Hi Eric -

Never seen that before & I can't suggest what may have caused it.

I'm assuming it's not displaying like that in PDR, either in the timeline or Title Designer. Only in the produced file? Only on YouTube?

For a start I'd ditch that template - make a new version of it using the same formatting - and see if the issue continues.

Cheers - Tony
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It doesn't display weird in the preview in PD, but the finished video displays weird in VLC player and Windows Media Player.

I haven't been able to replicate it here yet, with title templates formatted similarly... still testing.

Do you have any hardware acceleration options checked in preferences/produce module? If so, turn them off & re-test the render.

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Eric -

Try this template - http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/124829542 - modify it as you wish, then render to the same format & profile used before (with no hardware acceleration options checked).

Maybe it'll give us some clues about why your template is acting that way when produced.

Cheers - Tony
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Under Preferences... Hardware Acceleration, I have both "Enable OpenCL technology..." and "Enable hardware decoding" checked. I'll uncheck them and see if it helps.

Well... that fixed it. Very strange. All the settings were the same for all the videos that I made, but the problem just started within the last week or so.

Nope... didn't fix it. I just created another video and the strange text is back. I guess I'll re-make all my title clips from scratch.

Hello, Eric123456!

You could try creating your own title graphics outside Power Director(in Microsoft Paint, with assistance from Microsoft Publisher, perhaps), then import the graphic and lay it on a spare PiP track. I often create titles for videos this way. I open Publisher(blank page), click on WordArt, choose a design template, type in my text, fiddle about with size until I get what I want, then copy and paste to Paint, tidy it up a little there and save it as a bitmap(with white background). I then import that graphic to PD14, using Modify to make the white background transparent with Chroma-Key. It may be a fiddly excercise but it has worked well for me in the past. How you animate it is up to you but there are two methods to bring your graphic in and out of your clip. You could use the motion effects in modify or, using a colour board ahead of, and after your graphic(made transparent through Chroma-Key), you could make the title appear and disappear using the transitions. Some work better than others here, it's a matter of experimentation. This method could suffice until you get your erratic size problem sorted with the inbuilt title templates.

Cheers!

Neil.

I re-made all my titles, and (so far) they're working properly, but I'll remember that. I have PhotoShop, so I could make title text easily with that. Thanx for the tip.

Quote: I re-made all my titles, and (so far) they're working properly, but I'll remember that. I have PhotoShop, so I could make title text easily with that. Thanx for the tip.

Hi, Eric,

I've been doing this for quite a while. What I can create in WordArt through Microsoft Publisher(WordArt is also available in Microsoft Word, if you don't have Publisher) is quite interesting, and in a lot of cases, better-looking than what can be created in the "My Title" templates.

Cheers!

Neil.