Quote: BTW, it would be nice to fix the problem with the software overlapping the windows task bar when the software is maximized. This stinks since you have to always resize the app to get the timeline scroll bar to show up on the bottom. Please fix this...

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Robert

Mine doesn't do this.

Nor does mine?

Make sure that your taskbar properties 'keep taskbar on top of other windows' is checked???

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Adrian

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Mine doesn't either. Click here PDtoots for a collection of PowerDirector Tutorials and Tips

I build large productions and this is when I have the most problems with this software crashing. I might want to just pay more and go to a more professional product in the future. This is one of the hard errors I was getting - Unhandled exception at 0x7c9106c3 in PDR.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00360f3b.

BTW, the task bar is already set to be on top of other windows, but somehow the task bar is overlapping the PDR frame and has ever since I started using PDR 7. This is the only software that does it. So it must be PDR...

Robert,

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Dafydd
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Hi Dafydd,

This morning I uninstalled and reinstalled the whole PD7 application and applied the latest 12/03 patch. The crashing problem is still there. The software either crashes with an unhandled exception error in various places in the application or the application just disappears without warning on any projects. There is really no one place that the crash occurs, It seems like it's just after using it for a bit that it eventually fails. I'm not sure what is going on. My system works fine with my other video tools like sony vegas. So is appears to be tracking PD7 with the new patch.

I installed an Nvidia 7600GT video card last week, do you know if anyone else has had problems using this video card with Powerdirector 7? I'm going back to the older release patch and use it since it appears to be more stable.

Thanks,
Robert

Here is some Feed back on the software crashing and disappearing problem I had above. I broke the project of ~20mpg small clips into 3 seperate projects and produced 3 different mpg files, then married them all together into one project and produced and burnt the DVD I needed without the software crashing.

A couple of observations:
1) The software really struggles when you pull media into the project from other systems on a network. When you keep the media files local to where your running the software, you're better off. I believe this was one of the biggest problems I was having and that's why the software kept crashing and dissappering.
2) Big projects are not handled very well by this software. I never really have problems with small projects, but the bigger ones always result in crashing problems. This is just what I've experienced in the 100+ DVDs I've built with this package. I hope this can be resolved someday since even V6 struggled with this.

Regards,
Robert

Taskbar overlaps on mine, but only if I use double height taskbar - I have to reduce it to single height to be able to see the time slider.
Ford's Crash-Test Dummies have less crashes than this!!