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I use a Logitech C920 too, but I'm not exactly sure what your question or issue is.
You've asked about setting the frame rate. The C920 records at 1080p/30fps (max). As Carl suggested, you can set the timeline frame rate in PDR's preferences. As far as I can tell, there's no way to change that in either the Logitech settings or in YouCam.
There are a number of ways you can use your webcam to record... directly through the Logitech app, via PDR's capture module or via YouCam. How do you do it? I may make a difference to the output.
Maybe I'm not properly understanding what your timeline structure is. Could you post a screenshot of your timeline, showing what you've done so far?
You were asking how to apply soft edges to a series/sequence of images without doing it one-by-one. That's why I suggested pre-producing the slideshow, which makes that sequence into a single element that can be masked.
The mask I attached previously is not intended to be placed in the timeline. As you found, all it does is block out part of the screen with a fuzzy black blob. It is intended to be used in Mask Designer, where it works as expected.
Aside from the suggestion I made, I can't think of an alternative that doesn't involve masking each image separately, which is what you were trying to avoid.
Ease in/out can't be applied in Magic Motion, but you can replicate the same motion in PiP Designer, where Ease in/out can be used.
In the attached packed project, the first image has Vertical Up applied in Magic Motion. The second one was done in PiP Designer with Ease in/out applied.
Produce the slideshow without the clouds background
Overlay the produced slideshow on the clouds background video
Resize & reposition as necessary
Apply a soft edged mask to the slideshow video
Feathering the edges of a regular rectangle mask (in Mask Designer) may work for you. Alternatively, you could use a mask like the one attached, which gives a screen layout like:
With very simple clips (like the one on the left), you'll get away with applying stabilisation & motion tracking together. When there's a more complex composition (right) the two steps need to be done separately.
PDR has trouble tracking with more complex backgrounds in any case.
So - apply your stabilisation then produce the video. Then apply Motion Tracking to the produced video.
If your source footage is 16:9, I wouldn't be messing around changing it to 4:3 (unless you had a particular reason for doing that).
Am I assuming correctly that your source clips are 720x576?
Another possibility is to create a custom MP4 profile that doesn't use non-square PAR, like 1024x576. That can't be done in PDR's interface but it can be done by editing the Profile.ini (where PDR stores custom profiles).
If you go to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\16.0\UserConfigure, you'll find the Profile.ini, which can be opened with NotePad
Attached are two 1024x576 profiles (one is 29.97fps the other 25fps).
Open it in NotePad - select all & copy the text.
Open Profile.ini & place the cursor either at the very start or end of the text.
Paste the new profiles into Profile.ini
Save & close
When you open PDR16, & go to produce, select H.264 > MP4 > Custom & you'll see the profiles called "SD 1024x576/30p 8Mbps" & "SD 1024x576/25p 8Mbps".
Produced files will play back in any player without the need for manipulating aspect ratio.
You're right: 720x576 is actually 5:4 & where you read about using 1024x576 that's because it's 16:9. Sorta. Trouble is, those calculations only work if the pixels are square (1:1) & sometimes they're not.
If you'd like to get more confused, have a read of this.
720x576 is PAL DVD resolution.
In PDR16, when you go to Produce you can choose H.264 > MP4 > then click the + button to create a custom profile. Select 720x576 (DVD PAL) under the Video tab & you're set. I guess that's what you've done.
The produced video will display as 16:9 and, as you've found, MediaInfo will report:
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 0.002
Original display aspect rat : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
The main thing is, does your produced video display as 16:9 without distorted images? You're right again. VLC & MPC HC will play it as a thin line unless instructed otherwise. Win 10's Film & TV & Photos apps both display it correctly. That only shows that some players cannot (by default) interpret the non-square pixels.
One thing that makes it impossible in PDR is that PDR cannot produce a video with an alpha channel.
Depending how much time you have on your hands, it would be possible to create an "animation" of the bag sequence by:
Extracting the individual frames as images from the whole sequence - that may be hundreds of images
Edit each frame image to remove the unwanted background (in PhD or graphics software) & save as .png to retain transparency
Reimport the images 9.png) back into PDR
In the timeline, set each image to 00:00:00:01 duration
Now that little sequence can be used within PDR, but can't be produced with an alpha channel.
Alternatively, using CDR, you could mask the bag & the bits you want visible, invert the mask & adjust the surrounds so they're green. The sequence could be produced as a green-screen video and imported into PDR to chroma-key out the green.
Gerry, I'm sure it's nothing you're missing or doing wrongly. I don't think that particular profile is built well at all. The same sort of thing happens with the GoPro Hero5 Black (Wide) profile. Lighter areas get blown out.
There's no reason a lens correction profile should be messing with colour like that.
Ranting & name calling probably won't land you a result very quickly.
I don't know how to change the file destination for the folders & contents created by PDR & other CL software, but I understand why they're kept separate from Program Files. You would too.
You can globally change the drive where "documents" are stored in Settings > Storage, but that probably isn't what you're after.
There must be a mountain of "thoughtless, careless twits" in software development because (by default) similar folders with custom presets & files are created in Documents by Adobe, Camtasia, Microsoft, Corel, MAGIX, Serif & many more. They probably do that for the same reason, so that custom user files are not interfered with by any uninstall process.
If you only think of a document as a "text" thing, maybe it doesn't make sense to you. If you think of it as a "file" (i.e. a record of information), it should.
I understand this thread has been resolved (i.e. Phoulom doesn't have the same issue he thought he had) & I'm sorry to chime back into it but some of the information above wasn't clear to me or I was unable to replicate the same thing here.
I posted that I'd tested in a number of media players. Win10's Films & TV (or Movies & TV) wasn't one of the players I tested & it turns out it's the only one that displays the produced file darker than the original (here, at least). BTW, Hatti, no enhancement settings were applied.
These players - VLC, POT Player, MPC HC, & KMPlayer - all display Phoulom's original & produced files the same, with no crushed blacks.
Here's a zip file of screenshots from each player - the original GoPro file & PDR16 produced file.
I have a reasonable understanding of the differences between various colour spaces (enough to get me by), but what I don't understand is that you guys can see some difference in darkness between original GoPro files and produced ones.
Now I don't mind admitting that my eyes aren't what they used to be, & that may be the root cause, but I'm viewing on calibrated monitors, each set to 0-255. As far as I can tell, it must come down to one of those things... the vision or the monitor.
Of course the difference is obvious in MediaInfo reports, but I've compared in PDR, Ae, Lr & any number of media players & I cannot see that the produced files are darker than the originals (except in Phoulom's screenshots).
Thank you for uploading those videos. What it showed here is what I previously posted. The colours/darkness in your produced clip is (as good as) identical to the original.
I tested on 3 different PCs, each with calibrated monitors. Colours/darkness also displayed the same in various media players.
These screenshots, taken in PDR16, show the orignal/produced clips side by side at 00:00:02:00 and 00:00:12:00. Forum would not allow post with attachments.
HA options checked or unchecked here makes no difference. Adding borders or shadows makes no difference. PDR version makes no difference. All I get is shaky, nervous motion.
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