I'm just trying to encode my avi file into a mpeg2 file that can fit onto a DVD as a data disk. This should be simple enough.
But no matter what settings I change, videostudio9 is rendering the audio wrong. It comes out either really really deep sounding, where the females sound like men and the men sound like volcainos erupting... or else it comes out really high pitch where the man sound like 5 year old girls, and the women sound like chip monks... or else it comes out as loud static fuzz noise.
And I'm doing all of this in "preview mode", just five seconds, because it's a long video I'm converting and I don't want to convert the whole thing and spend hours doing it, and then be disappointed to find all my sound is wrong. But what's annoying is that often times when I change settings, it seems like it just ignores the settings I change. i turned on and off smart render and it still did it. I'm very frustrated...
I'm sure you guys will tell me it's all my fault and that I should do a bunch of advanced and hard to understand things to fix the problem. But honestly, any program that performs this bad is just not my fault. Yes, I set the audio frequency to every Hz setting I could... to no avail. I changed every setting. I changed settings for well over an hour, reencoding the 5 seconds over and over again until I assure you that I exhausted every option. I checked my origonal avi settings, my project settings... and tried every variation of both. i tried deleting any temporary files that videostudio9 might have saved... just in case it was just reloading it's bad temporary files and nothing changed.
So then.. to top it off.. I go to install the latest bug fix for videostudio9 (the one that includes the dual dvd support), and guess what... it says it can't find videostudio9, and it exits the installer, and I can't tell it not to. Arrrgeee! lol.
Aaron
frustrated, audio sounds either really low pitch, or 2 high
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heinz-oz
Now that you had your rant, get yourself a coffee or a tea or whatever else tickles your fancy, and go over your above post again.
Do you find anything in there that someone, inclined to offer help, could use to figure out what may be wrong?
I understand that you are upset and frustrated but, to my knowledge, there is nothing in the functionality of VS that would allow you to alter the pitch of your sound. The sound is transferred the way it is and only packaged according to your compression settings.
Did you follow the sticky at the top of the VS forum, http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27 giving you a preferred process, step by step, for doing what you are trying to do? Right underneath that sticky, you will find this one http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959 giving you a bit of a guideline as to what is necessary for anyone to even hint at a possible cause.
I suggest that the cause of your problem might be that you totally corrupted your sound by fiddling with the sampling rate or, more likely, have a hardware issue.
From your profile I can gather that your soundcard is, in your own words: “”Junk”. So is your video card. You seem to have succeeded in running a P4 processor on an AMD board, not a mean feat and you have a “vast” amount of RAM, around 250ish, excellent. That’s barely enough to make XP crank over.
May I suggest that you get yourself something along the lines of minimal system requirements before you blast the software. It may be buggy for some, we have ample proof for that, posted by disgruntled users like yourself, but, AFAIK, there has never been anyone with a problem like yours.
That the installer for the patch cannot find your installed version of VS may simply be because it is a freebee that came bundled with some hardware or a trial version. Many of the SE versions as well as the trial versions are not supported by patches.
What version of VS9 do you have?
Do you find anything in there that someone, inclined to offer help, could use to figure out what may be wrong?
I understand that you are upset and frustrated but, to my knowledge, there is nothing in the functionality of VS that would allow you to alter the pitch of your sound. The sound is transferred the way it is and only packaged according to your compression settings.
Did you follow the sticky at the top of the VS forum, http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27 giving you a preferred process, step by step, for doing what you are trying to do? Right underneath that sticky, you will find this one http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959 giving you a bit of a guideline as to what is necessary for anyone to even hint at a possible cause.
I suggest that the cause of your problem might be that you totally corrupted your sound by fiddling with the sampling rate or, more likely, have a hardware issue.
From your profile I can gather that your soundcard is, in your own words: “”Junk”. So is your video card. You seem to have succeeded in running a P4 processor on an AMD board, not a mean feat and you have a “vast” amount of RAM, around 250ish, excellent. That’s barely enough to make XP crank over.
May I suggest that you get yourself something along the lines of minimal system requirements before you blast the software. It may be buggy for some, we have ample proof for that, posted by disgruntled users like yourself, but, AFAIK, there has never been anyone with a problem like yours.
That the installer for the patch cannot find your installed version of VS may simply be because it is a freebee that came bundled with some hardware or a trial version. Many of the SE versions as well as the trial versions are not supported by patches.
What version of VS9 do you have?
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behealed
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Hah, I knew someone would say it was my fault 
Well, I would have given you a specific way in which I caused the problem, but if you read my post, you would have noticed that I tried to explain that there really was not a way in which I was making the error happen... and that it was in fact happening no matter what I tried.
Well, in the end I used virtualdub... a free program... mind you... to encode the avi to mpeg, and it said it found errors in my origonal avi and had fixed the errors. I will mention that pennicle studio 9, which I also own, also was crashing when attempting to encode the same avi.
It's funny that all these $100+ programs crash or fail to encode something due to errors, and yet this free virtualdub program encodes it perfectly and even detects and fixes the indexing errors
Aaron
Well, I would have given you a specific way in which I caused the problem, but if you read my post, you would have noticed that I tried to explain that there really was not a way in which I was making the error happen... and that it was in fact happening no matter what I tried.
Well, in the end I used virtualdub... a free program... mind you... to encode the avi to mpeg, and it said it found errors in my origonal avi and had fixed the errors. I will mention that pennicle studio 9, which I also own, also was crashing when attempting to encode the same avi.
It's funny that all these $100+ programs crash or fail to encode something due to errors, and yet this free virtualdub program encodes it perfectly and even detects and fixes the indexing errors
Aaron
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behealed
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Oh.. you mentioned my version of the software. I downloaded it from www.download.com and paid for it through the built in registration thing, which is softwrap.com
It's installed to C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\
It is version 9.00.100
And if they are going to put their program up for sale on download.com and have people like me pay $99 for it, they should at least be considerate enough to make their updates compatible. And if they are not going to make their updates compatible then they shouldn't sell it on download.com
Aaron
It's installed to C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\
It is version 9.00.100
And if they are going to put their program up for sale on download.com and have people like me pay $99 for it, they should at least be considerate enough to make their updates compatible. And if they are not going to make their updates compatible then they shouldn't sell it on download.com
Aaron
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Hi Aaron,
What I read in your first post that interested me, was that your doing this in Preview mode. Preview mode is not going to be very accurate. It compiles your edits on the fly. It is designed to give you and idea of what the finished project will be. Unless you have a powerful computer, it will stutter, hang, give you low quality video images.
Now since you are doing something similar to what I do, and that is viewing small bits of your project, go to File>Preferances, and on the first tab, locate the Playback Method. Change that to High Quality. Now when you go to view your project in "Project" mode, not Clip mode, it will render the project. However to keep VS from rendering your whole project, make sure you are in Project Mode, and Trim to the duration you want to preview. Do this by Setting the Mark-In and Mark-Out points. When you do this in Project Mode, it Trims (not cuts) the whole project down to the duration you just specified. When you are done previewing, just drag the Trim Handles back out to the left and right sides.
You might try that and see what happens.
Ron P.
What I read in your first post that interested me, was that your doing this in Preview mode. Preview mode is not going to be very accurate. It compiles your edits on the fly. It is designed to give you and idea of what the finished project will be. Unless you have a powerful computer, it will stutter, hang, give you low quality video images.
Now since you are doing something similar to what I do, and that is viewing small bits of your project, go to File>Preferances, and on the first tab, locate the Playback Method. Change that to High Quality. Now when you go to view your project in "Project" mode, not Clip mode, it will render the project. However to keep VS from rendering your whole project, make sure you are in Project Mode, and Trim to the duration you want to preview. Do this by Setting the Mark-In and Mark-Out points. When you do this in Project Mode, it Trims (not cuts) the whole project down to the duration you just specified. When you are done previewing, just drag the Trim Handles back out to the left and right sides.
You might try that and see what happens.
Ron P.
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behealed
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Oh.. I didn't mean preview mode I meant than when I compiled it I selected that it should only encode the "preview range" (using the mark-in and mark-out thing) as opposed to selecting the other option which was "entire project". What I mean is, it should have been encoding the thing in the exact same way it would have encoded it in the final rendering.