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I have read pages of the archived notes on this problem and it seems that it is an ongoing problem with Power Director. Then I read that the cause might be a cheap JVC camera I am using. Is this possible and the sync problem is actually in the camera and not PD14? Is it time for a new camera?
Was it a digital camera(Mini-DV or SD card-based) or was it an older analogue(Video-8, Hi-8 or VHS-C cassette-based) camera? If the latter, the problem might be in the capture card device. Just a guess. If the former, could be an internal problem. Others may know more.
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In most recent versions of Power Director(Version 9 through 15) installation would not require the removal of a previous version. This is in contrast to earlier versions(up to version eight) where installation of a latter version would require removal(uninstalling) the previous version, indeed, a warning would come up on your secreen, asking if you want to uninstall the older version. Clicking "OK" would trigger uninstalling older version prior to installation of newer version. Clicking "no", the installation process would cease.
But from version 9 up to 15, the installation process would not ask for removal of the old version. As such, I have Power Director 8 Ultra living side-by-side with Power Director 14 Ultra. This suits me as PD8 does certain things better than PD14 while PD14 has more features than PD8. It's a matter of knowing which does what better than the other version. If there are things that PD14 does better than PD15, then keep PD14. If not, simply uninstall PD14. That's all there is to it.
Neil.
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I have a simple solution: Just don't use SVRT. Works for me!
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Actually Eric,
Even though you're offering this music, I think there are still some issues hanging over the use of music in YouTube videos. Apparently YouTube does NOT differentiate between compositions like yours, intended for YouTube use, and commercial music. It seems we're in a no-win situation here. We're going to be "flagged" no matter where our music items are sourced. It may be wise for me to hold off using any further music, outside the one track I did use in a recent video, until YouTube sorts things out(which might be never!).
Neil.
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Eric,
Back to original post. As I said, it's much better to avoid going through Power Director(any version) to have your time limit extended beyond the 15-minute initial limits. Going through YouTube itself(creator studio), select Channel - Status & Features, where it says Longer Videos, click and follow any prompts. You'll be asked to give a phone contact number, they will ring you with a number code(given only once so you'll need to pay attention). Type that number into a space provided and you're done. From that point on you can upload anything from 20 seconds to 2 hours, though I wouldn't go overboard with video lengths just yet. That's all there is to it.
Neil.
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Hi Tony.
Saw your answer, replied in same manner.
Neil.
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Hi, Tony!
By "Countered" I meant that there was a way to share videos via Director Zone Forum, even if not directly so. Just post a link to the video, as I did. So even though the video window doesn't come up in these panels, clicking on the link still gives access to the video, as per my earlier reply. The video, by the way, was titled "Riding Home From Sydney".
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Hi Eric -
Neil - I'm pretty sure Eric is referring to videos uploaded through PDR by going to Produce > Online > YouTube. Uploading directly to your channel doesn't have the same restrictions.
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Hi, Tony!
My answer to that is I guess I took the safest option. I don't upload directly from PD14. I produce my videos to a folder which I've labelled "Pending Upload To YouTube" on my internal hard-drive, once uploaded, the video is then moved to a folder on an external hard-drive labelled "Uploaded To YouTube".
Neil.
Tony, your remark: "Alternatively, avoid the PDR uploader & do it directly to your channel (which doesn't allow you to share on DirectorZone)" can be countered, just post a link to the video in your answer. Thus(this is a link to one I posted a few days ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zpaJ4C_eM
Have a look and see what you think. Running time is a bit over 40 minutes.
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Hi Eric - Neil - I'm pretty sure Eric is referring to videos uploaded through PDR by going to Produce > Online > YouTube. Uploading directly to your channel doesn't have the same restrictions.
******************************************************************************************************* Hi, Tony! My answer to that is I guess I took the safest option. I don't upload directly from PD14. I produce my videos to a folder which I've labelled "Pending Upload To YouTube" on my internal hard-drive, once uploaded, the video is then moved to a folder on an external hard-drive labelled "Uploaded To YouTube". Neil.
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Simple answer: You don't!
To allow videos longer than 15 minutes, you apply through the YouTube website itself. I started out being only allowed clips up to 15 minutes then I saw the provision to allow longer clips and now I'm posting clips of 40 or more minutes in length.
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Just a half-hour before writing, I was editing my Video Channel on YouTube when I clicked to check my content that I uploaded.
My most recent upload was: "Trams & Trains - Riding Home From Sydney" This was the first time I used music over the end credits, the title, "Whimsical Journey", composed and performed by Abbas Premjee, was sourced from Triple Scoop Music(supplied as part of Pinnacle's Studio 18 software). I saw that the track was deemed as copyrighted music, even though it was supposed to be licence-free for use in videos intended for YouTube. So perhaps the "flagging" issue hasn't gone away completely, just quietened down a bit.
The video I uploaded can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zpaJ4C_eM
Have a look and see what you think.
Neil.F.1955
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Eric Matyas commenced providing music for YouTube contributors in January, 2016, mainly as a means to try to get around YouTube "flagging" the musical content in videos posted on YT, whether deliberately included, or, in some cases, accidental(music from a nearby stereo system or radio picked up by a camera microphone). Eric's material was, and is his own creation, but it led me to think, "what became of the "flagging" issue and how was it resolved, if it was at all resolved. It's only because I now do have a YouTube channel that I've asked this question.
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Actually, Eric,
I did download one from Events/Travel, it was Magical Getaway. I'll audition others from your library when I get a chance.
Neil.
I received a no-reply link to this, only to see that it was my own post, stupid, really! By the way, I downloaded two other tracks, "Dradty Places" and "Moment Of Strange" which may be used if I can get a ghost hunting side of my YouTube channel happening(perhaps later this year, but I don't hold out much hope).
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Actually, Eric,
I did download one from Events/Travel, it was Magical Getaway. I'll audition others from your library when I get a chance.
Neil.
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Hello, Eric!
As of last September(2016) I have begun a YouTube Channel. It's effectively two channels in one, though one half is proving very difficult to shoot material for(will explain in PM) The other half deals in another of my interests, Trams & Trains. I've just a few moments ago downloaded three of your tracks, Drafty Places, Magical Getaway and Moment Of Strange. Have you anything that could relate to trains and/or train travel?
Neil.
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Read Collie581's post: "Snaking Arrows"
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Hi Dafydd!
What I'll do is occasionally click on usage when I check my emails, I'm with Virgin Broadband, there's two tabs above where I type in my email address, one to check emails, the other to check usage, I'll just have to monitor the second option a bit more closely, that's all.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hello all!
I took a look at a presentation video promoting PD15 via YouTube recently. To be frank, I don't think ANY of the suggestions posted in the thread title "Suggestions For Power Director 15" got within a bull's roar of being included. The 360-degree editing function could potentially drain a computer's resources(just guessing) but I really see no point in it, to be honest. As for 9:16 editing, this panders to those people who use mobile phones to shoot video, rather than dedicated video cameras. And when mobile phones are being used, they're held vertically(portrait) rather than horizontally(landscape). I see no point in encouraging such manner of videography, it kind-of defeats the purpose of 16:9 wide-screen shooting. Beyond this, PD15 doesn't really offer much beyond what's already available in PD14, so, I'll stick with PD14 for editing(and PD8, for analogue capture/enhance/aspect ratio conversion/disc authoring). PD8 and 14 together, have all I need for processing video, now and for the forseeable future.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, brendanbowlerxyz12345!
I've been doing a bit of experimentation myself along this line, I've found that if you crop and zoom on any portion of the clip, the cropped/zoomed portion will be blurry so it wouldn't be advisable to use the effect too often in a video.
How I did mine was this way, I used a clip of a steam loco passing by(not my camerawork but from a friend):
1) Find and select the wanted portion of video to be zoomed & cropped.
2) Find a suitable starting point where the subject first appears, click on and drag the right-side yellow tab of the scrubber, out to the point where the subject is out of shot. The portion of the video will be highlighted in yellow. Copy(Ctrl+C) the highlighted portion, making note of the frame where the highlighted area begins, it's at this point where you'll eventally paste the copied portion.
4) For the moment, paste the copied portion of the clip at the end of or just beyond the end of the clip*, then, highlight and cut the copy into clipboard(Ctrl+X). *There's a reason for this which I'll explain near the end of the post.
5) Now the copy is in clipboard, play the clip to the point where you noted the effect should begin, click on Video Track 2, paste the copy from clipboard at that point(Ctrl+V). Using modify, resize the pasted copy and position on the screen where you want it to be.
6) With the clip resized and positioned, select Power Tools then Crop & Zoom, adjust the crop to remove unwanted background at the start of the effect, then at the end, and then, with some tweaking, at various points through the effect(inserting keyframes as necessary). As I said at the top, the cropped and zoomed image will be blurry, there's no getting around that, and attempt to improve the sharpness might result in the image looking worse, so you'll just have to wear the blurry image.
*Now to the copying and pasting issue. After copying, paste at, or just beyond end of clip first, then cut into clipboard. I've found that an attempt to paste directly to the PiP track(Video Tr.2) results in the original being split at the point where I paste. You may find that usefull, I much prefer to note down the point on the timeline where the paste should be made before I start the "process" of zoom/crop/size adjust/positioning. There's method to my madness.
So there you have it. I've just recently started using this effect and this is what I've learned thus far about it. Again I'll say that because there's no getting around the blurryness of a cropped/zoomed image, it's advisable not to use the effect too often in a video, once, perhaps twice you can get away with it but any more can possibly detract from the overall quality you're chasing for your video.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hello, brendanbowlerxyz12345!
Just a thought here, may or may not work - Do all your motion tracking spotlights, then render(produce) the effects just created. Once you've rendered the effects, drop the new render on the timeline and do your zooming and cropping on that clip. You'll then retain the original version to try somehing else with it if this idea doesn't work.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hello, Dafydd!
It is good to be back on the forum, I have missed my participation.
I've avoided using music on my videos for upload(since I launched my YT channel at the beginning of September) because I remembered all the to-ing and fro-ing of comments on a thread posted early this year or late last year about YouTube "flagging" people who had music in their YT uploads, even when that music got in by accident(camera microphone picks up radio or stereo from nearby house or passing car). I decided that if I were to upload to YouTube, I would not use music, it would only be used if I were burning to disc. For the moment, that's they way it will remain until I can investigate this possibility a little further. Naturally, I will credit Kevin MacLeod on my videos if and when I decide to use the material he creates, composer, title and source, and if you've viewed my Steamfest 2016 video from the link I've provided in my return thread "Dipping Toes In The Water", you'll note I acknowledge Cyberlink Power Director 14 Ultra as the software I use for editing and production of my work(I also acknowledge Sony Sound Forge for recording narration for these videos whenever I apply narration).
P.S. It isn't bandwidth I'm concerned about so much as file size. The greater the size of file, the quicker my data reserve gets swallowed up.
Cheers!
Neil.
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