someone please help! lol i have tried getting tips for a month every where. yesturday i added 8g of ram so now im at 12g i converted my video to a lower resolution still does not play

In both PDR & CDR, there are options for setting the preview quality - see attached screenshots. This affects timeline quality, rather than media library.

If your clips are UHD/4K, the best preview available is Full HD. i.e. you're not viewing UHD/4K

What are your settings?

Cheers - Tony
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thank you for your reply! i dont get a window like you showed, when i go to preveiw i select normal veiw... but that does not help.

ok yes i have mine set like yours, the speed and movement is good, but is not a clear video its very blury and grainy.

in colordirector i changed it and it improved the quality but it is moving in slow motion, i was prompted that my video was 59.94 but timeline was 29.97?

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well changing the settings helped it is still lagging in quality.

Hi cincydroneboy -

I wasn't reading your post properly earlier. Sorry. As soon as I see "drone" I think 4K & high bitrates, but your clips are 1080p @ 9Mbps.

According to benchmarks, your i5-6200u is less well equipped for video editing than my poor old i7-920. Still, it should be able to cope with the clips you're using.

If you continue to experience that lagging, you could consider using shadow files for editing. In Preferences, check "Enable HD video processing". That way your PC is only trying to process lower res files. In production, the original 1080p clips are used.

Cheers - Tony
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Thank you! yes i have checked that. is 434mb a big file? i converted it to mpeg2 and it brought it down to around 200 but it did not play well, like slow motion. whats the right way to convert to a proxy?

can i use Proxy videos in powerdirector?

Quote can i use Proxy videos in powerdirector?

Powerdirector can create it's own proxy/shadow files. Go to Preferences>General and enable shadow files. Any HD files in your library window will begin creating a shadow file, indicated by a yellow arrow on each applicable thumbnail. You should wait until all those yellow icons/arrows turn green which indicates the file has completed generating. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote hello, im new to powerdirector i have powerdirector 15 suite, while in colordirector of powerdirector when i import video it looks good till i drag the clips to the time line then they get blurry choppy and not clear. these are around 3-5 minute clips i took with my drone, hoping someone might be able to help me,

this is the info on the clip

mp4/file size is 136.7mb/ typeh.264avc/ bitrate 9.29mps/ resolution 1920/ frame rate 59.94fs/aspect 16.9



I have intel core i5-6200u 2.3ghz with turbo boost up to 2.8ghz

intel HD graphics 520 up to 2112 MB Dynamic video memory

12gb ddr 4 memory 1T HDD



thanks

Hello, I'm familiar with this problem and the easiest thing to do is start out in PowerDirector and when you are ready to fix or enhance color there is a Tab up on the upper left hand side of power director that states "Color Director". Hit that tab when ready to move the project over to color director and it keeps all the appropriate settings for it to work correctly. After you are finished with color director editing you can save and or just close and it will move the whole project back into Power Director Edit mode right where you left off. This way the settings stay compatible with each program. When you drag it over I don't think you capture all the appropriate settings too. I know doing this, the simple way, fixed the issues I had that you've described. good luck. Rob

thanks guys i will try both!