2702; anomaly continued ?

1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

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Mar 19, 2011 23:26

Hi,

PD9 has changed in ways that you have to alter workflow from 7- or 8.
When working with PD through years, you kind of get used to the "incidents",
the extra clicking, the perhaps waiting for reactions and so on. (For some,
crashing, un-and reinstalling is involved.)
I don't get much frustrated anymore. I just "adapt" to the quirks- and get on with it.

I'm still on 2702, not yet gone back to 2330.
Tonight I have been working on a 10 min. project, straight forward mp4's, a few
titles and transitions, some key-framing.
In the middle of the project, I suddenly realized I was doing something "new".
For every image and for every clip, I had to go in and set aspect ratio.
Images used were 1920x1080, clips 1280x720.
Preferences set 16:9 for project.

Can't remember I've had to do this before, so unless I'm missing something here,
this can't be right, can it?
Also, PIP designer actually stopped working as it should.
Several attempts to have a (simple) path made, and when after 7 tries it finally came through,
it was impossible to modify further, because no pip showed in the window.

Would be interesting to know if any of you have had 2702 behave like this.

EDIT again: I'm now back on 2330.


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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Mar 20. 2011 01:51

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Jim May

Newbie Location: Buffalo, NY Joined: Aug 29, 2009 00:47 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 21, 2011 18:01

I've went from PD 7, 8, and righ to PD9 (2702) and wow, give me back PD8...

PD9 doesn't even rememebr the sort order when saved or via a preference setting.

Finding more issues where you have changed the basic operation of the program. On the timeline, when you remove a little of the beginig/end of a clip PD8 would automatically slide all the files after it to the left and fill in the gap, PD9 does not do this, I have to do several more clicks and drags to get it there, again more work becuase you changed the basic defaults of the program, at least put an option in the preferences section for us to choose the way we whould like it to operate.

For how many versions you have had basic features operate one way, you go though a 64 Bit upgrade and now basic items are drastically different, can't see how others arn't complaining about these everyday features.

If you are happy with PD8, stay with it...

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Peter B.

Newbie Location: Sunshine Coast, Qld. Australia Joined: Apr 07, 2007 21:13 Messages: 21 Offline

Mar 25, 2011 20:48

Hi Jim,

You obviously haven't read all the complaints that have been flying around the last couple of months. I think a lot of people have just given up on PD9 & gone back to version 8 like I have, so therefore not as many complaints about the large amount of problems any more.
Have a read here of the frustrating time I had with it.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15607.page#75990

I think PD9 is the version that shouldn't have been released... much like Vista. I'm still hoping they will get it right soon.

Good luck!

Peter

All vodi

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

Mar 25, 2011 22:29

I was at first taken back by PD9's interface and behaviour. Getting used to an "open" timeline was unusual. I was prepared to go back to PD8 after a lot of hangs and crashes until release 2702 came along.

Skip forward 2 months and 5 HD-AVC projects and I'm set on PD9-2702. The reasons:

- The "open" timeline affords one extreme flexibility when editing. It's equivalent to a large scrap sheet to work on as one assembles the project. The overall work area is much improved for complex projects.

- The initial hangs and bugs I've been able to minimize to acceptable levels by keeping the Win7 registry clean of Cyberlink files BEFORE installing PD9 for the first time.

- The difference in pure SPEED of rendering in HD-AVC is manifold. In a comparison test of two HD-AVC projects involving a large variety of HD and still images with lots of effects applied to every clip, PD9 consistently bettered PD8. The speed improvements were from 4 to 10 fold over PD8. That is substantial. And the most important aspect of PD9 is that it achieves this using HA (hardware acceleration) with BETTER quality rendering than SVRT and PD8.

It's not the best of 64-bit editors (you'd have to pay more than $1000 for a better one that only offers support for NVIDIA GPU's) but it's now nearly the best in consumer grade applications. I follow two other video editing forums of competing software and find that problems seen in PD9 are not unique. I would not have thought that I'd actually write anything positive about PD9 just 4 months ago - release 2330 was a drag on one's patience.
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