MovieFactory 5 crashes incessantly

stuart54 · Post by **stuart54** » Sat May 06, 2006 1:51 pm

Hi,

I have an upgrade version of DMF5 (installed with DMF 3SE still present, but installed after uninstalling DMF5 Trial version (including the registry keys noted elsewhere on this forum). The programme is exactly what I want - if I could get it to be stable!

My simple requirement is to author DVDs with menus starting with MPEG-2 clips captured with a Hauppage USB-2 PVR and trimmed using VideoReDo Plus.

I'm finding that DMF5 crashes (it just disappears - leaving me back at the launcher) at various stages in the process. It's not reproducible, but most often happens when I'm editing the menus. If I try enough times I get through the process and manage to burn a disk, but it's wasting huge amounts of my time repeating the same authoring projects.

Does anyone have any experience of solving this type of problem, or suggestions as to what to try to find a solution? I've got the latest video drivers and DirectX version.

Many thanks.

Stuart54

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:16 pm

My simple requirement is to author DVDs with menus starting with MPEG-2 clips captured with a Hauppage USB-2 PVR and trimmed using VideoReDo Plus.

By any chance, did you join (splice) any clips with Movie Factory? (You should be doing ALL of your editing with VideoReDo.)

stuart54 · Post by **stuart54** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:32 pm

DVDDoug wrote:
My simple requirement is to author DVDs with menus starting with MPEG-2 clips captured with a Hauppage USB-2 PVR and trimmed using VideoReDo Plus.
By any chance, did you join (splice) any clips with Movie Factory? (You should be doing ALL of your editing with VideoReDo.)

Thanks for the response. No - all editing was done in VideoReDo. I've since discovered that I can install DMF5 on a different PC and author the same clips with no problems whatsoever - so the problem is something to do with the installation or environment on the first PC. I don't really know where to start looking for incompatibilities or whatever, but at least I now have a working (if less convenient) installation.

Thanks again.