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I didn't see a way to export PhD's internal photos database, but maybe other members with more experience might know of a way.
It seems like the easiest way to do what you're looking for is to get a free EXIF viewer, like this JAVA-based one. It will work as long as you have JAVA installed on your computer, and it seems perfectly suited for your needs:
I thought of the EXIF viewer right after I posted LOL. Great suggestion, thanks!! You're always so helpful
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Is there a way to print our List View? It would be a tremendous help for me to analyze the photos and various settings used on my GoPro Hero7. I tried copying and pasting in Excel but that didn't work. There must be a way to export this table.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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Without knowing whether that specific lens profile is available, it's very easy to simply try each lens and profile out and see how it looks. It's best if you have an image that clearly shows the fisheye (or whichever) distortion you're looking to correct, then it'll be pretty easy to see if any of the existing profiles will work.
There is also a slider to tweak that particular distortion, which is likely to have the biggest impact.
I will do that, thank you. I guess it all goes back to... whatever makes it look the way I want it to look, right?
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Has CyberLink released a profile for the GoPro HERO7 Black? I've searched and can't find it.
I'm not that familiar with Lens Corrections, and Lens Profiles yet. I see the latest model with a profile is HERO6.
Would they be the same, or is there any word on the newer profiles? I'm editing underwater photos.
Thank you
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Thank you, I will read it.
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Colour correction of UW footage is complex, as the light conditions change between clips and as we shoot. Perhaps a key question is about "looking good" or "looking realistic"?
The main problem is to compensate for the loss of red light but without introducing too much, particularly with "whiter" parts of the video - like bubbles, or beams of sunlight. If this is not carefully done, the dolphins look great, but you end up blowing red bubbles!
Red bubbles, I have them! Haha. I used a red filter on my GoPro. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the red bubbles and sunlight beams.
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So, in this example which looks "realistic" (but not colour popped), over the full clip on my monitors, until the surface shot shows the red colour correction, I used a small trick, working only in PDR17.
I adjusted the white balance of the original, not by choosing a white base or a black base, but just by eye to get a good balance. This produced a reasonable result but with a green tinge.
I'm going to play with that now, thank you for the tip!
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I dropped the original clip (too blue) into track 2 and adjusted the opacity to "blend the clips", it introduced the blue back, but just enough to compensate.
What a great idea! Definitely going to try it.
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Haze removal is also a difficult one, but CDR has the function. This example is the previous adjusted clip dropped into CDR and a Dehaze value of 10 applied. Any more than 15 introduces artifacts, to my eye, but the "....eye of the beholder etc."
Is there a way to Dehaze in PD17?
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I dived in Croatia in 2017, without my proper contact lenses and couldn't adjust my white balance properly (lost my one push shortcut and couldn't see the tiny menu!) so all the dive was uncorrected and I cannot get most of it back "realistically", although at 44m it was beyond my camera's white balance anyway - there's just no red light left at all!
44m?? Wow, that's deep. This was my first dive, I went to 21 but mostly around 15m. The menus on the GoPro are so tiny, well the camera is tiny. Drove me nuts some of the time.
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If you're interested, this video is all shot with the same camera, from surface shots to 30m, but with white balance.adjusted every 2-3 metres. No post correction was done. In the shallow depth shots, the problem of uber bright sunshine and reflections off the sand showed the weakness in my camera in dealing with the differing exposures needed.
Adrian.
I'm definitely interested, I'll watch your video shortly. I'm enjoying working with my video footage in PD17, I get to relive the experience over and over.
Thank you, Adrian, and everyone for your help with this project. You've all been so amazing!
Linda
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Hi Myemerald -
Before I checked out what optdata had done in his PDR & CDR projects, I made some adjustments only in PDR's Fix/Enhance. The settings are shown in the attached screenshot.
Then I looked at the projects optodata provided.
Here is a preset (called optodata1) made directly from the adjustments he made in CDR. You can download it into your PDR in the Fix/Enhance module.
Not that it needed improving, but I made a few modifications and uploaded it as another preset - called optodata (modified). Maybe it could be de-saturated a bit.
Cheers - Tony
Wow! Thank you so much!
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Thanks for the full clip! 
I think you'll also want to play around with Split Toning and HDR Effect. You'll probably also need keyframes to adjust the settings as the dolphins swim past, since the lighting changes so much. Her's what I came up with to really help the pod stand out:
I've packed my project with those exact settings, which you can download from this OneDrive folder. It has a full copy of your clip included, too.
If you have ColorDirector, using that is another option, especially for adjusting and tuning the finer aspects here.
That's beautiful! I don't know anything about Split Toning and HDR. I'll see if I can find a tutorial on those. I don't have Color Director, I'll see if I can try it out for free. Thank you so much!
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The CLUT tool also has a Compare in split preview option, and the left is the "original" (but very crappy quality) color and the right is with Harvest Farm applied:
I just updated my original post with the clip, this time from Google Drive instead of Photos. Should be better quality.
Yes, I found the split screen feature, it helps a lot!
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I think you're gong to have the best outcome using color look-up tables (CLUTs), which are available in the Enhance section of the Fix / Enhance window.
To my eye, Autumn Forest and Harvest Farm bring out the color in the dolphins better, because they are tinting the whole color palatte towards orange/red which helps when blue/green is the overwhelming color. You may want to cut the clip and fade/transition to a normal color section when you pop out of the water if you don't like the color changes there.
Also, I just discovered that sharing video clips with Google Photos turns out to be a bad idea!
I downloaded the clip, and thought I had somehow set PD's preview quality to Low or Normal because I kept seeing a really blocky image, especially when I paused.
I then used MediaInfo to get a detailed look at your clip's specifics, and saw that the bitrate was under 4Mbps and the file size was just 13MB! So unless you converted your 209MB clip to a low quality version for uploading, Google Photos decided to do that for us and casually discarded 90% of the details from that epic encounter 
Here's the clip I downloaded. I know that Google Drive will store and allow downloading of the full (unreprocessed) versions.
I just looked at the Autumn Forest and Harvest Farm, they look better than what I have. Still not quite right though. I want the dolphins to really stand out.
I didn't know that about Google Photos, thank you for the tip. Here it is on my Google Drive Dolphin clip
Would you see if that's better?
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Since you probably want to maintain the bluish tint to some extent, an automatic fix is probably not going to work for you.
What are you trying to correct?
Are you adjusting the brightness and/or contrast? Are you trying to add or remove color vibrance? Are you trying to remove or pull back on the bluish tint?
As I suggested, you probably don't want to strip out the blue completely or it won't look like you're underwater.
So what look are you trying to get?
Yes, I do want to retain the bluish tint. I really want to bring out the dolphins, maybe more contrast/highlights? They blend in with the water at this point, I want them to really be the focus - sharpen maybe?
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While snorkeling on a recent scuba diving trip, I was fortunate enough to have 7 dolphins swim past me. It was incredible! I had my GoPro HERO7 running at the time, and captured the moment.
I'm attaching a 29 second (207MB) clip of these beautiful creatures. I've tried everything I can think of in PD17, but can't get them to look amazing. I've played with everything in Fix/Enhance, but it just ends up looking fake.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I've been working on my videos since I got home, having success with most of them, but this one eludes me. It was the highlight of my first ever Scuba Diving trip. I appreciate any help you can give me.
Replaced old clip with this one from Google Drive instead of Google Photos. Should be better quality...
Dolphin clip
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Yes. Definitely do chapters last 
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That's interesting. One thing that may help would be to move the clip and its title to the very end of the project before making the speed changes. That way, regardless of whether you change the speed of just part of the clip or the entire thing, none of the other clips will be affected.
BRILLIANT!!
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When you drag them back to their original position on the timeline, use the Trim and Move Clips option to make room if you've slowed the clip down. If you've sped it up, line up the leading edges with the original starting point, then drag a selection rectangle around all of the trailing clips and move them to the left until the leading edges of the left-most clips align with the trailing edges of the shortened clip and title.
Experimenting will probably help you find the right approach for each.
I thought your description was very clear, and the screenshots you provided really showed what you were experiencing. Thanks for posting them!
Your suggestions are fantastic! Thank you very much for being so helpful
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Changing the speed of a clip necessarily changes its duration, and since the effect is applied only to that clip, clips on all of the other tracks will remain exactly as they were before.
In general, it's probably quickest to make all of the speed changes first, and then create the titles.
Since you've already got the titles in place, the quickest way to equalize them depends on whether you've sped up or slowed down the video clip.
If you've sped the clip up and the matching title is now too long, align the scrubber with the right edge of the newly changed clip, then click on its matching title and cut it. Then right-click on the "leftover" part of the title and chose Remove and Fill Gap (or use the CTRL+Del keys), and the other titles on that track will move to the left by the same amount whcih should resync them to their respective video clips.
If you've slowed down a clip and its matching title is now too short, click on the right edge of the title and drag it to the end of the clip, and you'll see a vertical blue line appear to confirm that the edges are aligned. When you release the dragged title edge, chose Trim and Move Clips to slide all of the titles in that track to the right.
I'm learning, I will make speed changes first next time around. Then titles, then probably last, chapters?
The problem isn't so much that the duration of the title is off, it's more that it's now in a different location. Not a big deal for this one title, but having to go along the timeline and move all subsequent titles is the time consuming task.
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*I just tried this exercise on a new project. I can't explain it, but this time the title in track 2 moved with the video it was aligned with on track 1.
Screen shot Before video speed adj
Screen shot of adjustment
Screen shot timeline after adjustment
*I'm leaving this part in, because it may help someone else. I just figured out that if the speed change is applied to the Entire Clip, everything shifts properly.
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However, if the video speed is changed in a Selected Range, then the title does not move with the video clip. That title, and any others in that clip have to be moved. It appears that all subsequent clips are aligned properly. I think I will experiment a little more tomorrow and come back here with screen shots.
I'm sorry I wasn't more accurate with my post in the first place. Thank you so much for your help.
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Is there a way to sync the tracks so all of them move together when Video Speed is altered on one of them?
For example, I have a video on track 1 with a title on track 2. If I change the speed of the video, the title no longer aligns with the video.
This effects the entire movie when I have titles all the way through. It's very time consuming and frustrating.
Thanks!
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What format are the video files you want to fix up? Are they playable DVDs or are they saved as media files? And what size resolution are they?
They are playable DVDs, I used Scan Cafe to do the trasfer from film. Here is a screenshot:
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I have my old 8mm home movies on a dvd, and want to edit and clean them up if possible. Which CyberLink product is best for this?
Ideally, I want to edit each frame, clean up dust and scratches, adjust color, etc.
Thank you!!
To edit each frame you would have to first export all of the images from the video.
There is a program named ImageGrab that will do that very thing. Be warned, Video contains thousands of images, it is very big job of editing every frame.
PowerDirector has some enchanment functions in Fix/Enhance and in Power Tools. First select the video you want to enchance.
It takes a very powerful computer to handle enhancement.
Explore the tools in PowerDirector before you go off into the deep water.
Thank you for letting me know how enormous this project would be. I definitely don't want to edit thousands of images.
I'll try the available tools on some of it, and see how i do. This is all new to me. I'll just play around and see what I get. I'm so happy to have these films on dvd now, whatever I can do to improve them is just icing on the cake
My computer has:
Intel Core i5 - 12GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M - 1TB Hard Drive
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I have my old 8mm home movies on a dvd, and want to edit and clean them up if possible. Which CyberLink product is best for this?
Ideally, I want to edit each frame, clean up dust and scratches, adjust color, etc.
Thank you!!
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