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Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your post.
It's good to have someone remind me of what I normally do.
I have 4 or 5 large outboard drives because I have a vast collection of music and photographs and some videos.
But did I back up this material ? Of course not, I forgot.
To be fair to myself this one captured tape is a test in itself but you can be sure that the one time you forget to save is the one time something goes wrong. And that's from someone who has over 1tB of saved material, and the same someone who knocked a cup of tea over a brand new computer this year.
Incidentally, I already have the PD8 User Guide in front of me and I take your point about looking at the PD7 Tutorials as well as the PD8.
Thanks
Kindest regards
Ron
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Hi Cranston,
Yes, I have had a very warm welcome and I do appreciate that I have to sit down and re-think.
I have to say that I did print off the User Guide and found it told me what I could do - BUT, not how I could do it. I found the Tutorials did take me through many of the steps but not all of them.
Although I use some pretty complicated software I'm not computer literate and can only get into them by learning from my mistakes. Even my three months on iMovie was a long learning curve and I have to say that I produced a pretty cool 2 hours plus DVD without really understanding how.
Perhaps best described as - I almost knew what I was doing, but I didn't always know why I was doing it.
Not being computer literate I always find that the User Guides and Tutorials always make sense after you know what you doing - SO, I'm looking foward to that !
With all your assistance I'm sure I'll get there.
Kindest regards
Ron
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Hi James,
As you will understand this is my first attempt at thanking people for taking there time to talk me through a pretty complicated piece of software.
And I will take all the advice to go back to the beginning and study all the tutorials and guides before attempting to 'fly'.
I will add your paragraph about the way PD8 deals with the material to my Step 1 font of knowledge.
Thank you again
Kindest regards
Ron Williams
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Hi Tony,
Thank you for your help.
As I explained to Jaime I have to go back to Step 1 and learn to Walk before I try to Edit.
I will try and answer the points you raised because it will probably help me to understand some of the Steps I have to take.
1. No it's not the iMovie material. I just took the first of the 50 videos which happened to be a 30 minute Hi 8 analogue tape from 1985 and converted it through my son's Panasonic DV camera; straight into PD8.
2. I see you are asking if I 'copied all the files' to the computer hard drive and I assume that everything I copied did go onto the computer hard drive - BUT I have to say that I don't quite understand the question in this context.
3. This first analog tape has been captured by PD8 as a single clip and I have split the scenes to remove any change of scene clutter and pre-assess which scenes I need to fix or enhance - that is to remove video noise from the material shot in poor light and colour balance the scenes where the camera's auto white balance has gone awry. And indeed anything else as I get used to what PD8 can do.
4. I'll try and list details of the way I did the enhancement leading to the material running slow and faltering on playback.
Highlighting one of the scenes I had SPLIT and TRIMMED from the timeline I hit the FIX/ENHANCE BUTTON.
I ticked the VIDEO DENOISE box and the COMPARE VIDEO QUALITIES box, and moved the VIDEO DENOISE indicator up slightly - noting the effect in the Pre-View screen. Having spent some time looking at the effect I was very happy with how much noise had been removed and how clean the picture was.
I couldn't find any OK button and I closed FIX/ENHANCE.
I could play the Clip with the effect in place but it would only run in what I wouild describe as a faltering slow-motion, the audio was fine
Note
I could see the 'APPLY TO ALL' button and tried that but it affected all the Clips I had split in the Timeline and not just the Clip I was working on.
If I have missed any points in the detail please let me know
As some of the contributors have explained I will certainly raise only one issue at a time.
Thank you again for you interest
Kindest regards
Ron
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Hi Jaime,
I have been overwhelmed with the amount of interest and help I've received and I clearly have to go back to the beginning and get my brain in gear and queries in order.
But first I will acknowledge each contributor.
I must add that I have not been part of a Forum like this before and will have to be guided through the 'do's' and 'don't's' by you kind people.
Kindest regards
Ron
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Hi Dafydd,
Sorry to bore you with a bit of background - BUT.
I have recently moved into Cyberlink Ultra 8.0, having previously worked with iMovie 4.0 & 6.0. I tried 8.0 but failed miserably with that.
I did spend 3 months putting together a 2 hour plus family video on iMovie 4.0 using DV and Analogue Video, plus 8mm and 16mm film, plus slides, black and white stills and still digital images and 52 appropriate record tracks - and was delighted with the results.
I am attempting to breath life into 50 family videos, both analog and dv with the new Cyberlink product and have spent at least 2 weeks working out how to download from a Samsung Hi 8 via an s video link, using a Panasonic GS 70 camcorder as a dv converter.
The image came through to the computer on the link but as soon as I started the Capture the software started the tape. The Cyberlink support site was unable to help (having made contact about 8 times they seem to miss the key point of all the questions).
I solved it eventually by hitting the stop button on the dv camcorder which halted the tape, and with Cyberlink still in the record mode it captured the converted images from the analogue Samsung.
Although I'm pretty adept at programmes I know, like Photoshop, Canon Photorecord, and a powerful audio clean-up programme called Darts I'm not a technie.
I believe that you have been involved in the Cyberlink Tutorials, in fact I would assume that you have produced them; and I've been studying the Trim and Fix/Enhance sections for the last week.
Having been used to iMovie it has taken me a week to understand that in Cyberlink 'TRIM' - WHAT YOU MARK YOU SAVE !
I'm having the same sort of difficulties when I attempt to apply any enhancements; I can see the effect in preview but having been used to the delay, in iMovie, while the effect was being rendered I couldn't work out from the Tutorial how one could apply the effect and how long it would take to render. The Cyberlink support says just close the fix/enhance window and it will all happen - BUT I tried that and the movie then runs in slow motion and falters (as if it's still being rendered).
I'm also in trouble about the way to SAVE or least IDENTIFY each piece of Trim I do or each Enhancement I make. I have found these items in the 'Open Project' section of File, all unidentified.
I doubt that the computer is to blame for anything because it's the fairly new Dell 1525 with bags of ROM and RAM and everything else.
Why do I want to bother with Cyberlink and not go back to Movie ????????
Well, some of the old analogue tapes are shot indoors under poor light conditions and I am amazed by the Video DeNoise effect. Also the colour balance effect on iMovie was poor but i's very effective on PD8.
As an old retired non technie I would be grateful for any non technie information or what to look at or read. I have tried the Cyberlink user guide but it's very good at telling me what the software can do but not very good (for me) at telling me 'HOW TO DO IT'
I am yours sincerely
Ron Williams
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