Messages posted by Marc

OK - I replied to a post the other day and when I came back to follow-up, I couldn't find it w/o using search. Then as I started digging in and reading other topics I started noticing the dates...

I thought I was losing it!!

Thanks

I'm almost embarrassed to ask because I'm thinking that I'm just missing a simple setting or 'sort' button somewhere, but I can't find it.

Is it just me, or is this forum not sorting threads / topics by date correctly?

Usually the the topic w/ the most recent response gets moved to the top of the forum, but that's not happening here (at least not in the PD version 6 and above section).

When I go to page 2, things seem to get out of whack. I see posts w/ a last message timestamp of 7/19/08 ahead of posts w/ last messages from 7/22/08. Even stranger is that a post that is on page 1 also shows up on page 2 - checking the link of both - they go to the same exact post:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3465.page

Also - this thread, which I assumed is (or should be) a sticky:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/2405.page

Doesn't show up as a sticky....

Soooooooo - is it just me, or is the forum acting up?

Quote: PD7... How do you create a custom profile for SVRT?

For example I see "(HD) MPEG-2, 1080i" but not a 720p version.

I'm a newbie to PD7 also, but came across this so I hope it helps... If anyone knows of a better way to do this, please let us all know.

Start up PD
Drag at least one media file onto the timeline - i.e. the sample aquarium video.
Click on the "Produce" tab and the Production Wizard will start up
With "Create A File" selected, click Next
Choose either .mpeg2 or AVC .mpeg4 via the square boxes
Then, just above the Dolby Digital 5.1 checkbox you'll see an icon that looks like a filmstrip w/ a + in front of it - click that.
That should bring you to the Profile Setup window - where you can create a custom profile. Go to the Video and Audio tabs to make adjustments - give it a name - and save it by clicking OK.

Hope that's what you're looking for.

Also - to your note below this... I'd agree. Why can't the software (any editing software) open up my source file / video - look at the properties - and then tell *ME* what I should output it as if I'd like to "smart render"?? Seems like that'd be the much easier starting point.

From there, if I choose to change anything I'd understand that it has to re-render... but at least *I* wouldn't have to come up with - or figure out - the data on both ends.

FWIW though, I was able to take several clips from my SR1, drop them all on the timeline, go to Produce, choose AVC .mpeg4, choose the AVCHD 1440x1080 profile - AND IT DID SMART RENDER FOR ME!!

The clips added up to about 45 seconds total, and it rendered it all into one file in about 20 seconds (Core2 Duo). So - I'm happy w/ that!