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With my first real projects with PD 19 I try to produce with some iPhone 4k 60 fps files. Now with the Fast Video Rendering technology on and set to Intel Quick sync video, most of the output formats I have tried to produce with end with the error message:
“Production unsuccessful. Please ensure that your Graphics Card driver is up to date, and update to the latest version of Windows Media Player. You can also try to output the production in a different video format”
With the fast rendering ON, I have not seen this message in any of the previous PD versions, before.
I have all drivers and media players (is that for the codec??) up to date. I have tried different video formats but many give the above error message and only a few work fine like : H.264 640x480/25p (I work with PAL) and also H.265 and MPEG2 1920x1080/50i (25mps), but they take for ages. (And in PD18 my GPU a 1070 happily joined in, but in PD 19 not anymore).
It works with that Fast Video Rendering OFF. If it works, the rendering is very slow. But that has been mentioned here before.
I know that you may want to look at my specs, but this behavior is basically not my system but the obvious changes between PD 18 and PD 19….
I am flagging this to a) see whether there are users that recognize this, b) whether there are any suggestions [not things like pre-conversion etc. one would assume that PD is simply able to process the original files as is] and c) to alert CL to check this (I have also informed CL otherwise).
Overall, I am not so happy with the delivery of PD19 like this. Of course, 365 users have the choice not to upgrade to any new version (19 in this case), but once they have, they are stuck with the (initial?) errors, also because there is no way back. In addition, my suggestion to CL to extend the testing work (this software IS very complex by nature) and maybe involve end-users at some stage. I would be happy to participate, as long as there is some way to use the old version along for the production work that must go on.
There are no “do-it-all” plugins available, since the improvement settings so strongly depend on the (quality of the) input material and desired results. The 8mm material was good and satisfactory in the past, but it will never get to the quality of nowadays technology, whatever we do.
(Have a look at the pretty good attempts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw)
The basic material should be good so I hope that your mp4 scans are as good as they can be. Depending on the scanning firm and methodology (like scratch removal, color- and white balance corrections) there are a little or a lot of work left. With PD you can do reasonable cleaning and color corrections, and you will probable see that these corrections will differ from scene to scene.
In addition, you may also want to look at the glueing at the splices which tend to be darker, cut them out and redo them now with digital "clueing", and maybe even with new transitions. The removal of unsharp (unwanted) scenes will also improve the result. And maybe you want to reorder the scenes a bit too. It is all so much easier now.
And look at producing in HD quality where possible.
Also look at the recent discussion here:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/83345.page It will take some time to get things right. But the audience will love it.
Have fun.
Can you please show us what you are doing, by sending a picture of the feather situation, or (even better) a small screen recording of the steps you take. So that we can replay what you do and give feedback?
(I like to state here that -looking at your valuable contribution to this forum- you definitly win the eternal gratitude price!)
Yes, in the Start Menu is where I have found Cyberlink that links to CLToast. Didn't you?
and I have found one (thank you) in the task list; apparently an -updateschedulerun.
I did turn off all notifications, so it was not there.
Last time I checked I was the owner of and the boss on my PC. I'd like to know what is going on and why.
Maybe Cyberlink can tell us what it does and put our minds to rest? I will ask them.
Since the installation of PD 19 (365) I appear to have a Link to Cyberlink in Start list. I clicked on it (I know that is dangerous) and it does not seem to do anything.
I have checked and the link points to a program CLToast.exe in the folder:
Program files (x86) \ Cyberlink \ Shared files - folder. The .ini file points to PowerDirector 19 and PhotoDirector 12, so this something that came with the recent installation.
But WHAT does this program do, and why does it sit in the Windows start list? Anyone?
In some cases, I see different behavior when I switch on and off the “Enable OpenCL technology to speed up…. In the Hardware Acceleration tab of the preferences.
However, irrespective of this setting I see the spinning balloon and also a preview of the effect selected. Don’t you?
This is indeed not a preview of the effect applied to the clip. I don’t know any way of previewing the effect on the clip. What I consider a faster way to getting a better preview of the effect rather than apply it to the whole clip (and the hassle of removing it again) is to drag the effect to the FX line under the track in the timeline. It can simply be removed from there too.
Now as of version 19 there is no FX track anymore. You have to manually insert it, by selecting Add Tracks from a menu that opens when you right click in the timeline.
If you have a choice, or have important editing work to do: I would recommend to wait until the first patch has arrived.
Look at the forum so far, a number of questions about behavior, some -it must be said- due to the changes and simplifications in the UI, others were clearly waiting for the wider audience testing.
So far working with 19 after a ca 9 hours download period, I have experienced a number of program crashes, some even without PD to catch the error and allow reporting... (I have reported those back to CL with error information retrieved from system level).
Having said that, my general impression is that the program works fairly well.
thanks for the info is the ProDAD and Vitascene in the Director Zone site ?
They come along with the ultimate (also 18 and below) and 365 versions. In my case they have been installed automatically.
If you have one of those, you will find them when opening the transfer-room....
Have a look at the Precut facility. Load the clip but not into the timeline then rightclick on the clip to open a menu and select precut. If you use the multitrim, select your scenes and press OK, you will have these scenes indivdually available to add to the template. I guess that is just what you want, right?
OK.
What is good to know is, is:
if you want the new picture already in place and that it will be more and more revealed with the line (that is the WIPE with direction right), or
if you want the new picture to be moved into place with the line.... (that is the SLIDE transition with direction right)
Also have a look at the ProDAD and Vitascene plugin transitions, they may give you the same or more desired results.
And if you want a clearly visible line moving, and such is not available, then you have the option to draw a line and move it along with the transition. Mind you this may require a lot of careful key-framing to keep the line moving at the same paste as the transition.
Using the highest quaility source (on iPhone) and cropping with PD will give you a bit more flexibility and potentially better results. Since during editing you can change the amount of cropping or undo and change (enhance) the source material, which cannot be done with the already cropped source material.
(It may also depend on the subject and the amount of cropping, the light available. What also comes into play is the quality of recording and required quality of final output.)
Best thing is to do a brief test with the two options to see what suits you best.
(And when you have done that, maybe you can share here, so that we all can learn?)
Quote I just tried downloading the Bloggers Social Media pack again and it downloaded and installed in about 10 seconds so I don't think the issue is too much demand at this point.
I have seen that some of the packages come from a different IP address than the software does. Packages that seem to come from the same address as the software, download very slow (at least for me). I see that AWS is involved at some points.
Anyway, it is an issue is that Cyberlink should improve upon.
Quote I'm curious to see if you could check the FX as I showed in my linked post above. I suspect that some will be blank for you, but either way we'll have more data.
Well, I indeed did replay your examples and they work for me as shown in your video.
Triggered by your: it works on the desktop but not on the Surface Book 3, I retried my video with UNTAGGING in the preferences, hardware Acceleration, the enable the openCL technology.
With the tag ON, the effect shows as in my video, with the tag OFF the expected result appears. My conclusion is that since this tag is specially to speed up the effects in the preview window, that there is some wrong with the coding of this new custom selection tool.
I did not try producing the the clip with the blur yet, But I would expect that the effect will work fine there.
What do you think, would the moderator already have seen this and tell it to the developers, or should we write CL ourselves?
You almost followed all steps as described. However, like I experience and have noted, the pre-defined masks even when the user changes them, are working ok.
It is (only) the new customer selection mask that does give this unexpected result for me. See my video.
I have also noticed the brief hesitation (by lack of a better word) before the preview screens show the clip.
I wonder whether you have the same results as I have.
For what it is worth: it took me over 18 hours in total to get the updates of the 365 suite software downloaded and installed. I have tried a restart once, but the Application Manager did not remember where it was. I did a subsequent download of some effects packs a few hours ago, and they went fairly fast (under 1 minute).
The only thing I can advise is: be patient in times where the whole subscribers base is eager to get its hands on the new stuff.
Hi,
I have done a lot with 8mm material as well and agree that PD is a good tool to get fair results. The fact that you have your films scanned in HD, also means that all flaws and dirt and scratches and lack of sharpness will be very visible too.
My experience is that there is no really good pre-setting to get the perfect result. It strongly depends on the shape of the source material, the scanning and the desired result. I usually cut the material into smaller clips that look similar and may require the same improvement settings and adjust the scenes as desired. Then apply the settings to other scenes (copy and paste the video (keyframe) attributes) and see what the result is. Either use it or do some further fine-tuning.
Sometimes using LUTs will help. But again, depending on the variables mentioned.
For some 8 mm film which was in the 4:3 format, I cropped the scenes to get the 16:9 format, which shows nice on nowadays screens. Of course, it depends on what the clips display whether such a cropping is not too crude.
And ... in some cases I have done not too much to the material as not to lose the charms of the old material.
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