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Digitally Mastered

Newbie Joined: Jan 27, 2010 11:50 Messages: 8 Offline

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Oct 08, 2013 16:05

When watching videos in the preview window, is there anyway to get the blue circle with the + sign in the middle, to not show up? I know it goes away when you're scrolling through the video, but I want it to never show up.


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Dafydd B

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

Oct 09, 2013 03:50

Quote: When watching videos in the preview window, is there anyway to get the blue circle with the + sign in the middle, to not show up? I know it goes away when you're scrolling through the video, but I want it to never show up.

Sure, replace* the graphic with a transparent png. I have done it in the past but wouldn't now.
Dafydd

*C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector12\skin
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector12\skin\1024x768, I think. Replace it at your own peril...

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Carl312

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

Oct 09, 2013 09:56

Quote: When watching videos in the preview window, is there anyway to get the blue circle with the + sign in the middle, to not show up? I know it goes away when you're scrolling through the video, but I want it to never show up.

That Blue Circle always shows when paused in the Clip mode. Switch to Movie Mode, no Blue Circle.

The Blue circle is important. It is used to rotate videos if needed. Put your mouse pointer on the top of the circle, you should see a double arrow indicating rotation. Click left button and drag around.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 09, 2013 12:15

Hi Digitally Mastered -

When I first read your post, I tried replacing the files with totally transparent images, as has been suggested. Using that method, I was able to remove the cross hairs but not the circle. For that reason, I didn't post until I tried to resolve the missing link. No luck yet!

The files in question are found in C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector12\skin\1024x768\Common - there are two files called "rotate_circle_b.png" and "rotate_circle_s.png"

When I changed both the circle & the cross hairs graphics to yellow, the circle still displayed as blue. That tells me there's something else written in the coding, beyond swapping graphic files.

The attached screenshots show the results of my attempts. PD suffered no ill-effects as a result of swapping these files.

I've searched through all PD's files to find any other occurrence of "rotate_circle_b.png" or any other clues, with no success.

Cheers - Tony


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James1

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

Oct 09, 2013 12:55

Hi Digitally mastered,
Are you previewing the clip by selecting from one of the functions modify, fix enhance etc.(?) this would show the cross-hair maybe, but if you video is previewed from the timeline -then no-
Just a thought.
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