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Hi Rob,
Confusing?
Yea, but I'm used to that, hahaha.
Ok, I went to... Youtube Ripper and, following the instructions, successfully captured a vid from Youtube and renamed the captured file to "something.flv", as per instructions, and saved the file. The file indeed played fine in a FLV viewer.
I then opened PD7 and using the "Import Media" icon, went to the folder that contained this newly acquired flv capture file/video clip. But the file did not show in the folder. (browse box was set to... "All Files (types). So since I couldn't see it, I couldn't import it.
I then closed PD7 > went to the folder > right clicked on file > went to... "Open With" and chose PD7. PD7 opened, but the flv file was nowhere to be seen.
Less confused
Okay me too. (Nothing happened, appeared).
Now just open PD7, and drag the file from Windows directly into the Media Room area...
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Okay, they are definitely flv files.
I ripped some sample vids using:
http://www.ripzor.com/youtuberipper.html
The resulting files I manually rename .flv,
*but* the first three ascii bytes of the file itself is: FLV
*and* MediaCoder describes them as FLV files and
they definitely load in PowerDirector 7.02429a
Confusing?
Rob
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I did see the reference above, but was a little scared off by the text describing matching multiple videos for each zoom. Does sound very time consuming but Ill give it a shot.
Thanks
Rob.
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Please check Rob,
I double checked this particular point before posting both by trying out the FLV and with a CyberLink Support Manager in Taiwan.
The FLV read capability is NOT in PD7.
My guess is you've a different file format.
Dafydd
Its always possible the auto-generated files Im using are encoded differently but are named .flv
I'll check tonight.
Thanks for looking into it.
Rob.
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PD7 does not at this time support FLV format.
FLV's can NOT therefore be imported into PD7, whether one tries the Browse Button in Media Library or Click and Drag/Drop.
Image attached.
Robert is correct.
Dafydd
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Im a little confused.
I dont get error messages. I get the movie importing
and displaying correctly.
I can scrub forward or backward and set multi trim points.
Doesnt that mean its at least imported the movie?
Ive done it several times over the last few days.
I'll double check tonight to make sure.
Rob.
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Thanks, Ill add it to the suggestion box.
For the record though, I didnt find any references to panning video in the video tutorials you mention above.
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Hi Rob,
flv needs to be converted to one of the supported formats before importing into PowerDirector
HD MPEG-2, DVR-MS, DV-AVI, DAT, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, VRO with Dolby Digital 5.1/2.1, WMV, WMV-HD, MOV, MOD, live capture, TOD, AVCHD (M2T), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
Robert
I'll keep it in mind, though it does appear to scrub through the movie in PD (albeit slowly).
Thanks
Rob.
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Hi Rob,
Are you sure that PD7 supports flv, that could be your problem here, how are you importing the flv files?
Robert
Hi, It does display the frames, albeit slowly.
Im just using a youtube ripper periodically to grab the FLV files.
Just now, I converted to an AVI / H2.64 and that seems to help.
Im assuming that the imported video is never fully expanded
into memory expanded but decoded as necessary?
Perhaps some formats are more CPU intensive than the others.
Rob.
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Even though this thread is a year old, I ran into exactly the same
problem.
I had dubbed some old vcr tapes into a stereo DVD recorder.
Didnt bother with a splitter Y cables, so I figured Id capture on the left channel, and use PowerDirector to apply it to both L/R.
Unfortunately it didnt let me.
I had to rip the audio from the movie file using one piece of software
(AoA Audio Extractor), resave it as mono using another piece of software
(Audacity), and finally load it back into PowerDirector
A simple 'Make Mono' in addition to the 'Mute Track' would have been
a huge time saver in this case.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Hi,
Anyone else notice editing FLV videos makes their system
*extremely* sluggish to drag through?
The whole interface grinds to a halt, requiring several seconds to
simply click a menu.
Converting to AVI seems to eliminate the problem.
May just be specific to my setup, but just curious.
Thanks,
Rob.
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Hi I just purchased the product myself, and was expecting this to be a standard basic feature.
Its so painfully close for an otherwise solid piece of software.
Ive discovered the 'Zoom' effect which allows you to set the
width and height ratio at 4 distinct points.
Simply adding two parameters of 'Veritical and Horizontal' offset would
be perfect. Default them to 0,0 (on a -1 to 1 scale) to make it
backward compatible with previous files.
Im presuming this is not a big technical challenge as there are
definitely more complex transforms such as Swing, Fisheye, etc.
As it stands the zoom is pretty much unusable without these trivial
pivot points.
Any chance this could be added at some point?
Thanks very much.
Rob.
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