Power Director 9 crashes during editing

SANDYC

Newbie Joined: Feb 05, 2011 18:06 Messages: 1 Offline

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Feb 05, 2011 18:24

I have successfully organized 900 HD clips on the timeline with a duration of more than three hours. This effort went well. Now, during the editing of each of the clips, I am running into serious trouble. Whether I use the Edit function or the Clip function, the system crashes after editing anywhere from 1 to 5 clips. By crashes I mean that PD9 disappears and the system returns to the desktop. I have tried going slowly but this does not seem to matter. I have a PC with an Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Quad CPU Q8200 with 3.24 GB of Ram running at 2.33 GHz, operating under Windows XP V3 Professional. I have successfully done a lot of HD editing using both Adobe Premiere CS4 and Elements 7.
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Robert2 S

Senior Contributor Location: Australia Joined: Apr 22, 2009 05:57 Messages: 1461 Offline

Feb 05, 2011 23:06

Hi Sandy and welcome to PD.

Wow 900 clips/3 hours of video on the time line, I don't know if I would push any consumer editing program with that much video to handle.

If you could supply at least parts A & B in this post it will give us a starting point.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7958.page

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All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Feb 06, 2011 15:45

Sandyc,

Can you give us more detail on the types of files and dergree of editing them ? Win 10, i7

deklerkt

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2011 06:34 Messages: 47 Offline

Feb 06, 2011 16:08

Just a guess: would it work if you can combine 5-10 clips and produce a file in the final format. Then create a new project using this one produced file as the first entry and then adding 10 more clips and repeat the process. Instead of 10 you might try 20 or any number that works.

Usually if too much won't work, ten times 1/10th of too much might just do the trick. Agreed: a workaround, but at least you can continu to work.

Sanford

Newbie Joined: Feb 07, 2011 10:26 Messages: 1 Offline

Feb 07, 2011 10:35

I have done the obvious - subdivided the timeline into four equal parts, each approximately 250 clips, 50-minutes in length, and approximately 10 GB in size.. Now when I edit I encounter few crashes. (Why do I get any?) Then for each I will create a PRODUCE file in MPEG-4 and will eventually piece together the four PRODUCE files to make a final on-hour video. The question I have is whether the quality of this final file will be as good as the quality I would get if I were to export a timeline to Bluray disc?

deklerkt

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2011 06:34 Messages: 47 Offline

Feb 07, 2011 11:11

Quote: I have done the obvious - subdivided the timeline into four equal parts, each approximately 250 clips, 50-minutes in length
I encounter few crashes. (Why do I get any?)

The question I have is whether the quality of this final file will be as good as the quality I would get if I were to export a timeline to Bluray disc?

I've got no informed answers to any of them as I'm just a (trial) user of PD9 who likes much and dislikes a few things PD9 does. Fewer crashes seem to point to the way PD9 keeps track of what's done (partly in "undo" options: switching those off may get you even fewer crashes?) and 250 clips of about 10 seconds each should work (any number should) but possibly the overhead inside PD9 exhausts memory or address space (if it is all built in trees in memory) causing crashes.
The quality should be good if the part-products are not re-rendered for the final composite program. SVRT should then work properly (but my experience is mixed in this).

MadCap

Newbie Location: Chicago Joined: Feb 05, 2011 12:08 Messages: 18 Offline

Feb 07, 2011 20:48

Same thing here with a small 12 second clip... Poor support as well. Hard to get answers. Chicago Web Design & SEO
http://cybersmartwebmarketing.com/

Paul Bunion

Newbie Joined: Oct 11, 2009 19:17 Messages: 15 Offline

Feb 08, 2011 20:55

Yes, the Cyberlink Customer Abuse Department in India is not very good.

Bubba in TX

Senior Contributor Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 12, 2009 21:32 Messages: 1332 Offline

Feb 09, 2011 02:07

WOW 900 clips... that would make them all 36 seconds long. I would combine them into 5 or 10 minute segments, render them and then stitch them all together. You can still but your title edits on them the way you want.

I have found that whenever I get to about 1 hour and 20 minutes of stuff on the time line, then everything starts slowing down because by then I will have a couple hundred titles going. But I have never had it act up the way yours is doing.

Data overload....

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deklerkt

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Feb 09, 2011 03:15

Quote: Yes, the Cyberlink Customer Abuse Department in India is not very good.

I thought they operate from Taipei, Taiwan. From where I live, same direction though.
And possibly equally unfamiliar/uncomfortable with English as native language as most people in India. But in terms of customer satisfaction, response and total quality - most of those principles were developed/embrased/enhanced in Asia so you'd think Cyberlink acts accordingly.

Looking at their profile they claim one of their flagships is the Media Suite which contains PD also. But why does their latest Suite contain PD8 instead of PD9? Too much of a bargain otherwise?