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Hi, Jcardana!
......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.
Cheers!
Neil
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I am missing all the video tools other than 'split' I.e. Modify. Fix/Enhance, PowerTools & Keyframe. They do appear when some clips are high-lighted but disappear on others? I know that if you select 'movie' rather than 'clip' they disappear, but I do have it on the 'clip' setting. Can anybody help me please?! I am using Power Director 13 Ultra and Winows 10
Hello, pyratepeter4!
When a video is placed on the timeline but not highlighted, it is assumed by PD that you are simply viewing it. Thus Power Tools etc. will not appear. When highlighted, all your tools will appear to perform whatever tasks you want to perform with the clip. It's as simple as that!
Cheers!
Neil.
The above is, as I believed, the case with PD12, previous(back to PD![]() or subsequent versions. However, Carl has pointed to a bug in the PD12 software that results in the problems you've described. Had you encountered such problems earlier(say, not long after first installation) or have these problems been ever-present? If so, then Carl's recommendation of the patch might help. I thought I should add this to my existing post rather than start a new post.
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Hi, all!
As a general rule, my proceedure is to import all my video content into the media library and "go hard at it" until I've completed the editing process(assemble the clips, drop in the transition effects, add any titles and captions, add my narration track and any music) then produce the video in one session. I don't save as a PDS file(pack the content and other "bits & bobs into a project file) as I've always preferred to take a video editing project from start to finish in one session. I've been working this way since PD5. I now have both PD8 Ultra and PD14 Ultra on my computer.
Cheers!
Neil.
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That's probably due to the number of posts rather than their quality lol. 
Oooh! Cheeky! Ha-ha! (that's what I was going to say when this thread suddenly vanished). I'm sure DavyDee will be glad, as the original poste, that the thread has been restored. Thanks Cyberlink, and most of all, thanks, Dafydd!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Dafydd!
Cheers on that score! You'll notice in your "in-box a notification that I've asked you to pass on to Cyberlink, I got an Email notifying me that I got a reply to one of my posts, only to find it WAS my post. This is getting serious. It needs rectifying, sooner, the better!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Please Cyberlink!
Will you sort out your notification posting! I've lost count of the emails I've received saying "Your topic (topic title) has received an answer since your last visit. You can access this message using the following link". When I click on the link I discover it's MY OWN post! This situation is truly getting to be an annoyance. Dafydd, could you please pass this post through to Cyberlink? This has gone beyond joking!
Thank, You.
Neil.
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Hi, Dafydd!
I think Fenman may have found this URL you were after in his "browsing history" I've copied it and pasted below to give you a second shot at it:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/47225.page#245689
Thus far I haven't seen anything in my "in-box" to tell me if the thread Fenman and I have been discussing has re-emerged yet.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi!
A similar(themed) thread elsewhere prompted my reply and I feel I should state the same thing here. I wish they never put cameras in these mobile phones! The primary purpose of such a device is communications on the move.... that's all! There's a plethora of top-quality videocameras on the market that can give near-professional-looking results, so why waste time with the mediocre result of a very ordinary camera in a device tht's not really intended for such use? Well, I've had my rant & rave! I feel so much better now!
Cheers!
Neil.
(P.S. - this was copy-pasted as the first attempt to submit went "kerblooey" and the save failed. I managed to copy what I've written and paste it into a fresh reply panel.)
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Hi, innuganti!
It will certainly help. A friend of mine has two Canon(branded) cameras that use that format(Mini-DV tape), he brought his camera and tapes to me to edit for him and that's how I captured the content for edit. Through the capture card the picture came up surprisingly well, the card caused no appreciable image quality loss and I was able to edit a very good quality movie off those tapes. However, for the sake of honesty I have to admit, the captured device I was using at the time(my first), while it gave good video, the same could not be said of the audio feed, in fact the audio through the card was woeful, so bad that I had to bypass it and feed the audio through the line-in of my computer's sound card(via an audio mixer I used to feed in signal from a turntable, cassette deck or microphone). The computer I was using had Windows XP and I was running PD7 at the time and I wasn't on the internet. The sound card caused little audio drop-outs at places through the video. Successive cards gave me much better results in audio and video. The next card was a Pinnacle "Dazzle" and the one I use now is a K-World card. I only replaced the Dazzle as I thought it was the culprit when I kept getting false copy-protect triggers off my VHS tapes as I transferred them. Turned out the triggering was caused by the wear and tear on the tapes themselves. Your Mini-DV tapes won't trigger such an alert so you'll have no problem in that department. What's more, if you shot your DV content in 16:9, though the capture process automatically assumes 4:3 aspect ratio, you'll be able to reinstate the 16:9 aspect through that facility in PD14(or any previous version).
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Addie9207!
At a guess, it could be a corrupted installation of PD14! Do you have any other third-party video editing software on your computer(other than Windows Movie Maker) that you can open your video files in, to compare them against what's happening in PD14? Try editing your clips in one of them and see what happens as a comparison. If there's no speeding up, and if audio and video remain synchronised in the other programmes, then perhaps you could try an uninstall/reinstall of PD14. That's about the only thing I can come up with at the moment.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Dafydd!
I haven't missed what you asked for, I simply did not get one in my email "in-box" linking to "PD13 & 14 on Win10 x64: constant hanging, crashing, every other minute". There was no reference to it, whatsoever. From Cyberlink's no-reply VIPmail I've often received 6 emails in one shot, sometimes only 2 or three and on one occasion, upwards of 11, but in all those I've received over the pst few days(it's 2nd February, here in Australia), I've not had any notification of the reinstatement of that missing thread. That's why I looked in the forum pages first, if the thread had been reinstated in either the PD14 or Previous Versions forums, then both Fenman and I would've received notification of that reinstatement.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi everybody!
I just read something similar in another thread about shooting videos on a mobile phone(or "cell-phone" as you call them up there in the USA). To be brutally frank I wish they'd never put cameras in those things! A mobile (cell) phone's primary function is for communication "on the move". Videos should be shot with dedicated hardware, towit, the videocamera! There are some great cameras out there that will do a far better job than what can be achieved with a camera built into a mobile phone, and what's more, you can have stereo sound on your videos. Just thought I'd mention it!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi!
Dafydd, I just looked and could not see if the thread had been reinstated into the Forum for PD14, it may be in the "previous versions post. I'll look in there and will use this post(add to it in editing) to advise if I've seen it there.
Terminal, I know you have an interest in the subject the disappeared thread covered, but this thread is about the very disappearence of that other thread. Just thought I'd point that out.
Cheers!
Neil.
Dafydd, as the saying goes: "watch this space!" Okay, a quick check on the Previous Versions forum reveals no reinstatement of the disappeared thread. If it had been returned, it would've been on the first page of thread lists.
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Thanks for the replies!
It's a bit disappointing that, although you can see how the effect behaves as just as effect, you cannot preview how it would interact with your video. Just a 5 second preview would do...
Hi, Nicky!
I have to agree with Tony on this one, it's the "nature of the beast" so-to-speak. If you have content on your timeline you can see how the fx room content will affect your video, just drop a chosen effect onto the fx track immediately below the video track(assuming you're using Video Track 1). This is a sort-of "suck it and see" approach, delete the effect from the fx track if you don't like it.
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Hi Neil,
Thank you for your thoughts. My original answer and Barry's suggestion stands. Start a new topic.
Dafydd
Hi, Dafydd!
I don't think I'll bother. I've said as much as needs to be said so I'll leave this one alone now.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, innuganti!
This suggestion may appear low-tech to you, but it could provide the answer to getting your 3 Mini-DV tapes finally copied to computer. The use of the camera's output to a TV(monitor), a cord will have been provided as part of your camera's "kit", it will be terminated at one end with colour-coded RCA plugs(red and white for the stereo left and right audio, yellow for the composite video) The other end will have a four-conductor phone plug that connects to the afforementioned TV through it's like-colour-coded RCA sockets. Well, instead of connecting your camera to a TV Monitor, connect it instead via a capture card device to your computer. The firewire will be no good to you by now, so the capture card would be your only real option. These devices are generally "plug-and-play" so, once the device is connected to your computer via a spare USB port, it will take a few seconds for the computer to "recognise" the device and you're up and running. Because the DV tapes are digital, set your capture profile to DVD-SP or DVD-HQ(DVD-LP is really for older analogue VHS or Video-8/Hi-8 tapes). Hope that helps.
Cheers!
Neil.
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This worked great Neil.
Thanks for the tips.
No worries! Glad to be of help! Enjoy your production!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Angela!
I've had a similar experience in that a video I put together for sending to a community TV station in Newcastle(Australia) required a good High Quality video image for the purpose of broadcast, so I rendered it in AVCHD, it took an extremely(inordinately) long time to render. I tried doing a version in MPEG2 HQ, and it rendered comparitively "in the blink of an eye" compared to the AVCHD render. So I figured anything really short(like a couple of minutes), AVCHD will suffice, but anything that exceeds 10 minutes, I'll render in MPEG2(SP or HQ). It'll save a heck of a lot of time and hair-pulling(out of frustration).
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello Everybody!
Last night(or early this morning, 1st February, my time), I was commenting on a post by a person wanting to know why he was having the problem suggested by the above title. It was posted in the "previous versions" forum but because it mentioned both PD13 and PD14, could have fitted in this forum as well as the "previous versions" forum. Thing is, I'd already posted one answer, then, having noticed I had been promoted in status, made a comment in a P.S. at the end(in editing). Mike(Fenman) then chimed in with a light-hearted comment on my elevation in status, I'd only just finished a very brie reply to Mike, in the same joking mood, When I clicked to submit, it took a few minutes to save but then I got the note in PMs to say the thread doesn't exist. Mike(Fenman) noticed it as well and we've been discussing it through the PM's. Either Mike, myself, or perhaps someone else(maybe even the person who posted the original question) may have posted a "please explain" query as to why this thread suddenly vanished. There was nothing at all in it(that I could see) that could violate any protocols in posting on this website. So I'm asking respectfully, on behalfof Mike(Fenman), myself(Neil F.1955) and the original poster as well as anyone else who had made subsequent posts on this thread, "please explain!"
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Dafydd B!
Chuckpuckett was the "original poster"(OP) on this thread, yes. But I don't think Gerald W. was attempting to "hijack" the thread. Gerald had the same problem as Chuck, where PD14 would not burn a DVD. There was, admittedly a slight variance in each case but it was the same problem, failure to burn a DVD. So I believe Gerald deserves an answer within the same thread as the problem is in the same theme.
cheers!
Neil.
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Don't bother. I just bought the #1 in a different post. Capture is limited in to PD defaults of mpeg-1, mpeg-2, and avi at sd resolutions only. Mp4 captures are are available with the supplied software.
Thanks for the info Tomasc! I had the installation disc for the bare-bones version sitting in a box with other software discs, and just thought there might've been some use for it. Thing is, the content capture would not be via capture card, but straight off an SD-card(content copy-pasted to a folder on the computer for editing later). The camera is a Canon Legria HF R506 that shoots and saves in MP4 or AVCHD(I've chosen MP4). Does that change things?
Cheers!
Neil.
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