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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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Hi, Steve!
In relation to Angela's career, I was guessing that she worked either on-staff or freelance for a New York TV station. Only Angela can tell if my guess was correct, or way off base! My experience of converting analogue video source(VHS and Video-8 or Hi-8 camera tapes) to digital informs my view of dropped frames, if the tape is old(as it will be), it will be worn to some degree and dropped frames will be inevitable, but with those dropped frames comes the commensurate momentary loss of audio. With digital, particularly off SD cards or in-built hard-drives of many models of camera, the dropped frame problem is eliminated, but some of these cameras fall down a little when it comes to the in-built stereo microphone capabilities, That's why, even with professional-grade cameras, many camera operators, especially in Angela's profession, will record the audio separately, that's where Angela's problem arises. The old time-tested "clapper-board" could help(an Australian invention, by the way), or, failing that, a simple clap of hands, picked up on camera and microphone, can help the synchronisation, then, when audio and video are properly meshed together, render and burn to disc.
Cheers!
Neil.
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congratulation to me id looks like a real Baby to Love !!
I think I can hear strains of Diana Ross & The Supremes singing "Baby Love" in the background, somewhere!
Cheers!
Neil
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Hello, Steve!
In your remark(a portion thereof): "sometimes the result of dropped frames in the video", yes, dropped frames can put audio and video out of sync if the audio was added later. What I mean there is, generally, a dropped video frame is a result of capturing content off an analogue tape, via capture device and the tape may be worn, resulting in possibly a lot more than one dropped frame, but in that situation, the audio is being captured along with the video, so a dropped frame will result in that momentary loss in both video and audio. If the audio is being recorded separately, be it on a digital audio recorder, minidisc recorder, or even an old cassette recorder(analogue), if the video is digitally-sourced, theoretically, there should not be any dropped frames. By my guess, I believe Angela123 works either on-staff or freelance for one of her local New York TV stations(am I right there, Angela? Please correct me if I'm not) and the general practice for someone like Angela, would be to record audio separate from the video and match the two elements in the editing stage, and this is where Angela's problems are arising.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Louise!
Welcome to CL forums! As you're using Power Director version 13, it would've been more appropriate to post this question in the "Power Director(Precious Versions) forum, but on reading, I'm no expert on the innards of computers, but perhaps your computer could do with a bit more "oomph"(power) to handle PD in any of its more recent versions. I can only advise that you have a word with your computer retailer(assuming it's a dedicated computer store, and not just a department of some massive department store).
Cheers!
Neil.
Aaagh! KEYBOARD GREMLINS STRIKE AGAIN!!!!! "Precious" should've been "Previous"!
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Barry,
PD8 may well be "no longer available" but for those who still have it on their system, I was aiming my comment at them. And I find no video quality degradation when using the DVD-SP authoring to get the amount of content onto my disc. Cyberlink should look seriously on bringing the DVD-SP option back into the "Create Disc" function of PD15. It seems to me that, from Version 8 to Version 14 of Power Director, there have been some giant backward steps taken in a number of departments, not least DVD authoring.
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Hi, Hugh!
At left of the timeline for each video and audio, effects, titles, voice and music tracks is a little symbol which appears as a "padlock" Clicking on this will "lock" all content on that timeline. Unfortunately, though, while locked, no editing can be performed on those tracks. There could be a workaround if you "unlock" the timeline(track) you want to work on(make alterations) then "lock" it before unlocking another, but it could be time-consuming and a bit tedious.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Helle Steve!
I also take issue with your remark: "Remember that you can put only abut one hour of project video on a slngle layer DVD". Because I was able to retain PD8, I'm still able to author in DVD-SP, which allows me to fit up to 2 hours and 25 minutes(more or less) onto a standard single-layer(DVD-5) 4.7Gb disc which gives good quality image, but most importantly, does not freeze or stutter on playing with any domestic DVD player. Just thought I should point that out.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi!
Perhaps the moderator could "bump" the other like-titled thread off the forum page, as I've not seen any provision here for us posters to delete our own comments when they've become redundant.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, CS!
Keep looking! You're bound to stumble across one sooner or later. As I said, the one I saw was at that IGA supermarket. It was on a wall next to where the checkout counters were. As I said, what a sad waste of the technology!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Jean Jose!
This is my second attempt at posting here! The first attempt took far too long to save and disappeared into the ether. As Jcarana said, it's all in the terminology, "Title" is the entire video clip(anywhere from a few minutes to two hours) while a "chapter" is a portion of that clip. The purpose of chapters is to divide a video into easily-found segments(portions) that can be found by going straight to them in the menu(selecting "Scenes") or using the "skip" button on the DVD player's remote control while the video is playing.
A hypothetical example here shows what I'm saying. A 50-minure video of a new baby coming into a family. Chapter 1 shows Mum and Dad with the new bub in her cradle, being carried through the maternity hospital reception area and out to the waiting family car(5 minutes for each chapter). Chapter 2, at home the new nursery(that was dad's office) is shown with cot, toys, pink wallpaper(they already knew it was gong to be a girl). Chapter 3, Baby Jenny being nursed by Mum, then Dad, 14-year-old brother Jim doing the camerawork, and on it goes until Chapter 10 where Auntie Nellie finally gets to have a nurse but Jenny's having none of this, lets out a hell of a scream, calming down only when Mum relieves Nellie of the burden. The chapter points are there to help quickly find that scene.(15 years later, Jenny's birthday party) Mum finds and loads that disc, it still plays well. Nellie is Jenny's favourite aunt, watches again how Jenny bawled her eyes out with that first nursing 15 years earlier. Hope that explains things.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Tomasc!
Just noticed you said something there about deleting posts? I have not seen provision anywhere on this forum for us to delete our own posts. I think that's a role reserved for the moderator.
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Neil.
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Oh dear! here we go again, folks! "pussin' things a bit too far!"
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Neil.
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Hi all!
Three messages from Holycrip and not a peep out of him since! Was he ever there at all? Or was he just a phantom who briefly haunted the Director Zone forum? Ha-ha. As I write, it is 6.26am on 24th February, 2016, five years to the day since Holycrip posted that question which started this thread.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Barry!
I've seen something like that as well. There's an IGA(Independent Grocers' Association) supermarket over in Nelson Bay(Australia) that has a screen set up in vertical orientation, to display in-store advertising. What a sad waste of the technology!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Angela!
How did it go, did you manage to get your MP4 video produced okay? It's somewhat strange you having that compatibility issue when ttying to render in WMV, could it have been a momentary hiccup in the system? Have you tried it again since then? Might be one for Cyberlink to look at.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Yes Neil, I fully realize that, but thanks.
Maybe it was the word choice or my sentence structure and/or description. Maybe the following clarity will help. You could only have transitions on the main video track prior to PD9 and only one transition choice and yes it was effectively the current overlap transition. PD, prior to PD9, had one video track and multiple PIP tracks. PIP tracks could not have transitions, therefor this transition issue could not occur as it takes multiple tracks that accept transitions. So at PD9 they released up to 99 video tracks and each track could have overlap transitions, this was first introduced in PD9 and the issue discussed has been around since. It takes multiple video tracks for this overlap transition issue to occur which was first released in PD9. Yes, at that time they also introduced the cross transition but that has not been my discussion.
Jeff
Hi, Jeff! I owe you an apology in regard to cross vs. overlap transitions. I was going on past experience from using Power Director versions 5, 7 8(still installed) and 14(installed last November). In PD5, 7 and 8, one only had the basic "overlap" transition(my experience, again) which would, when applied, shorten the overall length of the video by a factor of length of transition multiplied by number of times transition is used. Because I jumped past PD9 through to 13, I came upon the "cross" transition in PD14. It proved usefull in one respect that it left the overall length of the video intact(after all the only shortening of a video should be from the "editing", snip-snip of unwanted content!) but the trouble was that some of the transitions, when used in "cross" would produce an unwanted momentary freeze-frame at the beginning and end of the transition, most notable in this were the fade, wipe and threshold effects, though others would behave the same way too. Thus, when using these types of transition, I've had to revert to overlap with the consequential loss of content length with each use.
In relation to deletion of transitions, your suggestion earlier of locking/unlocking of tracks could help.
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Neil.
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Neil,
Please excuse if this is "off topic" to your spinning disc upload and query.
But as an alternative treatment to your spinning disc/record album upload, have you also considered a revolving disc/ record album? It can (to a degree) be accomplished in the Title Room via a 3DLike font manipulation. I'm sure you've discovered this method does have limited options. Image prep is necessary, and it can be labor intensive depending on the desired outcome. A quickie mockup example can be viewed here …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQENY0WZe8
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Hi, Cranston! How's it goin'?
I thank you for the suggestion, but in relation to this first-play, I've kept the animation simple, the disc revolving anti-clockwise and the title revolving clockwise, the PD14 sliding in from left, flipping and sliding out to the left. The disc is a DVD, I scanned the "business" side of a defunct disc(failed burn), which, when scanned provided a sort-of "psychedelic" colour effect. I had considered an LP record or a 45rpm single but the representation of such a disc would suggest a music video, which is not represented in the content of the videos that I've shot of late. Somewhere down the "track"(pun intended.... ouch!) I may try to create a music video DVD(if I can pull together enough content), where a spinning LP or single would be an appropriate image. Basically, what I'm saying is: it depends on the nature of a DVD's contents, what sort of first-play clip should be used, in my case, it's home movies.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi Jeff,
I think you're slightly off the mark there, Overlap transitions have been part of PD as far as my experience goes, as far back as PD5, it would be the "cross" transitions that were introduced in PD9. The differences in them were that, in using overlap, you lose a bit of playing time for each time you apply the transition, for instance, if you apply a 3-second overlap transition(any effect) and you've applied 10 of these, then you've lost half-a-minute of the overall playing time of your clip, If you use the cross behaviour, you retain the overall length of your video but some of the transitions will result in a momentary freeze-frame entering and exiting the transition(a design fault, as I see it).
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Hi, when I try to produce a WMV, I get an error message half way through "unable to produce ... wmv not compatable" or something like that.
So, then I try to produce Mp 4, but there is no option for MP 4, only MP 2.
Some of the TV stations alternately accept MOV, but I don't see an option for that either....
Any thoughts? Thanks.
Hi, Angela!
For MP4, you have a choice of H.264 AVC(below will appear a selection of M2TS, MP4 or MKV), H.265 HEVC(same options) or X AVC S(MP4 only). To produce in Windows Media Video, the option is there, next to MPEG2, if your PD14 is unable to produce in WMV, it likely won't allow the other options either, which leads me to ask if you're using a trial version, or a bare-bones version that came in a package with a capture card device? These versions usually don't have a CD Key number to activate them but they fall way short of the facilities and features available in the full version of PD14.
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Neil.
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I always had a feeling you were living in the past
Ooooohhhh, Cheeky, Mike!!! Ha-ha! Oops, Now I know why you said that! Them nasty keyboard gremlins got me again... Ouch! That should've been 2016, not 2006!
This post has a starting date that goes way back to 24th February, 2011 but kleppamaki was the first to post a comment on it this year, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who's "living in the past!"
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Neil.
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