Intrepid Windows 8.1 preview testers

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

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Jul 08, 2013 17:42

Expect odd behavior, such as clip or timeline (movie) video of some file types that play as a black screen or freeze frame.

CeriRees

Newbie Joined: Dec 23, 2011 16:49 Messages: 20 Offline

Jul 15, 2013 23:47

I knew I shouldn't have done this! All my video files preview as a black screen. Argghhh! Good thing I'm not paid to produce videos!

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Jul 16, 2013 00:13

Quote: I knew I shouldn't have done this! All my video files preview as a black screen. Argghhh!

Preview? You mean, from the timeline? If so, try this. Use caution: incorrect entries can adversely affect Windows.

Right-click the START button, then click RUN.
Type this (no quotes) "regedit"
Click OK.

Click on the small right-facing arrow to the left of the word COMPUTER (at the top of the window) so that five sub-folders are shown.
Continuing in the left hand column, use the same tactic to reach the following key...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/CYBERLINK/POWERDIRECTOR11

Single left-click the PowerDirector11 folder. Many entries should appear in the right hand column.
Use the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of that column.

Double-click on the entry titled VideoRenderer.
In the "Value Data" field you will see VMR7 selected (highlighted).
Change that value to VMR9.
Click on OK.
Click the red X at the top-right of the registry editor to exit.

Report results here.

This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at Jul 16. 2013 00:14

CeriRees

Newbie Joined: Dec 23, 2011 16:49 Messages: 20 Offline

Jul 16, 2013 00:16

Thanks, I'll do the regedit tomorrow and see how it goes... I appreciate the thought.

CeriRees

Newbie Joined: Dec 23, 2011 16:49 Messages: 20 Offline

Jul 16, 2013 00:19

I decided I couldn't wait until morning and gave it a go. It worked perfectly.

Again many thanks! I can have fun again!

LANCE0420

Newbie Location: California Joined: May 11, 2010 13:29 Messages: 1 Offline

Dec 12, 2013 17:16

Terrific! This worked for me too even though I'm running PD8.

Brainfarth

Newbie Joined: Feb 10, 2014 16:28 Messages: 2 Offline

Feb 10, 2014 16:55

I'm a picture guy... So here's a snapshot on what to do:
http://imageshack.com/a/img401/2749/9sdg.jpg
I dont know how to embed pictures into this forum.

Oh yeah.. It worked for me on a Windows 8 - 64 bit machine running PowerDirector 11

Thanks borgus1. And you can reuse the photo as you please.