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Hi Jerry -
First up, I think the help file may require a bit of an update. You probably realsied that when the maximum "life" is 50000 (not 100).
The little I've used particles, I've found that there's a fair bit of trial & error & a good part of the time I'm sailing blind. Particles and me? Well - "unpredictable" puts it nicely.
Prompted by your post, however, I'll investigate further.
Cheers - Tony
Hi, Tony!
I've found that not all those particle effects can be superimposed over other video content. Some, yes, but not all. I discovered this through trial & error.
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It's all guesswork until the solution is found 
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Hello, Collie581 and RDOIII!
The more I read on this thread, the more I've convinced myself that all future audio adjustments on my complete-to-pre-narration-stage video edits, should be carried out in PD8. I'll be doing this in future!
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Hi Neil. You have to be careful with your technology definitions. IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is actually used both in SATA (Serial ATA) and the older PATA (Parallel ATA) although 'IDE' is usually used as representing the parallel version. See here.
However, that's academic as either way it'll be a different driver from the external USB drive. It might be worth STEVE_MORARTY looking on the drive manufacturers website to see if a newer driver is available.
Hi, Mike!
I was just guessing! A "thought bubble" as it were!
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Please Fix the basic audio mixer function - it is currently useless and makes using PD 14 for editing multiple clips a time consuming drudgery - negating any speed savings in the rendering process - even though the video editing is top-shelf
Please see my post
Link to Audio Editing post in PD14 forum
PS - I would greatly appreciate someone providing help with my issues with audio mixing - but think it is a design flaw in the audio mixer.
RDOIII
Had a hiccup on my internet connection.... Back now!RDOIII's comment needs to be given serious consideration. The Audio Room for PD15 should be made to operate exactly like that of PD8, much more user-friendly! As opposed to the uncooperative model in PD14.
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It could have been the device driver. I'd guess the external drive uses a different (USB) one. The internal drive will likely be SATA.
Hi, Mike!
That could be a distinct possibility! IDE, perhaps?
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Dafydd
I will try to create some screen shots
Have never done that.
Will try later this evening when I have some time after work.
Thanks for the response
RDOIII
Hi, RDOIII!
It's easy to create a screenshot. While your Power Director is open, press the button on your keyboard marked PrtScn. This will create a bitmap image of whatever is on the screen at the moment you press the button. As you're dealing with audio editing, your screenshot should show what you're trying to do with the audio track, with the audio room open(clicking on the fader icon will bring up the fader controls for all the audio tracks). When you've pressed PrtScn, minimise Power Director, open up Microsoft Paint, then paste into the empty screen(Ctrl+V), you'll have created your screenshot. You can crop away unwanted bits of the image to show in more detail what you're trying to do in audio editing.
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Neil.
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Well then, everyone!
I think we're all agreed. Nvidia needs to do some "homework" and get their hardware/software sorted out, pronto! It's causing far too much conflict with Power Director, versions 13 and 14 and needs urgent attention.
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Hi again,
It's almost certain your memory card is to blame. I have had several cards purchased cheaply from China on eBay that performed correctly in part of their capacity only, renderring most of their space useless. Such a situation would correspond to your screenshot of the files that appear to be only corrupt past a point in the chronological order of being created. To check a memory card's performance, I use the free version of HDTune.
My PowerDirector crashes on an attempt to open the second video file you have attached. I can convert it using FormatFactory (3.8.0) but there are hesitations during the conversion and the output is not very different from what I attached to my previous post, only longer.
I find it highly unlikely you will be able to recover those clips' contents…
Jirka
Hi, Jirka!
It seems you've been "burned" by the purchase of those el-cheapo SD cards. There's a salutory lesson in there, I'm sure! Just 'cause it's cheap, don't mean it's good! I tend to buy reputable brand cards by Verbatim or other major makers of such media. I don't buy too many, I tend to copy the content off the card to my computer, then clear the card(delete what's been copied away) for use later with other projects(like an up-coming Easter camping trip, or the annual Steamfest in April).
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Neil.
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Hi, Steve!
That's a curious situation, the internal DVD rewrite drive doing that! Very unusual indeed!, but seeing you've solved the problem with an external DVD rewrite drive, all's well that ends well!
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Neil.
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Hi, Dafydd!
Were you asking me or RDOIII to provide the screenshot?
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Neil.
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Hi, RDOIII!
Thanks for the feedback(in audio, that's when you hold a microphone too close to a speaker, ha-ha!) Seriously though, in my case, what I generally do is bring a video edit to near-completion, that is, I put all my clips together, trim them down so that I get rid of spare frames(use split to snip off any frames beyond a complete number of minutes & seconds), add all my transitions, titles and what-nots, then produce the video. That produced video is then viewed(pausing at places where I want to add a comment) I have Microsoft Word opened, and at each point, I type up a comment in a script, I then record that script in Sony Sound Forge, then import the narration track(usually an MP3 file) into my media library. From there it's dropped onto the voice track(microphone icon). Adding the narration at the wanted spots is simply a matter of then cutting the narration audio into clipboard(Ctrl+X), play video to where first comment is to be inserted, then paste(Ctrl+V) play to end of comment, pause video, split and cut(Ctrl+X again), play to next point for comment, paste(Ctrl+V again), continuing the process until all comments are in place. If the native audio on the video is too loud, I use the proceedure I explained in my earlier post to attenuate that native audio track. If I add music(usually only at the beginning and end of the video) I'll attenuate the music track in the same manner. PD8 lets me do all this work with a great deal of ease, not so in PD14, unfortunately. For all the new "features" in PD14, there are some departments where PD14 falls flat. Corry Cyberlink, but the truth needs telling!
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Neil
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So leave your head down and do not lecture me when i make sense. Vorba multa saracia omului.
Gigi!
The aggression is unacceptable! No-one on this website is trying to lecture you, or anyone else, for that matter. We're all users of Cyberlink product here, talking about, and doing our best to help solve problems related with the software we're using. We certainly don't need abuse!
Neil.
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Hello, STEVE_MORARTY!
Let me try to get this straight, You say the DVDs you burn will play normally on any DVD player but appear to have a greenish hue over them on playback in your computer or the clips play like this while still in editing stage? It could be the setting in your computer, I'm only guessing, mind you, but I've never struck a situation like this. I think some more detail may be needed before anyone here can really get to grips with your situation.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, RDOIII!
I'm familiar with your situation in that I have also found PD14's audio adjustments won't cooperate with my settings. If I want to drop the overall level of a clip's audio to(for example) -25db, I would put the scrubber at the very start of the clip to be so adjusted and adjust the fader to that setting, then get the disappointing result of seeing the fader creep back up to 0db. In Power Director 8 I could set my audio levels with ease. If I've inserted narration at a given spot along the timeline, and I didn't want either background music or the native audio from the clip itself to drown out the narration, it was simply a matter of placing the scubber at a point just before the beginning of the narration, click on the fader for the audio to be adjusted, a white dot will appear on that line, step forward a few frames, on the fader, type in a new level and the fader will drop to that level and maintain it, I simply play to the end of the narration, click again, another white dot appears, bump forward a few frames, then type in, '0' on the level adjustment and Presto! the audio jumps back up to 0db again, It's that easy! As I see it, between PD8 and PD14, in regards to setting audio levels, things seem to have gone backwards! Cyberlink need to rethink their audio editing methods BEFORE they release PD15!
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Neil.
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even though your card is class 10, my initial assumption is the card can not write faster than your cam.
file that i downloaded 00063.MTS is 13+ Mb/sec at 5sec.
you might have a bad card.
try a different card with faster write speed like 95MB/sec(sandisk extreme pro for ex.)
happy happy joy joy
PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'
Hello, Andres!
I think PepsiMan has the answer here. The SD card may be suspect. Try a different card, possibly an SDHC card, fully compatible with any camera, these SDHC card are designed specifically for videocameras, qhereas a regular SD card is more for stills than video. Also, with your camera, "Built in 32Gb memory was already full", you really do need to copy off all your content from the camera's hard drive, to another storage device(an external hard-drive of 1 or 2 terrabyte capacity) so that you don't lose the valuable content, and you free up your camera's hard drive for future use. This may have some bearing on the behaviour of clips being stored on the SD card, I'd describe this as a sort-of digital equivalent of the old optical camera "double exposure" situation. Either way, a new SD card and clearing the internal hard-drive of your camera should go a considerable way toward solving your problem.
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As for New Blue, that is not "owned" by CL, it is a third-party add-on, they might have less control on what is going on there.
I was just going to say something on that point when SoNic67 jumped in ahead of me! Indeed, NewBlue manifests itself in transition effects for Corel Video Studio (I have the Pro X5 version alongside my Power Director 8 & 14[both Ultra versions]) so Cyberlink is one of a number of "client" software makers for whom NewBlue produces components.
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Neil.
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I go along with Steven and Eric here!
Cyberlink and Nvidia should be "getting their heads together" to nut out a solution to this conflict between their respective products!
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is the fact the scene dividers don't give time codes without hovering over it.
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It also doesn't check when I use a scene. Is this fixed in 13 or 14?
This is no different in PD14, no green check or any marking on discrete scene if it is used in timeline, just like PD12.
Jeff
- Sorry I don't know the terms. When you break down a video into a few scenes (1 second, 5 seconds, 5.4 seconds...etc.) Sometimes I have 300+ scenes in a video but they are only a second long. I would like it if I could see how long each scene clip is. I can see it if I hover my mouse over it, but I wish it was as simple as a little black box on the cornor saying [1.6 sec] or [10.7 sec].
- It's crazy they don't put check marks by the scenes you have already used. They do it on a video itself, but the broken down scenes there is nothing.
Hi, Eric!
Getting to your second point first, Each time I pull a clip from the media library onto the timeline, a green "tick" appears on the corner of the thumbnail in the library, so, at a glance I can tell what's been used and what's yet to be used. This has been true, right back as far as PD5(from memory). In other software this may or may not be available, only experience in using other software will give you that information. As to your first remark, yes. Hovering the cursor over the clip whilst in media library will give you the running time of the clip. I do this often so I know how many frames to split off to bring the clip back to an exact number of minutes and seconds. When the clip is in the timeline and any edits made to it, hovering the mouse(cursor) over it will give you the duration, as well as start and end point after editing. So, you see, my experience is clearly different to that of your experience.
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Neil.
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Hello Gigi!
Firstly, apologies re: your name. Secondly, I can only state again that I was going by what other people have said through this forum, re:Nvidia and GeForce. You are right, though. There are some considerable problems of conflict between Nvidia and PD14 that were not present with PD13. Clearly these problems were unforseen by either or both Cyberlink and Nvidia. The tips on offer through this forum, and this particular thread, while providing a solution for some, may not do so for others, a "hit & miss" situation.
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If only I had some of those files to support that type of video. Also, I truly have not ben immersed in the older formats in many many years so my experience would not be current. 
Hi, Maliek!
I do have a VHS recorder hooked up to my computer via capture card and, of late have been doing quite a bit of "rescue" work for a friend who has tapes of her family, going back to the turn of the century(20th to 21st, that is). A little touching up here and there and these old VHS tapes scrub up quite okay on DVD! CLPV proves useful here as well, bringing these old 4:3 aspect ratio clips out to 16:9 without making the people in the clips look like they've been "raiding the refridgerator"(ha-ha) really brings these old cips "up-to-date", as it were.
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