Unless my logic is faulty, 640x360 is not 1/4 resolution for 2560x1440, but if that is the resolution that you want, click the Device tab and look under Apple.

As for the rest of your rant, PD provides a large variety of resolutions, both progressive and interlaced, for internet, DVD, Blu-Ray and device. It also offers the opportunity to customize many profiles. I have been using PD to put video online since at least 2005.
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I'll try that again

[do the math with me]

2560 divided by 2 = 1280
1280 divided by 2 = 640

still with me Jaime-esque???

So, 1440 split in half equals 720 and split that again = 360

Now, what were you saying about your logic???

Yes, 640x360 as an output resolution

I see, so I'm now locked on a codec and data rate

See, what I was hoping for was to have an input field so that I can write a custom encoding profile.
Thats all I want - an input field when doing a custom profile.

Max, Jaime-esque was just trying to help. If you want to be picky and "do the maths" as you say I think you will find 640x360 is 1/16 resolution from 2560x1440 (it is a 1/4 vertical and 1/4 horizontal).

Anyway. How PD works is on the "Produce" tab you first select a file format, in your case pick say MOV then press the "+" button which will let you make up your very own profile including one for 640x360 with a choice of Video Codec, Video Quality, Number of Keyframes, Audio Codec.

Next - if that is not enough control, you can manually edit the Profile.INI file where the details are kept and it is located in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0

& <Class>QuickTime <Name>Test <Description> Custom Profile -1 <Output FileName> <DescID>16748 <NameID>18887 <Group>2 <File Format Class>5 <Video Format Class>5 <Audio Format Class>0 <Stream Flag>3 <Field Order>0 <Attribute>83 <Video Width>640 <Video Height>360 <KeyFrame Rate>1 <Frame Rate>25.000000 <Video Type>1635148593 <Video Quality>768 <Video BitRate>4000000 <Audio Type>1633772320 <Audio Channels>2 <Audio SamplesPerSec>48000 &&

Try a few options and see what you like and from that point on you just have to select the profile from then on. PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG

Please remove the numbers from the bottom of your post!!!!! My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Hi jmone

I realise that Jaime-esque was trying to help, but saying my first post here was a 'rant' seems like a flame from a troll!
[many years ago I pa-trolled a forum and found it all too easy to flame]

I've done the '+' thing and again I now seem locked into apple quick time that has a profile with 640x360

just like in WME two box's that allow me to change the output size would have been nice in such a mature product.

Guys don't get me wrong, I've loved Cyberlink for a long time now, this is my first obstacle.

its nice to find software written for dual cores and 64bit, i've been building machines for Video for a while now, and XP-x64 was very frustrating in the early days - hunting to find stuff that worked.
I come from the dual pentium 3 crowd, all of my machines either have dual core, dual socket and my Tyan S2915 is 8 cores (FireGL V7700).


Hi Robert2 S

yes those numbers

When I signed into the forum, I hit the next button after filling in my details and the box's that were required - those with the *
and then the page came back with red writing saying to fill in the box's with the asterix - I was sure I had, so I did it again and again the page refreshed with red writing saying to fill in all the box's, so I did it again, but this time I changed my user name because I thought that that was what was wrong. But no, the page refreshed with the same red writing saying that I had to fill in all the squares with asterix's, so I changed my username again and this time I made up a number sequence for all of the other fields like ICQ etc - even though they do not have an asterix, but just to be sure I put writing in each of those box's and again it came back with red writing to say to fill in all of the box's. I looked up at the logout and it had the last username that I had created, so I did it all again for twenty somethingth time. Those numbers are now a legacy of a flawed login page.

Well until the numbers are removed I can't easily read your posts as it requires much scrolling left and right to see each individual line.

You might want to contact Dafydd the moderator to see if he can fix it. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Hi max_e_mum610 ,

Your Profile has been edited by forum management.

Poor quality input in the Profile area will not attract members to answer posts. Take a close look at what others have written and emulate them. Far better to blend in with useful information than stand out and be rejected! WE are all video editors here, helping each other.

Forum Moderator

Interesting to note that I used this capture size because the Camera had it and because some new monitors entering the market have it as their native resolution and its nice to work greater than 1920x1080.

samsung S27A850T , PLS, DVI, HDMI. DP, 2560 x 1440
PLS is a newer version of IPS
I'm sure you guys would appreciated this sort of resolution
and DP is Display Port - more bandwidth than DVI

Hi max_e_mum -

Can you remind us what the question is? Is there one?

So far all I've worked out is that your camera shoots at 2560x1440, & you had a mess of a time setting up your forum profile.

What do you want to do? Produce to the same resolution? Produce to 640x360? Can you please clarify?

Cheers - Tony
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Hi there ynotfish

The camera is capturing jpgs for a timelapse @ 2560x1440

I'm producing to show my friends on FB (I refuse to run apps)

I have 32 images that I gave a 2sec duration to and an overlapping xfade to the next image - it runs nice in edit mode

So i am compressing down and reducing my resolution @ 640x360 - a nice web size which is a pure division of the original.

I would have hoped to have a codec choice box and a 'change the resolution' box's for a true custom profiling.

I did make changes to that profile file - but nothing seemed to change after a restart (forgot to copy it first though)

I'm thinking I need something cruder, even able to write the output file name - instead of going into settings and doing a global change. I don't know about you, when I'm producing/ encoding it is more about seeing what each codec looks like with the edited video, doing many in quick sussesion to see.

Ah - so it's a DSLR? or stills from a video camera? and you set to take a series of timelapse shots... now you want to produce to a 640x360 video. We won't go over the division thing again!

You didn't mention what format you're producing to. That makes a difference to how you'd go about it. MPEG-4? AVC H.264? MPEG-2? WMV?

Cheers - Tony
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Oh, Tony

This is where it all becomes too hard!

I've only found that output resolution of 640x360 in mov and ?
been using .mov

In long hand - my frustration is that the other codecs do not let me change the output size unless i edit the backend of the software it seems.

Here's a way to do it easily without editing any profiles...

Go to Produce > Device > Apple > iPod/iPhone > MPEG-4 640x360/30p (1.5MBps) - it'll give you a much smaller file size because of (a) compression & (b) bitrate.



Cheers - Tony


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