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Your question makes me think that you might confuse video files and project files.
you start with a video file to input that into the media room, and then I assume you move this file to tHe timeline for editing work?
If you are done editing, it is good to save the editing work by saving it as a project. Once you have saved the project, you can open the project again, e.g. next day after you have opened PD. All the editing into the time line you did before saving the project, is available again upon the opening of the project.
Mind you, the original video file is still untouched, nothing has change in there, PD has kept your editing activities separately and stores all those typically in the project file.
Only after you have produced a new video file, using PD production you have (in a new file) the result of all your editing. THIS video file can be shared with others e.g. on DVD or online, or .... as I assume you may be doing.... for the next editing you still may want to do on the video. In that case the new produced video file is again IMPORTED into the media room, and moved to the timeline lie for editing, likely after you have started a new project or have cleared the timeline as required.....
so the project file with all the savings is only for the next time you want to edit the project. It contains editing instructions that only PD understands. Distributing the project file (.PDS) does not make sense to the happy viewer of your editing results.
Hope that the difference between importing a clip and opening a project file is clear and helps you as an answer to your question?
Suggest that have a look at the many tutorials on Powerdirector on YouTube, which may strengthen the explanation above. There are some very good tutors out there!!
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Agreed!
I repeat me suggestion to CL to restart beta testing with a small and clever group of users...
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Everything about keyframes here
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Ok, let us know how it goes.
I trust that you make a separate project for each of the 1 hour clips? And maybe after heavy editing save the project and restart PD?
Have fun
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your explanation is not completely clear to me. Can you please explain and maybe show some screen shots?
Timeline1 is that track 1 on the time line?
The end of the timeline1 reverting back to the middle, is that during viewing in the preview screen?
The first frame but gray area until the middle? That is not normal behavior! Unless you have turned of frames in the preferences. Gray is that the video in track 1?
I have not tried and don't know how many hours a timeline can hold, but do you have hours of video? Or 20 minutes?
If you have to edit hours and hours of video, why not cut the clips into chunks that you can oversee and handle and if need be connect together at production time or afterwards?
also no DVD or Blu-ray or online service will easily accept hours long video?
so maybe explain a bit and preferably show what it is you do, so that we can advice?
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NVIDIA came with a new driver today. I have installed that (472.12) and I cannot reproduce the crash anymore.
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FYI: CL support (good reaction time, thanks for that!) suggests me to update the drivers and to send more information. We will wait and see....
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Send a suggestion to CL using the rate us & provide suggestions.
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My systems has both a Intel 630 GPU and an NVIDIA GTX1070 GPU. I let Windows decide whether to use the NVIDIA for a program, and the NVIDIA control panel suggests that it will not be using it for PD20. The hardware switch does not give me problems, and I can see from the GPU activity that is uses the GPU is select.
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I use mp4/HEVC coded video a lot, and so far I did not have any issues using them in PD. I have installed the (free) HEVC codec available in the windows store (Here) and I have also installed the k-lite Codec pack which also has a HEVC reference. Maybe that helps?
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No, as far as I know there is no options to add or use a hot-key to add new chapters while in the DVD menu. In the Edit mode it is possible to add chapters to your clip but maybe that is not what you want?
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Good news Optodata. Thanks for looking into this.
I wonder whether I am the only one with this problem.....
I have checked all drivers and software and I run a very clean system, and stangly enough the system does not even report the crash in the event logs.
Did you try to change the mask of an effect.
For now I will run with the OpenCl disabled and wait for CL to respond.
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I have not tested this with all effects in FX available, but many of them will crash the program as soon as you change one or more of the default settings. I have bumped into this when using the Chinese paintings 1 and 2, but many other give the same results. Now I had enabled the setting "enable OpenCL technology to speed up video effect preview..... " Disable this option will give no crashes.
I wonder whether others have the same experience...
Now looking at the number of errors, as suggested elsewhere: CL should improve on the testing before releasing a new version. I am sure that a number of experienced users from this forum are happy to help out.
[Cyberlink] Online Customer Support (QuestionID = CS002406385)
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Correct the Add to favorites has disappeared. The same effect however (adding an entry to favorites) can be accomplished by clicking on the little heart shape in the bottom right corner. It turn red and is added to my favorites. You can undo that be clicking the heart again....
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Thank you Warry,
selecting a background color from the media-room and put that into a separate track above the track of the title, works very well!!!
By the way, is there any way to make the background folder, the default one in the title designer?
Thanks again
Putting a background colour in a separate track is common practice. In the end it will give you a bit more flexibility in composition, because the background is not hooked to the title.
There does not seem to be a way to make a folder default. The import options always appears to start in the document folder. Remarkable is, that the last used Media Import folder IS being remembered by PD. A (not so good) option is to add frequently used images and background to the Sample clips folder and switch the automatic load sample clips on. I think that you do that if you have media that you really, really us all the time....
Maybe file a suggestion in the rate us & provide suggestion facility. My guess is that in order to implement this CL willhave to look at a whole series of default folders for its various imports. But who knows?
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The manual (of both version 19 and 20) says that by clicking on that square box with the plus, you can “Insert Text/Images/Particles/Backgrounds”. The expected behavior would be I recon, that the windows file manager would be opened to allow the user to select texts, images, particles or backgrounds. It might be possible that in the previous version (or maybe even before that) you have selected a folder with backgrounds of any sort, that would then re-open by default? The update to version 20 may have reset the folder to something else…..
It might be easier to select a background color from the media-room and put that into a separate track above the track of the title, so that your background is showing?
btw; the folder for "some backgrounds" is: c:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector20\Background\
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The manual (of both version 19 and 20) says that by clicking on that square box with the plus, you can “Insert Text/Images/Particles/Backgrounds”. The expected behavior would be I recon, that the windows file manager would be opened to allow the user to select texts, images, particles or backgrounds. It might be possible that in the previous version (or maybe even before that) you have selected a folder with backgrounds of any sort, that would then re-open by default? The update to version 20 may have reset the folder to something else…..
It might be easier to select a background color from the media-room and put that into a separate track above the track of the title, so that your background is showing?
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Thanks for posting that Copy Keyframe Attributes has a new location.
I just sent CL a note through the Rate Us & Provide Suggestions window that I'd like to see the keyframe attribute copy/paste functions be added as Hotkeys so they could be more easily accessed.
Thanks Optodata, That would be a good option.
I think that CL over the past few years has done a lot to make the user interface more logical. The move of this keyframe copy/paste option is a good example. The place is logical, but it is not necessarily more user friendly, let alone making the editing easier. My suggestion to CL would be to be all means continue looking at the ease of usage, but engage video-editing experts more than software experts!
And while I am at this subject: we see that the improvements and additions to PD are getting more and more glamour features. I would recommend CL to invest more time and efforts to improve the ease of use and a flawless operation (faster screen changes (production, DVDs, title, PIP, Zoom editing screen, color, audio, etc.) if at all necessary, adding and deleting tracks and the like. Not a trivial task I admit, but it will make all the difference and giving a real boost to this already good video editing system.
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Maybe try to cancel the download of the PD essential, which is a stripped version of PD that should not be downloaded when you have a 365 version. It might be that the two downloads work in the same area. Just a guess.
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Thanks, the hint that copy/paste keyframe attributes is no longer in the "main" menu has solved my issue. Must say that this option, which I frequent use, is now unnessary hidden.
Agreed!
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Version 20 now has the option in the clip “main” menu (right click with the clip selected) to enable it or not. Untagging “enable” hides the clip from displaying.
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