I am assuming that you created them in PD11. Do you still have PD11 installed in the same pc? Try this: Go to the Title room/Custom and you see all the custom templates you made in PD11.

Quote I am assuming that you created them in PD11. Do you still have PD11 installed in the same pc? Try this: Go to the Title room/Custom and you see all the custom templates you made in PD11.

Appreciate the answer.
I do not have PD 11 still installed. However, I do have these custom templates showing in at least 4 new videos created after installing PD17.

I just do not know how to get them showing in this current video, I'm working on. Ageing Gracefully

Trying to narrow it down as to when those custom templates disappeared. Did they disappear only after you uninstalled PD11? Or after installing an update patch? Or did you try to tidy up windows using a windows utility or remove the old folders yourself? That is the information we need.

You may want to check the contents of the custom title folders. Look in My Documents and you should see a CyberLink folder with a PowerDirector sub-folder. Double click on that and you should see several PD version folders, going back many versions, like this:


Each version folder will have a MyTitles sub-folder, and in there you'll find a folder for every custom title you've created in that version of PD, like this:



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Quote Trying to narrow it down as to when those custom templates disappeared. Did they disappear only after you uninstalled PD11? Or after installing an update patch? Or did you try to tidy up windows using a windows utility or remove the old folders yourself? That is the information we need.

I did install a program, but after experiencing this issue, I did a system restore to just before installing it. Ageing Gracefully

Quote You may want to check the contents of the custom title folders. Look in My Documents and you should see a CyberLink folder with a PowerDirector sub-folder. Double click on that and you should see several PD version folders, going back many versions, like this:


Each version folder will have a MyTitles sub-folder, and in there you'll find a folder for every custom title you've created in that version of PD, like this:

I do have both PD11 & PD17 folders listed in the above directory. They do have different sub-folders & files in each. PD 11 has more sub-folders.

Not sure what to do with this information? Can I just copy the sub folders from PD11 into PD17 ? Ageing Gracefully

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I do have both PD11 & PD17 folders listed in the above directory. They do have different sub-folders & files in each. PD 11 has more sub-folders.

Not sure what to do with this information? Can I just copy the sub folders from PD11 into PD17 ?

Yes. I mostly wanted to make sure the titles were present.

You can try copying the 11.0\MyTitles titles to the 17.0\MyTitles folder, and choose to keep both. Then just rename the 11.0 ones so they match the Titel_xxx format and start PD17 again to see if the older titles appear.

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Look at Documents\Cyberlink\11.0\My Titles\. All your customs titles created in PD11 should be there. See the illustration by optodata above.

optodata answered first. What he suggested should work. I assume that you did not create a new custom template in PD17.

I am not sure how the folder got unlinked in PD17.

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Yes. I mostly wanted to make sure the titles were present.

You can try copying the 11.0\MyTitles titles to the 17.0\MyTitles folder, and choose to keep both. Then just rename the 11.0 ones so they match the Titel_xxx format and start PD17 again to see if the older titles appear.

Thanks optodata: The folders in PD11 & PD17, some have same file name, but a different number of files contained within the folder.
PD11 tends to have more files than PD17 does. Some have the same name in each PD version.

Example: PD11 folder has a sub folder "Char Template" whereas PD17 does NOT have a folder of this name.

PD11............................................. PD17
Title_000 has 53 files.............Title_000 has 5 files
Title_002..........28 ....................Title_001............5
Title_003..........28......................Title_002...........4
Title_006..........56......................Title_003...........4
Title_007..........28......................Title_004...........4

Should I (for example) copy PD11 file "Title_000" to PD17 and overwrite the PD17 file of same name?
or should I rename it to a file not listed in PD17 folder? Ageing Gracefully

Quote Thanks optodata: The folders in PD11 & PD17, some have same file name, but a different number of files contained within the folder.
PD11 tends to have more files than PD17 does. Some have the same name in each PD version.

Example: PD11 folder has a sub folder "Char Template" whereas PD17 does NOT have a folder of this name.

PD11............................................. PD17
Title_000 has 53 files.............Title_000 has 5 files
Title_002..........28 ....................Title_001............5
Title_003..........28......................Title_002...........4
Title_006..........56......................Title_003...........4
Title_007..........28......................Title_004...........4

Should I (for example) copy PD11 file "Title_000" to PD17 and overwrite the PD17 file of same name?
or should I rename it to a file not listed in PD17 folder?

I tried to quickly describe the process earlier, but each one of these folders contains a unique custom title, so you don't want to delete or overwrite any of them with another one that has the same name. PD simply creates these folders as new titles are created, but the folder names have nothing to do with the actual names you've saved them as.

In your example, since thre are already 5 custom titles in PD17's folder (000 through 004), you'll want to COPY AND RENAME the 000, 002, and 003 folders from PD14 as 005, 008 and 009 once you've copied them to the PD17 folder. It doesn't matter which one gets named as which number.

You can try copying the Char Template folder from PD14 as well, and the worst case is that you may end up with duplicates for some of your customs - but that's a better situation than not having any of them.

If duplicates do show up, try renaming the ones in the PD14 folder to anything that breaks the expected sequence of names, like "Title-old000" and PD 17 will ignore them.

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As suggested by optodata and your documentation above you can copy those PD11 Title_xxx folders to a temp folder that you create. X is don’t care. Each one is a separate title. Rename that suffix 000 to 008, 002 to 009, 003 to 010. After that you can copy each of the five PD11 titles to the appropriate PD17 My Titles folder. The PD17 custom titles you created should not be overwritten using this method.

Let us know if you got all those PD11 custom titles available in PD17 once again.

Optodata – After 6 hours I thought to go ahead and reply to this topic. And again, you beat me to it by two minutes while I was still typing. LOL.

Quote Optodata – After 6 hours I thought to go ahead and reply to this topic. And again, you beat me to it by two minutes while I was still typing. LOL.

I am so sorry! I was out all day and hoped that Loren wasn't left hanging. As soon as I got back and checked, I tried to get something up ASAP and it's so frusatrating to not know that someone else is working on a reply at the same time.

Hopefully Loren has enough info from our combined posts that he'll get those custom titles back.

You know what they say about great minds, right?

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Thanks to you all for helping me. I hope I solved my issue. Time will tell.

Here's what I did.
As suggested, I renamed all Title_xxx folders from PD11 and pasted them into PD17. Making sure I did not use any folder names that were already in PD17

At first I didn't think it worked. To complecate this issue, I had installed a screen recorder software and suspected it may be causing this. I had uninstalled it, and did a system restore to before it was installed the first time. My problem went away.
Not sure which solved the issue. ( Sys.Restore, or uninstall the program. )

My Pwr. Dir. was working OK, so I tried to re-install the screen recorder again. Pwr. Dir. still worked ok just after that, so I left it installed. (I did do some screen recording just to test it out.)

Later Pwr. Dir failed again. This time, after performing the copy & renaming of Title_xxx folders, I uninstalled the screen recorder, and re-did my system restore. Pwr. Dir is ok again. I'll not install the screen recorder, and see if Pwr. Dir remains fixed.

BTW: When I copied, and renamed the Title_xxx folders, I had duplicate title templates in the Title room.
I went in and selected the duplicates... R-Clk'd and sel'd [Delete (Only for custom/downloaded]
This cleaned all duplicates. Not sure if that removes them in the My Titles folders?

So far I have my custom title templates back.

I send my appreciation to you all, and wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Good health to you all.

Loren Ageing Gracefully

Quote Thanks to you all for helping me. I hope I solved my issue. Time will tell.
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BTW: When I copied, and renamed the Title_xxx folders, I had duplicate title templates in the Title room.
I went in and selected the duplicates... R-Clk'd and sel'd [Delete (Only for custom/downloaded]
This cleaned all duplicates. Not sure if that removes them in the My Titles folders?

So far I have my custom title templates back.

I send my appreciation to you all, and wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Good health to you all.

Loren

I'm happy to hear that things are working better now!

Deleting the duplicate title in PD removes the related folder, so you won't have any more duplicates show up. System Restore has saved many people many times, and I'm glad you thought of using it.

Merry Christmas and good health to you and yours as well

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Loren C - Thank you for your detailed explanation. I am curious and may want to know if this can happen to me or still other users of PowerDirector. Please give us the name and version of the screen recorder that you suspect cause this custom title problem.

Quote Loren C - Thank you for your detailed explanation. I am curious and may want to know if this can happen to me or still other users of PowerDirector. Please give us the name and version of the screen recorder that you suspect cause this custom title problem.

The Screen Recorder is Bandicam Screen Recorder www.bandicam.com/downloads/
Version 4.3.0.1479
I can't be absolutly sure it caused this problem, but it's the only thing I did.
I suppose I could try a test, and install it again to see if this happens again. NAW ! Don't think I will!

I only installed it because I had some old CD's of vacations. I had trouble getting them to convert to digital format.
I could only play one CD on my computer. I started playing the slide show, and recorded the screen. It worked out great, I was able to get the show in *.avi format. I then created a YouTube version using Power Director. ( That's when my troubles began.)
FWIW It's on my YouTube video page... https://youtu.be/s2L00QFJ9yc

Again I really appreciate all the help you all have given.

Merry Christmas to all.

Loren Ageing Gracefully

I enjoyed watching your 14 year old slideshow. You have captured and restored it very well. The original was in the 4:3 aspect ratio but it is showing in 16:9 on YouTube.

Bandicam is used by some users here for screen recording. You know what to do now if the same situation should arise again.

You now have the tools to capture, fix, and restore old videos. Thanks for sharing. Love the music.