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Try reinstalling or updating Quick Time. This is what made my PD11ultra stop crashing when opening up the program.
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If you are trying to produce an HD file from your HD Canon camera tape/disc, then you need Canon's HD codec. They may not have a propietary codec like Samsung, but if PD8 just sits there at 0 (when trying to produce the movie, not burn it) then it needs this HD codec that Canon uses. You will not be able to burn HD files onto a DVD, but you can produce it and have it as an HD movie. Since you don't have a BluRay burner, you would have to play it on you PC with something like PowerDVD HD. It cannot be played on any DVD player unless it is a BluRay player. I too have the WDTV HD unit (cost $90 - $99) and it will play HD files. You hook an external harddrive to it or use your ethernet wired or wireless connection to get your files from you PC to your TV.
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PD 8 is looking for your Canon HD Codec, that's why it probably stays at 0. I know I have to get my Samsung HD codec before any media burner will burn Samsung .mov files. Even Quicktime won't play them until I get the Samsung HD Codec.
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Bertrand,
There is something not right in the Power Director ver 7 (and may be in 6 also). But the next time you try to open a new project, and save it a couple of times, make sure you have it in Storybook mode. You will see many completely dark slides that have a time in them, but no file. If you click on one of the empty dark slides, PDR will crash immediately or will not respond (by continuously clocking). This is something to which Cyberlink needs to have the programmers to research. This happens in XP service pak 3 and Vista. There has got to be a problem with this software, as too many users are experiencing these same problems. I personally know of 48 users that are experiencing this. That's why I purchsed the software, as I couldn't believe Cybelink would put this kind of thing out with the problems it has. I have been trying to go through the error codes log file, but it is painstaking. I use other Cyberlink software and they all work fine.
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David,
Even though I have 8 gig of memory, Vista only uses 3, as Vista is not programmed to see anything above that. DEP sees PDR.exe bleeding into protected memory areas, and so "crashes" it. Perhaps the reason it just started for you, is you installed another application or turned on a Vista feature that reserved memory near where PDR.exe "lives" while it is opened, and then DEP would shut it down. (Vista calls it a "crash", but Vista actually shuts it down)
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Per my previous response about Cyberlink's PDR.exe errors being related to "memory", I looked further into it, and found that if you disable the DEP (Vista's memory manager protector) for the PDR.exe file, you will not experience the errors anymore. Another one you might try, as it slows down the PDR application, is to turn off the Vista Aero color theme, if you have it on. (Change it to Vista Basic) That worked on one of my other PCs.
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I get the runtime error and also the PDR.exe "crash" error in Vista. All of the peripherals pass the test for PDR 7, so this must be something to do with the memory. I have 8 gig, but of course Vista only sees 3 gig of it. And after installing PDR 7, my memory resources went so low, that Windows suggested that I get off the AERO color theme. I think PDR 7 is a memory hog. I guess we'll have to wait until they find the cause, or return the software as "faulty".
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