Hi Forum!

Recently changed from Pinnacle Studio 14 to PowerDirector 13 and generally happy.

I had this old project recorded as MOV-files from a Panasonic Lumix TZ-7 in the hopeless 848 x 480 resolution. Pinnacle made a grainy mess out of the video (I tried to export it as 1280 x 780). Out of curiosity, I took this video as my first "pilot" on PowerDirector and the video quality of the output file was just so much better! So I remade the whole project manually in PowerDirector to save these valuable recordings

BUT - now I experience that on approx. every 5th clip in the video, the sound on the exported file starts about a second later with just silence at the start? Funnily enough, it is not alwyas on the same clip, though some clips are more prone to this error than others. A re-encoding of the project solves some of the errors, but creates new ones on other clips in the project.

Being a Pinnacle user, I am used to try out various work-arounds - so far in wain:

• Cut off the first 3 frames of every clip to enforce recoding - no luck


• Unlink video and audio, then copy audio into a blank project to produce just a wav-file to add back to original project - no luck, cut-outs in wav-file too


• Making a movie from blank with just 5 of the clips - works rarely, but fails randomly


• Clear Cyberlink cache - no luck

Is it possible to find a solution to this problem?

PowerDirector works fine (so far!) vith new H.264 AVC 1920x1080 files from my new Lumix TZ40.

Kind regards and thanks!
Anders from Denmark From Pinnacle Studio 9 to 14 - tired of bugs, now on PowerDirector 13
Intel i5-2400, 8 GB ram running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Recording with a Panasonic Lumiz TZ40 - compact but good image quality