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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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Hi, Myk!
Your duplication situation may be due to the fact that you're copying home-burn discs. Several early commercially-made DVDs that did not have copy protection embedded in them would copy without fault. But I've struck this once or twice myself, and each time with a home-burned disc in Clone DVD. You're getting a successful duplication of your disc but the master is ejected with an (unknown) error warning, again it's just because your copying from a disc you yourself had made.
Cheers!
Neil.
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I gotta say that feature is there in V14, and I'm pretty sure never left,
Correct as usual Crabby, it's still there.
Thanks Barry & Cranston - I had to pull my timelines down to reveal it!
Cheers!
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Chalk it up to operator error!! I don't know what I did but when I burned it again it worked just as you said it should. Thank you very much for your help. Feeling a little foolish.....
Maybe there is a Ghost in the machine!
I hope that ghost is polite and only spooks when spooken to!
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Hello angela123 ,
What type of file were you trying to create? Was it AVI, or perhaps AVCHD? These types of video file will take an inordinate amount of time to render, But if you go for MPEG2(and set for DVD SP) the item will render in only a matter of minutes.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Loren C and Mike!
Sounds like everyone's out "golfing"..... Just playing around(a round)!
Cheers!
Neil.
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A slower burn speed could make the DVD readable by more players. At one time only DVD-R and not DVD+R discs were required to play on some of the very old dvd players of early and mid 2000 vintage.
Hi, Myk, Tomasc & Vivf!
I've not struck trouble when playing my home-burn DVD+R discs on domestic players, and some that I have played them on may be around second generation(but I'm guessing). This is my second attempt at posting as my first got lost in the ether!
Something else I thought about here, is the playing of these discs on stand-alone DVD recorders. They should be able to play discs burned to either DVD+R or DVD-R discs. Myk or Vivf, if you have access to one(or more) of these devices, try your discs on one of them.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Neil, I should clarify that you are correct that when making copies of digital media, whether audio or video files, there is no loss no matter how many times a copy is copied.
However, when it comes to producing/rendering media, the content changes every time a clip is rendered UNLESS you are using SVRT or a (mathematically) lossless codec. Most of the changes will not be noticeable, but the goal is to keep the number of renderings to a minimum so you don't get the digital equivalent of xeroxed copies of copies.
Hi, Optodata!
Well, that's one on me! I thought, because we're working with digital media there would be no drop in quality regardless of how often an item is "rendered". It's natural for losses in editing(chopping out unwanted bits) but the picture quality should stay constant. That's supposed to be the attraction of using digital media in the first instance. It was vastly different when all we had was analogue videotape.... any more than one generation away from the "master" and the image became unwatchable.
Cheers!
Neil.
P.S. Something I have noticed in rendering with SVRT is that the overall length of a finished clip is shortened, as against hardware rendering or viewing the image while rendering. The SVRT method causes a shortening, not by much, just a frame or two, but enough to throw out the work I do in editing where I count off frames before splitting the clip so that I can make a video that is meant to run for an exact number of minutes and seconds with no "spare" frames.
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Hi, Myk!
It's very likely some people may still be using very early model DVD players(first or second generation models). These early models don't take kindly to home-burn discs as they were manufactured at a time before home-burning of DVDs was possible(or at least more widely available to end-users like us). It's probably that reason why your discs aren't playing on some DVD players. Those models are too early in the history of the type to be able to handle home-burn DVDs.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Loren C!
Yep, chapters can be deleted or added to at the editing stage, or, when bringing the video into the "Create Disc" stage, by clicking the "C" in the dialoge box, you can set the chapters or add/delete chapters in a clip you've had on the timeline as you entered the "Create Disc" mode. But you can only do this BEFORE you've burned the disc.
And Mike, "simply playing around with it!" Spoken like a golfer! ha-ha.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, VivF !
It may well be your player that's at fault. When you author(burn) a DVD the process ends with closing track and closing disc, in other words, finalising. All DVD authoring(burning) programmes do this in various ways.... they have to do so, before a disc can be played in a domestic DVD player. PD13 will process your disc in much the same fashion as previous versions of Power Director have done, up to and including finalisation. So if your DVD player isn't accepting the disc you just did, then, if your mother's player accepts it without any hiccups, then it might be time to wave bye-bye to your old DVD player(how old is it?) and get a new one! They're gettin' to be "cheap-as-chips" these days!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Here's another thought re: what to put in PD15, more like put back into Power Director. In PD8's Fix/Enhance there is a provision to view in split-screen, the fix or enhance effect on the right of screen, against the unaffected image on the left of screen. This facility allows the user to gauge the degree of fixing or enhancing that a video image sourced from analogue tape(VHS, Beta, Video-8 or Hi- requires to bring it up to a level roughly equal to that of modern video images derived from digital sources. This facility is not available in PD14 and I'm not sure which was the last version to include this split-screen facility. Was it still there in PD9, 10, 11 or 12?
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Anja!
That's one we both missed, as well as Andreas! Guess that make the three of us blind!(did I hear someone make a crack about a trio of sightless rodents? ha-ha). Thanks Tomasc for pointing out what we missed!
Cheers! Und vielen dank!
Neil.
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Hello, FNUSNU!
Firstly, Bonagege was referring to audio files rather than video file types when he asked about MP3, he was asking what type of audio file your music was recorded in.
As for resolution or quality, because you're working in digital media, there's no loss in either. It doesn't matter how often you re-render, the only thing that may shrink is the file size of your clip(by a few megabytes) Re-editing will not affect picture quality either, for the same reason, you're working in digital media.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, JemRa1d!
Glad I was able to provide some help, or at least some inspitation. I created my diagonal wipe by starting from a simple pattern designed in Microsoft Publisher. I drew out a box of 16 units wide by 9 units high(the "units" could be pixels or centimetres) Clicked "No Line" for the border of this item chose a two-colour diagonal effect(grey & White), copied it and pasted it to Microsoft "Paint" as a bitmap. That design was the base for the transition I created. To get the Top-Left to Bottom-Right wipe I just changed it in the "transition Designer" compoent of the tansitions room. Oh, dear! I've just revealed my secret...... ALL READERS OF THIS POST, AVERT YOUR EYES....... Oops! Too late! (ha-ha)
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, FNUSNU!
Another way of tackling the problem might be to render(that is, produce) the clip you have put together then make your edits on that new clip you've just produced. If you've spaced out your music sufficiently that no overlapping occurs between each music track, you can make your edits in the spaces in between the music-backed segments.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Anja!
On your question: "Is not there a German forum? or there is only one English?" I have to admit that I'm not sure. Generally the forum posts are in English, but, on occasion you'll get the odd post in another language other than English, like our new German friend, Andreas, writing in German, in which you are clearly fluent wheras I only have what I've learned in evening classes, "Abendstunde" and have remembered quite a bit of it from those classes. Now, if someone were to write in Danish.... you would definitely be the "go-to" person to answer a question in your native tongue. It's useful to have another language for just such situations, ay!
Alles besten und viel Gruss!
Neil.
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Hi, WILLIAMDOR!
There are a great many devices available at the moment that can convert analogue video, from sources such as VHS or Beta videocassette recorders or those earlier generations of mono and stereo analogue "cam-corders" like the one you inherited from your father. The software that comes with them can be anything from Pinnacle to NTS or even bare-bones versions of Cyberlink Power Director(that have several of the features disabled to keep costs down). The devices are referred to as "capture cards" Nearly all full versions of Power Director will accept input from these devices(some of the ealiest PD version might not, but I'm only guessing, the earliest Power Director I used was Version 5). Just make all the necessary connections from your "cam-corder" to the capture card(when you get it or if you already have one) and connect it to a USB port.
These devices are usually "plug & Play" so they'll be usable almost immediately on connection. Open your Power Director(assuming it's Version 14), click on "capture", start your tape playing, the picture should come up on the preview screen, back your tape up to the start, click on the "record" icon(below and left of the preview screen) and.... away-y-y-y you go! When you've captured all, or as much as you want from the tape, click again on the "record" icon to stop the process, you'll be presented with a box where you give your file a name(tentative title), the default title is "capture". You can determine where your captured video file is saved as well. Just repeat the steps to capture more content. The captured video will be in 4:3 aspect ratio. If your Power Director is set to 16:9 then you'll get a warning of the aspect ratio conflict and be asked if you want to switch to 4:3. For the purpose of what I'm about to tell you, click "No" when that warning appears because you can convert that 4:3 aspect ratio into 16:9 wide screen in just a few mouse-clicks! Drag your clip to the timeline, right-click on it and move the cursor to "Set Clip Attributes", another box will appear with Set Aspect Ratio" as the last of the options, left-click on it and you'll see a panel which will show Project Clip is 16:9, below that are a set of options, Detect Aspect Ratio Automatically; The Aspect Ratio Of The Clip Is 4:3; The Aspect Ratio Of The Clip Is 16:9; Neither 4:3 nor 16:9; Apply To All Video Clips. Of these options, select The Aspect Ratio Of The Clip Is 4:3, you'll then be given two options, to either "Stretch Clip To 16:9" or "Use CLPV To Stretch...", Select the latter and your clip will be stretche out to 16:9 but proportions will be retained so that no-one in your clip will look like they've been "raiding the refridgerator"
On one point I must disagree with Barry The Crab, regarding Windows Movie Maker, but only in relation to the version for Windows 7 which does not appear to have a capture option for devices such as you wish to use, plus the editing procedure is a bit cumbersome in WMM. PD14 is far superior in these regards.
Hope that explains things for you!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Ah, Anja!
You've seen my two new transitions! Glad you liked them! Emboldened as I am now, I will create a few more yet!
As they say in the classics, "Watch This Space!"
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello Anja!
It is likely that andreaspausr27 does not speak, read or write in English, thus I responed "auf Deutsch" that he may understand what I have written. This is an English translation of what I wrote:
Hello, andreaspausr27!
A hearty welcome to this website, Director Zone! the music under the clip "Best Moments" can perhaps be found by searching the "Magic Music" collections. Click on the "Stars & Wand" icon and select "Magic Music".I must tell you that it may perhaps take a lot of time before you find the right music clip, but as I say in English, "the fun is in the search"(phrase translated to German). Once Again I say" A hearty welcome to this website, Director Zone!
And there, Anja, is the English translation. As I stated earlier, I wrote in German for Andreas's benefit as I believe he may not be able to speak, read or write English.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Mike!
There are plusses and minusses to any kind of licencing arrangement, and sure, it's likely that one would likely install the programme to the computer of a mamily member, or a friend. While putting, say PD14 on a friend's computer might be "pushing the envelope" a bit too far, I see nothing wrong in installing on say, a son's or daughter's computer, so long as it's kept within the family. But, all-in-all, these computer software licences are quite restrictive, and unnecessarily so in many cases. The high cost of the software means that with each sale, the company that developed the software, will quickly recoup the outlay in creating the software in the first place, so it should be "no skin off Cyberlink's nose" as to how it's used.
Your finishing remark: "As an aside I'd like to point out that on other forums I visit people are not criticised for posting to old threads provided the comments are still relevant to the thread title", I quite agree. The moderator shouldn't be too quick to lock a thread if there are still valid and pertinent comments yet to be added.
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