VideoStudio 9 : Problem to Read of Clip, part of DV video

Dog Bull · Post by **Dog Bull** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:07 pm

Thank you very much for all this advices.
Do you notice that all the AVI-DV videos works very well on the application that I use before VS9 : ARCSOFT SHOBIZ ? I can see all the videos as full project and as clip. Then I think that it's realy a VS9 problem, and not a hardware problem.
May be there is a conflict problem between Codecs, but VS9 seems to have installed is own codecs, and I suppose it works with them.

Please, do you have the same properties for your AVI DV files ? I was quite surprised to see that the audio is coded on 12 bits. Can anybody send me all the properties of well working AVI DV files ? with some applications, as virtualdub, we can get more informations about this properties, and all the codecs installed on the machine wich can read this AVI DV files. Can anybody give me this informations ?

Thank you in advance,
Dog Bull

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:36 pm

This is only a partial response. But your file properties look fine to me. As for the 12-bit audio, this is not unusual, but is not related to Video Studio as such. It is a setting in the camera used to take the original video. Older video cameras, particularly analogue ones, recorded the audio as 12 bit. A lot of modern digital cameras come with it set at 12 bit as default, and you have to go into the menu to change it to 16 bit, which by and large gives better quality. But having a video with 12 bit 32.000 KHz audio, instead of 16 bit 48.000 KHz, is not the source of your problem. I am currently capturing a lot of my old analogue tapes, and they all have exactly the same properties as yours. I have no problems with them in VS9.

As for codecs, Video Studio installs surprisingly few. The DV/AVI codec, in particular in this case, is the Direct Show one, and this is in fact a Microsoft codec which should have been installed as part of Windows. If you do a Google search for either of two small freeware programs -- Gspot or Sherlock -- either one will give you information of all the codecs, audio and video, on your computer, and which companies made them.

Dog Bull · Post by **Dog Bull** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:01 am

I think that it would be good to know the difference for VS9 between the project view and the clip view. With the same video, there is no problem in project view, but when just pushing the button "clip" the problem appears.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:00 am

Hi Dog Bull

Sorry you are still having problems when playing Avi files using video studio.

Have you tried playing the files using Real Player or Windows Media Player?

If they play ok here then I would assume that your pc or files are not at fault, and the problem lies within Video Studio. (still find I strange that the problem is with Clip Playback and not Project Playback)

Trevor

Dog Bull · Post by **Dog Bull** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:14 pm

There is no problem when playing the AVI-DV files using Windows Media Player, and there is no problems when working on this AVI-DV files with my old video software. (But I can do less things with my old video software, of course).
I agree with you : my problem is quite strange !

Dog Bull · Post by **Dog Bull** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:21 am

To find a solution seems to be quite a long and uncertain way. I think that I have to work with this problem. When I want to see a clip, I turn off the sound.
Thank you for all
Dog Bull