New problem vs10

Doug2006 · Post by **Doug2006** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:33 pm

Well this is a discouraging thing. I am having trouble with the most simple of things. I am really just making a slide show here as part of a long training video. What happens is I have put a color clip in the video track(white) and stretched it out for 20 minutes. Than I did a voice track for 20 mins. Now I am adding still clips to fill in. I am adding them to overlay track. I type title text on the white now and then. (And yesterday I tried putting the white clips and video images on the same track and it didn't work that well) Most of the stills are screen captures save as image. Being saved as Bitmap. Here is what has happened three times now. As I go back and forth from dropdown box video and select a clip to make an image and them go to that image and put it in the overlay track some how the computer or the program gets an image stuck in memory or something. So how I first know something is wrong is I click on a clip in the library and it appears in preview window. Then when I take mouse and click on the little arrow slider below the preview window the preview window immeadiately changes to a still image that i looked at or saved earlier. So if I slide the slider it just shows that image. But if I let go of the arrow the preview window immediately goes back to showing the highlighted clip and if i press play it will play the highlited clip. And of course now that that event has happened I know all my work on this clip is wasted because when I select project and click play the preview window will flash back and forth showing a clip that is not even in the time line. It is like a clip or image is stuck in the program somewhere and I can't get rid of it. Yesterday I discarded the work I had done and started new project and after i had entered some clips bingo the old clip from the previous project shows up flashing in the window and I hadn't even used it in the new project. I am discouraged and I don't see how any one makes all this fancy stuff with reverse motion pan and zoom and other stuff. I am so gun shy now I just want to get the basic thing done. Every day I work 8 hours and four of that is spent making something and the other four is spent redoing it. It is a miricle if in one day I get one or two clips done right. The project properties of all my stuff is frame based mpeg 2 at variable 4500 with mpeg sound and i am using win 2k on a 2400+ amd.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:56 pm

Hi

Would you mind filling up your system data in your profile.
If you have a picture that you didn't use in a project, did you restart VideoStudio or just continued working.
It looks like the memory of your video card is shown by instants.
Are you doing instant preview or quality preview?
Is your preview target dual-head device or preview window?

Did you try to make a video file and check the output?

Rich2Putt · Post by **Rich2Putt** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:33 pm

Doug,

If you used VS9 and are comfortable with it, why not use VS9 until you feel your way around VS10.

Seems like a long project to start with in a new VS format.

Doug2006 · Post by **Doug2006** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:36 pm

I appreciate the help and I will have to go to profile and fill in my data. I was never really good with VS9 as I just used the trial and also the trials of a couple other software makers. But did do a reformat and clean install of win2k for Vs 10. I have had a good afternoon and things seem to be working better. The only thing I can see so far is that when I was working on the project in the time line I wanted more sill images so I would go to library and load a clip into library and then scroll through clip find the still and click 'save as still' which then puts vs into another mode. By this I mean you save still and then go back to save another one and find you are looking at the image you saved in preview window and now you have to go back to drop down 'video' and find the clip that you just got the image from and highlight that and scroll through again to get the second still image from the same clip. If that makes any sense. But what seems to have happened is in doing all that something would go wrong. Maybe with vid card or computer. Now I have not had any trouble by saving my project and then start new project and then get all my images at once and then go back to reopen project. This way I have all my stills and don't need to keep jumping back and forth. I have target dual head and instant preview. Thanks again

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:26 pm

It may also be helpful for you to make sure that your pc is optimised for video editing, since you don't have much cpu speed to spare. You may already have done all the usual tweaks, but do make sure that the Windows swap file is set to a fixed size, and reduce the number of programs and Windows services running to a minimum. There have been numerous posts on the topic before, but you can realistically aim for 11 or 12 processes running, including Video Studio.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:55 am

Doug2006
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http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=9611

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:08 pm

Hi,
If it's any help you should make your "Project Settings / Properties"
DV - Type 1 and perform all your editing/overlays/etc etc as DV-Type 1.

If your working with "Project Properties" that are MPEG you can have problems.
Work with DV-Type1 for complex creation/editing.

MD