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Thanks for your endorsement of the Sharper Turtle!
--Jim
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You will find a tutorial in time shift here.
Here is a list of all kinds of tutorials on PowerDirector from The Sharpter Turtle. You can click on the content in the PDF and it will take you to the appropriat YouTube link.
--Jim
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Here is a tutorial on using the multicam tool.
--Jim
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Here are more tutorials on a couple of ways to accomplish your task.
This one.
This One
--Jim
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Great question.
You can do this.Here is a new tutorial showing how to do this.
--Jim
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I just finished a tutorial on scene detection. It looks like PowerDirector displays the wrong scene on some of the thumbnails. When the scenes are exported to the subfolder in the media room, the images are correct. But they may not always be right in the panel on the Scene Detection screen.
Has anyone else experienced this?
--Jim
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Here is a tutorial to show you how to do what you are looking for and apply the recommendation in the post above.
--Jim
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I installed Director Suite 365 on my primary machine following your post. Those two video clips worked as expected in that context. The "Audio Analysis" worked flawlessly in syncronizing the videos.
I'm wondering if the problem was related to the hardware on the other machine or the fact that I was using the trial verision of 17.
--Jim
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Has anyone had issues with the syncronization of videos in the MultiCam Designer using the "Audio Analysis" option?
On my system clicking "Apply" in a two camera setting puts one camera's clip after the other in the timeline. I used the same two clips on another machine running PD16 and it worked as expected.
Thanks!
--Jim
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That's great! Glad the discussion could raise an issue that leads to an upcoming fix.
--Jim
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Tony,
Thanks for your interaction on this thread.
I had the same DirectX error message on my test machine and had to get a different video card. I'd like to see them add something in the documentation about that.
I just tried loading the Backdrop 04 on my Surface Pro 1, and it worked. I think it may have crashed on my test machine before I upgraded hardware.
--Jim
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I like the backdrop feature as well. Unfortunately, you cannot use it and add a starting or ending effect. If you try, PowerDirector 17 will remove the backdrop in order to implement the effect. Apparently you can use one or the other, but not both.
--Jim
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The comparison feature chart does not include it. And I did not find it in my download. Smart Sound does not appear anywhere in the PDF documentation for PowerDirector 17. So I believe your assumption is correct.
--Jim
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I don't feel quite so foolish in light of your post. The error message did surprise me. My guess is that the vast majority of the users are using graphic cards with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 compatibility. So hopefully it won't be a major problem.
I imagine that the rush to put out a new release at Cyberlink opens the door for all kinds of things to get overlooked. Hopefully our collective feedback will help that process.
--Jim
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I was drawing the wrong conclusion from dxdiag.
--Jim
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I was trying out the new backdrop feature in Title Desinger. When I attempt to enable it, a popup screen appears stating that I need a graphics processor that supports Directx 11 and the latest Platform Update for Windows 7.
Using this on a backup machine with a Quadro Fx 580 that handles DirectX 11 and Windows 8.1 Pro.
Anyone else using this feature and having issues?
--Jim
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That's an imaginative way to show clips.
If I were to do that I would separate them by tracks, but maybe only stack the "cards" in four different ways on the pile. They could flip in and land using keyframes. And then you can copy and paste the keyframe attributes from one "card" to another so the patttern might be something like A-B-C-D for 1-4 and then A-B-C-D for 5-8, and so on.
--Jim
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Sorry. I edited the post.This link should work.
--Jim
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I have several tutorials on lower thirds you can create yourself.Here is a link to one tutorial that might work.
For a complete tutorial list that is clickable, try this.
--Jim
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Here is a technique to drawing an expanding line. You can use it for a plain vanilla straight line if you want to modify it.
--Jim
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Here is something else to consider after you have separated the audio and video. You can move the audio track one frame at a time by holding down the ALT key and pressing the left or right arrow keys on the keyboard.
If the audio is out of sync uniformly, you should be able to get very close. If your frame rate is 24, each frame is 1/24 of a second; if it is 30 each frame is 1/30 of a second. So that allows you to be precise when it comes to your fine tuning of the syncronization.
--Jim
Click HERE for many tutorials about PowerDirector.
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