Quote: I have everything fully edited for a video I'm creating. It 10-15 instances of 4-5 videos trimmed at different intervals. Part of the video that shows up just fine in the editor gets completely skipped and a frozen chunk of another video is locked over top of it. What could cause this? Is there a known solution? I'm on a deadline here. Please help!

Hi

Here's some suggestions:

1. Have you Produced your project to see if this Produced file has this error? As it could be your computer being overloaded.

2. Are all the video files the same file type and located on your C Drive? If not, try Producing all the clips to the same file type and store on your C Drive.

I'm pretty sure others will chime in. Happing editing

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Thank you for responding!

I was watching the produced video when I first noticed the discrepancy. That's when I started trying to dig.

I'm assuming the issue is related to me using the same 4 video clips over and over again, trimming down to only what I need. I wouldn't have expected it to cause any issues. I'm 90% sure all the clips are the same type - recorded footage from a Hauppauge HD PVR2. Maybe the intro clip I'm using is set to a different frame rate or something.

My PC is a beast - i7 4771 3.5 Ghz quad core Haswell with 32 GB RAM on Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I'll verify that all clips are the same type. Apart from that, I'm considering actual making 15 small video files and just dropping them in.

Thanks!

Quote: I'm 90% sure all the clips are the same type - recorded footage from a Hauppauge HD PVR2. Maybe the intro clip I'm using is set to a different frame rate or something.

My PC is a beast - i7 4771 3.5 Ghz quad core Haswell with 32 GB RAM on Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I'll verify that all clips are the same type. Apart from that, I'm considering actual making 15 small video files and just dropping them in.

Thanks!

If you used the MP4 File option in your Hauppauge HD PVR2, that may be the source of your problems.

The MP4 output is very strange, Powerdirector and MP4 file from the Hauppauge HD PVR2 do not get along.

Use either TS or M2TS. Both of those formats work good in Powerdirector.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I just went back and looked. The videos were saved using Hauppauge's new Hauppauge Capture application, and they were saved in MPEG-2 TS Video files.

I tried just editing one of the files that was giving me lock up problems all by itself. It still gives me the exact same problem. I can't trim it down.

Quote: I just went back and looked. The videos were saved using Hauppauge's new Hauppauge Capture application, and they were saved in MPEG-2 TS Video files.

I tried just editing one of the files that was giving me lock up problems all by itself. It still gives me the exact same problem. I can't trim it down.

Is the file Read Only by any chance?

I have a older HD PVR, TS or M2TS are easy to edit in PowerDirector.

Are you copying the file to your internal hard drive before editing?

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.