General Questions about PowerDirector

Darren

Newbie Joined: Jul 01, 2008 12:39 Messages: 10 Offline

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Jul 01, 2008 12:57

I am evaluating the trial version of PowerDirector and I have a couple general questions that I was wondering if one of you could answer for me.

First, I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple different clips on one DVD. What I mean by this is for example, I'd like to produce a DVD that has both a video and a slideshow. I realize that I can edit them both together and put a chapter inbetween, but would I would ideally like to do is have these displayed as two separate clips, each with their own set of chapters. This is something that can be done with Ulead MovieFactory (which I currently am looking to replace), but I couldn't find a way to do it in PowerDirector.

Also, in regards to slideshows. Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that there are two ways I could go about creating a slideshow. I can either add the images to the timeline and manually add the desired transitions/effects and background music, or I could click the "slideshow" button after adding them to my timeline, which will allow me to use one of the pre-build slideshow templates to construct it. However, from what I can tell, these slideshow templates are very limited as to the ability to customize individual slides. For example, if I want to pan and zoom on one image, but not the others, I couldn't see a way to do this through the slideshow builder. Is this generally correct, or am I missing something. Also within the given slideshow builder templates, I saw now way to change the default transition. Some of these I can understand have their own specialized transition, but the "Normal" one, seems to just randomly pick a transition. Is there a way to pick a single transition for the entire show. Again, I seem to be able to do this if I don't use the slideshow builder and leave my images on the timeline and manually put the slideshow together myself, but that can be rather cumbersome.

Dafydd B

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

Jul 02, 2008 05:27

Quote: I am evaluating the trial version of PowerDirector and I have a couple general questions that I was wondering if one of you could answer for me.

First, I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple different clips on one DVD. What I mean by this is for example, I'd like to produce a DVD that has both a video and a slideshow. I realize that I can edit them both together and put a chapter inbetween, but would I would ideally like to do is have these displayed as two separate clips, each with their own set of chapters. This is something that can be done with Ulead MovieFactory (which I currently am looking to replace), but I couldn't find a way to do it in PowerDirector.

PowerDirector is a specialist Fast Edit Video Editing software with a timeline DVD write capability. For a specialist DVD writing software produced by CyberLink please look at PowerProducer. PD cant do what you ask.

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Also, in regards to slideshows. Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that there are two ways I could go about creating a slideshow. I can either add the images to the timeline and manually add the desired transitions/effects and background music, or I could click the "slideshow" button after adding them to my timeline, which will allow me to use one of the pre-build slideshow templates to construct it. However, from what I can tell, these slideshow templates are very limited as to the ability to customize individual slides. For example, if I want to pan and zoom on one image, but not the others, I couldn't see a way to do this through the slideshow builder. Is this generally correct, or am I missing something. Also within the given slideshow builder templates, I saw now way to change the default transition. Some of these I can understand have their own specialized transition, but the "Normal" one, seems to just randomly pick a transition. Is there a way to pick a single transition for the entire show. Again, I seem to be able to do this if I don't use the slideshow builder and leave my images on the timeline and manually put the slideshow together myself, but that can be rather cumbersome.

At the moment the slideshows do have a limitation. I have mentioned this to RD. One particular slideshow has advance features I would like incorporated into the motion slideshow. A skilfull editor will be able to adapt to a situation and look for a suitable workaround.... the end result would be unique and different.
Please take a few minutes and watch a video:
http://seemyworldonvideo.com/view/238/pd7-motion-for-images/

Dafydd

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Thomas

Newbie Joined: Sep 12, 2008 20:05 Messages: 6 Offline

Sep 13, 2008 07:59

Dafydd,

I am very new to video editing and just got Powerdirector 6 with a new computer as part of the Cyberlink DVD Suite. I am trying to have a a DVD with video chapters and one chapter that is a slideshow. I can't seem to make a title in the timeline to announce the slideshow, the video just changes over to the slideshow with no transition. Also, if I select the slideshow from the DVD menu, the slideshow seems to start 10 or 12 slides into the show.

I have also made this project on a computer I am going to return (due to problems) and I would like to continue to work on the project on the new computer without having to re-edit all the video and slideshow (it took me hours and hours). Cyberlink told me I cannot import from the burned DVD, but is it possible to save the edited video and/or slideshow to some kind of file and import that way?

i just joined the forum and your name kept coming up with an obviously tremendous knowledge and skill level so I thought you might be able to help.

Tom

RobertJ/OZ

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline

Sep 14, 2008 01:06

Hi Thomas,

Dafydd will be in the land of the fairies at the moment, not rousing for another few hours, so I will try and answer you.

First of all, bear in mind that if PD6 came installed on your computer, then it will probably be an OEM version and what is/not included in your particular version you will need to find out from your supplier.

You can export .pds files from one computer to another, by following a few simple steps.

Click on File
Click on Export
click - Pack Project Materials

Save the packed project to your desktop, then copy to an external hard drive for installation on the other computer, then simply use import file to copy into PD6.

This is assuming that the version you have has the Pack Project Material function.

Regards

Robert Intel i7 930, 16GB ram, Radeon HD 5770 1Gb,Ver. 14.12 Win7 64 bit
Intel i7 7700 HQ, 16 GB ram Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB dual drives 1 TB SSD + 1 TB HDD Win 10

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Dave

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2008 00:55 Messages: 18 Offline

Sep 14, 2008 06:52

I recently purchased PD7 Ultra and posted a question in another thread. I read that PD7 supports ATI cards for GPU transcoding. I was wondering if PD7 Ultra supported Nvidia CUDA API for GPU transcoding? I love PD7 and don't want to have to by any other apps.

Thomas

Newbie Joined: Sep 12, 2008 20:05 Messages: 6 Offline

Sep 18, 2008 13:19

RobertJ/OZ,

Thanks! I will give it a try. After I purchased the computer, I upgraded the package with Cyberlink, so I assume it is the full package. I'll let you know. Thank you very much!

Tom