Video Imported from Canon HV40 looks great - but can't be edited or produced

rironin

Newbie Joined: Aug 20, 2009 23:01 Messages: 16 Offline

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Oct 25, 2010 00:55

I don't really know what to say. I imported the full HD video from my Canon HV40, and it looks great, plays great, everything is good. I used it in a project, and extremely simple project, doing nothing but splitting the video a few times to isolate one scene. Then I tried to produce the movie.

First warning sign, the production process took an exceptionally long time, pausing at 0% and 99% especially. Otherwise, the production process did complete, "Successfully."

Except that the produced video begins with a chunk of slow-motion, soundless frames from the beginning of the captured source file, becomes pixelated at random, and attempting to seek to different points in the video using a media player (to try to find some portion of it that isn't useless) breaks the media player's mind.

Unless my camcorder is producing defective video in the first place, something I doubt, PowerDirector is screwing up the import process, creating HD videos that it itself cannot interpret when it comes time to edit and produce them. Is this a known issue?

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Oct 25, 2010 02:04

I usually have to trim a few frames off of the beginning and end from my Canon because of no sound or defective video. That seems normal to me. Not knowing anything about your computer specs, it could be a codec issue. What format are you producing to? What media player are you using to play the produced video?
Plenty of us have Canons, so it's not likely that.
Plenty of us use PowerDirector successfully everyday, so it's not that.
Now we just have to work back from there and find out what it is. __________________________________
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KentuckyRandy

Member Location: Kentucky USA Joined: Oct 27, 2010 09:39 Messages: 81 Offline

Oct 27, 2010 10:22

1. Make sure your HV is set to 30i or 60i, and NOT 24p or cinemode.
2. Set your PD project to 1440x1080, 30i or 60i. This elliminates conversions within PD, and makes your editing/rendering faster.
3. You can output to either SD ro HD.

If your current project is not set to 1440x1080i, you would have to start a new project to change these settings.

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