Hi Angela,

Welcome to the forum.

If you need help from one of the wise guys you need to provide them with more information.

Read *here* what information is needed.

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Sounds like a LOT to gather for fixing what should be working right.... its my first time rendering with the program. and I see many people online have the exact issue. Maybe someone could tell me to do a step that is typical when this happens? I am so pressed for time on two client projects, that now having to do all the steps in the read here link is going to take yet even more time. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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Good results , sometimes... takes time to resolve. There are a LOT of really knowledgeable in this forum. If you want their help though, information is pretty much all they ask for.

They really can not provide proposed solutions without knowing much. Give them a chance though. It's too bad that this may not be fixed as fast as you'd like but, I'm betting on these guys/gals in here with the expertise - they'll help you get to the bottom of it, if you put some effort into it too.

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Hello angela123 ,

What type of file were you trying to create? Was it AVI, or perhaps AVCHD? These types of video file will take an inordinate amount of time to render, But if you go for MPEG2(and set for DVD SP) the item will render in only a matter of minutes.

Cheers!

Neil.

Quote: Sounds like a LOT to gather for fixing what should be working right.... its my first time rendering with the program. and I see many people online have the exact issue. Maybe someone could tell me to do a step that is typical when this happens? I am so pressed for time on two client projects, that now having to do all the steps in the read here link is going to take yet even more time. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

We mainly need the answer to Part A and Part B.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/45453.page

On Part B, please attach the text file do not just copy and paste in the forum.

To attach a file use the PostReply button, not the Quick Reply. Blue Attachments button below the text box.

Your first time experience is not the normal expected result. You might try Producing the Sample file Kite Surfing.wmv to AVC H.264. either M2TS or MP4 (drop down arrow). 1920x1080i 16 Mbps. Should not take more that about 15 secounds. 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.

Thanks, I will do, but in the mean time can someone tell me where on my desktop the finalized video went to? Where is the
default locations that cyberlink sends it to please? Thanks.

If anyone can tell me where to find my finalized video, I would be quite thankful. Happy Thanksgiving. Angela

Quote: If anyone can tell me where to find my finalized video, I would be quite thankful. Happy Thanksgiving. Angela

Click on the gear icon on the top (Preferences) (Alt+C) > File > Export Folder is where produced files go until you change the location. 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.

Boy oh boy, never would have found it and I am so thankful, now I will go look for it.

wait, i changed the default and didnt get to see where the other videos went, what should i do?

If you look at the Produce tab, this window shows you where the video was stored. If you changed the default location but haven't closed and re-opened PD, it will still point to the original location:



If you still can't locate the finished video, you can use Windows' search feature and have it look for the name you gave the video, or the deafult name of "produce.xxx" where "xxx" is MP4 or WMV or M2TS, whichever format you produced to. That setting should still be selected at the top left of the Produce tab.

If you still can't find it, download the free and very fast search tool called *Everything* and type in as much of the name as you know and it will find every file anywhere on your computer that matches what you've typed.

Good luck!

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I found the video by searching for "produce" because I had not named it. Happy Thanksgiving.

By the way, do you happen to know how to adjust the sound level during editing for parts that are too low? When I right click the track area that I wish to adjust, it opens Cyberlink Sound Director, an ENTIRELY different program!

Also, for video shot in hd.264 on an SLR camera, what are the best mov settings to use to get 1980 x 1200 approx. size? Because my final movie came out blurry.

By the way, I tried to finalize another project and it only took a few minutes. Perhaps because the other one had so many (25) clips of different HD video segments, that that is why it took 7 hours?

Thanks again. Angela

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

You're asking a lot of questions here, and I know you're eager to get your project finished. I can say that if you took the time to look around you'd find that every one of your questions has been answered in other threads on the forum or in the many, many tutorials. Since you're pressed for time, I'll try to give you a quick answer to the audio adjustment question.

To adjust the volume in specific sections of a clip without leaqving the main editor, you'll need to use keyframes. Place one at the start of where you want the volume lowered, then place another where you want the volume to be at the reduced level. Do this for every change you need and PD will automatically ramp the volume up or down to the new volume level when you produce (finalize) your clip.

Once the keyframes are in place, you can drag them up/down or left/right in the timeline if you need to make any adjustments. This is what the clip will look like:



To give you the "best" settings for you final video, I'd need to know the details of what your format your source clip is. Generally, you should get very good results using H.264 AVC and matching the Profile name/Quality to your source clip. I don't think that 1920x1200 is a standard recording resolution, and if your source is 1920x1080 and you produce to 1920x1200, you'll either get a stretched picture or you'll have black bars at the top and bottom.

As for why your previous project took 7 hours, I'd need to know lots more details. It's kind of like you saying "why will it take 7 hours to get to Chicago?" when we don't even know where you are or whether you'll be walking, driving or flying there. I hope you can see why those details are pretty important

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Thank you for suggesting that I read other threads, I will try to do that in the future. And, yes, I have watched youtube video tutorials. And, Yes, your are correct, the source is 1920x1080!
My previous project that took 7 hours to finalize, had about 40 (forty) 5 minute each segments of H.264 clips that I needed to make a movie out of. Perhaps it overloaded the system? Thank you again for taking time to help me. I will follow your advice.

Quote: Thank you for suggesting that I read other threads, I will try to do that in the future. And, yes, I have watched youtube video tutorials. And, Yes, your are correct, the source is 1920x1080!
My previous project that took 7 hours to finalize, had about 40 (forty) 5 minute each segments of H.264 clips that I needed to make a movie out of. Perhaps it overloaded the system? Thank you again for taking time to help me. I will follow your advice.

You must have had some modifications to some of those clips, if you just have 40 5 minute clips butted together, it should have taken about 200 minutes or about 3 and 1/3 hours to render.

Granted that seems like a long time, but it is the playing time for 40 5 Minute clips. 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.

Quote: if you just have 40 5 minute clips butted together, it should have taken about 200 minutes or about 3 and 1/3 hours to render.

You might want to rethink that position/statement in the future. Encode/render time has nothing to do with playback time. Many editors desire and buy hardware for a much better than 1:1 ratio. PD encode/render time is simply based on PC equipment and complexity of the timeline.

Attached pic is for 40, 5 min clips simply butted together with full CPU encoding/rendering, H.264, 1920x1080 (24Mbps) and took 72min, far less than the playback time of 200min.

Jeff

huh? I am not at the level to understand you two, but I am thankful to see the exchange of ideas.

Jeff, did you use hardware acceleration in your test? I gave the worst case with no HA. Of course the speed of the computer makes a difference also. 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.