Comments on PowerDirector 365 v18.6.3019 Release and New Features

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Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

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Jun 29, 2020 13:22

Today I have installed the latest version of PD. I like to make to following remarks on this new release:

Love the Shutterstock availability. It will no doubt be benecitial for me future projects.

What I don't like is that this Shutterstock icon seems to appear in the media room of all and every of my projects. Can it not be concealed somewhere ready to call? OKay I disappears when I select video-only or images-only or music-only, but I have a mixture of all these most of the times. Can we have a button, please Cyberlink, or is it already there and did I not discover it yet?

Obviously I have tried some downloads, and I am impressed with how it works. However a number of the downloads (but not all) end with the message that an error occurred while opening the media file. I see that these error-files are still sitting in the Shutterstock download folder, as a subsequent message that the download was succesfull shows. PD does not load them.

What I would like is to know in advance what the size of the Shutterstock download is. Am I downloading 50 or 500Mb, (which might be an indication of the quality too?)

The files that DID successfully download and add to the media room, do not show strangely enough when I select "downloaded", although of course they are.

In the PIP-designer What strikes me is that the first time I press on play the screen goes black for a very short moment before the playing is started. The subsequent plays go without the black...

I have forwarded these remarks through "provide suggestions" too.

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Jun 29, 2020 15:04

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What I would like is to know in advance what the size of the Shutterstock download is. Am I downloading 50 or 500Mb, (which might be an indication of the quality too?)

I agree that it would be nice to see the file size when browsing, maybe like the pop-up messages PD already provides when hovering the cursor over existing media clips. At least you get to see the file size after clicking the Download button

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The files that DID successfully download and add to the media room, do not show strangely enough when I select "downloaded", although of course they are.

That's a fairly important thing for CL to miss, since all items downloaded from DZ show up that way. A workaround would be to create a new Shutterstock tag, then select all the downloaded clips and use right-click, Add to > Shutterstock. Unfortunately, you'll also need to do that in every single project

Another thing I found is that unlike all DZ content, Shutterstock media are not visible in any other projects unless you specifically import the shared folder (which defaults to \OneDrive\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\Shutterstock Cache Files\ on my system). You could easily end up with multiple copies of Shutterstock clips because you'd have to download a new copy each time if you didn't import the shared folder (or the specific clips from that folder).

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In the PIP-designer What strikes me is that the first time I press on play the screen goes black for a very short moment before the playing is started. The subsequent plays go without the black...

I see the same thing, and like you saw, it's only blank the first time it's previewed after opening the PiP Designer.

Unfortunately, I've now had 4 Kernel Heap Mode BSODs caused by nvlddmkm.sys when trying to write this response, so something about the new PD, Win10 2004, or the latest nVidia Studio Diver ( 451.48 ) is broken.

I've reported the issue on ticket CS002182557.

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