To do with the disc playing after the menu has displayed.

It will not auto return from a chapter point to the menu. That isn't how PD works.

You need to look at a specialist DVD writing product like PowerProducer which will require you to bring in each separate/created/rendered video.

PD is to create a single video/vob with separate start (chapter) points.

Dafydd

Thanks Dafydd for your response. I wished PowerDirector had all the features in one :, but I know its a marketing thing since my company makes us software guys seperate the features into different apps too.

BTW, I think there is a bug in PD with the Perspective text tool. Everytime I've use it with a large build the software crashes when I run a preview on it. When I switch to a basic scroll up it works fine so it follows the perspective text tool. Have you seen this problem?

Also, do you know why after building a disk the background music attached to the menu's are grainy sounding. The files I use are 128bit WMA files. They are smooth sounding on the preview, but after the build they don't sound that good any more. Any Idea's on that?

I really like this application so hopefully they will keep fixing the small bugs and release patches.

Thanks again,
Robert

Hi Robert,

I'm "mulling" over the audio sound issue... you'll need to give me some more info on that one.

The "bug" you mentioned, you need to write down every action/click and selection so I can duplicate this issue.

If you give me the info I'll test/duplicate.

Dafydd

Robert,

Tony just posted a follow up... have a read: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/1899.page

Dafydd

Dafydd

Regarding the problem I see with the Perspective text tool, if I have a very large build of photos and videos and drop in the perspective tool say at the end of the storybook sequence to scroll credits that includes several lines of text in the edit box to scroll. Once it’s added and I run a preview of the project at that location containing the tool, PD fails and just disappears and something it pops up with dialog box saying application error. Now if I remove the perspective tool and place it with a normal scroll up tool, it works fine. I've been able to reproduce this on both my workstations with different projects. I quit using it because I could never get it work correctly. It’s a cool scroller though...

Regarding the sound distortion problem. I only see this problem with background mp3/wma files with the menu. I'm using 128bit mp3's and have tried WMA files as well, both giving the same result. I did notice though if I encode the files with a lower sound volume it does sound much better. You know what's really weird too is, if I have a really small project of files the menu background sound is fine and the final project sounds great. Again, it’s only related with a bigger project with say 2GB of video and images. This is a weird one...

I probably should start this in another thread, but I have a workstation running PD, that when I produce a DVD or MPG file it places purple colored lines above and below my mpg video clip after being produced. If I preview the video prior to producing it, it's fine. The problem occurs after being produced as an mpg file or burned on a DVD. I have the latest nVidia video drivers on this machine. Do you know what would cause this problem? If I produce as a wmv file it looks good, its just the mpg builds that have the problem. I tried to attach the mpg file for your preview, but it wouldn't take the 1Mb mpg file.

Thanks
Robert

Hi Robert,

I think you may have everybody perplexed, what is the Perspective text tool that you are using?

Are you refering to Motion Effects?, please explain exactly what it is you are doing and where. if necessary add a screen shot to show us

Regards

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I'm able to reproduce the PD exeception error every time during the preview when I place a text box in the middle or at the end of my storybook selection of photo's/video and select the perspective scrolling feature for the text. The error occurs when previewing all storybook selections after a couple of attempts. Keep in mind that this problem that I've seen seems to track larger projects. I attached a couple of screen shots of the exception error. This problem happens on my other workstation to, so it's a problem.

Hope this helps.

The exception files

Hi Robert - Perspective selection

The Perspective selection in the Title Editor enables the user to display scrolling text in a Star Wars style presentation - it was popularized at that time and video editors struggled to replicate it later in PC editing software. I remember having a go many years ago.

To what you found and what I found.

Okay, I got the tool working without a crash at the second attempt... which narrowed down the cause of the problem.

From your images (these really helped a lot) I copied the text you used and the Title in the time-line stuttered as the video played and then crashed.

When I created a Title without any dots or text break the Perspective tool was okay.

I can confirm you have found something well done.

Sorry for the delay in following this up - I explained in the PM.

Dafydd

Now the saved pds of the crash sequence wont fall over - crash... blinking heck!

Dafydd

Robert,

Can you recreate the event - Perspective Title and before playing save the pds please.

Save the pds into a zip and send it to me.

I have PM'd you where to.

Dafydd

Robert,

RE: The exception files and the tests I carried out.

Can you send me a PM - stating your full name, email address and country location please.

I have some data for you to try out which should correct the perspective Title Design selection - asap please.

Thank you.

Dafydd

Hi Dafydd,

I tried this new DLL yesterday. It seems to work really nice. I was having some problems when I would save my project before trying your DLL. It appears that the xml data would not get completely written in the project file and resulted in a broken file error when I tried to reload the project. I plugged in your new DLL and I never seen one crash after that and I was able finish the project without error. This is great because I really like to use the text overlay features to scroll text on my Storybook items and whatever you fixed, it appears to work across the board now with all the other text overlays as well. It sure was nice to not see the runtime errors again. You should get this into the main download patch.

This software is in my opinion one of the best to use and I have tried most of them. You guys did a great job on this package. I'm a Software developer too and I really appreciate using good software tools and dealing support people that are willing to address the problems since nothing is ever bug free in the software world.

Thanks a bunch for the change and Merry Christmas,
Robert