Error Message vstudio.exe has generated errors & will cl

[MrVid]

Nature of the problem: When I try to use Ulead9 to capture video off my Sony Handycam this error pops up and closes

Properties of your source files Don't even get to this point

What devices are involved and their mode of connection? Adaptec VideoH DVD video converter, Sony Handycam

Project Settings MPEG

Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD) Would like a file & file is the setting

PAL or NTSC ?? I don't know

Error Codes (if any) No code just this: Error Message vstudio.exe has generated errors & will be closed by window


System information PIII 750 windows 2000

I would normally use sonic myDVD to do the capture but the quality isn't as good as I have seen from Ulead9

I have downloaded the updates and installed them before this post

[Ken Berry]

One immediate problem leaps out -- your computer processor is below the minimum level required to run VS9. The bare minimum is an 800 MHz CPU (see http://www.ulead.com/vs/sysreq.htm ). And believe me, that is a really bare minimum. IMHO VS9 requires considerably more power than that to run effectively and swiftly enough to be able to carry out the highly demanding process of video editing realistically. You don't say how much RAM you have, but you also realistically require at least 512 MB of that too.

[DVDDoug]

Adaptec VideoH DVD video converter, Sony Handycam

It's generally best to use the capture software that came with your hardware. Analog capture is the trickiest part of this digital video editing business... Sometimes, 3rd-party software just doesn't work with some hardware. This seems especially true with capture devices like yours with built-in hardware MPEG encoders.

System information PIII 750 windows 2000

Actually, that might be OK... The external hardware MPEG compression means that your CPU and databus don't have to handle as much data. Try to shut-down any background programs, don't multi-task during capture, defrag your hard drive... all that stuff. (The same is required with a fast computer.)

FYI - Your processor's speed is really only important during real-time capture, when it must keep-up with the streaming video. Once you have a digital video file on your computer, processing power is just a matter of speed and convenience. A digital video file is just numbers to the computer... So, a faster computer won't make higher-quality DVDs, it will just do it faster.

I would normally use sonic myDVD to do the capture but the quality isn't as good as I have seen from Ulead9

With your set-up, the video quality depends only on your hardware. The analog-to-digital converter and the MPEG encoder are built into the hardware. The capture software is just capturing a digital data stream and sending it to the hard drive. The Sonic software should allow various quality settings (bitrates). The trick to avoid re-coding the MPEG. MPEG is lossy compression, so you don't want to encode a video file to MPEG more than once.

Quoting myself...

Higher bitrate = higher quality = more disc space = lower compression = less playing time.

Lower bitrate = lower quality = less disc space = higher compression = more playing time.

NOTE - MPEGs are TROUBLE! MPEGs are not meant to be edited and you can have lots of problems if you try. Some people get-away with it, but I've had lots of "lip-sync" problems and occasional Ulead crashes.

If you are simply transferring your tapes to DVD, you should be OK. But if you're going to edit, you may need a special-purpose MPEG editor, or a different capture device that can capture to AVI/DV format.