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You are welcome. Thanks for watching! --Jim

Thanks for your feedback. --Jim

David, Thanks for the ideas. I believe what you desire can be done in PowerDirector. I'll experiment and see what I can come up with. --Jim

Are you trying to render a project and produce it as a file such as MP4? If that is the case, what happens when you click on the blue "EXPORT" button? --Jim

You can animate each letter with a different style of animation, but it is a tedious process because you would need to make each letter a separate title of its own. You could place them next to each other to look like they were words. In actuality they would represent lots of titles. --Jim

Capcut sounds like it has some nice features. --Jim

Thanks, Chris!

Do you want to export each of the individual clips on track 2 as separate files? If so, you can use the range selection tool to extract the clips, copy the range on track 2, and then use the range tool again to select each segment you have copied and produce it as an independent clip to use elsewhere. Is this what you have in mind? --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 HI Jim, thanks so much for your response. Let me see if I follow you and I will try your idea. But let me explain in more detail to see if that makes the situation clearer on what I am trying to do. I video HS tennis matches and they are big files - 45 GB. I want to put the file on track one, then watch the video and mark and cut segments that are 'highlights' and then once done I want to be able to save all these cut segments to individually exported clips that I can use for instruction. I could not figure out how to do this other than one by one and that is very labor intensive. As a solution I downloaded Davinci Resolve 19 and it can do this very easily, so I thought maybe I am missing the PD365 twist on it. Let me see if I can get your instructions to work. - Thx!

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Ok, I just tried what I interpreted as your instructions. It does allow me to export whatever my choosen range is, which is partially good, but not totally. What I want and what Resolve allows is for me to select a range of individual clips at once and then it automatically saves each one to its own rendered file. That is the part PD365 doesn't do. In PD365 if I select a range of clips it will export them all together into one export. I need it to save each to its own file.

It sounds like in Resolve you can select a range of clips that have space between them and it will take each segment in that range that has content and render it as a unique file. Do I understand that correctly?

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Hi, Actually no space is needed, just cut clips inline, then you can select them and choose, "render to individual files", with a bunch of options. Works really well. But.. I don't want to have to become proficient in Resolve just for this one feature as Resolve has a pretty steep learning curve.

I set the rotation value at the first key frame (when the object was off the screen) to a -360. Then at the next keyframe the value was 0. That produced a single rotation. The object can be off the screen at the initial keyframe. I have to remember that the timeline is all about time and not about visibility to the viewer. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Thank you so much for your reply... But we're not communicating clearly.... I'm not talking about the logo that's the main topic of the tutorial. I'm referring the the very first screen that we see at 0:00 (text that says "Power Director Workshop" etc). Somehow you make that whole frame (the background and the text etc) rotate INTO and OUT OF the screen, as if it's rotating about an axis that goes vertically up through the monitor. By comparison the white text "alumni ball" logo rotates about an axis that would be perpendicular to our monitors. Does this make sense? So somehow you got that opening shot to rotate about a different axis. How do we do that? I'll be a subscriber for life if you can please help me with this asap.

Now I understand. You are talking about the transition between what I call the splash screen and the tutorial content. I accomplish that by applying a transition from the transition room called "Spin Horizontally". You can use that name in the search box to quickly locate it. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Thanks! I subscribed

Welcome aboard. Glad I was able to help you out. --Jim

There is no royalty for using these elements. --Jim

So glad this proved useful to you. Thanks for letting me know. --Jim

That makes sense. Maybe 'remove' does not copy the segment to the clipboard, whereas 'cut' does. --Jim

I have not noticed any changes, but I don't often hit the 20 minute mark. You might want to check out the Cyberlink Forum and see if others are encountering render time increases as well. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Thanks Jim, maybe the update borked my install. I did a five minute video test and that took a lot longer than normal so something is not right. There used to be an option for the software to check system and make settings according to hardware but that not there now, just something about AI processing. Needless to say I have updated GFX drivers etc and do not think it is my system. Thanks for getting back to me. Alex.

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 I found the issue. When you enter the export screen there is an "Advanced" button, hit that and there is an option to enable Hardware Encoding. The recent update must have turned this off. The same 12Gb file went from circa 4 hours to thirty five minutes. The joys of the update process.

I added another post last night but it has gone. I found the issue. The update turned off hardware acceleration that can be found buried in the export window under advanced settings. The same file that took almost fours hours went to thirty five minutes.

I applaud your persistence. I hope others read your story and benefit from it when their hardware acceleration is turned off unintentionally with an update. Thanks so much for sharing your journey. --Jim

Thanks, Chris.

I just tried this with a GIF from the internet and that particular one worked. I could place it on the timeline and move through it one frame at a time. There may be some that will not work, but I don't know how to determine which GIFs will and which ones will not. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 I was looking for some GIFs to use as b-rolls and the only thing I can determine is that the ones that work are cartoon actual animations. The ones that are of, well like the ones you demoed, don’t. They seemed to play fine from the media room like I said but don’t even appear when in the timeline. Only the bounding box and control handles. Weird, thanks for your response.

You are welcome. Wish I could be of more help in your case. --Jim

I am glad you found this useful. Thanks for letting me know. --Jim

Wow. I wonder why the delay. I have no clue how that works, Chris. --Jim

Basically you are doing a multiple picture in picture. Here is a tutorial on working with four video clips at a time. ua-cam.com/video/Q6Plz5NwYD0/v-deo.htmlsi=Ffd0KXHG-uTvDk5a Hope it helps!

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 thank you, this is very helpful and powerdirector is awesome !!!

Glad it was useful. These two channels feature over 700 tutorials on every aspect of PowerDirector

Not sure why that happens. I have not experienced that myself. That certainly is not the result you want. --Jim

I agree that a little change is often better. Thanks for checking this out. --Jim

Thanks! --Jim

I realize I've covered some of this before, but I'm discovering that some of the users are using the new interface so that occasionally updating a tutorial adds clarity to those who have not been around for a while. It is sometimes challenging to describe something novel and totally new to the channel after so many tutorials. --Jim

What do you mean by "speed". Is it how long the rendering takes? How many frames per second? What are you thinking about? --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Yes I should have given more details. I was thinking relative to older / previous versions with the same output settings. I started running PowerDirector with version 10. As I upgraded to a newer version I would find sometimes the file would be produced faster and another version slightly slower with the exact same settings. I recently tried another Video editor and it would take longer and the final video was a larger file size with the almost identical settings as PowerDirector.

There are a number of variables in the settings that can impact both the rendering speed and the file size. Some of it is tied to your hardware as well. I can't offer accurate estimates on various versions of PowerDirector. Even if I could, they might not match your setup. There might be some benchmarks out there, but I wouldn't know where to find them. --Jim

Nah bro I think it sucks

@@DRUNK-HERMIT Darn, alr.

@@SalvStudios there's no graph or key frames, I've alight motion pro you want it?

@@DRUNK-HERMIT I already have Alight motion pro, haha. The second I saw your comment I had a feeling you used Alight motion.

@@SalvStudios I use both AM and Capcut

Thanks so much for your comments! I am very pleased whenever you and others find these tutorials helpful. --Jim

I'll have to see if it works on my system. What have you discovered? --Jim

Lots of changes in the last 12 months. I'm guessing they are done messing with most of the interface for a while. I've faced the same challenges with other types of software, so I expect this kind of challenge from time to time. --Jim

they can be useful at times. --Jim

I'd have to try it out and see. My expectation is that since Cyberlink is a Taiwanese company, the Chinese would be good. --Jim

I don't know. I don't know if it would do translation. --Jim

You are welcome. --Jim

Another great tip, thanks

You are welcome! --Jim

Thanks for that thumbs-up Chris! Always appreciated! --Jim

Okay, I got some more text in the same title and was able to change it to a different font. However, I'm trying to apply a special effect from the Styles tab to just one word of the title and it keeps applying it to all the words in the title. Any hints?

That is a great question. The special effects tool works with an entire title, and not just a word. To work around that, you can put multiple titles on the screen in the same font and make one of them a single word. You can turn on the grid lines to align them so that it looks like one title on the screen. --Jim

You can rearrange after you have imported, but it can be time-consuming. --Jim

I don't own a mini 2. Someone must have a similar voice to mine. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 This one ua-cam.com/video/ahka-oD6rWk/v-deo.htmlsi=vzJauNeS5wuuR4KH

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 Ted Nemeth

That is most interesting. Thanks for sharing the link to the video with me. --Jim

That's great stuff to know. I was not aware of the difference. I'll make a note of it. I see the shadow file resolution tops out in 1920 x 1080 in PD365.

Glad you did. --Jim

Interesting! I like how you explained the Frame Rate stuff because I struggle with understanding that type of thing

Glad this proved helpful thanks for letting me know. --Jim

Sorry to hear about your issues. There could be a host of issues colliding with your install of PowerDirector. You might want to make sure your video driver is up to date. That is always a good place to start. Another option is to go to Cyberlink and report your issue. You can do that by clicking on the FILE menu at the top and then choose "rate us and provide suggestions" to submit an issue. Another option is to go to the Cyberlink Forum website and report the problem there. These might be some useful first steps in addressing your issue. --Jim

​Thank you. I will try@@powerdirectorworkshop6999

You might wish trying the demo program with this file type and seeing if that works. --Jim

Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate every viewer and am glad that you like the quality of these tutorials. Subtitles are a special kind of text that you can add so people can see the words that are spoken on the video--a bit like closed captioning. Or you can put whatever words you want in them. So they are a kind of special use tool. --Jim

Thanks so much for checking this out. --Jim

Glad I could give you a refreshed look at them. --Jim

Great to know these are useful tools for you. Thanks for sharing that! --Jim

You are very welcome. Glad I can assist you where you live. --Jim

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad it was clear. --Jim

Glad this was helpful! --Jim

Thanks for your feedback. Glad you found this helpful. --Jim

Thanks a bunch. I appreciate your feedback. --Jim

There is no doubt that Cyberlink has handled the changes in the new release badly. I wish they had been more aggressive in preserving the functionality of the previous version in their updates. I've been using all kinds of software long enough to be able to cope with major interface changes. And I do like some of the changes. My hope is that the decision makers at Cyberlink will look more closely at the feedback from long-term users and pay more attention to workflow and efficiency. --Jim

The initial reaction from me and many others was largely negative. They have fixed some of the most serious issues since the product release, and restored some of the features that caused the greatest concern. I agree this was not handled wisely at the beginning. I hope they listen better as well. --Jim

@@powerdirectorworkshop6999 I actually closed my account permanently yesterday. I hope I can reconsider in the future but it won’t be for a while.