Theme Designer -disappointment

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

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Sep 30, 2013 19:08

Hi,
I purchased PD12 Ultimate (not the suite) and was escited to see the 'Theme Designer' but soon got disappointed with it.
The reason being is that from the name you would think you could design a 'Theme' but NO the only thing you can do is modify exiting templates and even that is crippled! I may be missing something but after a few days of trying can't create a theme!!!
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Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Oct 01, 2013 07:24

Sorry folks I have deleted my post. I couldn't edit/replace the image used for starters.
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-pekr-

Member Joined: Feb 14, 2013 16:33 Messages: 65 Offline

Oct 01, 2013 13:51

I am disappointed too. Not sure, what got Cyberlink exactly one year to implement, but I find the UI pretty much desintegrated. So we have got Magic-xy stuff wizards, we got Slideshows, and in completly different part of the app, we got Theme designer. Not sure who is responsible for making that "puzzle" button, but the person was apparently not sane enought to realise, that we are introducing yet another aproach to do the similar stuff.

Cyberling should really get their act together and stop that dumbed down plug-in like integrations, where you can't tweak damn a bit about it. Like mixing Slideshow with zero ability to influence target length of the clip, not to mention proper decompose of effects to the timeline.

The last straw was, when I lost my BlueFX effects I bought witht he PD11. If this nonsense does not get adressed, not sure I will apply for any future updates ...

wjr002

Member Location: Kingscliff, Australia Joined: Jun 29, 2011 20:22 Messages: 117 Offline

Oct 03, 2013 05:43

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The last straw was, when I lost my BlueFX effects I bought witht he PD11. If this nonsense does not get adressed, not sure I will apply for any future updates ...

There's a thread on BlueFX Mess (or similarly named). Check it out!
I got back my old effects from PD11 with it totally uninstalled and there are some updates for other effects that seem to work. PD12 Ultimate Suite (upgrade from PD11 Ultimate). PhotoDirector 5. PowerDVD13. YouCam 5.