Hi SweDuck75 -

There isn't such a profile available, but it's easy enough to create one. The attached PDF shows how.

2560x1440 is usually referred to as 1440p or (sometimes) 2.5K or QHD... a little confusing

Also attached are 2 2560x1440 profiles - M2TS & MPEG-4. You can either open it in Notepad and copy/paste the text into your Profile.ini or just replace your Profile.ini with it (if you don't have other custom profiles you want to keep).

The Profilie.ini is found at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\13.0

Cheers - Tony
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So we have to add 2560x1440 ourselves as there is no optioin to put that size for the clip? I hope the PD Team realizes that's an issue and fixes it in the future as 16:9 is the most common format today. (I'm hoping for a YouTube-export function who don't uploads directly but let's us save the file localy.)

I gave your settings a go and then raised the bitate to 60,000 Kbps (since I do mostly gaming) and the finished result on YouTube came out a bit better. I'm still not quite satisfied though but it seems that the bitrate is really important for the quality on YouTube. How high bitrate can Power Director handle? If I, for instance, make a normal 1920x1080 clip but change in the Profile.ini to something like 100,000 Kbps, is that possible?

Well - there you go - YouTube refers to 1440p as 2K. Here are the upload recommendations from YT - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

Yes - you can make the VBR 100MBps if you wish. For YouTube, I honestly can't see much point in that. Bitrate is the hugest factor in file size & in "streamability" (if that's a word)

What's the bitrate of your original game captures?

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The original .avi-capture from recording games with Mirillis Action is 1987833 kbit/s so about a million. ^^

Best result would be to upload them directly but I need to edit the clips first. File size don't matter that much just as long as the quality on YouTube comes out good enough.

I'm tinkering a lot with profiles now. I've made a profile based on the 2048x1152 format (still 16:9) found in Resolution alternative on Profile Setup and changed the bitrate to 60MBps and the result is good enough. With a 2048x1152 format YouTube thinks it's "higher than 1080p" and process it thereafter, making normal 1080p result after YouTube processing get a bit higher quality than if my video were uploaded in 1920x1080. Or so I've read.



Thanks a lot for all help, I have a lot to do now until the ultimate settings is found.

You seem to have found the answer, but 2048x1080 is 2k. As Tony pointed out 1440 is quadHD, commonly called qHD. __________________________________
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Ok. Well, still. One might think that the common YouTube-standards would be in the program as YouTube is the most common source of videos today with over a billion users and 300 hours of video uploaded every minute.

1440 is not really a standard anywhere but YouTube, but I get your point. Also starting to see a lot of computer monitors in that resolution. You could always leave a suggestion in the sticky for suggestions. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

The Surface Pro 3 has a 3:2 screen size of 2160 x 1440, so that's another wrinkle if you're calling for "1440" resolution

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Reference the 2k resolution question:

Here we are, in September of the year 2021 - six years after you submitted this issue. I think it has been fixed, but initially, I wasn't sure.

The PowerDirector version I'm using is 20.0.2106.0 (64-bit) from my PowerDirector 365 subscriiption - so I'm up to date on the software.

From the "Produce File" panel of PowerDirector, I did the following:

1) Under "Select a file format:", I chose H.265 HEVC.

2) The "Profile name/Qality" dropdown list appeared with selections for the H.265 format.

3) I selected the only 2k profile available in the list.

4) The profile name is MPEG-4 2K 2048x1080/30p (30 Mbps).

5) In the "Export folder:" box at the bottom, I edited the path and video name and clicked "Start".


That 2048x1080 resolution number bothered me. My calculation tells me that's a rather imprecise 16:8.4375 aspect ratio.

Do the math.


How I got to this point:

The source video file is from the micro-sd card in my DJI Mavic Mini drone.

This model drone does not shoot 4K resolution videos.

However,it does shoot 2K video in 2720x1530 resolution.

My calculation shows this resolution to be a perfect 16:9 aspect ratio. Do the math.

I produced my video using the producdtion settings listed in 1) through 5) above.

I then posted it to my YouTube channel.

When I palyed it on YouTube, I was delighted. My selected production profile resulted in a 2K video!

At the bottom right corner of the YouTube video player, a gear shaped icon allows the viewer to select the resolution, and the highest resolution available is 1440p.

It doesn't say 2K, but rather 1440p (with a little red HD indicator)

View my contribution on YouTube here

I hope this contributes to the discussion. I found no need to create a custom profile for 2K videos.