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I know it's totally unrelated to Dan's question, but...
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If I've edited and produced something in another "third-party" software, and imported that work directly into PD14 Ultra, before dragging the item into the timeline, I quickly advance to the end in the preview window, to find that a large portion of the clip is lost.
Neil - that shouldn't be happening!  You should start a new thread and get to the bottom of that.
Cheers - Tony
Hi, Tony
Yeah, It is happening but I can get around it. The trick is to pull any so-affected video edited and produced in any third-party(non-Cyberlink) software, into Power Director 8 Ultra, rerender same(under slightly altered filename), then bring that file into PD14 Ultra, I then check the end and find it to be "all there"(which is more than I can say for myself, sometimes! ha-ha). Problem solved!
Anyway, the comment related to Richmond Dan's thread as I highlighted a reason why I would hang on to an earlier version of Power Director and have it live happily alongside PD14 Ultra.
Cheers! And all the best for the Festive Season!
Neil.
P.S. I should point out that sometimes I can pull content edited and produced in another software programme directly to PD14 Ultra and it will be intact, it just depends on which software I used for the basic edit because, as well as doing some editing/producing in PD14, I'm also using PD14 to add some "finishing touches" to clips edited elsewhere.
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Hi, all!
Seems to me the accusative finger here is pointing toward Windows 10! Seems Microsoft still has plenty of "bugs" to iron out in their latest computing platform. I'm on Windows 7 and will be for the life of this computer. Should I require a new computer at a later date, it may well have Windows 10, or 12 or whatever newer platform installed and I hope I'll be able to reinstall PD8 on it as well as PD14.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Richmond Dan!
Automatic uninstallation of PD12? I have PD8 Ultra installed on my computer and when I installed PD14 Ultra last month, I went through pretty-much the same routine as you but PD14 left PD8 alone to happily co-exist on my computer! When I started the process of installing PD14 Ultra, I fully expected the usual(or words to the effect of) "You have an earlier version of Power Director installed, do you wish to uninstall...?" as I did when I went from PD7 Delux to PD8 Ultra. If I clicked on "No" when installing PD8, the process stopped there and then and left me still with PD7. But with the installation of PD14, PD8 was "left in peace" and the two versions of Power Director exist side-by-side(not quite kissing and cuddling, but.... ha-ha!). And I've found that having the two versions has proved useful. For instance, If I've edited and produced something in another "third-party" software, and imported that work directly into PD14 Ultra, before dragging the item into the timeline, I quickly advance to the end in the preview window, to find that a large portion of the clip is lost. But if I pull that same clip to PD8, I find the clip is complete and intact, so I'll rerender it in PD8, then I'll pull that rerendered clip across to PD14 to do the final touches I had originally intended, so PD8 still has a valuable role to play on my computer.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, innuganti@att.net!
In lght of your revelation regarding your camera, operating, as it does, in a now-so-called-obsolete format(not quite so if you can still obtain tapes for it, e.g. Video-8 and Hi-8 tapes are still available for that camera format), I can only suggest you connect your camera to your computer via video capture card. These devices are generally "plug-and-play" and often come with a software package which is a cut-down version of the most recent Power Director programme. Their adverting blurb runs along the lines of "Turn your old VHS tapes into DVDs!" Funny how they always forget about Beta and other formats!
Anyway, These capture cards have composite video, plus left and right channel stereo audio inputs and often also have S-Video(S-VHS, usually labeled) inputs to which you connect the output of your camera, that you used to connect to the A/V input of an old VHS or Beta VCR for dubbing(ah, the good old days! ha-ha). The capture card then plugs into any USB port on your computer. On first connection, a little warning may appear telling you the device is "recognised and ready to use", which simply means that Power Director or any other video capture/editing software will accept signals fed from this device. You then simply set the programme to "capture", start your tape and click on the record icon.... and away-y-y-y you go! Obsolescence problems overcome!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, david445
I see you're having issues with the trimming feature of PD12, clip running beyond the point where trim was made. Perhaps splitting the video at the point where you want the clip to start or end might help. Drag the clip into the timeline, play clip to the point you and it to start, split at that point and delete the preceeding portion(to left of split). Play though to point where you want the clip to end, spit at that point and delete the portion that follows(to right of split). he procerss mat take a bit longer but you'll achieve your desired start and end points. This method certainly works for me.
Cheers!
Neil.
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CyberLink information release, edited version.
Hi Members,
CyberLink have added (will be adding) a new rule for all forums.
Start date of new rule = 2015-12-21
Rule: Each forum member account can create a maximum of 3 NEW topics per day.
Reason: To avoid the spam attacks the forum has previously been subjected to by submitting multiple new topics in a short time period.
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Dafydd
That's fair enough! I don't expect that anyone would come up with more than one "new topic" which might occur to him/her at a given moment, so three new topics might be pushing things a bit. If more than three, hold the others off until the following day.
Cheers!
Neil.
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If I understand this correctly, you are discussing putting say 3 separate movies on a DVD, with their own menues?
Hi, Myk!
Yes! That's what I'm describing, provided of course the disc has capacity to hold the content. If you're putting anything more than 1 hour's worth of content on your DVD, it's worth hanging onto earlier versions of Power Director for this purpose, e.g., Power Director 8 will allow what I described, plus you can burn at DVD SP, which means you can fit up to 2 hours of content, and if you "push the envelope" a it, you can get up to 2 hours and nearly 30 extra minutes worth of content onto the disc. Sadly PD14 only burns at either DVD HQ or Smart Fit, and "Smart Fit" suggests to me that some part(s) of a clip might be jettisoned in order to fit the content onto disc, something which does not at all appeal to me. Of course, as Tomasc suggests, there are other methods. Perhaps Tomasc might like to give a step-by-step guide, as I've done, on how to achieve these other methods.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hi, innuganti@att.net!
If your Sony camera is SD Card-based, an alternate method of getting the content would be to extract the SD Card from your camera and insert same into a card reader on your computer. If your computer doesn't have an inbuilt card reader, you can buy a USB card reader(plugs into any USB port on your computer), and insert your SD Card into this device, then from there you can copy any or all content from your SD card into a folder you've created on your computer. Once you've done that, you open PD14 and go to Import Media and select the folder that contains your clips from your SD Card, you can then import any or all content into the "library" and pull it into the timeline from there. Hope that's of help to you.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Sailor Guy!
This is a Power Director feature that truly amazed me when I came across it in PD8, and I certainly make use of it where I can, but I don'y try to "push" it by putting more than, perhaps, 3 "titles" onto a disc. Here's a step-by-step guide.
1.Upon opening Power Director(any version from PD8 onwards), go straight to "Create Disc".
2.Under the Highlighted "Content" tag is the icon(plus-symbol & Filmstrip,[PD8] may vary in later PD versions), click here to import your "titles".
3.Once you've imported your title, if you hold the cursor over it, you'll see four options - play; delete; edit title; set chapters. By clicking on the last-named, this will take you into the Edit Mode of Power Director, this is normal, Here, the Chapter Room will be automatically selected, set your chapters, either manually, at your own points in the title, or automatically by evenly-spaced chapters(choose your own number of chapters), or at given intervals(choose the length and as many chapters will be created to suit).
4.Click on the first "chapter" then play a bit until a desired scene appears to use as a "thumbnail", select it by clicking on the icon styled as a "portrait with arrow pointing down".
5.Click on "Create Disc" again, all your chapters are now in place, you can now(after a moment as PD updates the menu page) select the style of menu by clicking the tag, "Menu Preferences". Click on any one that may suit your fancy and make whatever adjustments you wish.
6.If you want to add more "titles", simple. Follow steps 1 to 4 for each new title.
7.Once all that setting is done, this leaves the "Playback Mode" to be set, this is where(for your purposes) you select Option C = Play the selected title only.
Hope that is of help to you.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, AndyCr15!
I thought that figure, "PD14 needs 100GB of HDD" sounded suspicious, so I checked on the box my PD14 Ultra came in, and sure enough the figure was wildly inaccurate! PD14 requires memory space of only 1(that's one!) gigabyte, and 2 gigabytes or above, DDR2, for editing High-Definition videos. This info came of the box in which the installation disc for my PD14 Ultra was packed. This is why such software should ALWAYS be made available this way. If installing from a download, such vital information is not available to the end user. Whomever said "PD14 needs 100GB of HDD" was sadly misled.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, RobCom!
PD13 and/or AD6 will live "happily ever after" alongside PD14 on your computer as long as there's hard-drive space aplenty to accomodate them. You might want to hang on to PD13 and AD6 in the event that they have facilities in their software you still want to use.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Maliek!
Your calculations for 24frames/second are fine for NTSC, but you should also recognise that quite a lot of us, in Australia and New Zealand, Britain and several parts of Europe, are working in the PAL colour system which is based on 25 frames/second. Also, instructions on how to pull in content from SD-card or computer hard-drive, You only need to click on the first, or any one of the items(stills or video clips) to highlight it, then, Ctrl+A will grab all items and import them to library. I note you were working with the sample items still in situ in the library, before importing the wanted content, these samples should be removed(settings in User Preferences can ensure that the samples are not loaded upon each opening of Power Director. With the samples now out of the way and only the wanted content, again a click to highlight any one of the items, then Ctrl+A will bring them all onto the timeline. Hope that's of help.
Cheers!
Neil
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I'm in agreement with kezug in regard to transitions. In User Preferences, I set the transitions to 5 seconds duration, crossfade, upon application, I noted the audio crossfade was absent, so, keeping the same duration, reset the transition to overlap, got video and audio transitions back together again. I was trying to save some time by having my transitions at crossfade but having to add the audio crossfade in a separate action defeats my purpose. So now I'm back to having to set the transition from overlap to crossfade in "modify" just so I can get the audio and video crossfades together. This is not good. When one is editing a video, one is also looking for ways to do this quicker. Get my drift?
Cheers!
Neil.
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Reading through all the above gives me only the thought that I'm glad I stayed with Windows 7 and avoided all the upgrade grief that seems to accompany Windows 10!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Neil - you're right too. Transitions cannot be copied and pasted, except as part of a sequence - e.g. image/transition/clip/transition/image can be copied and pasted but NOT a single transition.
Cheers - Tony
Hi, Tony!
As I said, I experimented, trying to do in PD14 Ultra, what I'd always been able to do in PD8 Ultra and PD7 Delux, copy and paste a transition effect on its own. In the earlier Power Directors, PIECE OF CAKE!(Chocolate, of course! Ha-Ha), but in PD14 Ultra... No way, Jose! I just put it down to being "all part of the learning curve"!
Cheers!
Neil.
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My advice, for what it's worth, to NDSIMMONS1206, ifavault, Malcolm and MartinFG, is to use your latter versions of Power Director for edit/produce(render) purposes, then use your earlier version for the final disc authoring(burning) process. It seems clear that PD13 has issues around the final disc authoring process, that may(in some cases) be also evident in PD12 wheras PD9 seems to be free of these issues.
For myself(and for different reasons) I will edit in PD14 Ultra, but will use PD8 Ultra for disc authoring. I'm yet to actually try to burn a disc in PD14 Ultra so I don't know how it will behave, but when I started to set up for a burn in PD14, I found I only had the option of HQ or Smart Fit. In PD8 Ultra I have the option of burning in DVD-SP, which allows me to "cram" content onto a disc, up to 2 hours and 25 minutes' worth, utilising a 4.7Gb DVD5 disc to to near-maximum capacity, like packing a suitcase to just before it starts to bulge(ha-ha)!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, TlGriff!
This(what you've explained) will sometimes happen if some content placed on one or other of the PiP tracks, title track, effects track or audio track(s) extend beyond the nominal end of the clip you've edited. Follow Tomasc's instructions and you should find out what may be causing your situation.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Angela123!
I'm in agreement with Tony(Ynotfish) and Tomasc on this one, it's the reason why I always work in the Timeline mode so that I can see at a glance what's on each track. If you're overlaying your stills as PiP images, it's ALWAYS best to use the Timeline view, that way you have control over where, when, and for how long the PiP images appear.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hi, Tony!
Yep! I confirmed that for myslf again yesterday("Transitions cannot be copied and pasted") in a brief experiment. It can be done in PD8 but not in PD14. So Carl312, sorry, mate, but you were wrong on that count. That's why I put it in as a suggestion for PD15 on another thread.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Neil, you can copy and paste transitions in PD 14, you must use the keyboard command Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste).
You can copy and paste effects (FX) also.
Copy and Paste works for modified effects as well. If I am doing censoring, I just create the Blur effect and adjust the parameters, then I can just copy and Paste that effect in other places on the timeline. You can modify the pasted effect in modify to make needed changes. Paste goes where the Scrubber is on the timeline.
Duration of effects and transitions can be set to a default value in Preferences > Editing.
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Carl, I'm fully aware of Keyboard shortcuts for cutting, copying and pasting. While I can do it with ease in PD8, I found, through my own experience that I wasn't able to do the same thing in PD14. This is mainly due(I think) to the way in which the transitions can now be manipulated(crossfade now available as well as overlap, plus the ability to adjust some of the effects, as well as create one's own custom effects, which I warmly welcome). I have actually tried the Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V copy/paste for the transition effect in PD14 Ultra, found it not to work so had to find another way around the use of transitions, but if you reckon it does work, I will, at a future date, attempt it again.
Cheers!
Nei.
P.S. As I write this, it's close to half-past 3 on Thursday morning 10th December, 2015, 10 days into Summer and we'recopping a nasty thunderstorm.... Ouch!
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Hi, all!
Something that occurred to me as I was replying to another post and explaining my different experiences between PD8 and PD14, The ability to copy/paste transitions. In PD8, sure thing! But in PD14....nope! can't be done...nicht möglich(as they say in Germany... not possible!). In PD8 that ability meant I could go through my video, lay in a "fade" transition where I wanted(usually at 5 seconds duration) and, when I have all my required transition points in place at the wanted duration, it was simply a matter of viewing the clip on the timeline and dropping in a more elaborate effect over the Fade. The Fade transition was simply a "seatwarmer" as it were, for the more elaborate effect to be aded later. This is something that needs to be brought back for PD15 as it's a useful and time-saving tool.
Cheers!
Neil.
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