61 - Packing Project Materials
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- 61 - Packing Project Materials
We've all been there before. We've moved, renamed, or deleted media files without realizing they are needed in a certain video Project that we've created using Power Director.
Cyberlink provides a solution using the option to "Pack Project Materials" where everything is all copied into one folder regardless of how many different folders the media files are stored.
Your question and comments are most welcome.
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Genre: Corporate
Title: Canyonland
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Many thanks 👍
Thank you too!
Brian - great tutorial - thank you - wish I had known about that 12 months ago - cheers Rob
Don't be afraid to go exploring in Power Director. Start clicking on every menu item just to see where it takes you and what it does. That Pack Project Materials menu option has been there going back many versions.
Why whatever are you talking about? Me lose files? Never, well almost never. Good video.
If you worked in a wood or metal shop, you'd lose files there as well. :-)
Hello dear man
I enjoy your tutorials every time and they are very helpful where did tutorial film number 60 go thank you so much
#60 is a 60 second "SHORT". Click on the menu heading for Shorts instead of Videos and you'll find it there.
@@Baldy-1Thank you for the answer but I still don't understand where these 60 seconds are
Go to the channel's home page at "www.youtube.com/@Baldy-1". Underneath the large blue logo a the left side which shows a stylized camera, you will find a horizontal menu of items: Home, Videos, Shorts, and Playlists.
When you click on Videos, you can usually see all the videos in chronological order when you sort them by "Latest".
But if you click on Shorts, that's is where all channels can have their short videos up to 60 seconds long. The other restriction is that these shorts must be in portrait orientation instead of landscape. And that is where you'll find the missing videos number 60 and number 63.
By the way, the large blue circle with the stylized camera, that is the desktop icon for PowerDirector 365.
Thank you very much man I found with your excellent help
Hi - thanks for the time and trouble you went to for this.
After the first save of the project would you use "save project as..." or keep using "Pack project materials.."?
I guess once you've used the second option you'd have to keep using that option, as more clips and photos may keep getting added.
There are several methods of doing this...all of them correct. For me, I always do repetitive saves using "Save Project". Some claim that is the wrong way as you may have made some kind of mistake that you didn't catch or accidentally deleted sometime but you keep saving the mistake or lack of something over and over. I guess I take the attitude that "I don't make mistakes"....(yeah, right).
Generally speaking the "Pack project materials" is used when you have completed the project and want to protect all the media files used by keeping a copy together in one place. That helps when some people use one media file from a folder on the C: drive and another media file from a folder on the D: drive, etc, etc.
If you think you might be working on a project for an extended period of time, then it might be a good idea to "Pack Project Materials" as you work. This is done to eliminate the possibility of forgetting about some media file in a strange folder that you don't remember is actually being used in a current project but because you kind of forgot about it, you rename the file or move it elsewhere, or worst, you just delete it.
Notice that the Pack Project Materials method helps those people that have little file organization. They tend to keep files all over the place in different folders. The truth is that for myself, I almost never use Pack Project Materials because of the way that I organize my project. For example, for each video that I post, I create a separate folder ahead of time. Then I move copies of all media files that I intend to use into that folder. As the project progresses, if I add any other media files, I move them into the project folder and then Import that file from the project folder into the media room to be used in the video. Even the .PDS file is saved into the same project folder that I have created.
You are free to choose whatever method works best for you but I strongly suggest you avoid using files from all over the place directly into the video. You never know when something in your life might prevent you from coming back to finish the project until 6 months later and by that time you might have moved or deleted some needed media files.
Hi, love your screen saver, where can i download it? also i ask for the speed ramping a couple weeks ago, but what i was looking for is when the movie sort of jump forward quick then back to normal speed, i thought it was called speed ramp but i was wrong, so any chance of creating this one, it moves fast and then it sort of jump forward then back to normal speed....thanks
The desktop wallpaper that you got a brief view of in my video comes from Microsoft's Windows Spotlight feature which changes it just about every day. Using Win11, go to Settings, Personalization, Background. On the menu item that says "Personalize Your Background" there should be a drop-down menu giving you 4 choices: Picture, Solid Color, Slideshow, and Windows spotlight. I believe this settings option is now the same under Windows 10.
About the speed ramp that you describe, I think I've seen that kind of feature in which the director wants to convey the same scene speeding through time until several hours, months, or even years in the future. You can accomplish the same thing using the Speed Ramping technique previously show only make sure you set the speed to a very high number and you have enough footage on the clip to actually speed through.
I hate the way PD modifies the name of a music file when it smart fit's. Because if i like the music and want to use it again i can never find it because the name has been altered into a wav file.
But it doesn't change the name of the original music source file so you should always be able to find that one again. If you're thinking about re-using the altered .WAV file, you should know that it has been altered to fit one particular clip or project and probably won't fit into your new project the way you want.
On the other hand, if you create the Packed Project file, then it will always contain the altered .WAV file using the same name as the original but with the addition of "_remix" added to the name.
Thanks for the clarification. That helps