Try this: Rename the myvideo.mpg to booby.mpg. Import it to the Media room of the library. Click and drag the booby.mpg to the timeline over the myvideo.m4v clip and release. Select Replace. That should do it.

Quote Try this: Rename the myvideo.mpg to booby.mpg. Import it to the Media room of the library. Click and drag the booby.mpg to the timeline over the myvideo.m4v clip and release. Select Replace. That should do it.

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it wouldn't work in my situation because I had trimmed the original video clip. I did find however, that if I removed the original clip with the option to leave a gap and then inserted the new clip using the trim to fit option, I could then retrim the new clip using the in and out position I had previously noted down. Unfortunately and for some unknown reason, PowerDirector 18 does not play any sound associated with the new clip. I can play the clip using VLC Media Player and also play it in AVS Video Editor, so I don't know why it won't play in PowerDirector.

Quote Thanks for the suggestion. However, it wouldn't work in my situation because I had trimmed the original video clip. I did find however, that if I removed the original clip with the option to leave a gap and then inserted the new clip using the trim to fit option, I could then retrim the new clip using the in and out position I had previously noted down. Unfortunately and for some unknown reason, PowerDirector 18 does not play any sound associated with the new clip. I can play the clip using VLC Media Player and also play it in AVS Video Editor, so I don't know why it won't play in PowerDirector.

One can also edit a copy of the pds file and simple change file names in the file, video1.m4v to video2.mpg. One can preserve all cuts with no redo in such case.

More than likely the audio related to Dolby support. Verify audio codec in new source file with like MediaInfo and if DD this hotfix may apply. https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/84991.page#351807

Jeff

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One can also edit a copy of the pds file and simple change file names in the file, video1.m4v to video2.mpg. One can preserve all cuts with no redo in such case.

Jeff

Sorry Jeff but I don't know how to do that. Could you provide some step-by-step instructions for me?

I'll look into the other issue after dinner.

Many thanks.

Brian, for some unknown reason CL moved the hotfix they had posted for PD18 in the link I provided. They have not officially released a patch for this either. I have attached here so you have it. The directions are the same as in the link.

Jeff

I supplied a slightly different link for the same Hotfix to a different user earlier today in this post: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/84202.page#post_box_353354 . The step 4 link in that post works, same as the one supplied by Jeff. Both links downloaded that zip file just fine here.

Thanks Guys. I've applied the hotfix, but I got around the problem in the meantime by re-ripping the problem DVD to mpg but specifying stereo for the sound format. It still sounds fine to me through my Sennheiser TV headphones (although I haven't compared the two side by side), but it's good to know there's another option if needed.