PD Ultra 8 timeline edit crashes

Slivy58

Newbie Joined: Mar 21, 2009 01:46 Messages: 16 Offline

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Aug 23, 2009 20:41

I’ve been editing AVCHD video from my Canon HF200 and have yet to try less demanding media so weather this is my issue I do not know. Running Vista-64 w/4 gigs ram and quad 2.83 GHz, video is a nVidia GT8600, not the most up-to-date but does the trick. Vista in general has been a sore spot with me from day one and will be upgrading to Windows 7 when it’s released, may solve some issues.

Upgraded PowerDirector Utra to Ver. 8 from seven in hopes the crashes I was experiencing with 7 would have been rectified… Well… That wasn’t the case. Found during editing that adding/removing media from the timeline would cause a crash if doing things too fast, so slowed down a bit… Did not eliminate problem but helped a tad, was never overzealous to begin with. Another problem was that even though I had saved my work at every change, after a crash and reopening the project some of my videos were corrupt… They still resided on the timeline but thumbnails were blacked-out and there was only sound, no video.

Must say that the rendering end of things has been flawless up to this point and particularly like the Facebook upload feature in Ver. 8, ten times faster to the point where the video can be viewed. Really like most of the features in PD Ultra and just hope I can get the crashing issues worked out.

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HP ProBook
Core i5 450
Win 10 Pro, 64-bit
RAM 8GB DDR3
ATI 512 MB
256GB SSD & 500GB 7200RPM HDD

CLD

Senior Contributor Joined: Mar 23, 2007 02:05 Messages: 925 Offline

Aug 23, 2009 21:29

Hi Slivy58,

From what I have learned, PowerDirector 8 does not yet support the Canon AVCHD camcorders, at least when the video has a high bitrate...i.e. over 17 mb/s. You can see verificaition of this on the requirements page:

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/requirements_en_US.html

What I do know for a fact though is the RD team now has video from a Canon AVCHD camcorder and is working on the compatibility now. It should be released in a patch update in the near future.

I am not saying this is the reason for the crashes, but it may be part of it. Maybe some of our more experienced AVCHD camcorder users can provide more insight.

Regards,
David

Slivy58

Newbie Joined: Mar 21, 2009 01:46 Messages: 16 Offline

Aug 23, 2009 22:12

Thanks CLD, maybe you got something there as that didn't even dawn on me. I remember editing on a P4 1.8 GHz and 768 Mb ram few years back with little trouble but these days it's completely new ball game. I'll keep investigating on my end just in case there is something amiss with my setup, will post if come up with anything concrete. Thanks again for your fast response HP ProBook
Core i5 450
Win 10 Pro, 64-bit
RAM 8GB DDR3
ATI 512 MB
256GB SSD & 500GB 7200RPM HDD

BigB

Newbie Joined: Aug 24, 2009 15:23 Messages: 1 Offline

Aug 24, 2009 15:34

I have the same problem with my Canon AVCHD camera when running Power Director 8 Ultra on vista 64. However works fine with XP 32 on same hardware (Dual boot PC). Does this rule out a Canon AVCHD compatibility problem?

tarry

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2008 22:36 Messages: 5 Offline

Aug 24, 2009 18:05

i have trouble with achdv 24 meg movies from my canon hfs 100 as well.. i cant even get it to load after capturing so i can edit it and burn it . im sol atm.

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Aug 25, 2009 00:23

What a shame. I am trying to get a Canon HDV camcorder soon. I have a RCA that uses XviD and what I have found is that PowerDirector crashes a lot with the video. I use MediaShow Expresso to convert to BD MPEG 2 720p format. Then I edit the video and produce to AVCHD, or whatever format I choose, and it works great. On a long video that's a lot of extra work, but it's a good work around until PD supports the format I use.
I upgraded from V.6, so I like what I see so far. I just made an MPEG 2 video into BD 720p, BD 1080i (mpeg 2) and ACVHD 1080i (mpeg 4) and all looked great on my PS3 and 26" HDTV. I hope that helps. __________________________________
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Edward

Newbie Joined: Jun 17, 2010 14:33 Messages: 1 Offline

Jun 17, 2010 14:38

I have the same problem & I am using a Sony AVCHD camcorder model HDR-XR500V