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Finding excuses? Excuse me! We are only trying to help you, that's the spirit of this community. Had your problem a couple of years ago and I have come to the conclusion that PD and laptops are not best friends. So don't be frustrated because I am telling you how things are. PD is the best price/value/learning curve editing program you will find on the market. It is not made for the professional market. You don't buy a Rolls for 10.000 ! If you want professional quality pay for Edius or Adobe Premiere Pro or buy a Mac and use Apple Final Cut Pro X.
Relax. Regardless how much it cost, if PD is a "desktop only" video editor, it should be clearly stated on product description page.
I don't want professional quality, I just want something that actually works as it is advertised on my machine.
GGRussell, I think we are saying the same thing. I wrote not to use a laptop FOR EDITING WITH POWERDIRECTOR. You are absolutely right that Adobe (and others) recognize dGPU's. That is why I suggested Browniie 112 to use Hitfilm. It is free, but with a serious learning curve. PD is simple to use and fast. For serious work Hitfilm is better.
That is such a lousy excuse. PD never said anything like don't use it with laptops on its advertising material.
In fact, they literally have a picture of a laptop on their advertising material for PD. Most high end people editing videos are always on the move these days and PD says it is catering towards basically pros as well as beginners and not everyone owns a full on computer at home.
Such a shame that you guys are finding excuses for CL's lousy dev teams who still haven't managed to fix a defect that's been raised over and over a long time ago.
Anyone know if this has been addressed as it's been going on for at least 2 years. Would love to upgrade if they finally fixed the code and not blaming intel/optimus/nvidia/radeon/weather/god for PD not utilizing the GPU.
I purchased pd16 and was following the YouTube webinar on how to make travel videos but cannot find those titles and fonts in my application!
I have installed the travel pack but still no luck.
I cannot post the link to YouTube for some reason it is not allowing me to paste the link. "Cyberlink 2018 July Webinar - how to make travel videos stand out" about 3:25 into the video you'll see the titles and fonts I'm referring to.
Travel Pack 5 may have been included as part of your original purchase, or it could have been bought separately. Either way, you won't be able to download Travel Pack 5 effects from DZ. It's just a series of templates - titles, particles, PiP objects & express projects - and completely unnecessary for PDR to function properly.
Fair enough, but I need it though. I'm using PD to edit travel videos and the tutorial on YouTube, they keep referring to the travel pack stuff including some of the fonts and title styles etc.
QuoteIf you are concerned about disk space then you don’t need to install them for PD15 to work. You can always find most of them in the DirectorZone as you need them. Maybe someone here has the time and is willing to compile a list of what is in them. Have never seen one.
I need to find Travel Pack 5, but cannot find it on Directorzone.
I purchased the PD16 pack but gave up using it because it performed bad compared to Adobe PP on my machine, despite my PC having powerful specs.
I'm giving PD16 another go and want to install everything again. I had saved all exe files except Travel Pack 5. The download links have expired but I read somewhere on the forum that it can be downloaded from Directorzone but cannot find there.
Help please? Otherwise it seems like a waste of money, I'm giving it a second go and hopefully PD deliver this time around.
Common issue wiht most consumer NLEs on machines with switchable graphics. PowerDirector, VideoStudio (Not Sure about Pinnacle Studio), etc.
Never had an issue with this with VEGAS Pro (or Movie Studio Platinum), Premiere Pro CC, or Resolve though.
Biggest issue is that anything the NLE spawns is limited to that weaker iGPU: Plug-Ins, for example, are locked to the GPU of the application that spawns them - so you will often get bad Preview Perforance in Adorage, VitaScene, Boris Title Studio, Newlue Titler Pro, etc. because they can only use the Intel iGPU when called from an NLE that cannot run on the GTX card.
Not to mention it totally cripples performance for [especially] 4K editing, especially when you start using multiple effects, color correction, noise reduction, etc.
Yes but why?
The only reason I paid for this software is to edit 4k footage and do effects, cc, LUTs etc.
Cyberlink never said anything about it may not work on your PC.
Regretting my decision of investing in a Windows computer trusting that PD16 will do the job. I should've just upgraded my Mac and use it's native video editing program. Much faster and efficient software-hardware usage.
From reading some of the forum posts, it looks like most PD users are contempt with just 1080p footage and still using old school avi and mpg files.
I wish there were more people using PD expecting results like that of premiere pro. I mean seriously, Cyberlink shamelessly advertise it's products to be direct competitors to Adobe offerings but in reality it is more like comparing a Hyundai to Mercedes. Yes, PD is cheaper but still I'd rather pay more and get the expected performance than pay less and get nothing out of it.
As per title, its been almost a year since I started using PD and despite being told that nvidia cards will be supported, PD16 with the latest update still doesn't utilise the nVidia graphics card on my machine.
Even if it does at some point, there is no speed increase in rendering times. Even lower speccd Macbook Pro is doing better with the same video files and similar effects.
Machine is a Gigabyte Aero 15, i7-7700HQ with 16GB ram running nVidia gtx 1060 6GB.
PD16 can handle basic cutting/cropping/adjusting clips on the timeline and preview works fine. But as soon as a LUT is applied, the whole preview becomes extremely laggy.
Is this expected? Currently I have to do all my basic fixes first and do the color correction/LUT at the very end right before "Produce". If I need to make any changes to the timeline, I have to undo all the color correction+LUT steps, make the time line changes and then re apply LUT and color correct again.
PD16 definitely "attempts" to use my nVidia card because I can see the GPU utilization hovers around 7-10% when CPU is on 60% ish.
GPU never goes over 10-12% which is a bit annoying but considering most laptop users cannot even get the GPU to do 1%, I'm not complaining too much.
QuotePowerdirector does not make use of nodes. However, you can use the same clip on a higher track and change its opacity.
Hi thanks,
But what if you have multiple clips on your timeline?
I cannot seem to do a "Ctrl + A"/ Select All for the "higher/lower" track and apply LUT. And then select all of the lower track to adjust opacity.
QuoteHi guys,
I have the same problem; I am not able to choose to use my GeForce GTX960M when using CyberLink.
My laptop is a Notebook UX501VW; I actually bought it to have a better option when making videos :
Do anyone know if there is a workarround?
My version is PowerDirector 14 (bundler), and I got a lot of other programs with it.
I wanted to upgrade, but if I can not utilize the program with my Notebook, is there an alternativ program with the same specifications that i should buy instead?
All the best from Denmark
Hans
Hey mate,
Yes I do know a work around, I had posted it on this forum. I seemed to not able to copy paste link here. "Instructions to enable graphics card with powerdirector - semi solved"
Issue is that, even after activating the card, PD only uses like 2-12% of GPU load which is a waste.
No - that beta patch has nothing to do with GoPro or A6500 files. It corrects .MOV compatibility.
Shadow files from both those cameras could be generated in PDR16 from the get-go - i.e a completely unpatched build. Just tested both on original 1927 build installation.
Shadow files in PDR16 are generated in AVC H.264 MP4, using your selected resolution.
What's happening at your end to make you think you have the "same issue"?
Cheers - Tony
Hey mate,
Thanks for testing, you are right. I found the issue, I had installed Klite codec pack a while ago but I uninstalled it and re installed official windows 10 hevc and other video codecs and it resolved it.
Thanks heaps for testing!
Machine is a Gigabyte Aero 15, i7-7700HQ with 16GB ram running nVidia gtx 1060 6GB.
PD16 can handle basic cutting/cropping/adjusting clips on the timeline and preview works fine. But as soon as a LUT is applied, the whole preview becomes extremely laggy.
Is this expected? Currently I have to do all my basic fixes first and do the color correction/LUT at the very end right before "Produce". If I need to make any changes to the timeline, I have to undo all the color correction+LUT steps, make the time line changes and then re apply LUT and color correct again.
PD16 definitely "attempts" to use my nVidia card because I can see the GPU utilization hovers around 7-10% when CPU is on 60% ish.
GPU never goes over 10-12% which is a bit annoying but considering most laptop users cannot even get the GPU to do 1%, I'm not complaining too much.
QuoteI recently upgraded to PD 16. While working with 60 fps (GoPro 3+ black) and 30 fps (Cycliq Fly 6) clips for a video I ran into the problem that the preview would intermittently but frequently black out. The picture came back when jumping a bit around in the video, so initially I did not think of this as a hug issue.
I suppose you could have produced the GoPro video at 30fps, then worked on them.
I don't think that is an acceptable solution. Makes the workflow tedious and time consuming.
It is very very common these days to have footage captured in multiple devices with different fps/formats etc. For eg you can have footage from your:
Dedicated camera/video camera (could be a Sony)
2. Dedicated secondary camera for wide angle shots (could be Canon/GoPro)
3. 4k content from mobile phone (iphone/Android)
4. If travelling in a group, 4k/video content from others in the group. (Fuji etc)
There is a scenario where you could be dealing with multiple formats, hevc/h264, xavc, .mp4 and all of them with different fps. Footage taken for slow mo, action shots, shallow DOF shots etc.
QuoteHardware encoding with the later Nvidia cards were disabled by a patch to stop user complaints about the problems they caused when creating discs. There are many user supplied workarounds already that do work. Search the forums. There are at least 3 solutions.
Surely if they deliberately disabled it, why would they advertise it on the website as one of the features?
QuoteMate in all honesty don't bother with laptops. Or don't bother paying a premium for laptops with good graphics cards. PD doesn't work with laptops with onboard + dedicated graphics cards. ...
not really. remember what GGRussell said in other thread...
CacoGrande will be fine. he'll be happy happy joy joy. my 3-6years old PCs with w7 are fine.
Yes but if he's happy to keep using a 10 year old operating system rather than use the much better Windows 10 just because PD works on it better, then yes by all means go ahead.
I tried to install the older driver that you have on my w10 and it crashed with error that driver isn't for w10.
your i7-7700HQ(8893) is little bit faster than couple of gen behind CacoGrande's i7-3840QM(8807). plus for you is your kabylake can decode and encode hevc h.265 where ivy has to rely on h.265 to h.264 software conversion(RockyMountains Movie Converter select OS).
you're just going through what i call it a growing pain for having a killer machine with wX... ^^
PD8 days and later, our forum was filled with nVidia driver versions that enabled PD's GPGPU but currently there isn't any... . my prejudice will be GPGPU works great with PD15 & 16 on older pcs with older OS than with newer ones with wX.
I don't think so. I had an older nvidia driver and PD asked to upgrade the driver or it didn't work. So no, I think the latest PD16 requires reasonably new driver with new ish Windows.
Mate in all honesty don't bother with laptops. Or don't bother paying a premium for laptops with good graphics cards.
PD doesn't work with laptops with onboard + dedicated graphics cards. If you get a laptop, you will have issues. When you have issues and ask for advice, there will not be much useful advice/help other than suggesting to buy a desktop PC. Apparently it is a known issue for years with no fix.
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. my prejudice will be GPGPU works great with PD15 & 16 on older pcs with older OS than with newer ones with wX.