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My observation is that the title creeps just because you open the title designer and do a save and exit. You don't even need to change the content or do any alignments.
You could copy and paste only the first title on the timeline, or drag and drop the same title from the Title room to the timeline. When you are done modifying each title, all the titles should have crept the same amount.
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100 clips means creating 100 projects.
You could go to the Create Disc panel and under the Content tab add 100 videos as titles. Select one title at a time in the Content list and then do a File > Save Project As. I would number the pds files with the title number assigned to each video in the Content list. That way you can keep track of what you have saved.
After doing that 100 times, go to Batch Produce.
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I don't quite follow. But I'll offer this: If you use keyframing, you can specify the size of frames using percentages for the coordinates of the corners. This would take up 1/8th of the whole frame and be in the top left corner.
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I believe you need an AMD processor and an AMD/ATI graphics card in order for the hardware encoder to work. On top of that, some people also need to install the AVIVO codecs downloadable from AMD. I'm one of those people. You can see the computer I have listed in my signature. I couldn't use hardware encode until I installed the AVIVO codecs. But that doesn't have anything to do with SVRT. If you use SVRT, you can't use hardware encoding.
In order for hardware video encoding to work on your computer, you probably need an NVIDIA card instead of an AMD card. On the PowerDirector 11 product page is a section that list the requirements. That's where I found out about the AVIVO codecs.
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In step 4 of the Magic Movie Wizard is a "Reorder" button that you can click and then rearrange the clips to your liking.
I believe if you use the timeline for the source, then the order the clips are in on the timeline is what is going to be the order in the movie.
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AVCHD discs do not have Video_TS folders, they have a BDMV folder. The BDMV folder is the folder that needs to appear on your disc. Inside that folder is rest of everything else you need.
What you should have done from the beginning is burn to an actual disc. Then if you need additional copies later, you can use Image Burn to create an IMG file (image file) from the disc. Then in another session of Image Burn you burn discs from the image file.
Correction: Image Burn will create a BIN file, not an IMG file. An IMG file is the wrong format.
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P.J, glad I was able to give you the directions.
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The icon file can be a maximum of 96 pixels wide and 96 pixels high. The ones that come with PowerDirector are 30 x 30 pixels. You can create a document (RGB mode) with a white background in a photo or drawing program, then draw the icon with black. The file has to be saved as a PNG file.
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One requirement for AVCHD (and Blu-ray) discs is that the disc file system has to be UDF and the file revision has to be 2.5. You set those in Image Burn on the Options tab.
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Highlight images are selected in the Menu Designer on the "Set button properties" tab under the "Button Highlight Style."
You can import a custom icon there.
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If you capture to MPEG-2, you will be able to go from 4:3 to 16:9 using SVRT. I have a mini-dv camcorder that can record in 16:9. If I capture using the VCR composite cables hooked to a Diamond or KWorld USB adapter instead of firewire, the 16:9 will be recorded as 4:3 squished. When I put the clip on the timeline and then tell PD that the aspect ratio is 16:9, the preview then shows the correct video aspect ratio, as long as the project settings are already 16:9. If you can get to that point, then so far so good. After that I can go right to the Produce tab and select MPEG-2 for the video format, and select the 720x480 HQ setting. If the SVRT button doesn't come on, then I have to edit the preset (click the plus sign) and change the bitrate so it is the same or higher than the clip's bitrate. Sometimes I'll have progressive clips, and then I'll have to change the setting from "Top field first" to "Progressive."
Here is five minutes of youtube video that shows what I did to a MPEG-2 clip in 4:3 ratio to make it permanently 16:9 ratio using SVRT. There's no sound. With a 63 minute video, you can tell that SVRT is being used because it shows SVRT 3 in the preview window and because it takes less than 3 minutes to process the 63 minute video.
http://youtu.be/wiYDRRar0ho
The video was recorded full screen 1920x1080 HD.
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P.J,
I misread your post.
You cannot capture to MPEG-4 format, just MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and AVI uncompressed. You can capture to 4:3 aspect ratio initially, but then on the PD timeline you can indicate that the video is actually 16:9 and PD will then treat it as 16:9. If you need to use the video outside of PD, then you can quickly produce a video with SVRT so that the 16:9 flag is permanent in the video. There will be no recompression.
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Hello Dafydd.
I have a KWorld VS-USB 2800D in addition to the Diamond, but I hadn't tried it until now. I had to go through exactly the same steps as with the Diamond.
When I plugged in the KWorld, the Windows 8 operating system installed the correct driver. No installation CD needed. The device wasn't recognized in PD11 until I installed a patch and lauched PD in the last step. Now that I have exited PD, I will have to install the patch again and launch PD in the last step of installation when I want to capture from either one of those devices.
Regards,
xerox
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I was surprised when Window 8 automatically installed the driver for my Diamond One-Touch VC500 USB capture device without the need for the installation CD, but I was disappointed that PowerDirector 11 wouldn't recognize it. However, last night I was able to capture from it for the first time in Windows 8 with PD11.
The trick for me is to install a patch and start PD as the last step in the installation. After PD opens, I can go to the Capture tab and the appropriate capture icon becomes enabled (capture from TV signal). I cannot capture if I start PD any other way. If I choose not to run PD as the last step of the installation, I cannot capture when I do run PD later.
One reason I like PowerDirector for capturing from this device is that PD handles the VC500 audio correctly through the USB connection.
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P.J
Try this, install the latest patch, even if you have already done so. The last step of the installation lets you start PD as the next step, so do that. After PD opens, go to the Capture tab and wait to see if the appropriate capture icon becomes enabled.
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What is the name of the song and what is the name of the variation? How many variations are there for that song?
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There is a free application from Microsoft called Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. This will edit WMV and encode to WMV, sometimes without re-encoding. You can specify "Source" for the codec and "Source" for frame size in the output panel.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27870
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Go to the Quicktime Player Preferences and make sure that "Use high quality video setting when available" is selected. If it is not selected, playback quality will be fair to poor.
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I believe that the 24Mbps is the TS MUX Rate, according to VideoRedo. The average bitrate for the video is a separate number.
What is the first clip on the timeline? Is it video or photo? If it's video, what is it's average bitrate? Are there any video effects or transitions that start off on the first video clip?
I have AVC video with varying bitrates. Even though PowerDirector indicates SVRT will be used, only the video clips that have bitrates that are extremely close to the first video clip will be SVRT'd. The others are recompressed.
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Do not "Capture." Use whatever software that came with your camcorder to transfer the mod files from your camcorder to your hard drive. Then "import" the mod files into PowerDirector just like other video files.
That is my suggestion.
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I haven't tried Essentials VI, but I know that Essential V is not compatible with PowerDirector 11.
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