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The benefit?
Saving users the time of cllicking 30 times to download all files.
Archiving would be great as well
AHA, I understand. Well, given that it takes time for PD to get ready presenting all its features and this all takes a lot of disk space I have not downloaded every and all the goods. As it also takes time to browse through all the features to get the one you need, I have tried to keep the libaries as slim as possible. (And when I dont find what I would need I start looking for what is available on line).
As said, put out your suggestion to CL.
Take care!
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Since this is a forum of users, and Cyberlink function decision makers don't read all this (so they claim), I suggest to put your suggestion forward using the "Rate us & Provide suggestions option in the File menu.
With the (little) knowledge I have of the structure PD uses for templates and downloaded files, and looking at the structure where I see folders of a long series of older versions, I think that MANUALLY introducing some sort of time-line would be possible, maybe do so experimenting? Would be a lot of extra work though and no single file.
However, note that PD has to go through all those folders collecting the new and the older files before making them available in the various media and effects rooms, I would assume that it will take much time for PD after startup to make it all readily available for usage. I think that even now this extra load time is already barely acceptable.
Question of course is: what would be the benefit of such line up in one file per month?
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Try in the Cyberlink Application Manager, and the Effects Packs resources to click on the circled i which will point you to a web-page with more information of the effect(s). It will show examples, which give a first impression of what you can do with them.
On the Cyberlink tutorial pages you may find a bit more information on applying effects. Although, admittedly, CL leaves much to you own creativity.
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Thanks PDM! To verify this, I uninstalled/reinstalled PD365 and confirmed that SR4 build 14500 was reinstalled and that it showed the broken startup issue.
I then applied the 15396 patch and the Accept and Continue screen displayed normally as soon as I launched the app. That was followed by the product improvement participation screen, and then by the main product screen. I was not prompted to enter my separate standalone license at any point, so it looks like the issue is resolved!
I can confirm Optodata's observation, however the Accept and Continue screen did not appear.
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No it is not. See: https://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-video-editing-software/comparison_en_US.html
There is a mention of a free download. That version gives you limited features for a limited time with watermarked productions.
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Try the Ease out (in the English version) of the object settings from the Storch
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Can't Mute individual clips within one track (a simple, highlight the clips, right click, mute selected clips would suffice) but no, can only mute ALL clips in a track, not selected. STUPID!
Thanks!
I completely understand your desire to get simple things done easily. My experience with PD is that most of the simple things CAN be done easily once you get the hang of this software. This is of course the case with virtually every editing software.
Admittingly, with PD doing things is not always so obvious, but in far most of the times I discovered how to do things, either by searching this forum (as Optodata pointed out, most of the questions have been answered), or on YouTube (where you can find a number of excellent tutorials by true experts). With PD, you can do most of the simple things easily and it has a ton of features that enable you to do almost everything with your video.
Muting a single clip, by the way, CAN be done by selecting the clip, right clicking the menu and tick the mute clip in the menu, as you suggest. Another way is: select the clip and drag the blue audio line to change the volume (up is louder, completely down is mute). There are more ways of changing the audio. And the green line of the selected clip is for the video/image: moving the line up or down changes the opacity.
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Thanks very much Optodata, as always for the alert for the misbehavior of Screen recorder 4 (SR4).
I actually saw your warning to late: after I updated PD365 19.6.3016.0 (64bit).
I learn from this,that next time I should not be so eager to update and look at wait for remarks on the forum first?
In addition to what AVPlayVideo mentions: when I tried the SR4 (4.2.7.14500), it worked OK, but the splash-screen did (and does) not appear at all (which may be the wrong behavior but does not bother me).
I think that I have to very latest windows 10 updates running:
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 21H1
Installed on 25-06-20
OS build 19043.1081
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0 (your version is 3920.0)
The only difference is that you have the Pro version and I run the Home version of Windows.
Looking forward to seeing what is happening with this.
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The duration of the text can be influenced independ from the duration of the whole text-clip. If you have used a template title, maybe try to start from scratch and see what a happens.
Also try opening the ttitle designer and make sure that you are in advanced mode and check the settings in the time-bar below.
For that look at an example given in a tutorial from Jim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF1ol5rDwY at around 5:17 you can see how durations can be changed.
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What kind of audio-file is it? What specs does it have; that may be of interest if it comes to PD development to correct a bug?
I suggest that you report this as a bug to CL.
Did you try to split the audio at 2:13 precisely and ignore the waveform displayed (since the audio plays correctly)? Then see what happens with the count? And maybe even after saving and resting the project?
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Maybe you can show us, Bob, what you mean?
Which is the previous version you came from. What you describe sounds “normal” behavior to me. for PD 19 / 365.
The clips you select in the media-room will be shown in the preview screen. They will play (audio and video) when you press the space bar or the play button. Once you have moved/dragged the clip to the timeline, AND you select the clip then that clip will be shown in the previews screen, and will play with spacebar or play button.
But clicking on a spot in the timeline may be tricky: what is the spot you click on. If you click anywhere in the video or audio track of a clip, you select that clip and the “cursor” will be positioned at the start of the clip unless the cursor was already somewhere in that clip. If you click on a spot at the top of the timeline where the yellow time indicator is shown, the “cursor” will be positioned at that very place in the video clip or clips under that spot and the top clip will be selected automatically.
But you also write about not syncsing up with the preview screen; that is a bit confusing to me. So maybe you can explain, or show us what you do, with either a screen shot or a screen recording of the action?
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In most of the templates the speed is determinded by the length of the title in your timeline, and the amount of text. Which make sense of course. 100 text entries in 5 seconds, will make the text run very fast..
Try making the title longer or shorter and see what happens.
Depending on your version (e.g.19 or 365) of PD there may be no need to download adidtional scrolling text templates, because there are some in the Credit/Scroll entry already.
Furthermore, look and see how the experts do it by searching in Youtube for PD scrolling texts. There are some good examples out there.
Have fun!
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And.... Should you have AudioDirector, then open the Mix tab and in the adjustment select adjust length (auto remix). Which most of the times and depending on the music, does a good job. You can precisely indicate how long you want the music to be.
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Fully agreed!
(I had in mind the 4K I have set as default, which gives a bit more acceptable result.)
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I understand from what you are saying:
You are not experienced with PowerDirector. It is good to understand which version of PowerDirector you have, although it is not important for answering your question.
You have a session recorder in Zoom and have the Zoom-video file available.
You want to cut some of the recording at the beginning of the session, and cut some video at the end then you want to upload the result on a Google drive (cloud)? AND you want to do that cutting without recoding with PowerDirector.
Well, if that is your question, the answer is: Cutting into a video file, without a video editor like PowerDirector is an action that will almost never result in a presentable video.
As long as you have PowerDirector available, which I assume is the case, otherwise you would not come to this forum? You might as well use it.
I suggest the following steps.
1) check the format and specifications of the Zoom recorder file. Look for the file type (.mp4 .mov etc.), and look for details, like you can reveal by (in Windows), pressing the right mouse on the file and opening the menu and then open the properties entry and then the details tab. (This is all English and this may differ in your language). In the detail tab, you will find the frame width and Height, the data rate and the frame rate etc. I suggest that you make note of those.
2) import the file into PowerDirector and add the clip to the time line and do the cutting at the beginning and the end as you want it.
As an alternative to step 1, you can open the SVRT-track in the timeline to see the specifications of the original video clip here.
3) go to produce and then select the file format that is equal to or the closed to the specifications you have noted down in step 1. (or taken from the SVRT track) and use those to come close to exporting/producing the result without (too much) recoding involved.
Locate the result on your disk, check whether it displays what you wanted and then move it to the google-drive as required.
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Assuming that the clip has a 9:16 scale and you project a 16:9 scale (see the scale at the bottom right of the preview screen), rotating is a very easy action: Draw the clip from the media room onto the timeline. Select the clip by clicking on it. In the preview-screen you will see the clip and in its 4 corners white dots and in the middle a grey circle with arrow that turns white when you hover over it. So, hover over it and when white drag the picture with the mouse either to the right or to the left so that the picture turns 90 degrees.
Once you have turned it so that it is in the right stand, take one of the white corner dots and drag it to the corner so that the image takes the whole screen. You may see pink lines as soon as the dot is aligned with the border, but make sure that all picture borders line with the screen border, so that there are no black borders when you produce the clip.
The alternative to the above is: using the PIP designer, double click the video clip in the timeline. Make sure that you are in advance mode (depending on your version) that can be changed from express in the middle above the preview screen of the PIP designer. At the left you find all sorts of options including the rotation, depending on the clip rotate either 90 degrees or minus 90 degrees (or use the grey/white circle in the middle again. And adjust the size of the clip by dragging the white dots to the correct position.
The results is good, but you will remember probably that holding your phone in the correct position the next time is even better :![]()
And as always: look for YouTube tutorials that explain the above: like those of Maliek, and many others.
Have fun
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Unless you have space issues, I would recommend letting the Cyberlink Application manager decide where to put the software and the templates. That is the most easy and secure way of working. If you have a space issue on your system disk (usually C: ), I would recommend looking for a larger C:-drive, since you are reorganizing your PC as it is.
And I would never “install” install programs on a freshly installed Windows computer by running a restore. That will not work, or not work in the end. Use the normal installation procedures.
To storage of your video and image files is, I think a personal matter. It depends a bit how much you have and how (regularly) you use them. Many have to storage done by date. And set some extra flags to identify (special) events. And depending on usage frequency and amount you may want to use (additional) external drives too.
If you done have too much medica files, you may decide to keep them on an internal disk per event or sorted on date. There are programs out there that help you find the files back, and even windows Movies and Photo's can help you with that.
If possible I would avoid using the system drive (C:-disk) for the long-during storage of your media files. This helps you having space for programs, and temporary files (even those generated by PD, like the shadow files), and (downloaded) templates etc.
I would recommend to using internal drives to hold the media files of a project during the editing at least. And also depending on the importance of the project and whether you expect to be reusing and/or reediting the project, I would recommend to pack the project materials when you are done in a separate folder, that can easily be retrieved (even if you put it away on a backup external drive), and you are sure that all project material will be there.
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There are more ways to get a JPEG (or .JPG) file into a video. Making it image file (like JPG) part of a title is also possible.
To get JPG files into a video, simply insert the image file(s) into the media room, like you do with video clips, and then drag them onto the timeline on the place you want to.
There are many examples on YouTube, but look at this from the most famous Sharper Turtle.
Making a JPG file part of the title is possible in the title editor by selecting and inserting an image.
Also see an example in a tutorial by Sharper Turtle.
With many of the PowerDirector questions at least that is what I do when I get stuck) is try to find an example on YouTube. Mostly examples are out their from Sharper Turtle, PowerDirector University and Steve Grisetti (to name a view of the famous), but there are many more out there. And... Cyberlink itself also has some good tutorials online.
Have fun!
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In the File menu of PD is the option to forward suggestions to CL. Select: rate us & provide suggestions and a small window opens in which you can put your suggestion.
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Depends a bit on what you want to save.
If it is the resulting video as part of the timeline, then you can produce a selection from the timeline by selecting this section with the yellow arrow-pointers. However, it is only possible to save a part in the time line with all tracks included within the selected start and end time. If you only want to save a cut of one (or more) tracks separately then unless you are able to unselect unwanted tracked before you produce a selection, there do not seem to be other ways.
If you are looking to save a selection on your timeline as a project, then the answer is NO, there is no function for that. What I do in those cases is save the project with a generic name, cut the surrounding and then save the separate bit, with the overall timeline still in place in the saved project. (You can of course all undo the cutting to restore the timeline.
The other way around may also be an option. If you have one or more selections separately saved as projects you can insert these projects as projects on the timeline. That of course should be possible in your workflow and requires some planning ahead.
Hope this is a bit clear. Let us know how you proceed.
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There are several ways to get individual clips identified in your timeline. It depends a bit on the approach you want to take to get to your production.
One obvious candidate is to use precut. That allows you to select clips from your overall video and identify them separately before you add them to the timeline. You can rename the pre-cut clips by changing the alias of the clip (right mouse click and select from the menu). Then drag the segments to their places in the timeline. In the before mentioned menu there is the option to find the clip back in the timeline, should you have many. This approach will also allow you to use the clips identifiers/aliases in other projects.
The other way is to edit / change the alias of a clip in the timeline by right mouse click and select edit alias in the menu. There is a short cut / hot-key for that: Alt-n.
As said, it depends on the workflow you use which method works best for you. Either way you see the alias in the clip in the timeline.
There is a third option, which is less elegant because the “alias” does not show in the clip in the timeline, that is using clip markers. You can set markers at multiple places in the same clip and give them a name/alias. (like: clip is called Waving, and two markers in the clip called: start wave and end wave). Hovering over the clip marker reveals the name set. Make sure that you have set the clip marker track to show.
Hope that this helps.
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