Messages posted by EdK

Thanks. I understand. Tried the PIP designer as you suggested and was able to do what I needed.

Thanks for the explaination. I'm just at a loss as to why Cyberlink designed it to function that way..

Well that stinks that the crop/zoom/pan tool does that. Nowhere can I find reference to that behavior in documentation.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I attached a ScreenRecorder of what I'm trying to do.
At about 18 seconds into the crop/zoom window I am pausing the video and want to add a keyframe so I can zoom the video from the beginning (where it is not zoomed) up to that point (18 seconds into it).

As you can see, all of the keyframe icons are greyed out. They will only appear if I allow the video to play for about 35 seconds then all the keyframe icons appear.

Thanks...Ed

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Hello,

I hope someone can help me.

I have a video that is 60 minutes long. I'm using PowerDirector 365. and I want to perform some zooming in my video but for some reason the keyframe marker options (add keyframe, etc) are greyed out and don't appear until I'm into about 35 seconds of the video. I need to be able to add a keyframes to perform some zooming starting at about 5 seconds into the video. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong but I'm totally lost. Can anyone help me??

Thanks. Ed

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You can enable grid lines in the preview window. Just click the icon to the right of the camera icon, and then select Grid Lines. You can't create a custom grid, so you will have to get creative using 8x8 or 9x9.

Ash

Thanks. I guess what I was looking for is creating a custom grid. So it looks like I need to get creative.

Ed

Hello,
I'm relatively new to PD and not real familiar with video editing terminology and was wondering if someone could help me out.

I have a need to create 70 video tracks (this I know how to do) but also need all the video's to be displayed at the same time.

I tried a test with 4 videos of what I want to do usinb VIdeo collage and although I'm not sure if I can do that with 70 video tracks.

I also tried manually resizing each video in the preview window (NOT using VIdeo collage) with those same 4 video's and although that woudl work also, is there a way that I can resize all 70 videoss and make them all the same size. i.e. like a grid. For example, the way Zoom works when you have multiple participants. In my case, I would like to evenly spzce out all 70 videos.
I relize each one will be very small but that's OK. For example: Can I create a 10X7 evenly spaced grid and drop each individual video tracks into a unique box in that grid?

Or if there's another way I should be doing this....I'm all ears

Thanks! Ed

Thanks for your reply.

I just find it odd that that there doesn't seem to be a transition that already exists that can do this.

Hello, I'm a new PowerDirector 18/365 user.

I have a project that contains several video clips (with audio) and wish to apply a fade in and out transition (both video and audio) between each clip.

I found a transition that will do that but it only affects the video portion of the clip. It leaves the audio untouched.

I don't want to overlap or crossfade. Just a simple fade out the end of clip 1, fade in clip 2, fade out clip 2, fade in clip 3, fade out clip 3, etc

Is there a transition that will perform both simultaneously? If so, where can I find it?

Thanks for your assistance.

EdK

Thanks.

I'm not quite following what you mean but let me rephrase my initial question.

My camera captured a continuous event that is 1 1/2 hours long but the camera separated it into 3 separate files of 4gig in length each.

After I insert each segment into track 1 of the timeline, there is a very brief gap between the 1st and 2nd segments and the 2nd and 3rd segments (a fraction of a second).

I have a separate audio file which I'm inserting into track 2. The audio file is continuous and was captured off the mixing board. In other words, it's a single file the length of all 3 video segments.

Because of the brief gap between the segments in track 1, the audio in Track 2 is no longer in sync with the video/audio in track 1 for the 2nd and 3rd segments. The 1st segment is OK.

I turned off 'Snapping' in an attempt to shift segment 2 right up against segment 1 to eliminate the gap but even with the timeline zoomed into maximum, I can't move segment 2 any closer. If I try, then Powerdirector tries to overlay the tail end of segment 1.

This is only an assumption on my part, but it seems Powerdirector is inserting some sort of marker between the segments for possible inclusion of a transition of between the segments. I will not be inserting any transtions between the segments.

Perhaps a graphic representation may help describe this-

MEDIA BEING INSERTED INTO TIMELINE":

Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3
Track 1 (original audio/video from camera)- |......................................||......................................||..................................|

Track 2 (original audio from mixing board)- }....................................................................................................................}

AFTER INSERTION INTO TIMELINE, I'M GETTING THIS::

Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3
Track 1 (original audio/video from camera)- |......................................||......................................||..................................|

Track 2 (original audio from mixing board)- }.................................................................................................................}

FINAL RESULT I'M TRYING TO ACHIEVE:

Segment 1, 2 & 3
Track 1- |.....................................................................................................................................|

Track 2- |.....................................................................................................................................|

Hello! I'm a new Powerdirector 365 user and have a question regarding stitching together multiple video files.

I recorded an event using my camera and because of the length of the event (1 1/2 hrs), my camera had to create 3 video files (mp4 format) of 4gig each.

I imported all 3 segments into the timeline and upon playing them back in the preview window, there is a 'blip' (for lack of a better word) between each segment. All 3 segmentss appear to be butted up against each other in the timeline and I have turned off snapping to ensure segment 2 isn't overlaying segment and there's no gap between them (same with segment 2 and 3).

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

I'm a previous user of Roxio NXT 6. It doesn't have this 'blip' issue but NXT 6 has many other bugs where I can't use it and their support doesn't seem to know what they are doing ever since Roxio was take over by Corel.

Thanks! Ed

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Once you have both waveforms displaying, you should see a 'sync by audio' button display above the Timeline. Click on that button.

Still getting familiar with the screen layout. It's quite different than Roxio.
Will look for it and give it a try,

Thanks! Ed

Thanks for your quick reply.

I understand what you're sugesting.

Actually, the video and audio and one long file(s) so from that perspective, it's easy.
I was actually hoping there would be a way Power DIrector to analyze the audio captured by the camera and matching up the background audio track automatically.

If that is not possible, is there a way to display both of the audio waveforms so I can visually sync them up?

Thanks...Ed

Hello,

I am brand new to Power Director. Actually evaluating the product (30 day free trial). After being a long time Roxio user, I have become very disappointed with Roxio with functions that no longer work, numerous bugs in the software and poor customer support and looking for a alternative video editing software.

I frequently video live theatre using my camcorder. At the same time, I capture audio from the theatres mixing board onto a flash drive.

As you all are probably aware, the quality of the audio captured by a consumer level camera is not the best. This is why I capture audio from the theatre mixing board.

My question is: If I add the audio captured from the mixing board to Power Directors background audio track, can Power Director analyze the audio from the video and sync the audio in the background track with the audio contained within the video track?

Eventually, what I want to do is mute the audio captured by the camera and use the audio from the background track for eventual burning to DVD and/or create a new video file for upload to Youtube, etc

Is it possible to do this in Power Director and if so, how?

I was able to do this in Roxio in earlier releases of Media Creator but their current release (NXT 6) has numerous bugs and the audio captured by the camera (and background track) becomes severly distorted during the editing process even before creating a new video file.

Thanks for your assistance.

Ed