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I am new to Power Director and created my first video on blu ray. When I preview the disc before burning everything works great but after the disc is burned the navigation buttons on the scene menu disappear. They are there but invisable. I have tried reloading the program, recreating new menus, using different nav. buttons etc. but nothing has worked. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Is there a bug in the power director program regarding menus? Thank you!
Hello, Stacey!
Chapters in a video need to be set whilst the video is on the timeline. This can be done in three ways, 1) Set chapters evenly by number of chapters[you determine how many chapters you want in the video]. 2) Set chapters evenly by time[this depends on the length of your video, if, say 25 minutes, and you select 5 minute spacing, then four chapter markers will appear, at 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes respectively, if the video is slightly longer than the 25 minutes, a fifth marker will appear at 25 minutes]. 3) Set the chapters randomly at your own discretion[you watch your video and set chapter markers by clicking the C+ icon at your chosen points]. There is a fourth option which, if you've used several different videos and strung them together on the timeline, will insert a chapter marker at the beginning of each video. When you've set your chapters, then you switch to "create Disc" and you'll see your naviigation buttons on the screen in your menu. Hope this is of help.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi All -
This may give you a giggle - or not. When you purchase SmartSound music, it's typically licensed for use in videos posted on social media websites like YouTube & should NOT be subject to any copyright claim.
With the changes Google has made to YouTube (e.g. monetisation options), copyright claims have been coming thick & fast. This is not SmartSound's fault, nor the poor end users' who've paid $$$ to use properly licensed music.
The attached Q&A screenshot from SmartSound's Facebook page illustrates the issue.
Recently I posted a *tutorial* on YouTube containing 4 SmartSound tracks. Almost immediately, I received 4 separate copyright claim notices. Soon after, I followed the procedure to dispute the claim described on *this page* What followed was a little bit comical, so I'll just list the paraphrased chronolgy:
- Friday 8 Jan 6:53pm - 4x copyright claim notices
- Saturday 9 Jan 7:30am - submit dispute to AdRev (who'd made the original claim to YouTube)
- Saturday 9 Jan 9:23am - email from AdRev rep (paraphrased) "Don't worry. We've got it under control"
- Saturday 9 Jan 1:16pm - copyright claims released - 4x notifications
- Saturday 9 Jan 1:17pm (one minute later) - 4x new copyright claims for the same thing!
- Sunday 10 Jan 1:50pm - 4x "Good news! The copyright claim on your video was released"
- Sunday 10 Jan 1:50pm - email from a different AdRev rep (pasted below)
Hi there,
Thank you for your email. The claim has been released from the video. Let us know if you need anything else; we're here to help. Cheers!
All the best, Jack
 Haha! We're here to help... clog up your inbox!
Cheers - Tony
Er, yeah, Tony!
Now you know why I don't bother with YouTube, it's not worth all the grief! If I choose to include music or not to include music on my video edits, I know I'm not going to cop a claim for copyright as my videos are only ever seen by family or friends, via DVD. If I use Smartsound I use only the material already there as "free samples", otherwise I'll use commercial tracks that I've sourced from 45rpm or LP vinyl recordings, cassettes or extracted(ripped) from CDs. Often I don't use music at all!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Tony!
I now stand well-and-truly corrected! And it has given me some ideas for credit title sequences....hmmmm!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Baz!
Something I've noticed is that with any item I add to a PiP track, add something to Tr.2, Tr.3 automatically appears, add something to Tr.3 then Tr.4 automatically appears, and so on. If you add five items(tracks 2,3,4,5 and 6) below the clip on Tr.1(master), then you simply go down to Tr.7, right-click on in and select "remove track" The option to Remove(all) Empty Tracks" is also there. You can also add transition effects onto those PiP tracks, a feature not available on PD8(or ownly in a limited manner).
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Haliek!
I was about to reply to your latest post but the website briefly went off-line("website could not be found" warning on my screen) but it's back now so here's my comment. The theme (photo & video) designer might give me ideas for later use but for the moment I'm just using the PD for normal editing purposes.
Cheers for now.
Neil.
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hmmm.... time for bed now but - I don't like the change. I used to drop wipes onto my timeline one ofter the other and it took very little time to do it. Now I have to drop the wipe and then change it which makes the process much nore laborious. Not an improvement as far as I can see.
I agree with you in that regard, Longedge! In Power Director 8 I could assemble all my clips into the orderI wanted, then copy-paste fade transitions into the spots between each clip, after doing that I could watch the clip through and drop a new transition in(effectively using the fades as "bookmarks". Can't do that in PD14... drat! Yes, adding transitions in PD14 is a bit for fiddly than it was, but on the up-side, the cross effect means you retain the overall length of your video, the overlap causes a loss of overall length by the length of the transition multiplied by the number of transitions used(assuming all transitions were of the same duration).
Cheers!
Neil.
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Thanks Again Collie, Neil and JL_JL:
First, a couple of very simple questions;
Is the term "clip" used to to describe the items I've pulled from the Media Room into the timeline for editing? Or is that a term to describe a piece of video that's been split from another piece.
Are there things people who know what they're doing do and don't do to Track 1, master, and Track 2, fixrd? At this time I'm not interested in fancy fades or wipes, so I guess I don't need to deal with the FX track.
On to the issues I'm struggling with.
I've tried a bunch of different approaches in a frustrating Saturday.
The video in my first editing project is of a session someone gave me showing how to strong players move about on the battlefields of a video game, World of Tanks.
It's me following this guy around as he gives commentary.
I'd like to shorten the video by fast forwarding through less interesting parts of the presentation and then play sections at normal speed. The idea is to give the viewer a context of where we are and how we got there.
It's been a frustrating day.
Splitting the video into sections I'd like to speed up and sections I want to run at normal speed sounds like a great idea. I'm not sure the tools I'm using recognize those splits.
From what I've read and seen, I believe I'm looking for the "Time Shift" effect, with ease in and out.
These features are accessed through the "Action Camera Center". Is there another way to get to them?
If I select a segment I've just split, the Action Camera Center text is grayed out and I can't access it. It seems on only be accessible when no part of the video is selected.
The Action Camera Center seems to have no respect for, or even notice, the split I've made in the video. It seems to create a new section of video consisting of the entire collection of segments without regard of the video segments, and plops it down at a split point in the timeline. That's not what I want.
Here are some screenshots I've made of my latest effort. Perhaps you can see what I'm doing wrong.
This is the first odd thing:
I don't think this has anything to do with my problems, but it's a bit annoying. It tells me the video is at 30 FPS but my preference is for 29.97 for some reason.
However...
It looks to me like my preferred frame rate is 30 FPS. Why am I getting the warning, and is it impacting the result of my editing?
Jeff's reply that follows looks like it resolves the following issues.
Here is the Action Camera Center menu I get when I have any segment selected:
So, splittng the video doesn't seem to have much effect.
I drop down to the Effect Room and back to the Media Room, and I can open the Action Camera Center.
Here I've identified the section of the video I want to fast forward:
And this is what the timeline looks like after I close the Action Camera Center:
The actions performed in the Action Camera Center seem to apply over the entire video, without regard to any splits, then plopped down, in this case, at the split.
This seems to work, but drops out of fast forward a second too late. I lose a word in my dialog. I've been very careful to tell the time shift to end at the exact frame that will end before the missing word.
I just noticed that while the frame to stop on is 1:17;22, the durration of the speed effect is 1:18;10. I don't know why there is a discrepancy, but perhaps I can make use of this to revert to normal speed at a better time. This might be easy for a speed effect that starts at frame 0, it might get complicated for latter sections of the video with speed effects.
When I look at the segment that has been modified in the preview screen, it starts ok, but after a couple of seconds the presentation turns into a slide show. It pauses for a second, then runs fast forward for a half a second, and repeats this past the point it should drop into normal speed. Eventually, perhaps after 10 seconds everything synchs up.
I produced the video and the result is fine, except for a 1 second delay that causes me to lose the first word after I drop out of fast forward.
I have several sections I want to fast forward through. It looks like I won't be able to check my work in the preview screen. If I have to take the time to produce the video each time I want to see how the edit looks, it's going to be a long process. Production takes about a second of real time for each second of video. After the Action Camera Center duplicated the video, the production took a long time. I know I won't have to product the duplicate video, but it still seems inconvenient.
My computer is reasonably capable. It's a high end ASUS G750, a two year old gaming laptop with 32 GB of memory. Is this not enough horsepower to preview a video as it's being produced?
I hope you experts can help me over these bumps.
Again, I appreciate the time you've taken to help me.
Thanks
Larry
Hi, Larry! A "clip" is a portion of the video you're editing. A lot of SD Card-based cameras now, store each sequence of video shot as separate "clips" on the card. So, if you've shot five separate sequences in, say, a 24-hour period, they will likely be stored in a folder on the SD card(in some cases the camera stores them in the "root" of the card rather than in separate folders for any given day) In one way or the other they'll be identified for easy assembling in order of when they were shot. In the case of folders, the folder will be labeled for the day on which the sequences, or "clips" were shot. So, yes, the term can be used to describe the piece of video dragged onto the timeline from the media library. The FX track is not for fades or wipes, they're transitions, which are slotted in between the "clips" to create an impressing segue from one clip to the next, particularly if the content of the first clip(a beach scene, perhaps) doesn't relate to the next(a scene in the snowfields, maybe). The purpose of the FX(effects) track is to create delay(sort-of like strobing), glassy appearance or whatever effect you may want to use. Go to the FX room to see what is available. The next below FX is PiP Objects, then there's particle effects. Just tried a couple of these, they cannot be superimposed over a clip as they cover the clip for the period they're on screen. There's no chroma-key provision, so the best use for these is as backgrounds for title sequences etc. PiP objects can be overlaid on your clip to give a decorative effect. But it's entirely up to you whether you use any or none of what I've just described.
Cheers!
Neil.
P.S. I realise I haven't addressed the speeding issue. I did a video some time back of myself, packing a tent after an Easter weekend camping trip, and for comic effect, I sped it up to 12X and put Boots Randolph's version of "Yakety-Sax" on the audio track. The Speed adjustment is in the "Power Tools" accessed just above the timeline and is fourth of five options, the other four otions are 2D to 3D, video in reverse(also good for comic effect), crop and zoom, and video rotation.(turns the video on its side, either side, or upside-down or possibly and degree in between. You could shoot a scene, turn it upside down and say you shot it in Australia ha-ha!
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Hi, Longedge! In PD13 as in PD14, the transition you select can be modified as you require. You want to use "Wipe Soft"? Lay it into the timeline between any two of your images and then click on "Modify". Here you can set the duration of the transition, you can also set the behaviour(overlap or crossfade, the latter retains the original running time, the former diminishes the time by the length of transition, multiplied by the number of times it's used) and the direction of the wipe(up, down, left, right). It's only a space-saving tool for Power Director that one version of a transition appears, you'll see this as well with Threshold. To select between Threshold 1 or 2 you lay the transition into your timeline, then click on "modify" to select between the two versions. Hope this has cleared up the matter for you. All the transitions are there, it's just that variations on some(where applicable) are accessed via the "modify" function.
Cheers!
Neil.
Ah. I see Tony(Ynotfish) came through with a pictorial showing what I've just explained, then logged off again(who was that masked man? ha-ha).
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Hi, Barry! I'm having signal strength issues with my wireless modem so my first attempt to post of this went "kerbluey"!
I've noted a similar situation to Fazle's but not in VOB files(chunks of a video stored in separate folders). What I've noted was, when I pull a raw unedited clip(captured from VHS) into PD14, after being stored for a while before anything was done to it, if I preview it while still in the "library" I see that there's a few minutes missing off the end, the clip imported almost immediately into PD14, but incomplete - Thumbs down! So I close PD14 and open PD8 and import the very same raw clip into the media library - Viola! The complete unedited clip! So now I start to work, first converting the clip to 16:9 from its original 4:3 aspect ratio, using CLPV(marvelous device, that!), then touching up the image quality with Fix/Enhance before rendering(still unedited), I then close PD8 and bring the altered version(AR and image touch-up) into PD14, check it in the media library, yep, it's all there! - Thumbs up! I then do my editing, add my titles, job done! But for authoring to disc, it's PD8 for me as I can still burn at DVD-SP and fit 2 hours and 20-odd minutes of content onto one disc, thereby taking full advantage of the disc's capacity. - Thumbs up again! Pity there's no emoticon for thumbs up or down!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Guten Tag, alanrick!
Changing the style and size of a font is only possible BEFORE you've produced the video, while you're still in the Editing Room and have your video on the timeline, the opportunity is still there to go through and alter the style, colour and size of the text in your titles, but once the video is produced(rendered) that's it! you're stuck with it. After that you can only redo the work by starting from scratch with the original raw video content and re-edit it as you wanted to do in the first place. I often do this. I get an idea in my head about a video clip I might've edited a certain way weeks earlier, and I may re-edit it with different transition effects and titling, and I may do it over again a few more times, using different(other third-party editing software) programmes. While I've got the raw video content stored on one of my external hard-drives I may have several goes at it until I get a version I'm truly happy with.
Viel Gruss!
Neil.
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Uh, yeah, thanks, Tony! Hmmmm. Right now the signal on my wireless modem is going up and down like a mad elevator driver!
I'll take a closer look at this on PD14 after I've logged off for this internet session.
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Okay, my mistake for lumping GeForce in with Power Director! But it still doesn't alter the fact that GeForce is creating problems for PD users where there should not be.
Cheers!
Neil.
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I just looked into this on my PD14, and, with a colour board applied on Tr.2, there's no provision to uncheck a "Maintain Aspect Ratio" box, as I believe GreggDana64 is after. I thing Gregg isn't after "masking", as such as putting a thin strip of colour across the image to sit behind some text. Possibly the only way around this, Gregg, is to create your own thin strip of colour in something like Microsoft Paint(experimentation with size is required) then import this to your project, position it where you want it, set the duration and put your text across it.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Larryl!
Just by way of explanation, Track 1 is the "master" video track(with accompanying audio track), Track 2 is a fixrd(permanent) overlay or Picture-in-Picture(PiP) track(again with accompanying audio track) There is an effects(FX) track between the two which applies effects on to Track one. Any subsequent PiP tracks need to be called in via Track Manager.
For your effect(speeding up) to work best, it might be an idea to isolate the portion you want to speed up, by splitting the video at the point where this effect should start, and split again at the point where the effect should end, highlight the area between the two splits and apply your desired effect.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Well, the above from DavidRHW3333 certainly proves it!
GeForce is definitely the culprit here! It tink that, for Power Director 15, GeForce should be cut out altogether(if it was part of the package for PD14, that is, then it should not be included in PD15).
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Hello, Auzette and garioch7!
Interesting this topic should pop up again, albeit in a new thread! I've always considered it to be nothing short of sheer greed that a company, like Cyberlink or any other company making whatever type of software, should restrict an end-user to installing on just one computer. This is akin to buying an LP or CD of favourite music and being told you may only play it on one designated turntable or CD player. If such policies were enforced by record companies, they'd end up bankrupt as no-one would buy any records or CDs under such conditions. Considering the expense one goes to in order to obtain the software(any software), then it should be the prerogative of the end user(s) as to how he/she/they will use the software, and on how many computers it shall be installed. If the one person(or company) owns several computers, then he/she/they sould be free to install on all or as many of those computers as he/she wants/they want - from the one installation disc!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Thanks Neil.... will keep it in the "one-day" box....
Baz
Hi, again, BunkerBaz!
A thought had just now occurred to me, what was the last software you used to successfully access the content of that Sony cam-corder? And do you still have that software? More to the point, do you still have the last computer you used to "capture" that Sony cam-corder's content, and is it still operational? If answering "yes" to any of these questions, you may have the solution to your problem! Use the older computer, with the older software to "capture all your Sony cam-corder's raw content, dropping it then onto a flash-drive, you import it to your new computer and edit it there. Just a thought!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Jerosmith1980!
I may be completely off-base with this, but, judging by some comments made elsewhere on this forum, a lot of people seem to be having crashing of their PD14 caused by that GeForce driver software. GeForce may well be the culprit, going by what I've read of late.
Cheers!
Neil.
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G'day, Jerosmith1980!
Glad Barry and I were able to help!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Bunkerbaz!
As you've now bought your new Panasonic camera, the Sony shouldn't be totally discarded, the capture device for VHS/Beta/Video-8/Hi-8 cameras and VCRs can capture what remaining content there is on your Sony camera by hooking it up via it's A/V connections(yellow video, red & white audio) to the capture card and record real-time to your computer. I know it's not how you wanted, but with those other doors closed to you due to incompatible connections, I guess the capture card is the only remaining option.
Cheers!
Neil.
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My first attempt at answering got swallowed up in the "System" so here's a second attempt.
Hi, Donald8!
So you're hacked off at Cyberlink for not offering proper customer support....well, JOIN THE PARTY! This Director Zone website was created by people like yourself who decided to take a "hands-on" approach to Cyberlink's own "lack of care" towards their product's end-users, and provide their own assistance to end-users like yourself. Cyberlink, as we have seen, would rather spend their time and money in developing "new" product, and, like the "boffins" that they are, they'll fill this new product with as many "bells and whistles" as they can possibly cram into it, and let the end-user figure out for him or herself how to use it. That's where this website comes into the picture. The people who created "Director Zone" are indeed the end-users, just like you and I, who, having worked out how to use this software to best advantage, want to pass on that knowledge, via forums like this, to us, who are new to video editing, or have been at it for some time but are still "feeling our way" through this maze of technology.
So now it's up to you, chase your refund or hang on in there and let the folks at Director Zone help with your issues. Yes, Power Director 14 does have some shortcomings, I'm not the first to say that, and I certainly won't be the last, but at least through this website, and particularly this forum, I can find the help I need.
Cheers!
Neil.
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