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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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Hi, Jem!
PD14 has proved a bit of a learning curve for me. I jumped from PD8 Ultra, right up to PD14 Ultra, and several of the practices are markedly different between using either of the two Power Director versions. What I was easily able to do in Version 8 is not allowed in Version 14, particularly with transitions. In Version 8, I'd set a simple "Fade" transition in place at a set duration(usually 5 seconds) in the first spot where required, then copy the fade trans into my clipboard, pasting in repeatedly as required further along the timeline until all transitions were in place. The "Fade" transition served only as a "seatwarmer" as I intended to use other more leaborate effects in each spot, the fade effect simply marked where the more elaborate effect would go. In PD14, by contrast, that was not possible as I could not copy a transition(any transition) into clipboard and paste to other spots.
In PD8 the ability to copy/paste a transition was a useful timesaving measure, in PD14 the inability to do so was/is a bit of a nuisance as I now have to go through and insert each effect at each point where it's required, and set the amount of time(5 seconds, usually). The upside of this is the ability to crossfade the transition as well as overlap, as against only having overlap in the older version. The difference there is that, in overlap, each insertion of a transition shortens the overall length of the finished video(e.g. five transitions at 5 seconds each = a loss of 25 seconds overall length) while the crossfade option retains the overal length of the video. Hmmm... Just had a thought, maybe I should request the ability to copy/paste transitions in the "Suggerstions For PD15" thread. I daresay, that if you've used earlier versions of Power Director, there'd be some routine practices you had to alter when it came to using PD14.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Optodata and Kmanauto!
Sorry if anything I said may have caused confusion. Sorry also for writing standard(keyboard gremlins!) I'll back away and leave the rest to you, Optodata!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello Jem,
To get to the two different types of "Threshold", first, pull the transition in between the two clips where you want to apply it, then click on "Modify", you then have the option of transition behaviour, overlap or cross. Below the Overlap option you'll see the option for Type(of Threshold), that's where you can select between Threshold 1 or 2, just click on "Type" and you'll find them.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi all, Just wondering does enabling fast render technology, reduce the final output quality ?
Hello, James!
I don't know if the image quality is reduced but I have noticed that fast rendering(assuming you're referring to SVRT) does shorten the length of the video a tiny bit, but only drops a frame or two in length.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello Neil,
Many thanks for your comments, I hadn't thought of it in that way at all and it's lovely to hear of your experience as you watched, I am grateful to you.
Kind regards - Jem
G'day Jem!
Just thought I'd offer a suggestion for a transition, try giving Threshold 1 or 2 a whirl in one of your montage projects. I found it to give a brilliant intro or exit effect if coming in from, or exiting to a colour board(CB), the only thing here is that going out to CB, Threshold 1 is best used and Threshold 2 for coming in from CB. You may well find other uses for this transition effect. It's certainly worth the time for experimentation.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Whoa slow down PDR 15 !!!.
My Suggestions.
Cyberlink need stop release PDR EVERY FREAKING YEAR !!!.
Time to change to 2 or 3 years cycle to release new PDR.
Cyberlink need more work, fixes buggy PDR within 2 or 3 years period.
Upgrade costs way too much ! for every year and add little features.
I have PDR 12, 13, I wish motion tracker come with PDR 13 but only for PDR 14 that is B.S.
Stop release it too soon.
+1
I'll go along with the quoted sentiment, but add that maybe the space should be three-to-four years, enough time to iron out the bugs and glitches BEFORE releasing the product. Plus, the option to buy the disc package(boxed retail version) must ALWAYS be available.
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Helo, JemRa1d!
Congratulations! Brilliant, simply brilliant! The audio added a spooky feel to it and you appeared like a ghost into several of the shots.
Well done!
Cheers!
Neil
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Hi Angela,
Please start a new topic when you have a new question that is not related to the former question.
Many of your questions have nothing to do with Your topic "7 hours two trenches 40 minute HD video, is this normal ???"
That way others will be able to find answers to their quistions when they are searching the forum.
You have so many different issues in this post that it is bewildering for other forum members. 
Thanks in advance 
Cheers, Anja
Yes, I echo Anja's advice there. This new question you've now posed is more to do with editing rather than rendering(producing).
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Neil.
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Hello, kmanauto!
Question: If you're shooting in digital video, why on earth would you even need to "touch up" your work with the Fix/Enhance facility? Especially if you're using a camera with in-built hard-drive and SD-card storage capacity. Digital video just doesn't need any "touching up"! However, Analogue-camera content can, at times, and depending on the quality of the camera, appear a bit dull. Fix/Enhance comes in handy here, a bit of sharpening up with the contrast setting, a slight tweak of the lighting and add video denoising and hey presto! A near-digital-quality image!
Cheers!
Neil.
This is 2015, not 1990. You keep posting things about "digital video just doesn't need any touching up" and comparing digital to analogue, but that is simply not true (in the former case) or relevant (in the latter).
I'm glad that you're willing and able to participate in these forum discussions, but honestly if you aren't able to assist the poster with the issues they've specifically asked for help with, I don't understand why you reply.
I find it interesting that you actually started with a question - which implies that you might genuinely wonder and want to understand why someone would do this - but you finish with a lecturing statement about how completely unnecessary this is and go on about old analogue clips which have exactly nothing to do with OP's situation.
It's fine if you think you'd never apply corrections to digital media, but it's something different all together to tell someone who has a clear understanding of their video goals that there's no need to do any such thing. Did you even read what's happening here? Have you seen the difference in the two clips? Are you able to assist in diagnosing why PD13 works as expected but PD14 doesn't?
If not, what does your post accomplish?
Optodata!
I was making a comparison between old and new. Digital cameras are capable of such clarity of image that they truly don't need any "touching up", that has been my own experience. Analogue, on the other hand, can fall down in clarity terms so that a bit of "tweaking" helps lift the quality of the image. I just wanted to point this out. I'm aware kmanauto's problem is between PD13 and PD14 rendering, the best advice I can offer there to you, kmanauto is, if you still have PD13 sharing space with PD14, then the best option would be for any project started in PD13, to complete it in PD13, and any project started in PD14, likewise. I offer that advice only in light of your rendering problem. I seem to pick up a suggestion that you may have inadvertantly set "Fix/Enhance" adjustments in PD13, then rendered a final video out of that edit, then brought that clip(maybe) to PD14, repeated the "Fix/Enhance" settings and the image was severely degrade. Seems an unnecessary double application of the Fix/Enhnce might've been your problem. Also there might've been a conflict of video file types, but I've been able to mix MPEG2 with AVCHD items added as inlays(PiP objects) with no problems, but I suggested this only on the off-chance it might be the case. Another idea I might suggest is that the degree of fix/enhance in 14 might be greater than that in 13 for, say, contrast adjustment, perhaps. 75% setting in 14 might have more effect than the same value setting in 13. There are any number of possibilities why you got two differing results between PD13 and PD14, I can only guess at which possibility it may be. My own method is to use PD14 to do ititial editing and render, then author to disc with PD8. If I'm restoring old video I'll use either, but again, auther to disc in PD8. I hope Optodata might be happier with this that he was with my previous post.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hello, kmanauto!
Question: If you're shooting in digital video, why on earth would you even need to "touch up" your work with the Fix/Enhance facility? Especially if you're using a camera with in-built hard-drive and SD-card storage capacity. Digital video just doesn't need any "touching up"! However, Analogue-camera content can, at times, and depending on the quality of the camera, appear a bit dull. Fix/Enhance comes in handy here, a bit of sharpening up with the contrast setting, a slight tweak of the lighting and add video denoising and hey presto! A near-digital-quality image!
Cheers!
Neil.
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I think Deckingman's problems with Power Director 14 post-patch are a good reason why I should steer clear of installing patches to PD 14 on my computer. This is borne out by problems I had some time ago while still using PD7. I'd not long joined the internet and had it on while I had PD7 opened. The little pop-up came on my screen to update PD7 to a newer build, I clicked and the upgrade(so-called) caused PD7 to crash too often for my liking. I uninstalled PD7 then re-installed WITHOUT the patch and PD7 worked fine - no more crashing! Once bitten - twice shy! I'd been lucky with PD8 even with the patch, but with PD14 I'll leave well enough alone. I get a few crashes but mainly it does its job. I use PD14 to edit and render to MPEG2 DVD-SP but I continue to use PD8 for authoring to disc as PD14 does not give me the option of setting the authoring quality to DVD-SP, PD14 allows only DVD-HQ or "Smart Fit", the latter option I'm wary of as I suspect it will cut out(excise) portions of the video to fit one hour of HQ on the disc. When I author to disc I want to take full advantage of the 4.7Gb of capacity to fit 2 hours + on the disc.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Tony!
Just watched your Karaoke clip of Eagle Rock..... Great stuff! For anyone outside Australia, a bit of trivia:
The record appeared here on a short-lived label called Sparmac( issue number - SPR-008 ) in mid-1971 and was a double-sided chart-topper with its B-side, "Bom-Bom" Both sides penned by group leader Ross Wilson, the B-side penned in collaboration with another member of the group, Newcastle-born Ross Hannaford. The Sparmac label was owned by an ex-pat American named Robie G. Porter who established his career in Australia in the early 1960s as an instrumentalist(played guitar, also sang on occasions) and recording as Rob E.G. for the Festival label here. Porter established the Sparmac label in 1970 and its first release, a song he wrote and recorded himself as Robie G. Porter, called "Gemini" dudded chartwise. "Eagle Rock"/"Bom-Bom" was the label's only major hit.
The car that can be seen in the clip is the iconic Holden FJ-model, an early 1950s remodeling of the still-more iconic 48-215 model which kickstarted the Holden line of cars in 1948. The designation of the model is: 48 for year of manufacture, 215 for engine size in cubic inches. Just a bit of trivia to break up the video-related talk. Again, Tony, great work on the video! Wonder what Ross Wilson thought of it! (by the way, I'm an ex-community radio presenter, in case you hadn't picked it)!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Carl.
I eventually found the "key to the back door" and escaped! (ha-ha). I make it a practice always to log-out when finished with a given website(any website). I don't tamper with the computer too much.If there is something there that allows me to safely log in or out of a website without losing my log-in details(email, user-name and password), I leave it alone.
Cheers!
Neil.
P.S. It was a momentary glitch in the system that prevented me from logging out. It had sorted itself out after a short while and I was able to log out after about four or five attempts.
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Hello all!
After reading posts in PD14, PD13 and PD(Earlier Versions) forums, tried to log oout, only to get a notice that the request could not be processed. You have a defect in your system somewhere and it's holding us users effectively "captive" in the system.
This problem is at your end and needs urgent attention.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Unlike Tomasc(and possibly Ynotfish),
I DO use transitions in ALL my videos to "segue" between two differing locations, time periods, etc. I found the best transition effects for differing locations or time periods to be swing, flip, full twist, fragments or magic blocks. For transitions where the location or time period is the same, then perhaps a simple fade, evaporate or threshold(1 or 2) is a good option. The effect is usually set at 5 seconds duration. I apply transitions between shots because just "jumping" from one scene to another appears jarring and rough. I watch a lot of documentary-type shows on TV, and for all the so-called "professionalism" of these producers, directors and editors", their lack of transition use sometimes has me wondering if they are as professional as they claim to be.
Don't be afraid to use transitions! It's what they're there for! There are some excellent transition effects in PD14, plus the provision to create customised transitions of your own design.... Wow!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, MelRay!
I really don't think it's possible to "stretch" the audio" to match the length of the video(after you've deleted the affected portion of your audio track upon unlinking it from the video), the main reason for this is, in part because any speech would be out of synchronisation(severely so) with the mouth movements of anyone speking on that clip. Even if there's no-one speaking I don't think it's possible.
The best "trick" would be to leave the video and audio components linked, and at the adversely affected part of the audio, lay over a bit of music from the "Smartsound" library or one of your own audio pieces, or a piece of narration to "hide" the affected portion of the audo track.
Cheers!
Neil.
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I created my own mask in Microsoft "Paint" as a bitmap image. the purpose being to hide the jittery edges of a clip after stabiliser has been applied. The width of the border is open to experimentation, the colour is open to choice, as is whether to have curved or squared corners.
I simply import this mask(white area to be made transparent with chroma-key) and place it over any clip where my shaky camerawork has been corrected by the use of the Image Stabiliser in "Fix/Enhance".
Cheers!
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Opening and closing PD 14 is enough to cause the error
Ouch! You're stymied before you start! That could be a computer problem.
Cheers!
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Hi, Peter1969!
For what it's worth, I've used clips two or three times over and not noticed any image quality degradation. What I often do is make a base edit, that is, I put in a colour board(usually black, about 6 to 8 seconds in PD14 because I have the crossfading transition. In PD8 with only overlapping transitions, I used a 10-second colour board) at the start of my video, trim down each portion to an exact number of minutes and seconds, excising spare "frames", add my transitions, then produce. I then take that "produce" and add any titling and other text(explanatory captions, closing credit[scrolled upward]), then I'll produce that, each time I'll add to the file name, a final produce of my video will then be: the base edit on first render, titles & captions added on the second, music and narration added on the third render, job done! And no significant image quality degradation!
Cheers!
Neil.
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'Encountered an improper argument'
I got that a few times when setting duration of a transition AFTER I set for "Overlap". Got around the problem by setting the duration, THEN set for "Overlap"! Anyway, just what is an "improper argument"? Is it one between husband and wife over who's going to have the last slice of pie on the plate?(ha-ha).
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