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I have an extension to this question. I am making a video of high quality pictures. I will be projecting it on a large screen about 5 ft by 10ft long. I obviously want to maintain the very best quality I can. Should I use AVCHD or MEPG4? Is there any difference in final resolution if I burn a disk or produce a file on my computer and play it from my hard drive vs. a disk? Thanks.
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Power Director 9 is the only program that crashes my video driver. Toshiba Qosmio win 7 with NVIDIA GeForce GTS360M. I installed the latest CyberLink driver and the latest NVIDIA drivers. When editing and playing videos with Power Director I frequently get crashes with message: "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver version 285.62 stopped working and recovered". How can I tell if this is a bug in CyberLink -- only program causing the crashes-- or a problem with the computer and/or drivers from NVIDA? 
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I know when you render movies you use the CPU and for some video effects, the video card is critical in rendering. When you add the surround sound and 5.1, does that rely on the sound card at all or is that all done with the CPU?
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Tony, thanks for the input. Your laptop handles whatever you give it. If you were purchasing one today, would you get an i7-720 cpu with GeForce 360M (1GB) and about 6GB memory? Or do you feel anything should be upgraded? Does Power Director 8 take advantage of the multi threads and 4 cores when rendering? Thanks.
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Thanks, Tony for the quick feed back. That is a great site. I’m not sure how to interpret the numbers in the benchmark tests (I couldn’t find any explanation); but the i7 – 720QM was #12 on their list. The Core 2 Duo P8800 is #34 –down the list a little. I don’t know if you are rendering a movie that takes 3 hours on the slower processor if it will take 2 ¾ hours or 1 ½ hours on the faster machine (just to throughout some meaningless numbers). I don’t know how significant the difference is. I see the GTS360M video chip is in their class 1 and the other is in class 2. Do you have any feel for how significant the differences are in terms of rendering time, since that is the biggest time consumer? Thanks
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I am planning on purchasing a new laptop for PD8 editing of larger movies (around 1 ½ to 2 hr). I have seen different reports on i7 vs. core 2 processors. Does anyone have real time experience with rendering and burning movies with both processors? How to compare the two? Two machines I am looking at have: 1 – i7-720 runs at 1.6GHz with GeForce GTS 360M and 2- Core 2 Duo Processor P8800 2.66 GHz with GeForce GT 240M. The machines would have either 4 or 6GB ram and at least a 500GB hard drive. Is there any significant difference in the processors? I understand the Core2 runs cooler and has longer battery life. Thanks
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George,
I have Microsoft Movie Maker version 6.0. I does record video from my Sony Hi8 camcorder through the firewire. Hope this helps.
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George,
One solution may be to see if you can get the older version of PD (6.5 or 7) and they may capture. I had a couple movie making softwares that came with my computer and I had no problem capturing. I believe I captured with PD6.5 -- maybe someone can confirm. Of course you loose the benefits of the additional editing features offered by PD8! I don't know if you can have them both running on the same machine? I also have a little program preloaded on a HP computer called muvee which I know captures my Hi8 movies. I don't have any regular 8mm, all mine are Hi8. If no patch is coming, it sounds like it will be a two program/two step process. I seems very surprising this happened.
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Does anyone know if Cyberlink is planning on offering a update to allow the firewire to be used with Hi8 tapes? I tried connecting the camera through the RCA jacks on the front of the computer, but the camera is not recognized by Cyberlink. Any thoughts on how to get the RCA jacks working on a HP Pavillion m9150F computer? I currently have no way to capture video from the upgraded Cyberlink8. It used to work with the older produts, but it does not after the $98 upgrade. Another question; is there a difference in quality when capturing through the RCA jacks vrs the firewire?
Thanks
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I just bought Media Suite with PD8. I am trying to capture videos from a Sony DCR-TRV480 Hi8 camcorder. I used to be able to capture video using the firewire cable. PD8 only captures about 2 to 3 seconds and stops. I will not capture video. I tried connecting the Y/R/W RCA jacks to input jacks on the front of the computer, but the computer does not recognize the video from there. I don't have a lot of experience with video capture, but I used to be able to do it with the firewire. How can you get PD8 to capture Hi8mm tape video? Thanks for your input.
Ken
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