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Post by saby on Mar 15, 2024 8:07:52 GMT
The only problem now is: how to stop my projects from overwriting each other or saving an early version (with slides flying all around the tracks, and many holes, before i do the syncing)? Why do they get saved at random stages, at whichever phase the program decides to? Autosave does not save at random stages.
Here is how autosave is designed to work, and actually works : - Let say you start a brand new movie
- You save it and name it Myproject
- You start doing some edits
- While you're editing, the autosave feature creates a backup of Myproject periodically according to the interval that is set in the Control Panel (see Candive's screenshot)
- You're experiencing a Pinnacle Studio crash
- You restart Studio
- A dialog box asks you what you want to do :
If you select Open autosave project, you will have Myproject at its exact state the last time autosave did a backup before the crash. If you select Open the version you last saved, you will have Myproject at its initial state If you select Discard ..., you start a brand new project.
Let restart my explanation with a new example :
- Let say you start a brand new movie
- You save it and name it Myproject
- While you're editing, the autosave feature creates a backup of Myproject periodically according to the interval that is set in the Control Panel (see Candive's screenshot)
- You keep doing some edits
- You save your project once again and name it Myproject2
- While you're editing, the autosave feature creates a backup of Myproject2 periodically according to the interval that is set in the Control Panel (see Candive's screenshot)
- You're experiencing a Pinnacle Studio crash
- You restart Studio
- You get the same dialog box as above
- The difference is that now it's the autosave version of Myproject2 or the last saved version of Myproject2 that you can get
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 15, 2024 9:09:51 GMT
Thank you very much, saby. I've been playing with saving different parts of a complicated project with different names and trying to open them, to see if they are as they should be. For now, it seems that everything is alright. My problem may have been caused by not closing the program, probably, and depending on the last autosave which has been overwritten by the new project. When i look at the autosave folder, there is only one autosave there. And it's the last one. So, i'll be more careful with saving next time. I really appreciate your time and effort. It's worth it. And Corel would appreciate it if they knew that they have kept me as a customer because of this forum. My 30-day money-back guarantee is expiring and i was looking at all kinds of programs like crazy, just to see which one would be best. And now i'm going to stay with Pinnacle. They are honest enough to give the complicated version for an affordable price, and not as Vegas, for so much. While the two seem to be most closely related (if we don't include Avid). So, thanks again. There isn't any "like" feature here, but i would like so many posts on this forum, if there was one.
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Post by saby on Mar 15, 2024 9:41:57 GMT
And Corel would appreciate it if they knew that they have kept me as a customer because of this forum. Corel never cared about the old forum where most of us were already there to help their customers, so useless to say how they don't care about this present forum. There isn't any "like" feature here, but i would like so many posts on this forum, if there was one.
Your dream came true :
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 15, 2024 10:18:09 GMT
thanks, saby . It's so nice that there is such a feature, indeed. I had written on the Facebook page and they had advised me to upgrade my RAM. And the program runs a lot smoother. Even though it was costly, i upgraded only because of PS. And now i'm glad to see how all the other problems also get solved. A nice program.
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Post by Candive on Mar 15, 2024 10:42:03 GMT
Hi mgeorgieva , Welcome to the team! If you ever post your slide shows on YouTube or other social media, post a link. I would be interested in seeing your work.
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Post by tonyp on Mar 15, 2024 14:26:25 GMT
mgeorgieva, what I consider a mistake that a lot of new editors make, is doing a Ctrl+S over their project. Saving over and over to the same project file name. What I, and others who've been editing for a while do, is incremental saves. I do not trust in putting all my "eggs" in one basket. If that one file gets corrupt or deleted by mistake, all is lost. Whenever I edit and do something I would not have to repeat, I will do an incremental save. Project_1, Project_2, Project_3, Project_TitleChange Project_FINAL. you get the idea. These files don't take up much space at all. And when I am finished, I'll keep the last project files saved, and store it in a couple of other different hard drives in my computer.
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 15, 2024 14:46:51 GMT
Thank you, tonyp, after i lost my first part (more than 20 minutes long with many slides, masks and texts), i started pressing Ctrl and S every 2 minutes. It has become a habit, usually. But this time i had to start doing it to prevent losing data. And so, this has been a mistake, right? Really, i hadn't done what you suggest. And i'm glad that i won't have to throw the program away. I've installed each one of those that are frequently advertised. And i don't like the timeline of any of them. Including that of Cyberlink. This one is very nice. And it's that part of the program which i use the most. And now i'm sure - i'll keep it. Thanks for the advice, everyone. And it's nice to meet a community like that, Candive. Thanks for welcoming me. It's a very good idea for you all to start the forum in this new place.
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Post by tonyp on Mar 15, 2024 17:50:55 GMT
mgeorgieva, I haven't had the issues that you are suffering with. But I have always saved that way, incrementally. I'll have the project name and any other name after it so I can know what I was doing at that point. I just hate having to reproduce something that took a lot of time and then something happens to the file name. It has only happened to me once in the distant past. And that was enough. Never again. At most, I'll lose 15=20 minutes of work. But if I do something major, you bet it gets saved with a name. While say, PowerDirector, Videostudio Pro, and Magix Movie Studio are good programs, like you, I don't really care for editing "upside down". A title is called an "overlay" for a reason. No professional editing software, edit upside down. But some love it.
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 17, 2024 16:54:18 GMT
Hello, tonyp . Thank you for explaining what you do to keep your project safe. And i may have done what you explain that you have done in the past - lost days of work because of a file name. Now may you please explain what you mean here? What does "upside down" editing mean? Is it in these programs - PowerDirector, Videostudio and Magix? Or in Pinnacle? Because now i'm staying with Pinnacle, as the 30-day period ended and i've decided to stay with the program and keep it. While say, PowerDirector, Videostudio Pro, and Magix Movie Studio are good programs, like you, I don't really care for editing "upside down". A title is called an "overlay" for a reason. No professional editing software, edit upside down. But some love it.
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Post by saby on Mar 17, 2024 18:03:24 GMT
Let's quote user manual of PS26 :
Editing upside down is the opposite (legacy versions of Pinnacle Studio and Corel Video Studio are using this method) : tracks nearer the bottom of the stack are positioned towards the front when viewed. Their opaque parts obscuring the tarcks above.
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 17, 2024 18:39:28 GMT
hello, saby , sorry for insisting so much, but i'm really new to these things. I've been working with slideshow makers and now it's the first time i'm using a video editor to make slideshows. When i make layers, they are all on AV tracks which are not limited to any kind of videos/overlays/texts. These elements can jump wherever there is free space. I usually put the audio at the last track,. the main images above, the mask layers above the images, the overlay clips above the mask layers, and the texts above everything else. But nobody restricts me on putting the main images down there, i can put them at the top. So what exactly is "upside down"? It looks very intuitive to me. And this is why i like it. And unlike VideoStudio, the tracks are not purposed for different kinds of elements - overlay track, video track, audio track. This is good, as i can easily make adjustments.
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Post by saby on Mar 17, 2024 20:58:12 GMT
Ok. Let say you have two tracks. On top track you have a title and on bottom track a video. With Studio, you see the video and the title is overlayed on the video. With an upside down editor, the title must be placed on a track below the video.
Upside down is not about the fact that with Pinnacle Studio any track can be used for any kind of asset.
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 17, 2024 21:32:48 GMT
With Studio, you see the video and the title is overlayed on the video. With an upside down editor, the title must be placed on a track below the video. So, i don't need to put the title above the video? I've noticed that if i put the video on top, it hides everything under it (text, masks, etc). Does it matter how i order my tracks then? And i have a second question. Please, be patient. I'm new here. So, when i make a shape mask, i can use one and the same layer for the mask on many videos inside the project. But if i make a panel mask, it takes up a whole mask layer and the whole timeline would get crowded with layers if i have to do this every time i want to add a simple overlay of 10 seconds. I know that it's possible in theory to make this mask layer inside the subeditor. But it does not render, just closes, no matter how many times i've tried (this is why i made this post). So is there a way that a panel mask can take up only 10 seconds of the mask layer and not require me to make a separate mask layer for the next panel mask?
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Post by saby on Mar 17, 2024 21:38:45 GMT
Pinnacle Studio is not upside now. You need to place the title above the video.
This thread is the perfect demonstration of what should not happen. Off-topic all over the thread.
Please, let's restart with a brand new thread that you should open.
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Post by mgeorgieva on Mar 17, 2024 21:44:18 GMT
thanks. May you please explain about the panel mask - if it can be made to use only a part of a mask layer, just as a shape mask may be copied and pasted on different assets and used multiple times in one layer? I don't want to fill the forum with my questions only. This is a second thread i've opened. There should be space for other people too.
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