish the job, then replace them with the original files? Will that work? It seems logical, but I figure better to ask a dumb question than be the dummy who doesn't ask it.
Thanks!
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Thanks! If I understand his workaround solution correctly in principle, you create lower-res files of you source material and gve them all the exact same name, load them into your PD13 project, edit them, then when you are done, replace the low-res files with the original files, and presto! your poject will be in the origial high res.
I assume this is because when the editing program sees a file of the same name it will assume it is the same file that it just edited, and thus will drop it into place.
So how do I replace the files? I would assume it is through a similar process as when you open up PD and it says that the source file has been moved or something and asks you to find it again (something that, when it happens, has been a cue that the shadow files are going to have to regenerate all over again, but that this ought to solve). How can you replace files when you want to?
And in other news, that conversation to which you sent me said to use "Format Factory" to create reduced-res versions of the files. I tried downloading FF from two different sites and both of them have triggered warnings, one from 360 Total Security that there is a Trojan virus and the other from my web browser that he official download page is "untrusted." Can you give me any advice as to how to convert the files?
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Thanks! So I transfer those download files onto my new computer by use of a flash drive or CD or something?
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Hmmm... I used the search function and found what looks to be them on my computer's Hard Drive, in the 13.0 folder in the Powerdirector folder in the Cyberlink folder. I just saw a new one be created, as I have a project open and the shadow files are generating right now.
When I tried to "open file location" they appeared to be in a folder called, as you said, "ShadowEditFiles" in the aforementioned 13.0 folder.
But when I went to that folder itself, the ShadowEditFiles folder is not there.
Furthermore, these are only the new files that have started generating since the last go-round.
The source files are in my ext HD (my computer is not big enough to hold them all). This is now the 4th time I have had to start generating these shadow files. It's really slowing me down, and getting me down.
Should I try to do something like copying these files to a new folder to save them?
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I'd been having a problem editing my hi-def files on my laptop in PD13. It was explained that I should wait until the "Shadow files" generate, which is indicated y the little icon in l=the lower left-hand corner of the thumbnail of each fle's icon in the library.
this is fine, I simply wait until all the files generate their "shadows" and editing goes smoothly. Then, howeve, my ext HD crashed. fortunately, I had backked up the files elsewhere, but I had to re-generate all the "shadows."
Then something went wony with the new ext HD. I don;t know what it was, it's working fine now, but the Shadoe generations started all over again.
Then I downloaded 360 Total Security to fix some issues I was having, ran its processes, and presto, again with the Shadow re-generation!
This is really getting me down, as I am editing a feature-length sports documentary witha LOT of files in each scene!
Is there any way in the universe I can get those newly generated shadow files to stick? OR do I just have to get all the work done on each scene and produce a video file before it happens again?
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Thanks. Does that man I have to buy it again? Or can I download it again from the website on my new computer?
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I am about to get a new laptop, I am trying to decide between Windows 7 and Wintows 10. Which would work better, and how do I copy my PD 13 onto my new laptop?
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Well, The files are in an ext HD and I did not have it hooked up last night so I tried it this morning.
The project I am working on now is about 3 weeks old, and I just added a bunch o new clips to it to update it. It turns out that Shadow Files has been on all along. the older files do have the green icon, but the newer ones still have the yellow icon.
I tried viewing the green files, and they worked just like you said they would. The yellow files are still behaving badly
I have to leave the house soon and take my computer with me. Also, I am trying to edit a feature-length film in 5-to-10 minute segments, each of which will have lots of files in it (multiple angles of medieval melee tournaments).
About how long will I have to wait for between 20 and 40 files to go from yellow to green, and will I have to leave my computer open and on and not do any editing during that time?
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