Well put jcommstudios. Like anything, knowing how (and being comfortable with) using it is the most important part.
If you block adobe's call back ip address in your user profile it will never call home to update.
If you block adobe's call back ip address in your user profile it will never call home to update.
Oops, that's what I meant. Yeah I have a ton too. Not just Adobe. LOL
Snappy, what sort of problem were you having? I've been using PowerDirector for several years and may have some ideas for you.
When I rendered the video in 4k, the transitions between clips weren't coming out. For example, I did cross-fades between all my clips and a lot of times it wouldn't fade, it would just jump from one clip to another unless I dropped the resolution down to 1080.
OK. I sounds like you may be hardware limited. 4K editing needs plenty of resources, CPU and GPU and RAM (all the acronyms
). On my 2-1/2 year old PC, I have Windows 10 64-bit, an Intel i7 6700 processor, 16 GB RAM, a 500 GB solid-state drive (for operating system and programs only), an nVidia GTX 1070 with 8 GB memory and 22 TB of hard disk space. Many of those things are upgrades that I have added over time.
I'm not at home right now but when I get home I'll give you the specs on my laptop. When I originally started editing clips I would just drag them over the top of each other and then go back and manually type in the time. then I just started butting the clips up and inserting the fade transition over the top of them in the middle to do a nice Crossfade. that worked most of the time but every once in a while it still has a hiccup and I still haven't figured it out.OK. I sounds like you may be hardware limited. 4K editing needs plenty of resources, CPU and GPU and RAM (all the acronyms
I assume that you are overlapping the video clips to Crossfade. I use this regularly. It blends image and sound perfectly. You can also try a Fade transition. The Fade transition can be placed at the end of one clip, beginning of the next clip or straddling the intersection line. You get different results with each. I hope you can get this worked out. You get a lot for your money with PowerDirector and it's relatively fast handling 4K video.
I have a macpro 2010 desktop and I use final cut pro. What I usually do is from that big 3.5gb file I cut only the most important parts and same for all other 3.5gb files. Then I export a giant MOV file with optimized settings to the desktop... Sometimes it's as big as 48gb. Then I take this huge file and import it to Apple compresor software which transform this giant file to less than 800mb then I export it to YouTube. The whole process can take between 4 to 6 hours. Depends how big the file it's.
I use Cyberlink PowerDirector 17 on my Win10 PC. It handles 4K video files from beginning to end. You may want to upgrade your computer if you plan on doing this much. As macoman said, the best thing is to cut out the less interesting stuff. Shorten the scenes to just a few seconds each. Nobody is going to be interested in long scenes where nothing much is changing. In PD17 you can produce the output video in 4K or 1080p with several optional formats. YouTube will handle 4K mp4 files with negligible degradation. YT viewers can chose which resolution works best on their equipment. I look forward to seeing your productions.
