Basics: How Save Project?

Richard9909

Newbie Joined: Nov 12, 2011 08:19 Messages: 26 Offline

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Nov 12, 2011 08:26

I edited my first video with PD9 by removing unwanted portions and adding chapter breaks. Before leaving the program, I saved my work using "Save Project As...". Today when I opened that saved file, I see my original unedited video with none of the changes I made. What am I missing?

Followup: After checking more closely, the deletions DID appear in my saved project but the chapter breaks and chapter thumbnails did not. I started fresh today with my original, unedited video. After deleting clips, I saved the project, closed PD9 and reopened my saved project. The delections were saved correctly. However, I then added chapter breaks and thumbnails, saved the project, closed PD9 and reopened my saved project. AGAIN, the chapter breaks and thumbnails are NOT present in my saved project.

As I said before, what am I missing?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Nov 12. 2011 10:06

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Nov 12, 2011 10:09

Did you save the project file after you made the changes?

It is best if you Save As a numbered version of your project files.

project1.pds
project2.pds
project3.pds and so on.

you can use whatever name you want, the trick is increment the number each time use Save As.

That way you can go back to a previous condition (or version) of your project.
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Richard9909

Newbie Joined: Nov 12, 2011 08:19 Messages: 26 Offline

Nov 12, 2011 10:26

Yes, I did save the project after adding chapters using the "Save" command. And I just stumbled into the answer to my problem. After restarting PD9 and opening my saved project, I was viewing the project in the Media Room. By chance, I switched to the Chapter Room in order to add the "lost" chapters and I discovered my earlier chapters were still there. It's now obvious that you must be in the Chapter Room to see chapters. Sure would be nice to have a better manual that explains these little things.

Thanks for your reponse.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Nov 12, 2011 14:03

Quote: Yes, I did save the project after adding chapters using the "Save" command. And I just stumbled into the answer to my problem. After restarting PD9 and opening my saved project, I was viewing the project in the Media Room. By chance, I switched to the Chapter Room in order to add the "lost" chapters and I discovered my earlier chapters were still there. It's now obvious that you must be in the Chapter Room to see chapters. Sure would be nice to have a better manual that explains these little things.

Thanks for your reponse.

User Guides are here, Choose the ones you want.

http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdirector/userguide_en_US.html

The user guides are nice, but nothing replaces experience with this program and the answers you get in this forum.
There are some great editors in this forum that really know their stuff.

They are all over the World and speak many languages.

You might check out the tutorials available.

Cyberlinkchannel
http://www.youtube.com/user/cyberlinkchannel#g/u

PDtoots.
http://www.youtube.com/user/pdtoots

Link from top of PD 10 forum.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/19405.page
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.