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Can you show us, give an example of what you see?
Also you can switch off the usage of the graphics card, check if that helps in any way.
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You / we cannot. This is how CL decided to device the look and feel of PD going forward. Unless it gets a lot of complaints from its users.
It is what it is.
The suggestion is to submit the suggestion to get back to the original or to make it customizable by using the "Rate us & provide suggestions" behind the file tab (I saw that it is still there in the latest version : )
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CL has changed the way these functions can be invoked. Have a look at the online manual and scoll down a bit. I think that although it is not always a change for the better, but they have done a good job explaining the differences and where to look now.
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/19/enu/01_01_02_whats_different.html
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As said above, with the 365 subscription you have access to many transitions. And you can even make your own! Also: have a look at the ProDAD entry in the transitions room, you will find two applications that also have a number of transitions you can apply.
Please allow me a general comment: the film professionals use transitions with great reluctance and only if and when they are functional and contribute to the artistics of the production. have watch some TV shows or movies and look to if and how transitions are being used. And maybe try a production with (e.g.) a number of photo's in a slide show and use (all sorts of) many different transitions and see whether you like the result or are still enthousiastic about applying many transitions ;
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I agree that a rotate left or right function would be great to have. Next to the rotate the clip should also be made full screen automatically (which is not what you get when rotating the clip in the preview screen.
I like to avoid making intermediate clips as much as possible. So, what I do until PD has this feature is:
- load the clip into the timeline, and say NO the message about changing the video ratio.
- select the clip and then from the Tools menu select crop/zoom/pan
- In the right of the screen you will find a rotation value; click on the numer (usually 0) en set it to 90 or -90 depending on the rotation and click enter. In the smallpreview screen in the right top corner you see the result.
- now use one of the white squares in the lines around the clip and drag the line inwards to get it aligned with the border of the clip. If you recorded with the 16:9 or 9:16 ratio, you will see that the other lines will also touh the clip border.
- No click OK
Now, using many of the other features "understand" that you have rotated the clip. Some don't. That is why this rotation function would be great.
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It also looks like both the audio tracks show a lot of clipping (the yellow bits at the top and bottom). This might mean that the audio is too loud and give PD a hard time finding similarities.
My suggestion would be to turn down the volume of both tracks a bit so that there is less clipping. You can do this manually per track, or you might also try to let PD do this for you by temporarily putting the two clips behind each other in one and the same track and normalize the audio. When there is less clipping to show, put them under each other and redo the sync audio. Cutting off the bits at the start and the end of the video-clip as Optodata suggests, will give PD an extra hint where to look for synchronization.
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PD would only produce a part of the timeline, when you select that part with the yellow blocks around the pointer, see
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/19/enu/19_01_00_producing_range.html
otherwise PD will in principle produce everything that is in your timeline or timelines.
I would check, in case you use multiple tracks whether all tracks that should be part of the production, are indeed selected. Otherwise, maybe make a small screen-recording of what you do so that we can see what happens and give more suggestions?
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First of all, maintain the 16:9 ratio in PD, so do not change that to 9:16 when loading the clip into the timeline.
After you have put the clip on your timeline, then you can do either
- leave it as is, because the stand-up position of the clip is correct. You might want to look at the top and bottom parts of the clip to see whether you can zoom in a bit, so that more of the clip fills the 16:9 screen
- or rotate the clip from horizontal to vertical position, so that the clip fills the complete 16:9 screen, as it was meant to be when you recorded the clip. After the rotation you can size the clip by dragging one of the white point in any of the corners to make it fill the full 16:9 space.
(I cannot see on you picture which of these it should be.)
Hope that this helps.
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Yes PowerDirector 19
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Intrigued by your problem, I tried to remove the black lines in various ways including the ones mentioned above.
The last attempt was with masking. I did a quick and dirty mask with keyframes to keep as close as possible to the borders of the expanding picture. I am sure that with a bit more time and a number of keyframes extra the job can be done perfectly. I used a little feather and added a purple color board. See the packed project attached.
I included the resulting file, you need to add the original file into the folder to make the project complete.
Let me know if that would work.
I am also curious to understand what you did in the first place, that caused the black lines to appear. Prevention is better than healing, right?
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Thanks for the information.
Your conclusion that video clips downloaded from Shutterstock, cause to crash PD when you try to save or produce the project when the video is not longer available at Shutterstock, is very disturbing news. I would assume that obtained clips would be available for at least as long as the PD subscription or longer. Clips downloaded from Shutterstock reside on your harddisk. Your statement implies that PD is consulting Shutterstock each time the specific clip is being used/referred too? The obvious solution would be to move and rename the clip to another place, likely in the folder where the other project clips are saved too?
Is there anyone reading this, able to confirm or deny this?
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Please send your suggestions to CL, they might want to do something with them,
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Undo, I would say, simply by un-tagging the Color Match tag? Indeed, there is some unexpected behavior around the I and the tag. Although I think it is understandable that simple re-tagging the color match tag will not reinstate the previous color match but “enforces” you to redo the matching…
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Ich habe 2 Projekte als Intros gestaltet und diese unter Projekten abgespeichert. Ich kann diese zwar wieder öffnen und bearbeiten aber nicht mehr speichern, produzieren oder als Intro in ein neues Projekt einfügen PW stürzt jeweils ab.
You have to tell us a bit more about what you do, or show it by recording the screen when you import, edit and (try to) produce the projects. I have not seen that behavior from PD (I trust where you write PW you mean PD). It may have to do with your disk-drive or rights to write (did you try to save the project separately with a different name and on a different place?) or many other things.
Would also be good to share the DXDIAG file with us. Sometimes an outdated driver is the culprit.
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Obviously, there is the option to capture the videoclip by pressing the camera icon right under the preview screen, but I assume that you have something on the clip board, like text or maybe a shot of the whole screen you would want to insert?
For text it is straight forward: copy the text from the clipboard by pressing CTRL-V to insert or replace text, like in the title editor.
For (screen-) shots there is (as far as I know) no direct way to insert an image from the clipboard. What I do is open a word editor (like Word or the free Notebook) and copy the screen-shot into the page, then select the image and do a save as picture. That picture then can be included into the media room (and the timeline). Some photo editors (not PhotoDirector) can also insert images from the clipboard.
If there are more clever ways to get this done, I also like to learn them!
(Es gibt eine deutsche Version dieses Forums. Suchen Sie nach "Go Forum" und klicken Sie hinein, um die deutsche Version anzuzeigen. Ich gebe zu, in der englischen Version gibt es mehr Aktivität)
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Hmmm. Sorry.
I assumed that you had already looked around on internet to find some books and that none did not meet your needs.
When I look , I see that there are many videos with that, try Shutterstock (not in the PD set I believe) or Youtube or many others, many (I admit) at a cost.
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Give it a try with the execellent tutorials from Jim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7j2kGo0W4Y
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZwDXr1xhY
They may help you or set youon the right page for a solution
Have fun
Warry
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Why not put the clip on another track and then enable/disable the track as required?
That was my suggestion:
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I see what you mean, It snaps to the middle horizal en vertical points in the middle of the screen...... That is indeed annoying.
I suggest that you (on behalf of all of us) submit a request for change using the Rate use & Provide suggestions, behind the File menu tab.
In the meanwhile, try this: In the shape designer, switch from properties to keyframe. In the object settings there is the ability to change the X and Y positions. When I do that (e.g. with up and down arrow the object moves and does not seem to snap to the middle lines. Before you do so, I think, you should size and shape the shape to your wishes and then do the fine positioning.
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As far as I know there is no way of maintaining the transition. This functional design may the logical approach, since the transition was made with a clip/image that now is no longer there. Better to add a transition at the new junction, than to maintain the old one with maybe undesired results.
When I work with a large number of clips or images in the timeline, I add transitions as late as possible. I also learned to use transitions with great hesitation. In many cases a simple hard change gives better results.
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It would indeed be great to be able to disable a single clip. It may also lead to all sorts of confusions (why does my clip not play :)
I guess that until this feature has been added to PD, the solution would be to set the A/B/C/D clips each in a separate track in the timeline, and to disable the tracks on and off? Or is that too simple?
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