Hi Roger,

Ok, some extra detail which are important please. What is the video format of the footage you are using? The aspect ratio? The source of the video (camera)? The frame size of the video? Is it HD?

As you're in Oz, you're in a PAL zone.

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled?
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/2405.page
Subject: PowerDirector - information we request and tasks to carry out.
PART C

To duplicate (confirm) your problem we have to see what you're using in Multi-Trim. Please try the same actions using the Aquarium.mpg (sample video) and report back. Also please select a new project and try a new captured video clip (fresh start and project)

There is a new release out today v2519 look for it as a patch.

Dafydd

Thanks Dafydd,

I will collect the necessary information, run the trials and report back.

About the updates - I had been using build 2227 because there was some mention on this forum about instability with 2429a. Every so often I would get a pop-up inviting me to update. When this problem cropped up today I decided to update. Instead of waiting for the next apparently random appearance of the pop-up I clicked on the update arrow at the top right, only to get a message telling me no update was available as I had the latest version! I found it on the Cybelink and installed it. Still no joy.

Roger.

Roger
If the update link fails from with-in PD use the download link
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_4_en_US.html PC specs :
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Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
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6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
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BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

Hi Dafydd,

I reinstalled PD7 build 2429a. Then I went to the project I had the problem with and it worked OK. No jumping or sticking cursor. I will continue working as time permits and if there are further problems I will run the Aquarium trials etc and post on this topic.

Just for completeness here are the details of my project.

1. I had several hours of 8mm VHS from a 4 month trip. I captured it using a PCI card which converts it to MPEG2.

2. Initially captured in clips of about 45 minutes each. These were given a quick rough edit to delete anything like the occasion(s) I recorded my foot for 5 minutes. This allowed me to make them significantly shorter and save disc space.

3. The rough edits were then "Produced", again to MPEG2.

4. This clip was then run through scene detection.

5. The individual scenes were then edited with Multi Trim, often to take two or three short clips of a few seconds each from a 1 minute scene.It was at this point that I encountered the problems with the Multi Trim Play cursor locking up and/or jumping to the end of scene.

6. These "trimmings" will be used along with JPEGs, music and Voice-over to assemble a sub-project, several of which will be combined to make the final DVD with which to bore friends and relatives .

Although the re-install seems to have solved the problem there is still an anomaly in Multi Trim when it is used to trim a "scene clip" as in step 5 above. While the scene is playing the time/frame counter shows the time from 0 at the start of the clip. If you enable the magnifier then the times below the frames displayed are from the beginning of the original clip the scenes were taken from. Also if you want to go to a certain place in the clip you cannot do so by entering the time/frame in the counter. The cursor just jumps to the end of the clip. It would be really helpful if Cyberlink could rectify this anomaly, as it would make timming easier.

Thanks

Roger.

Roger,
Thanks for the update.
Please make your improvement suggestion here:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3980.page

Dafydd