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Lucy
To be simple - to create a DVD to play in a 'regular DVD player" requires MPEG-2 format; the file always comes up in 'Documents/ 'Produce - X.mpg' when you create the file in preparation for disc burning (unless you are clever and change the standard things around!). However, from there there appears to be some problems with software if you are mixing formats, or have longer than 'ten minute' clips (or something yet to be defined!!!) - e.g. mixing old videos with new AVCHD for instance. I have a problem using vers. 7 which has gone through to the Cyber R & D people so dont be dismayed if something peculiar seems to be happening like - 'cant proceed because PD cant form an image' etc.
- keep trying and it will come out eventually!
Doug Collins
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Thanks all - but the problem is that with the new era of camera's having high resolution - 8 MP with the HF S100 or for instance 10 Meg with Panasonic's TM 300 series. I suspect Windows 'RTF' is not attached to the record being transferred for each frame - I have yet to run a sequence through Windows film maker which would perhaps do that - and in all these 'Full HD' camera's I think the file format is always MPEG-4 - m2ts - or 264! The simple plugging the card into the Notebook and transferring using Windows file transfer gives something unusable by Power Director. Without knowing the details of the program structures Pixela are using I cant see why a complete frame record isn't kept together (the information is in other blocks otherwise Pixela wouldn't be able to do any editing). The first time of loading a Timeline and starting editing works fine since one is using a 'virgin' Pixela set of clips, and if one is clever enough to do a complete edit for a film and produce a file ready for disc production all is well, but if one has to file away for a second session - which I always do (I'm usually on a film for many weeks or months!) then the clips are returned without some content disabling picture frames in the reading - interestingly the sound is complete if one separates the audio to a different line! If anyone knows of a file conversion plug-in that would do the job I think.
regards all
Doug Collins
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I have updated all my equipment to give me 'blu-ray' qualitry videos, including a new Canon Legria HF S100 camera which stores clips shot on SD cards. However, when importing these to the PC using the Canon provided software (their instruction manual says Windows changes or provides incomplete formats) all runs satiusfactorily until one 'saves' - to return to video editing another time. When then this ',pds' format is loaded no clips work - returning the error message containing - " Power Director failed to construct the media source as a graph...". Does anyone have a plug-in to do a file conversion from the Canon SD card to Windows standard.
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