Quote: Just got a new Laptop with one of the new QHD screens (resolution is 3200x1800). Scaling in windows is set at 200% - which works well in most programs but PowerDirector mostly ignores this. Icons, text, etc are VERY small. Even setting the resolution at something lower (like 1920x1080) doesn't help.
Any fixes for us with the high res displays?
Thanks!

Hi good1dave,
How about a printscreen snap with PowerDirector 12 displayed - showing us "how small" everything is? I'll pass the snap and the thread info onto CyberLink.
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Thank you for your help! Here is a screen grab:

Quote: Thank you for your help! Here is a screen grab:

Hi good1dave,
Yikes, that's small. What's the monitor size?
Dafydd

yup! I've tried to use it this way and found it impossible.

This is on Dell's New XPS 15 (9530), which is a 15.6 inch display.

The issue (besides the fact the PD was not designed for high res displays) is that PD totally ignores any changes to the DPI settings you make in Windows. I have some pretty old apps that scale up fine on this display with the DPI scaling set all the way up, but PD looks the same no matter what you set it at.

Thanks for your quick response again. I hope it's an easy fix. Got some projects to work on...

I too am looking for a 4K monitor in the next few month, hope this gets fixed, should not be that difficult



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Hi good1dave, Eugene & Dafydd -

It certainly is an issue for higher resolution monitors that need to be set at 100%+.

Parts of PD's GUI are completely fixed... buttons, menus etc. They don't scale, like other software.

Here's PD at 100% & 150% beside some other software http://youtu.be/7awABRmzyyc

Cheers - Tony


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Great video, this is exactly what I suspected was going on. The bad thing is it seems like there would be a fair amount of work that would have to be done by Cyberlink to fix this. However it needs to be addressed.

It seems to me people doing video editing tend to have higher end rigs, and tend to be the first to adapt the new technologies (in this case High Res displays), so it seems like a pretty important feature/fix to implement. Especially as these displays inevitably become more prevalent.

Since this isn't as easy as changing a setting in PD, is there somewhere else I/we should be posting/contacting? Do people that work for Cyberlink that would have anything to do with product development/updates read these forums?

hmmm, that means current PowerDirector does not support High DPI scaling...in Windows OS, that is a feature to software, not a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Quote: Great video, this is exactly what I suspected was going on. The bad thing is it seems like there would be a fair amount of work that would have to be done by Cyberlink to fix this. However it needs to be addressed.

It seems to me people doing video editing tend to have higher end rigs, and tend to be the first to adapt the new technologies (in this case High Res displays), so it seems like a pretty important feature/fix to implement. Especially as these displays inevitably become more prevalent.

Since this isn't as easy as changing a setting in PD, is there somewhere else I/we should be posting/contacting? Do people that work for Cyberlink that would have anything to do with product development/updates read these forums?

Hi good1dave,
Don't worry, the scaling issue has been reported and your information passed on - images etc. to CyberLink.
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Dafydd,

Thank You! That's great!

BTW, the only reason I want to get a 4K display is video editing

Eugene 73s, WA6JZN ex DL9GC
CYBERLINK PLEASE ADD UHD BLU RAY BURNING SOFTWARE
PD14,
Win10,64bit.CPU i7 6700,16GB ,C= 480 GB SSD ,GPU GTX1060 6GB 1 fan. Plus 3 int, 4 ext HDD's for video etc.LG WH16NS40 reads UHD.
4K 24" ViewSonic monitor.Camera Sony FDR-A

FYI, I am using a couple of 2560x1600 30" displays, and Powerdirector looks fine on them. They are a lot cheaper than 4K displays, too.

I am using HP LP3065 . One of them I bought new 4 years ago for $1100. The second used 2 years ago for $500.
They are IPS and very high quality and color accurate.

Right now this 32" IPS Asus 4k monitor runs $2800 :
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-PQ321Q-31-5-Inch-4K-Monitor/dp/B00DJ4BIKA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390621823&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+4k+monitor

For that price you can buy almost four 30" 2560x1600 displays :

http://www.amazon.com/Nixeus-Vue-2560x1600-WQXGA-Monitor/dp/B00CHDHE0W/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1390621867&sr=8-8&keywords=4k+monitor
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6 x 1 TB Samsung 860 SSD (striped)

2 x LG 32UD59-B 32" 4K
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Yes, but that is a 32 inch display. That is much more screen real estate to spread that resolution out over. My 3200x1800 screen is on a laptop so it's only 15.6 inches. BIG difference.

My screen is running as 235 PPI, and your screens are running at 94 PPI.....each. This is why PD looks 'fine'

My old laptop was a 1920x1080 screen with a PPI of 141, and it looked fine on it too.

Food for thought.

Same issue with the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2

Also, the text stays small even when dragging the window to a lower resolution 2nd monitor.

in addition -
Oddly, changing the screen resulotion to 1920X1080 does not enlarge the text.
and
on my laptop all Cyberlink apps have the same small text issue.

I hope it gets fixed soon! Photodirector seems to be doing fine though.

Hi

i got the same problem. Everything was fine on my HP laptop. I got now a new laptop with Windows8.1 and 3200X1800 resolution.

The only way to read something (Menus) in any product of cyberlink is to use magnifier. Not handy.
I hope a solution can be find, it's not usable anymore on this way

Hi -
I want to bump this issue up again. I just loaded PD11 onto my new Win 8.1 Dell XPS 15 laptop, running at the native/recommended 3200 x 1800 screen resolution. I updated to the latest version of PD11 and find that nothing has changed. PD still does not scale properly, even when changing the screen resolution settings, leaving the OS magnifier tool as the only way to see the 2mm tall menus and drop-down selections! Very disappointing. I don't have the real-estate to install a 32" monitor just to overcome this issue.
Has anyone figured out another workaround yet?
Jim

Quote: Hi -
I want to bump this issue up again. I just loaded PD11 onto my new Win 8.1 Dell XPS 15 laptop, running at the native/recommended 3200 x 1800 screen resolution. I updated to the latest version of PD11 and find that nothing has changed. PD still does not scale properly, even when changing the screen resolution settings, leaving the OS magnifier tool as the only way to see the 2mm tall menus and drop-down selections! Very disappointing. I don't have the real-estate to install a 32" monitor just to overcome this issue.
Has anyone figured out another workaround yet?
Jim

Hi Jim_MI,
Thanks for the bump. I doubt you'll see any change in PDR12 (certainly not PDR11). The User Interface (UI) for PDR12/11 is fixed around images etc and scaling-up, as you've found, doesn't happen. Whatever CyberLink has planned for the UI in PDR13/14, I'm sure they're now aware a change will have to take place to accommodate the higher pixel screen resolutions. We'll have to wait and see.
Just a comment.
Dafydd