One other pointer:

You probably installed the Sony PMB software to playback and import your video files. It can be very useful. You can drag video clips from this application into Power Director, which I do all the time. It is helpful because you might have grouped your clips in a special way and then can easily select all thes and drag them into PD8.

Just thought I would pass this along.

The most recent version of this is

PMB Version 5.3.01.09273 it has some new features that may not be on your original version that came with your camera.

Kevin
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This sounds very similar to the problem I and others were having some months ago - freezing at transitions. My solution was to stop filming in full HD (60fps) and go down a notch to 30fps. Everything worked perfectly then.
PD8 could not handle 60 fps from my Sanyo Xacti FH-1.

See here - http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/12601.page#59632 Phil
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Phil wrote:

This sounds very similar to the problem I and others were having some months ago - freezing at transitions. My solution was to stop filming in full HD (60fps) and go down a notch to 30fps. Everything worked perfectly then.
PD8 could not handle 60 fps from my Sanyo Xacti FH-1

I totally agree with you....60fps second is a real challenge! But what is very perplexing is that his camera shoots at 30fps. He has basically the exact camera I do with the exception of hard drive size in the camera. I think that is the only difference that I am aware of, and I don't have a bit of trouble using the Sony's footage.

Thanks for the added input though....every bit helps!

Regards,

Kevin
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Sorry guys..I had rough work schedule this week. Will try few things later today or Friday. Will post results! Are we there yet?

Just tried some solutions from customer support last few days. Still no good. I have virus prog. disabled and all other apps.
I just imported files to my internal hard drive from my Sony HDR SR11 Handycam. My thought was that perhaps my external drive files might have been corrupted in some way. Alas!! Same issue. In fact..I only used 4 clips and 1 transition!! The Chain Reaction Right transition and it freezes preview and stops Powerdirector in it's tracks!! Sometime it automatically shrinks the program to my taskbar below.

What is going on here?? I hate to sound negative and I always give the benefit of doubt to user error or ignorance but I am feeling like the Powerdirector 8 is not doing what it advertised it will!! Has anyone tried version 9? I just purchased 8 3 weeks ago...I wonder if they will refund my money and/or let me upgrade to 9 for free to see if that fixes the bugs I am experiencing.

Arghh..frustrated! Are we there yet?

I also downloaded FFdshow codec. Anything else I can try anyone???
I just don't see why I should have to resort to using Neoscene to be able to edit my footage since Powerdirector claims I should be able to do it natively. Are we there yet?

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Just upgraded to PD9. SO far the editing is much better. Transitions do not cause jitters or freeze the system if preview is set to High. When switched to Full HD or HD it is a little laggy. I added several clips and title,color effect, and few transitions. Much improved performance over PD8. I will be testing project in produce and burn to disc/dvd in avchd. Will post results. : Are we there yet?

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