I only have PD7 Deluxe, but I guess the same applies.

Even though I'd never used it before, I just applied each of the templates to a small group of clips... I wasn't able to replicate your issue, so I cannot really advise you.

Enough to say that it is not a general software issue, but something particular to your case.

Sorry I couldn't really help.

Cheers -

Tony
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Hi William,
Please look in Help > About and provide the version numbers for the PowerDirector you have please.
Dafydd

Quote: Hi,

I am new to powerdirector 7 ultimate. I was trying to use magic movie but it only seems to work for 2 themes, pets and baby. When I select another theme it hangs after analysis of the video, and the only way to continue is to quit the application. Is this normal? Any suggestions would much appreciated.

Tony, thank you for the information. It may well be something in my system that causes some of the magic movie templates to hang.

Dafydd, the version number I show is 7.0.2726 and the SR number is VDE080909-01.

Thanks,
William

Hi William,
Have you seen the "sticky" post here which might assist you:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/6466.page
PD index page for all "sticky" posts:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/forums/show/52.page

Dafydd

Thanks Dafydd for the info. I tried the patch and the behavior is the same.

My guess is that my problem is related to a video codec as the two movie themes that work do not have .wmv files in the associated styles folder. (Any of the movie styles with .wmv files do not work.)

I will try the program on another computer this weekend to trouble shoot further.

It wouldn't hurt to put FFDshow codecs on your system.

You can find it here and a lot of useful video editing progs"
http://seemyworldonvideo.com/pages/extras-news-items.html

Dafydd

Hi, I did some further testing including installing PD7 different builds.

What I found is that if I disable windows aero then all the magic movie templates work as they should.

I will post again if I figure out further details.

Thanks,
William

Interesting, maybe technical support should be informed of this. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

I updated the program to build 3017 and the issue went away. It is now possible to use all the magic movie modes without disabling the vista aero interface. :