Video crop broken

dsm1212

Newbie Joined: Nov 07, 2011 20:54 Messages: 16 Offline

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Nov 07, 2011 21:04

I did a trial for Powerdirector 9 and now I tried 10. Both have a horrible bug for video crop. I've got a lot of HI8 video I'm digitizing through a DV camcorder. The video comes through with a couple of lines of garbage at the bottom of the screen. I've tried several different computers and can't get rid of this artifact. So, I've tried to use the video crop feature in PowerDirector.

If I break my video into clips and then apply the crop I have to do it one clip at a time which is crazy time consuming. If I edit the video and then produce a new avi file then I have one avi clip to apply the video crop to. However I find that the video gets progressively cropped more and more as the video progresses. I can see this easily in the program playing the video before I even produce output. I've produced the output and it's also bad. Basically just have a long clip ~1.5 hours, then apply a video crop that removes a couple of lines at the bottom (and the left). Scroll to the end of the video and disable the crop. You can see the video at the end zoom way out when you remove the crop. Also, if you have titles already in the avi you can see they stretched off the screen because of over cropping.

I really want to like this program because of performance and ease of use. Can anyone suggest a way around this? Maybe I should not use AVI to do the edit or something???

steve

BarryTheCrab

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Nov 07, 2011 22:06

Try using the anti-shake stabilizer, just enough to rid yourself of the ziggy line, I get that, too.
Or, if you stick with just CROP, you must set the beginning size, and also the end size. This will eliminate that size "crawl".
I find CROP to be one of PD's most useful features, especially when the camera-man or woman finds the horizon elusive, perhaps from too much alcohol, because you can also key in rotations by degrees and level things out a bit. I wish the ability to key in PIP was designed as well.

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dsm1212

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Nov 07, 2011 22:47

Thank you! I had no idea there was a need to set the crop end size. The online help doesn't seem to even mention this unless I'm not finding it. I think you just sold a copy :.

steve