How to Manage Your Media for Best Results | PowerDirector

How to manage your media for best results with CyberLink PowerDirector 18 & PowerDirector 365. This PowerDirector project management and media management tutorial will show you how to best setup you projects for success. This will show you how to manage and setup your file folder structure so that you can edit your project with ease. We take you step by step thorough folders, to files, to import, to export, and archiving you files so you don’t have any missing media or error messages. This project management and media management materials tutorial will show you how to successfully create great videos using PowerDirector 18.

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[PollyannasWorld]

This GramGram is loving your tutorials. I watch them first.... then watch them again, stopping and starting the video,
allowing me to write instructions in my cheater notebook. Am making amateur video creations using the screen recorder to capture the videos facebooked to me by my children, of my grandchildren... then I add me to the videos as well as cartoon clips to their videos and it is a big hit with them., and I also burn them to a DVD and send to them. This also keeps my mind busy during this sheltering in place pandemic. This program subscription is the best! I look forward to Every Saturday with you !

[gregg]

Excellent tutorial. You've offered some invaluable tips that I hadn't yet discovered and will use in all future projects. Thanks!

[TimLeeLetsGo]

Thanks Maliek! Great video as always. Was really looking for a tutorial on managing media. Great help!

[SupraManG]

#managemymedia Thanks Maliek. I was running into the "MISSING MEDIA" for a while there when doing my projects when I was moving files around and couldn't understand why those error messages were coming up. I especially want to thank you for clarifying the "SAVE" feature. WTG chief! Keep up the good work!

[alexmm]

Good tips. PD is particularly annoying when it is missing media. Other editors allow you to relink files without touching the timeline. Another editor had an option to copy any imported files to the library folder. I think that was handy.

[fresnoboy]

#managemymedia
I can not express enough how much this helped me, I was flailing with the Mac and continually crashing during editing. Wish I read this first, if there is an order to go through would greatly appreciate any push in the right direction. My confidence is high as I was able to do what I wanted for the first time yesterday and then able to produce for our employees today at work. Fantastic video here.

[bikeradam]

I do something similar. I make a master folder for the project. In that I have a folder for all footage and a folder for all audio. In the master folder I also have the link to the edit, a link to the script, and a text document with all the info for the project. When I'm done, I put a copy of the produced video in the file.
I can't imagine saving my project as a separate save everytime. I would have thousands of saves for one video. I save after every move.

[MrP.]

Excellent video - the file saving and retrieval has been driving me crazy. Hopefully after this video my work flow will be more zen and my experience be more like a thousand speeding gazelles. Instead of trying to paint the Sistine chapel with wax crayons and getting it all messed up - Big Thanks

[dgstudioLLC]

How can someone give this video 2 dislikes when he's the best teacher on YouTube for power director. Thanks to him i have mastered power director in no time. I gave the 91 like this is good stuff

[reallybadgamer]

Thank you! Even though this is a couple years old... it still very helpful and relevant.

[simply.evelyn]

#managemymedia This video is right on time. I need to get organized with my files.

[toddstantalizingtips]

GREAT TUTORIAL!!! Thanks for all your hard work

[jimhanna]

Really useful tutorial for *any* video editor. Wish I had started doing this years ago, would have saved a lot of time and fiddling around! This would be a great initial video in a work flow play list - maybe it already is, I'll have to check. Thanks! #managemymedia

[canderson]

Nice video. I have to say though that I think that folder and media management is one of the weaknesses of PowerDirector. A move to a similar system as the bin system in premiere pro would be a big step forward. Pity and of course PowerDirector is a lot less expensive.

[williampalenik]

A really good tutorial here you did here Maliek a Saturday tut on a Tuesday.

[hans-jurgenstoffels]

Photos and videos are on A: in my PC and for working with photos or videos is in E:, both SSDs. After finishing I make a package of the whole project and save it to external SSDs/HDDs for storage, while the video created is to be saved on an SSD (1TB) for TV and two times on HDDs. Thus, I save everything 3 times. As to the drives I need most, A: (actual data, or data in use) there is one in my PC and one in my notebook. And, of course, a third one which is used not only as of the third drive in this case but to carry the actually used data from PC to notebook to be at hand on vacation. The videos are not worked on by using the notebook, because they need more quality from the graphics card and monitor. So that is done on PC only. On vacation I copy all photos of the day to A: and another drive (for security). And, I make a clean copy with the addition "bearbeitet" (worked on). Among these, the ones not needed are deleted while all others are cut to fit 16:9 (TV-format). At home these are copied to E: to work on the video. Then the process mentioned before.

I work with Canon EOS 750d (with a lens 16-300) and an EOS 77d with the normal 18-55 lens. For rainy days I have the Canon G16. I film with a Sony 4K cam. If I happen to film e.g. with the G16 on a rainy day - don't take the 4k along on rainy days - I present them in an extra window within the scene or a screen with 2 or three scenes together, because the G16 is HD only. The videos by the 77d can be used, too, but the ones by the 750d are to bad. They began to enable video in those days.

I can say that working with PD is very fast and the best (compared to similar software) in enabling 4K. But they should work on the timeline because some standard buttons (options) which are standard in other software (e.g. in Sony Vegas) are missing here. Even in version 19.

[JackZucker]

Why can't powerdirector just allow virtual bins like davinci and premiere?

[fredklapetzky]

Wait, you mean it is acceptable to be creative and organized???? Great lesson for all!

[MotorcycleMonkey]

Please help!!! I cannot find a video tutorial that you did a while back. I cannot find a previously saved version of a project that I'm working on in Powerdirector 16. The new version has nothing in it. Not sure how this happened. I need to get to an older version where I've got at least some of my edited project.

[InfxusAdventures]

Hey mate, great tutorials. Have used a few of yours to learn new things. One question and I'm presuming it cant be done as you haven't mentioned it, it would be great when working on big projects to be able to categorize clips into different folders within PD. What I'm saying is, I recently shot a heap of footage for a project. I have GoPro footage, drone footage, footage from a camera I use on a tripod, footage from a handheld camera. I would really like to have these separated within PD so have folders called, GoPro, Drone, Handheld, tripod etc. That way I can easily find different clips. At the moment I have about a 100 clips all willy nilly in the file manager and find it very hard to find what I want. PD should import folders and keep the files within that folder and not just throw everything in together. I'm guessing this isn't possible??