Can you provide before and after screenshots?
What are your clips from? Are they the same sources as when you used PD 14?
Perhaps in Preferences you can try various hardware acceleration settings.
Also a dxdiag of your machine, attached. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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Quote Hey guys,

I recently upgraded from Power Director 14 to Power Director 365. For some reason it auto brightens my clips and makes them look worse.

14 didnt do this and just imported them as they were. It's driving me nuts. Is there a way to turn this off and just import the clip as it's supposed to be?

Thanks

PowerDirector doesn't auto brighten clips. I remember this was brought up before, and the person's GPU was doing this when they added clips to the timeline.

Try turning off "Enable hardware decoding" in Hardware Acceleration preferences and see if that cures it.

Ash

Quote Hey guys,

I recently upgraded from Power Director 14 to Power Director 365. For some reason it auto brightens my clips and makes them look worse.

14 didnt do this and just imported them as they were. It's driving me nuts. Is there a way to turn this off and just import the clip as it's supposed to be?

Thanks

I have a very similar problem. I upgraded from Power Director 16 to Power Diretor 18. At first, the previews seemed sharper and overall better than Power Director 16, then something happened. Now, when a picture is selected in the timeline, and the view is stationary, the image is good. At all other times when the preview is playing, or when a specific slide is not selected, the picture is very bright, and mostly unusable. I uninstalled all the extra files that came with the program, and reinstalled Power Director 18, and of course rebooted the computer. The previews are atrocious.
I have tried every change I can find in the preferences section. Nothing seems to work. Older videos are equally bad.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Ken

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I have a very similar problem. I upgraded from Power Director 16 to Power Diretor 18. At first, the previews seemed sharper and overall better than Power Director 16, then something happened. Now, when a picture is selected in the timeline, and the view is stationary, the image is good. At all other times when the preview is playing, or when a specific slide is not selected, the picture is very bright, and mostly unusable. I uninstalled all the extra files that came with the program, and reinstalled Power Director 18, and of course rebooted the computer. The previews are atrocious.
I have tried every change I can find in the preferences section. Nothing seems to work. Older videos are equally bad.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Ken

You said you tried every preference, but you did not specify if all hardware accleration preferences are turn off. This issue does not happen for the majoirty of users, so it is most likely your GPU that is applying some kind of effect/enhancement. You should also check your GPU driver settings.

If none of this works, contact Cyberlink and provide all the info you can, including your DXDiag file, which you didn't do for us as requested.

https://membership.cyberlink.com/support/service/technical-support.do

Ash

There are video settings in both the AMD and Nvidia control panels where you can choose either application default or say the custom settings you made. Some apps may behave differently like in the different versions.

Both your issues may be related, or not.
We need the exact version of PD, a dxdiag, and media samples.
Without those items/information you have no chance of getting help. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
https://www.facebook.com/BarryAFTT

Quote Both your issues may be related, or not.
We need the exact version of PD, a dxdiag, and media samples.
Without those items/information you have no chance of getting help.

I found the solution to my problem was rather trivial, if you know where to look. I changed the YUV display option to RGB under Preferences, display, Timeline preview output colour. It is now back to normal!!!
Many thanks for your input.
Ken

Thank you kmcfar2409 for the feedback. That option only exist in PD18 and not in any of the previous versions.

Kmcfar2409, really sounds very similar to the problem here https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/80801.page#post_box_332621 and maybe has the same underlying issue. At least CL engineering have had the issue for nearly 3 months, maybe someday a fix will be released and that just might correct your issue too.

Jeff