Messages posted by wlammert

Quote Perpetual user licences probably present a marketing problem for Cyberlink. I'm sure they would like to move every user to a 365 environment like pretty much all software companies these days, guaranteed income stream, less product maintenance etc. I'm a perpetual licence user and I am envious of the regularity with which new baubles are added to 365. Do I need them all, probably not but "shiny toys" are attractive. It will be interesting to see which new features appear in PD22 if it gets released..

Does anyone have any insight into whether there will be a next release of a perpetual license? I am on PD 20 now and upgrade every two years. I have tried to find out from Cyberlink customer service as I would upgrade to PD 21 perpetual if there is not going to be a PD 22 but no response. I guess what I might do is buy the PD 21 updgrade and not install and if there is a PD 22, I have 30 days to cancel the PD 21 upgrade and buy the PD 22 upgrade. Any other ideas/insight?

I recently purchased a NUC11 Enthusiast (11th gen i7 and RTX 2060 GPU) with Windows 11 to use for video editing with the Cyberlink PowerDirector 20 video editing software. I had previously been using a laptop with Windows 10 and 6th gen i7 processor with integrated GPU.

I am disappointed in the improvement from the laptop to the NUC 11 and wondered if I have something set up wrong. I have designated the RTX 2060 as the primary graphics card for PowerDirector and optimized the GPU in the PowerDirector settings.

The NUC 11 renders about twice as fast as the 6th gen laptop but still stutters (although not as much) on some of the heavy previewing tasks. I had expected much more from the NUC 11 for these tasks with the discrete GPU.

I have noticed that on previewing that the CPU runs about 60 to 80% and the GPU about 20 to 30%. On rendering the CPU runs at 100% and the GPU about 50%.

Is there any way for PowerDirector to move more of the processing to the GPU during previewing and rendering?

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I don't think I see anything unusual, not sure on position, but looks reasonable and all else looks normal too. Mask_Timeline shows what the timeline preview looks like with loaded project, Mask_Designer.png shows what it's like in the Mask Designer without clicking anything, I just moved the elevator box to get the mask that was used in view.

Jeff

Jeff,

I have attached a timeline and mask designer screen shot of what I am seeing when opening this file in PD20. Same result on either hardware platform.

If I click on the highlighted mask it does implement the mask correctly and I can then save the file in PD20 and it opens correctly after that with the mask applied, just like you are seeing.

This is happening on multiple files that I have now tested - on two platforms.

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Thanks for the suggestion but I don't have another platform to install PD19 and generate a PD19 file. However, the HP laptop is using Intel UHD 620 graphics and the Intel NUC is uing Nvidia 2060 graphics.

Since I don't have a PD19 installation, I've gone ahead and posted a file made in PD19 and included one graphic that is at timeline 15 seconds. Just ignore all of the other content. When running PD20, you should see that the mask for this image is highlighted in the mask tool but not implemented until you click on the hightlighted mask type.

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Maybe post a pds file from your PD19 with default PD sample images and I can see if the issue is present on my system. Both of your systems by chance have Intel GPU, that may be a common display issue?

Jeff

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't have another platform to install PD19 and generate a PD19 file. However, the HP laptop is using Intel UHD 620 graphics and the Intel NUC is uing Nvidia 2060 graphics.

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Seem like this post was heavily edited to portray a different issue. Prior it was posted as a WIN10 vs WIN11 issue, now heavily modified to present a PD19 to PD20 issue.

I can't replicate. Various masks applied and modified on video and pics and saved in PD19 (3226.2) appear to open fine in PD20 (2815) on my WIN10 platform.

Jeff

Thanks for your investigation.

Yes, I had orginally quickly jumped to the conclusion that this was a Windows problem. But investigating it properly, I determined that it was in fact a PD problem. I have the same issue on two different hardware platforms (HP laptop and Intel NUC) with Windows 10 on the HP laptop and Windows 11 on the Intel NUC. Both platforms are now running PD20. Both have the same issue as noted above with masks when opening and previewing videos and images that were created in PD19 (3226b) and now opened in PD20 (2815).

I went back to edit some videos using PD20 that had been originally created in PD19. On every video clip or still image that I had used the mask designer on, the mask was no longer on the video or image when previewing.

However, when I then opened the mask designer tool for the video clip or image, the mask designer had a blue outline around what should have been the mask, but it was not being applied to the video or image. When I then clicked on the mask that was outlined, it showed up in the preview and was applied to the video or image. Usually it was the correct size/orientation, but sometimes it was not.

I set up PD20 on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 and files created under PD19 that are now opened with PD20 exhibit the issue noted above.

Anyone else having this problem?

Could someone who has recently purchased PD 17 Ultra confirm how many out of the box Title, FX, Particle and Transition effects are included in the Ultra version.

I have the trial version and all the tutorials I have viewed seem to much more content for these plugins than in the trial version.