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Smartsound music not working?
JTLatGF [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Tacoma Joined: Jul 04, 2006 12:06 Messages: 8 Offline
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HI,

I have a video clip that is 7+ minutes long and have muted the sound from the clip. I added a "Smartsound" file to the music track and expanded it to fit the length of the movie.

When i go and burn the project to a DVD HQ format (or any format as far as that goes) the sound does not get included into the movie.

In turn, I have replaced the "Smartsound" file with a .wma file (ripped from a CD to my PC with Windows Media Player) to the music track and did NOT expand the music track and it burned correctly.

I just wondering if anyone else has this issue or not and if you have worked around and I am just missing something.

Tech support is taking WAY TOOOOOO Long to answer my questions.

Thanks,
Jeff
MikiMouse [Avatar]
Newbie Location: St. Louis Joined: Jul 13, 2006 23:01 Messages: 21 Offline
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I experienced similar problem -- some SmartSound songs just don't go into the final video I produced. Did you try other songs?
JTLatGF [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Tacoma Joined: Jul 04, 2006 12:06 Messages: 8 Offline
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Thanks MikiMouse,

All "Smartsound" files do not burn to a DVD when using the "Create" function of the program. MikiMouse suggested a work around to me and it worked.


Create your movie as usual and then "Produce" the move to a "DV-AVI" file on your hard drive and then open the new movie as a "NEW Project" and then "Create" the disc and burn as usual. The "Smartsound" file that was a "music" track is now a "sound" track for the movie clip.

Worked like a charm. Took an extra 15 minutes to do on a 11 minute movie but I guess we will have to be inconvenienced until Cyberlink can get the bug fixed.

Thanks again, Jeff
Agosta [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Atlanta Joined: Jul 30, 2006 10:23 Messages: 16 Offline
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I too am experiencing this problem. I purchased PowerDirector 5 about a month ago and have invested dozens of hours capturing, editing and producing all of my old VHS and Digital 8mm videos. Now I'm ready to burn and the SmartSound music is not present on the DVD's I burn.

Strange thing is that is appears that the SmartSound background music is present on the produced file, but is not present when the burned DVD is played back.

I reported this to Tech Support over a week ago and have not received a response despite several requests for a status.
JTLatGF [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Tacoma Joined: Jul 04, 2006 12:06 Messages: 8 Offline
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Agosta,

Please read my thread "Tech Support not responding" http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/54.page. The support is a waste of time with this product.

As I stated in the previous you have to use the work around until a patch comes out. They have only known about this for a couple of weeks based on my "Ticket in tech support". I hope they have a patch before PD6 comes out. which took 16 days to resolve.
Agosta [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Atlanta Joined: Jul 30, 2006 10:23 Messages: 16 Offline
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I am a bit confused and concerned now.

1) I finally received a reply to my Tech Support inquiry for this problem. An excerpt of their response is shown here:

"In regard to your issue, we apologize for the inconvienence you have encountered so far while using the software.
However as such we do not have any update from the Product Development Department regarding the resolution to your problem so if you want to opt for the refund then below is the link : . . . . "

2) Then, meanwhile, I receive a private message from user "Moore" in this forum and a separate email from moore_liu@goCyberlink.com containing an attachment with a file name DIEGO.dll and instructions to replace the original file located in C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\PowerDirector\

Can I trust this?
Petersen [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Klaus Petersen Joined: Jun 23, 2006 14:35 Messages: 19 Offline
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Hi Agosta,

This file is now availlable as a patch at the Cyberlink home page.

Med venlig hilsen,

Klaus
JTLatGF [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Tacoma Joined: Jul 04, 2006 12:06 Messages: 8 Offline
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Worked for me!

Thank you.
Agosta [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Atlanta Joined: Jul 30, 2006 10:23 Messages: 16 Offline
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Yes, it also worked for me. I should have updated this forum that it had worked.
Stew [Avatar]
Newbie Location: City of Oz Joined: Jun 26, 2006 04:51 Messages: 7 Offline
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Here's the patch page for PowerDirector...if anyone else needs it

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_4_ENU.html

Cheers
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