What file type to produce to?

David 512

Newbie Location: Queensland, Australia Joined: Oct 31, 2011 08:37 Messages: 11 Offline

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Nov 11, 2019 23:37

Although I used Power Director 7&8 for some years, PD17 is new to me, and the circumstances of my videos have changed, too. I look at the Produce page and am confused. I want to produce 1) a video I can fit on a flash drive and be able to be viewed on either a PC or an Apple device. 2) an .MP3 recording I have stripped from the video. In the first case I used to just make DVDs which was fine for everybody. Not any more. In the second case there was a 'separate sound from video' or the like in the context menu on the edit page. Now I'm not sure what to do.
Thanks in advance if someone can assist me with these problems.
David

KCwho

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Nov 12, 2019 00:26

H.264 MP4 is the most supported video format now. You can play it on a PC, Mac, iPhone, Android and most smart TV natively.

If you would like simply extract the audio from the video, just put the video on timeline and then entering the "Produce" tab. In Produce tab, choose Standard 2D->Audio file (the notes icon) and pick M4A as the audio format. The audio codec is AAC and most devices should support the format. PowerDirector no longer supports produce a MP3 audio anymore.

David 512

Newbie Location: Queensland, Australia Joined: Oct 31, 2011 08:37 Messages: 11 Offline

Nov 12, 2019 17:26

Quote H.264 MP4 is the most supported video format now. You can play it on a PC, Mac, iPhone, Android and most smart TV natively.

If you would like simply extract the audio from the video, just put the video on timeline and then entering the "Produce" tab. In Produce tab, choose Standard 2D->Audio file (the notes icon) and pick M4A as the audio format. The audio codec is AAC and most devices should suppport the format. PowerDirector no longer supports produce a MP3 audio anymore.

Little did I know. Thanks a lot.