I have a Diamond VC500 capture device and find the Capture module/settings default to my Microphone(Realtek Audio) instead of the correct selections of S-video and Composite video. Go to Settings/Video Settings and only the Realtek audio recording settings are shown for video capture. The S-Video and Composite video selections are not there. Click on a different selection and PD17 crashes with the Opps…, PowerDirector has stopped. Looks like that PD17 has a bug as this work properly with previous versions of PD.

I was trying to duplicate the condition of this post, third thread screen capture: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/77658.page . I do not have the two monitor setup but see in that the OP has PD17 in the capture module with the 8th button, capture from a TV signal highlighted. He then clicks the 5th button to Capture from screen and records full screen video.

I cannot use the VC500 ezgrab software to display full screen video and have PD17 capture from the screen recorder properly. I get a blue screen. I have been able to do what the OP intend to do in his screen capture properly with this workaround.

1. Start the screen recorder 2 only from the desktop icon and not PD17.


2. Open the device Video Capture software and set it to display the video full screen.


3. Tab to the screen recorder 2 to record and stop when you want.

The full screen video captured properly. I get a warning about disabling the windows aero theme, but I do nothing about it. The video has no black box and no problems which an interaction may be from having PD17 open. The captured and saved video can then be edited in PD17. This works for me.

I cannot comment in the original post as the OP created a nested loop so I respond here. Is anyone here using the VC500 video capture device and find that it captures properly in PD17? Please respond.