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It seems you all want to "send me up" on this topic! Okay, have your fun but it doesn't change my view one bit(or should that be "byte"?)
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Hi, Barry!
Methinks you've been eating radishes again, you're repeating yourself.... repeating yourself.... repeating yourself.... 
Seriously though, I wouldn't mind getting hold of this programme, is it a free download software?, Could you post the details in this thread, please?
Yes, I've noted you've managed to delete the repeated post, I wroye the above on a first attempt to reply, but it took seemingly forever to save, so I copy/pasted the text to a temporary word document in case I'd have to post it later.... you're quite right, this forum is a mess, sometimes. It's a wonder no-one's gone bald, tearing their hair out from frustration at the slowness of this site to load.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Jwcat1!
This has been a problem that has hung around since home-burn DVD making started. Some entry-level players(basic, "no-frills" models) may happily play a home-burned DVD with no hiccups whatsoever while others are effectively saying "get that nasty thing away from me, buddy!" Personally I've had no problems playing my home-burned DVDs, provided they're on single-layer 4.7GB discs, and for added safety I only use DVD+R discs rather than DVD-R. Frankly, though, the DVD+R and DVD-R difference only added an unnecessary extra layer of complexity to the whole deal. All the solutions thus-far suggested may help your cause, Jwcat1, but a possible extra idea I might suggest is, perhaps the use of an external DVD-rewrite drive, combined with the slower burning speed. I say that because I think I remembered some other thread where a problem arose with a disc burned on the computer's in-built DVD Rewrite Drive(disc burner) that may have been solved with the use of an external drive hooked via USB to the computer. Might be worth looking into that one!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello,
In another thread, I mentioned that I had come across 40 MIDI audio files tucked away in the "clipart" folder for Microsoft Publisher(More accurately, Microsoft Office, CLIPART subfolder PUB60COR), well, after attempts to convert these files to MP3 proved fruitless as neither Roxio or Sound Forge would recognise the file type, I threw my arms in the air and coceded defeat. The folder that I'd copied those MIDI files to, had ben sent to the recycle bin, and from there, duly deleted. The MIDI files aren't lost though, they're still in the original PUB60COR folder where I first found them, but they've been proven useless to me if I can't use them directly in Power Director, or even convert them to MP3, WAV or WMA files for use. DAMN!
Cheers!
Neil.
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How good was this! Made me want to return to Mexico. Well done, and interesting throughout.
Aah! The Aussie contingent on the forum grows by adding another! And from NSW too! Welcome aboard, Terry!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello!
This has become a bugbear of late, the habit of trying to "decimalise" time. And quite frankly it's bloody annoying! People referring to an hour-and-a-half as "1.5 hours" To write an "hour-and-a-half" numerically would be as follows - 01:30.00 - that's 1 hour, 30 minutes and no seconds(the zero ahead of the 1 in the hour column is optional). If we look at video time then perhaps we'll write it thus in order to show the extra division, frames - 01;30;00.00 this then reads as 1 hour, 30 minutes, zero seconds, zero frames(in either 25 or 30 frames per second). In the first instance I've used the colon to separate hour from minute and the period to separate the minute from the second(but not as a decimal point). In the second instance, I've used a semi-colon between hour and minute, and again between minute and second with the period to divide seconds and frames. If this all sounds pedantic, I make no apologies because it is becoming a problem with the lazy way time is referenced in these posts. Time does not conform to decimal fractions! Half-an-hour is 30 minutes, not 50 minutes, an hour is made of 60, not 100 minutes, and a minute is made of 60, not 100 seconds.
Neil.
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Whatever you do please put it in a new thread, thus is sort of Eric's thread to announce his latest works.
I will do that, but this thread was essentially about the availability of music for video projects that Eric created.
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Oh Neil, that is awful....Thanks for the info. ![]()
Hi, Angela!
That's our Liberal Party government for you! Get the little guy down and "put the boot in!"(kick him while he's down). e're soon to face a general election anytime between August and October this year(2016) but If the Libs don't get their way in the Senate here, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may call for a double-dissolution election and we could be headed to the polls as early as July... BRING IT ON! Voting is compulsory here(as it should be!) and our methods aren't anywhere near as convoluted or complicated as the US system. Our method is standardised and we don't spend a whole year in campaigning(about 7-8 weeks in total). I'm looking forward to it, so we can get an ALP "SOCIALIST" government in place that will be much fairer to the Community TV sector. Sorry for going off-topic like this but it was something I really wanted to "get off my chest"!
Cheers!
Neil.
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No, Neil, PowerDirector does NOT support MIDI, but thank you for all that other wonderfully helpful information.
Thanks for that info, Barry!
In that event, I might try converting the files into a usable format with Sound Forge(I'll test my theory with one of the audio clips and see how it works, or if it will work). I'll let you know the outcome.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, CS!
You beat me to the punch-line! I was going to use the bread reference as a joke by saying, please make sure the butter or margarine doesn't get into your computer workings! Ha-ha!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, all!
I was digging around in my Microsoft Publisher's "Clipart" files and found 40 different MIDI Audio files contained therein(funny place to store audio files of any type, I thought!), so I created a folder on my desktop and copy/pasted them into it for future use. I'm assuming Power Director supports MIDI audio. They were music of various lengths(that I could not determine, because holding the cursor to them would not reveal a playing time for Midi as it does with MP3 audio). But these 40 "tracks" nonetheless may find their way into some future videos I put together.
Cheers!
Neil.
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I prefer to do it in post also. The camera I use now doesn't have those effects.
Hi, all!
My first videocamera was a mono Hi-8 model by Samsung, which had a number of different inbuilt effects, including mirror(one half of screen inverted left-for-right), but, like many, If I wish to apply such effects, I'd much rather apply them in the editing process. At least that way, I can take the effect off if I don't like it, prior to rendering(producing) my final video.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Pete!
As a guess, I'd assume your "epic" is of about an hour's duration, possibly you could master it to DVD as an MPEG2 HQ(High Quality) DVD, if, your intent is to have professionally-made DVD copies made for resale to the public(in which case, you'll want/need to have a copyright protection applied to it in your name). For me, normally I burn discs at DVD-SP because I want maximum content on a disc, PD14 doesn't allow it(except for 4:3 aspect ratio content), but PD8(no longer available) does, and thanks to good luck, my PD14 installed without my needing to uninstall PD8, so they sit side-by-side on my computer, PD8 filling gaps left by PD14. But then, my DVDs are for private viewing only anyway, and though DVD-SP allows a good image quality for my own purposes, your purpose seems more commercially-oriented, so DVD-HQ would be the way to go.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Andres!
I tried to post on this thread some time back when it suddenly and mysteriously vanished, but it's been restored now so I can say what I wanted to say originally.
Given that you've sought and gained permission to use the portion from "Los Tres Amigos"(all the Spanish I know, sorry), your use of that portion of that movie worked really well, especially where you kept the audio going underneath all your inserted clips, really well done! Congratulations! The beginning and ending sequences really provide the "bookends" to neatly package the clip. A work of art!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Well, if Neil needs to work out 1.5 hours in his head, then we are in a sorry state😊
Damien. Have you simply tried a different disc or another type?
There is a proper way to write Time in a sentence, for instance, an hour-an-a-half - thus 1:30.00 being simply quoted as 1 hour, 30 minutes, zero seconds, note the colon between the hour and minutes. I'll say no more on this.
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Hi, Angela!
Glad you've found some kind of solution for your audio/video sync. problem.
You mentioned your involvement in community TV in New York, here in Australia, the one-and-only available channel set aside for community TV, Digital Ch.31, is the "rug" to be pulled out from under the feet of the Australian CTV operators at the end of this year. Already one Sydney(NSW)-based station has shut down just prior to last Xmas. There are 7 digital channels here being totally wasted on TV-Shopping stations, floggingh the sort of stuff no-one in their right minds would even consider paying two cents for, yet the asking prices for the junk being pushed on these stations is up into the hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars, and yet our federal government begrudges community TV even one channel. The stations that remain active are allowed to use Ch.31 until the end of the year provided they DON'T protest the channel's closure. I know this is off-topic but thought, as a community TV participant, you ought to be aware of what's going on down here in Australia.
Cheers!
Neil.
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1)For 16:9 aspect ratio videos, the ability to author a 4.7GB disc at DVD-SP quality(up to 2 hours 25 minutes on one disc) should be available.
2)Audio adjustments - sound levels on all audo tracks should be adjustable within a range from 0(muted) to 100(maximum level) with 50 being the default level.
The above two are as they are/were in PD8 and should be brought back in to PD15.
3)Transitions - The Fade, Wipe, Threshold and some others are affected by a momentary freeze-frame on entry and exit when cross transition behaviour is selected, this sorely needs fixing.
These three situations have been mentioned before but a recap may help to keep them fresh in Cyberlink's "to-do" list.
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This is a little off-topic, I know, but PLEASE, will people stop trying to decimalise time! Time does NOT conform to decimal fractions! 1.5 hours, should read 1 hour, 30 minutes as per the equasion: 60 seconds = 1 minute; 60 minutes = 1 hour; 24 hours = 1 day, and so on. Sorry to be pedantic but this habit of attempting to decimalise time really is ANNOYING!
Getting back to topic, and Steve, yeah, I've often pointed out why I've retained PD8 on my computer, the disc authoring versatility in PD8 needs to be replicated in PD15, i.e., the ability to burn(author) a DVD in the DVD-SP grade, picture quality won't be BEST, but will still be of good-enough quality and allow up to 2 hours, 25 minutes of content on a standard 4.7Gb (DVD-5) disc. PD14 will only allow DVD-SP if the aspect ratio is 4:3, for 16:9 you're stuck with either DVD-HQ or "Smart-Burn". Really, that's not a good option. Home-burned Dual-Layer discs won't play on many domestic DVD players, as my own experience has shown me.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Thanks for your replay, I'm sorry but i don't understand the first reply. It would probably slow down my lap top a bit, I can't afford a better machine ![]()
Hi, Louise!
Sorry 'bout that! Had an attack of those dreaded "Keyboard Gremlins", as witnessed by my adding an edition of my previous post. Don't ya just hate it when you type a word, hoping it's been spellt correctly, then learn later that you've hit a wrong letter key? That's what those demonic Keyboard Gremlins do! Ooooh it's so frustrating!
Cheers!
Neil.
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I remember those "old" days with a lot of dropped frames from video cameras and "old" computers. One simple work around that we used to use was to limit the capture multiple 10 minutes files. That allowed the computer to catch up!  The frame loss was mimimized so the out of sync issue would be limited.
I guess that shows my age ! 
Well, we're not quite yet to the point where we're using Zimmer-frames to walk around! (LOL) But on the first computer I used to do video editing(Windows Millenium Edition) the first capture card I used was from Avermedia, good for video, attrocious for audio! I moved on to Windows XP, PD7 and a Dazzle capture device, good on both audio and video but a bit super-sensitive to conditions of older tapes.... false triggering of copy-protect function, thought the capture device was at fault, proved wrong! Next came Windows 7, gravitated from PD7 to PD8(PD8 still installed and living happily alongside PD14) and a K-World capture device, Still getting the occasional false triggering of the copy-protect function but now I know it's the tape itself that's the culprit.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, CS!
I'm in agreement here, Technology is getting too far ahead of itself in many respects. Video cameras of the analogue age had a lot of user-controlled settings(focus, lighting, etc.) but a lot of today's digital models seem to have taken away that control from the user. I'm afraid it's the fault of the "boffins"! These are people who dream up, then build these gadgets with their whiz-bang features that are for more than an average user of the technology would want, or even need. I think it's past time technological advance was reined in.
Cheers!
Neil.
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