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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.
Quote:I have a VHS TAPE to DVD recorder that I use to transfer Video Tape to DVD, It has the ability of fit 6 hours of video on a 4.7 GB DVD, (bad quality), I usually limit the Tape Transfer to Two Hours, the quality of the video is acceptable, the Bit rate for 2 hours on a 4.7 GB disk is around 4 to 6 Mbps. A little less quality than the Maximum If you record only one hour on a 4.7 GB DVD.
Hi, Carl!
That which you describe was basically a VCR with a DVD recorder tacked onto it. You could transfer from DVD to VHS or from VHS to DVD but it was fairly basic with little or no provision to edit the content(except for DVD to VHS, perhaps). They were fairly commonplace in the dying days of analogue broadcasting. I wonder how many of these are still "floating around" out there. As for me I'd much rather use a capture card to take the signal from a VHS deck or any other analogue video source, and process it(clean it up) before committing it to a DVD. Whichever software you use, be it Power Director or any one of a myriad of other software programmes, you have far more control over the content and how it will look and sound at the end of your processes than just shoving a tape and blank disc into a VHS/DVD recorder. Though I figure you'd use the resultant DVD from one of these machines as your "raw material" for editing in PD(any version).
Just to add to what Dan, Jirka & Neil have posted...
Just like Movie Maker, you insert your clips and edit in whatever way you wish BUT you don't get the finished product until you Produce in PDR or Save Movie in MovieMaker - most video editing software works in a similar way. The names are just different.
You can, if you wish, produce only part of your project (e.g. the 10 second clip cut down to 5) by using Produce Range
Cheers - Tony
Hello, John!
Between Dan, Jirka, Tony and myself, I think we've fairly-well covered this subject.
No changes to the input files shown in the media library take place while editing your project. PowerDirector just saves the editing information in a tagged file with the pds extension. Unless you save such a project file, even the editing information is lost. It's only when the output file is rendered in the Produce section that the edited video is actually created and saved.
I hope it makes sense.
Kind regards…
Jirka
Hello John!
What Jirka says here is correct. I forget the terminology used, but in digital video editing, you're basically creating a new version of the content, without altering the original material at all. If the clip you start out with is 10 secs. in duration, If you've trimmed down to three, four or five seconds, you need to render it while it's on the timeline to get your new length, but you will still have the original 10-second clip for use at a later date. It's a non-destructive method of editing, compared to the practice of editing film... scissors or razor-blade in hand, snip, snip... another bit of film flutters to the floor! That was a very wasteful, destructive method in its day, It's far better now with digital editing!
For a direct comparison of the DVD HQ vs Smart fit you would have to use MediaInfo to compare the bitrate and resolution of the video on the DVD.
Smart fit lowers the bitrate to fit the capacity of the disk if your content exceeds the disk at normal DVD HQ quality.
It is possible to fit up to 6 hours of video on a 4.7 GB DVD, but the quality of the video is very poor quality.
Hi!
The poor quality Carl refers to is due to DVD-LP authoring. Severe pixelation can, and will occur at the lower end of the quality scale. For me, DVD-SP provides a good quality, watchable video, with no freezing(unless you need to put a lens cleaner through your DVD player)., plus the ability to put up to 2 hrs, 25 mins, of content on the disc, which is plenty! To this end I use PD8 for authoring, PD14 is for editing.
Quote:Neil.F.1955 if the Power Director 13 works with nvidia (GTX 690 in my case ) and PD 14 don't what does this tell you? That nvidia is for blaiming?
Power DIrector is weeel known with fuul of bugs and crashes.
I'm not a Newbie on this forum i have helped people on this forum and usiing since PD 7. For exemple i discovers that PD 14 will freeze working on blu ray creation disk at 0% and unistaling New Blue Titler (if you instaled any newblue programs) will do the job and unblock the program. I have made a post with this.
Hello, Signora Gigescu.(I assume you're a lady, Gigi being a feminine name)
First of all I'm simply going on what has been said by so many others who have posted on this forum to date. Thus far the weight of opinion is heavily against GeForce, and Nvidia, being the creator thereof, is getting a considerable amount of criticism because of the problems people have been experiencing with GeForce. You say that GeForce isn't giving trouble with Power Director 13? Well and good! But there are a great many out there who are experiencing difficulties with PD14.
Secondly, it's not really a matter of "blaming" Nvidia, it's just that the many who are experiencing the difficulties thus far reported, either express the desire for Nvidia to "sort out" the problems with GF, or they take the action of disabling it.
For a start I don't have Nvidia GeForce on my computer(wipes away sweat from brow, heaves sigh of relief), From everything I've read thus far it speaks to me of Nvidia having "laid an egg" with GeForce, and that egg has ended up on their(collective) face! That such a piece of hardware(and software) could cause so much grief, should deliver a very strong message to Nvidia: YOU GOOFED! BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!
Quote:Must be a lots of users of this software out there.
Hi, Butchdon!
There most certainly are!, Though many Power Director users are likely using earlier versions, and in some cases, may have two, three or even four versions installed on their computers. I have two versions on mine, PD8 and PD14, both Ultra. I've found that PD14 has quite a few good features but, on the other hand there are some of those "features" that still require a great deal of "tweaking" by Cyberlink to get them right. For that reason, I've hung on to PD8 Ultra. There are one or two things I can do in PD8 that I found cannot be done in PD14.
Quote:After expanding the tracks, I did see blanks within the clips and that fixed the problem. Thanks
Hi, Betanc1496!
A trap for the unwary, maybe! But in normal curcumstances, when you split a video in PD14 you should get the following message, giving you these choices: "Remove and leave gap"; "Remove and fill gap"; "Remove, Fill gap and move all clips". This message comes up when you're about to delete an unwanted section between two splits. In older versions(PD8 and earlier), the gap is simply filled automatically, but(I think) from version 9 onwards of Power Director, you'll get the message I've described, or at least you should do. Hope that's of some help.
Hi, Tony(Ynotfish), Angela(123), Jcardana, Jeff(JL_JL) and Tomasc! Wow, that's a big roll-call!
I guess we could bundle this audio level business with PD14 into the "design fault" basket, ay? As I said, I can perform audio adjustments in PD8, the audio will hold the level I set until I set a new level. What's more, I can type in the level I want in the space above the slider adjustment for a given track, click on that track and the setting will be applied. I can't do that in PD14, or at least, I don't think I can. Some experimentation may be needed in that department. But the fact that I CAN do it in PD8 convinces me even more that I'm glad I held on to PD8, even after installing PD14.
With CyberLink Cloud, you can upload projects and media so you can access them wherever you are... just like any cloud/drive service.
The difference is that you can upload & download to/from CL Cloud directly through PDR.
To use a different service, you'd just need to pack/zip your projects.
Cheers - Tony
Hi, Tony, CL/Cloud has me curious. Am I able to upload any of my finished videos there to be viewed, similar to YouTube? If so I could upload some of my more recent works(like my video on the Sydney Tramway Museum) and it could be Cyberlink's answer to YouTube without all the hassles over music copyright flagging. Worth thinking about, ay?
Cheers!
Neil.
P.S. With installation of PD14, I had a year's free subscription to Cyberlink Cloud, which will expire in November, 2016. How much will it cost(in Australian dollars) to renew that subscription? And who do I send it to?
I've found that if you attempt to set the audio level at the very beginning of the clip(first frame), it will sometimes maintain the setting across the duration of the clip, or sometimes it will drift back up, or down to the default 0.0Db level. If the latter happens, then you have to manually raise or lower the level at the end(last frame) of the clip to the volume level you've set at the beginning. This does not happen in PD8. If I set a level in PD8 it will hold that level until the point where I set a new level. That feature is very useful when inserting narration, where you can drop the level in the native audio(captured by the camera's microphone[s]) so that it won't drown out your narration. Likewise with any music you add. Here you can set the music audio level so that the music can be subdued through the video, raising up, just a minute or so toward the end, after your last narration and where you have, perhaps a scrolling closing credit sequence. Hmmm.... As I type this, I'm convincing myself that I sould use PD8 rather than PD14 for future narration/music insertions. As for Wave Editor/Audio Editor, I had Wave Editor appear on my computer as part of my PD14 Ultra package(along with Screen Recorder, which I have not yet tried). Audio Editor can work on and save audio in all different file types(MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, etc.) but I think Wave Editor can only save as WAV files(though I may be wrong on that score).
I've been watching the to-and-fro comments between yourself and Carl312. As one who has Power Director 8 Ultra and 14 Ultra(as stand-alone programmes) on my computer, I can tell you it's quite useful to have such an arrangement. I use PD14 for editing purposes and PD8 for DVD authoring, as well as occasionally for capture from VHS or other format video-camera tapes when required. Just going to show the older versions still have their uses. You have complete media suite packages installed, which means you can delve into an earlier suite and use an earlier version of, say Power Producer, Audio Director, Power Director, or any other programme within that suite to "touch up" some of your videos. As I said, it's useful to have such options available. If you go back to suites that included Power Director versions 5 to 8, for instance, installing the suite that included PD7 would require you to uninstall the suite the held PD6, but with these much later suites, or the stand-alone PD programmes, PD9 through to 14 or the suites that contain them, can live side-by-side with each other or one of the earlier suites. Just an observation I've made.
On to another issue. The hires version of this video hangs after 4 seconds. It's being hosted on OneDrive. I'll try AWS to see if that makes a difference.
Hi, Butchdon!
For the new issue, you need to start a separate thread. That's the normal practice on this forum.
If you're running Windows 8(designated as 8.1) I don't forsee any problems with PD14 on that platform. Contrary to some comments that have said the PD8 won't work on Windows 10, I know of a case that negates that statement, so, using that as a yardstick, PD14 should be okay on Windows 8.1! The only thing you can do is "suck it and see"! If you haven't yet tried PD14, get a retail version, install it, following the prompts, try it for a day or two before activating it into the full version(you'll likely have typed in the CD key to get PD 14 running as a trial, the final stage of activation requires an internet connection). If you do the final stage before 30 days are up, the final activation to full version will be smooth and the trial period will have shown how well PD14 runs on Windows 8.1!(Used exclamation mark there as a full-stop looks a bit silly after a decimal point.)
Yeah, That can be a trap for the unwary, when you can have so many video and audio tracks avilable just a mouse-click away! You have to watch the content to ensure no extraneous "stuff" turns up on a higher-numbered track well beyond where the end of your clip is supposed to be. I got caught on this one, once or twice(or a few times) myself. Bit of a pain, ain't it?
Quote:Previously in similar burning problem, Updating the software solves the problem. there is no update.
Where can the software PD13 be re-installed without causing problems to registration? Anyone knows? thanks
I think Carl312 may have an answer for you on this one, or perhaps Dafydd B. But if you're reinstalling PD13, surely there shouldn't be too many issues around registration(perhaps, while the programme is still on the computer and you insert the installation disc to affect a "repair"). I'm only guessing here, please note. So I'll hand this one over to Carl or Dafydd.
Cheers!
Neil.
There you go, Hank! Just as I was writing, in came Carl with the info you sought! Cheers, Carl!
You can work however you want, it is your method that works for you. If you follow the above guidelines, you may never lose what you are doing in a project.
Granted when you are done you can delete the entire project work folder without packing the project materials. That would clear your computer of all of the work files for that project.
You would only use the storage for the project while you are working on that one project.
Imagine if you were a member of the PDToots team and you lost the work that many people had been working on for days or months.
Thanks for the suggestion, Carl, but as I'm not part of the PDToots team, that's somewhat of a moot point(I guess, if I was, I'd likely save content in PDS files), but as I'm working for myself, I've no need of storing material that way. If I lost the edit I was working on, I still retain the raw MPEG2 or MP4 content, and would, on second attempt, probably create a better edit, using a couple of ideas I thought of but didn't use in the aborted first attempt, so all is not lost. I am, after all, a hobbyist videographer, producing content that, in the end will only be seen by family and/or friends. I don't upload to YouTube(after the kerfuffle over music copyright flagging issues, can you blame me?).
How's it goin'? I tend to copy from the camera's SD-card across to my internal hard-drive(though, on occasion I have edited content directly from the card, either in situ, still in the camera, or removed from the camera and inserted to a card reader). After I've "mucked about" with the material(done a few different edits), I'll store the content onto a 2TB external hard-drive, that I might revisit the content at a later stage for yet another attempt to make a still-better(I hope) edit(if I come up with any new ideas for it). Doing this, I can later clear the content off the SD-card, freeing it up for later use. For working on "large-ish" video edits(like one on the tramway museum in the outer Sydney suburb of Loftus, for instance), I'll work on it for thirty-or-so minutes, have a break, get a snack or drink, then come back to it, but always try to get it done in one session. That's how I've always worked. I get into the mood for a video-editing session and just "push on through". Certainly works for me!
......Like George Lucas says... "A film is never finished, it gets taken away."That's all very well for George Lucas, but I'm no George Lucas! The project for me is the finished edit! I see no need to store the components together in a PDS file to link up the clips, titles, captions, transitions and other "bits and bobs". I have the original MPEG2 or(as from my new camera, MP4) video files stored on my hard-drive for me to edit in another way(I might do two, three or more different edits before I'm satisfied, and not always in Power Director), so the raw content is all I really need. The final "produce" is the proof of my pudding! I have the time to dedicate to putting the video together and I much rather just plough ahead and get the edit finished.
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