You may find that there is indeed a 504MB file left. If you play this file you may find where PD has problems with the file.

I have struck this problem before and found that where the produced file finishes is the place PD stalled. If this is at a transition or start of a new clip I have found moving the clip to a different part of the timeline or deleting the transition will allow PD to finish the video. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

The stoppage is not a transition point. I'm using an unedited MPEG-2 file 30min 58sec 22frames long that was captured by PD7. Right now, at the third attempt at rendering, it stopped with a reported 768kb remaining.

And then I looked again, and now it is 583kb remaining.

I don't think it's stopped. I think it has just slowed down enormously. For what reason I cannot fathom.

Now it's down to 435kb.

Now it's 407kb.

I'm going to keep watching this to see what happens. Now it's 342kb. Strange. It was going like blazes.

OK, it finally finished, but it took 17 min 10 sec. Ha! And it's only providing audio when played in MediaPlayer Classic or Windows MediaPlayer. No video. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I'm going to test it with a video captured in PD9.

Dont know if PD7 can or not becouse its a long time for me, but you right (i think). You can allways use 3rd party programs to compress your final productions to your desidered AVI file. PD9 have more other beautys that you can use better that other video editors. As Kevin says...!you can get a full refund within 30 days of your purchase if you aren't satisfied with your decision. I believe you just have to ask for it before your 30 day from date of purchase is up!

The forum is to help and give solutions. What you ask is what you get! LOL

I don't want to give it up if it can be made to do the job I have always expected of it. Little glitches like crashing once in a while, I can live with.

I just rendered a half hour video captured by PD9, using H.264 with bitrate set to 2000kb/s average and 2400kb/s max. It stopped exactly as it should. I can view it in PD9. I just can't view it anywhere else. I tried MediaPlayer Classic and Windows MediaPlayer, and both only play sound with no video. This is becoming monotonous.

I'm going to try H.264 with the default settings again.

Twelve minutes and change later: Nope. Default H.264 created a 1.5GB file that only displays as sound in any player outside of PD9. Are you sure this was beta tested to completion? I'm beginning to wish I was in on the beta.

Talking about … monotonous.

You was talking about apples, now you are talking about bananas. No comprendo!, depending of your OS and WMP versions your computer and your jobs will be like “Shakespeare” .. to be or not to be.!

Please read Dafydd “Guide for NEW members” at http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/13638.page

No, I was talking about one problem and now I am finding other problems. PD9 is working like an unfinished beta. This reminds me of when Microsoft brought out Windows eight months early, a month before the Amiga Premiere, because Bill Gates was scared as heck that the Amiga would blow Windows out of the water if the Amiga was brought out first. So we ended up with twenty years of Windows full of unrepairable bugs. When, in fact, the vastly superior Amiga should have become the standard for personal computing everywhere.

Nice, you are right...! LOL WELLCOME to the new age of PD9 century fox!. Now you are a Lieutenant you make me laugh very much. Thanks!.

Seriously, get the juice worth PD9 !

Please bear in mind that no-one here is directly involved with CL.

PD9 was extensively beta tested by a group of experienced users. As you would expect hundreds of issues, likes/dislikes, suggestions etc were raised. However, what CL chooses or has chosen to do about them is not in our remit.

Your playback issue seems more like a codec implementation problem. A 720p .m2ts produced on my system plays fine in wmp v12 and vlc and in MPHC 64 bit 1.4.2499.0.

Cheers
Adrian

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I am also able to play mt2s in 720p and 1080i. Try playing it with VLC Player. __________________________________
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So, if no one here is directly related to Cyberlink, which implies that no one at Cyberlink reads these forums, then I'm just blowing smoke up my own tailpipe, is that it? It's all just a waste of time? The corporation makes a decision and we just have to roll over and take it? Cyberlink should remember that there are many competing products out there. I saw "64-bit" and I thought this was really going to be great. A faster less buggy version of the program I use almost every day, with nearly infinite file size capacity. Not. Creating a new version that is markedly inferior in capability to previous versions is a great way to stop making money.

If you want help we can help you if you just want to complain we can't help you. Every customer has the right to take their business elsewhere. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

I completely agree with Robert.

Gridsleep wrote:

…if no one at Cyberlink reads these forums, then I'm just blowing smoke up my own tailpipe, is that it?

If you think that all the effort that your fellow members here have gone to in replying to your thread, is just a waste of “your” time, then yes, I agree with your assessment about blowing it up your tailpipe.
It clearly states at the top of the Community Forums home page that this is a Members forum for sharing help and tips, and that Cyberlink does not respond in the forum.

But you do have the option to contact Cyberlink directly at Customer or Technical support to express your concerns. Perhaps that would be a better route for you, to avoid "everyone" wasting their time.
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I still haven't figured out how any of this is CyberLink's fault, but I, for one, won't waste any more of your time. __________________________________
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Hmmm, 2 topics,12 posts, Can't see much positive in any of them. Not a lot there for other members to gain from. Certainly there's not much to keep me involved. I think you're going to be on your own from now on. Best of luck. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

It is a great program, it just doesn't have EVERYTHING.
For Divx, I'll have to settle for using my Divx Pro converter, not the worst thing in the world, but I was hoping for a one-program-does-all. The actual editing performance is excellent. Stick around, this forum is also one of the best ways to learn things and get around issues. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote: If you want help we can help you if you just want to complain we can't help you. Every customer has the right to take their business elsewhere.

From what everyone is saying here, I am getting the impression that these problems as I see them are design decisions. If only one or two people aren't happy, too bad. It would take a truckload of like complaints to prompt rewriting the code into a new sub version. If there is, indeed, a way to get the Compression Codec option to actually work and list the available codecs installed in the computer, then I am all ears. Please, do tell.

And if this forum is only for users to exchange ideas, then it's time to send in a support ticket to the people who can change things on a source code level.

I was very satisfied with PD8 and was even recommending it as the video editor I considered as the most stable and flexible comsumer grade editor.

I gladly switched to PD9 when it was advertised assuming the 64bit version would add speed to a great product.

What an errored assumption!

I'm trying to do a single 4:3 conversion to play in a photo frame. AVI would appear to be the most acceptable format to use. It would be great if it would accept a Mega-GIG file because I also am having the "No Compressor" option as the only AVI compression option.

PD8 handled my DivX encoding with no problem. Now, I'm needing to find PD9 methods that might give me similar quality and sizes in video conversions.

Not pleased. I'm beginning to think I need to uninstall PD9 and see if I can get PD8 working again. At this time I cannot recommend PD9 64Ultra to anyone.

Try buying DivXPro, you can find an online coupon and get for, maybe $15.00.
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You mean DivX Pro Codec 6.9.2? - Trying to update and the message is I have the latest versions

Go to the website, you'll see several "modules?" you can buy, one is DivxPlus Pro, or something like that, but google for a coupon 1st.
http://www.couponmountain.com/coupon-codes--se-divx.html

You can use the converter made by Divx themselves, cheap too. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
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They have changed the Converter. I think you can now do some conversions even without the Pro version. I don't know what the limitations are. Pro is still a good value. __________________________________
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