Yes 1080,. And alot if different fps. This on was at 30fps

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3. Note that this software (PowerDirector) is not licensed to be used for commercial work. More exactly the MPEG2 and MPEG4, H264 and H265 licenses don't allow that.
CL got around the issue making their default format for the "youtube" profile WMV (that doesn't have commercial use limitations).

How do you define commercial use? We upload to Youtube to share our videos with others free of charge - like the free Power Director tutorials available from several sources including Cyberlink. Is this any different to passing DVDs on to friends and family? It looks like a bit of a grey area trying to define commercial use. I have not seen this restriction even in other free edit prorgrams that output H.264 using the free industry standard AVC1 codec. Is it because Cyberlink are still using the old Sony PSP (Playstation) codec for H.264 MP4 (which is regarded as poor quality codec)??? (See MediaInfo on your H.264 MP4 files from PDR14)? Power Director 13&14 Ultimate, Photo Director 6, Audio Dir, Pwr2Go 10
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I don't know, I am not a lawyer
None of the h264, h265, mp4, mp2 formats are "free" for commercial usage, see the EULA. But they are free for end user (home).

I guess that if you make enough money with the videos you will be noticed eventually.

Not worried about the H264 police knocking on my door. Sort if like the faa or Drone police coming to my house. They have bigger and better things to worry about someone flying 50 ft over a house and making a video

Yeah, exactly... But just in case you land that contract with Disney

I will worry about that then 😊
Anyway back to this topic. I will load up two videos by using H264 to a thumb drive and dump them into vimeo. One will be with hardware accelerator on and one with it off.
I will then post the two links here and see if we can get to the bottom of the black flashes
Thx guys!!!!

I'm not sure if I am way off the mark here and if so then please disregard.

I have had trouble with black frames flashing momentarily when I haven't quite positioned a transition correctly and I've resolved it by deleting the transition and then re-applying it. I edit and render in stages, small (around 5 minute) chunks at a time before putting the whole thing together so it makes spotting/correcting problems easy.

I've adopted the habit of stretching my timeline right out from the outset. It makes accurate positioning so much easier. I assume everyone works with 'snapping' enabled but before I adopted the 'zoomed in view' I found that I could sometimes still drop a clip in and not quite get it snapped to the previous one - another source of occasional black frames for me.

Hmmmmm
You might have a solution for me here. Did you look at my clip to see if they are what was happening to you?

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Yes (and I was very impressed I have to say ). The first one I see is at around 11 seconds. That is certainly the sort of thing I have had in the past and to be honest I never worried too much about why it happened - I just knew when it did I could rectify it which was good enough for me.

when you say postion the transition correctly I thought I was. I slide each clip up to each other and place the transition which is a fade right in the middle of the connected clips so it looks even on both sides

If you got the project handy try stretching the timeline rfight out so you're just seeing a few seconds either side of the two clips. Assuming that you haven't got a blank frame between the clips i.e. they are properly snapped together, highlight the transition and delete it. Now drag the transition back over the join and make sure that it covers both the end of the first clip and the start of the second.

I'm not sure but I think in the past that I have sometimes accidentally dropped a transition onto the end of the first clip only i.e. missed the 'dead centre'.

I take it you know you can highlight a section and render it in isolation just to check things out.

Will try that this weekend. I'm at airport getting ready to fly home
Thanks talk back to you soon
Dave

No I did not know about highlighting a small section
How do I do that?

At the top of the timeline scrubber on either side there is a yellow tab. You can drag these out left and right to highlight a section and if you then right click the higlighted part of the timeline one of the options is to produce that section. Great for a quick look at results.

p.s. - quick screenshot attached.

p.p.s. - I said section but more accurately "Range"

Ok guys. Here is a link with the project and the hardware accelerator turned off, it took 45 min. to render.
Still get the black flashes even after doing what everybody has pointed out. With the hardware off I do not like the clarity of the video. Look at the shingles on the roof at the beginning of the clip and also the grass. Video was shot at 30 fps and I had it picked in general preferences for 30 . do I shoot at 60fps ? whould that help. Im at a lose. These flashes only happen when it has been rndered. I did a few and saved them has a mp4 but I still get those pesky lines. Also when I uplad a mp4 I cannot pick 720 or1980 in vimeo where if I uplad through power diredtor I can pick the HD.

https://vimeo.com/174041191

I've just had a closer look at the video in your first link and what I first thought to be a black frame at 11seconds 16frames is in fact a single frame where one clip is being faded out but there is no overlaid subsequent clip. The frames at 11seconds 15frames and 11seconds 17frames have got the overlaid next clip showing. At the moment I'm at a loss to explain it. You haven't by any chance inserted fades at the end of one clip and then at the start of the next have you? I'll attatch screenshots of the 3 frames.

no I have not. I spread out my time line and drop the transition tight on top of where the two clips meet /They are set to overlap,but when what I see is the transition shifts the the left to be on the end of the first clip. When I cross they stay on top of the split. Is the problem the fade transition between the clips. Im about to pull all the transitions off and see if it does the same thing. But with nothing to transition between the clips I dont think the video will look or flow very well. This clip was done with the hardware accelerator on and it took 2.3 hours to render
https://vimeo.com/174062853

These flashs are coming withthe transistion more than in the middle of the clip.
This had the hardware accelerator on

https://vimeo.com/174097527

These flashs are coming withthe transistion more than in the middle of the clip.
This had the hardware accelerator on

Ok here is a short cip with the transitions removed. No flashing. So the problem lies on the transition and placement itself. I figure
https://vimeo.com/174100774

No, it proves that the transitions ARE the problem- Incorrect placement.

Try using one transition for the entire video. Seolect one and add it to your favorites. Then go to the favorites and select to apply that transition to all. Select the type of transition and the duration. After you have done that, are the flashes still there?

Edit: I just started looking at the vimeo video and saw several flashes near the start of the video. It seems that there is a transition between the first and second scenes because there is no jump from one to the nest.

Do you have other program running while editing the video? Turn off your anti-virus after disconnection from the internet and try again.



EDIT Again: Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong video ? .
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