Hi all,

I am using PowerDirector 14 at this time on a Windows 10 Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series with an I7 processor (low end gaming laptop).

My Data drive is a 1TB with 720GB free.

I have 16GB of RAM


I typically make family or other short videos which contain an audio track, a video/audio track and titles which are mostly on the Title track and overlay the video track.

I have a terrible problem, as I've seen others mention as well, with playback during editing. All is well until I add Titles. Then it will play until it hits a Title it doesn't like (no rhyme or reason that I can figure out), and then it hangs on that Title.

Each track hangs seemingly indepenent of each other at times:

• Title will hang


• Music track will hang


• Video will hang


• The audio track of the video file will hang

It hangs and then eventually catches up, but skips a lot of what it was hung on.


The problem is so bad, that it makes placement of overlaying titles almost impossible because I can't play it properly.

I like PowerDirector very much in most other regards, but this problem renders it almost unusable.

If I turn off the Title track (unclick the check box) then the whole thing plays fine. Once I turn them back on, instantly the problem returns.

What I've tried:

Lowering the playback resolution
Removing all transitions (I initially thought it was a transition problem, but then realized it was titles)
Closed every other problem on my computer
Turned off Virus protection

If anyone can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd like to just stay on PD14 if possible, but will definately upgrade, IF that will solve the problem.

Thanks so much!

Connie Z