A Couple of Quick Items

[paulnapaca]

Howdy:

I would like to be able to minimize VideoStudio 9 to work in other applications while VS9 is rendering a video and without having VS9 pop back up after the rendering. My search of this forum seems to indicate that this is not an option. Could somebody that has some clout with Ulead pass this along as a suggestion?

Also, I would like to stop VS9 from doing an automatic playback of the video after it has finished rendering it. I can't seem to find if this is an option or not. Does anybody have any suggestions they could pass along?

Thanks for your help!

Paul

[Ron P.]

Hi Paul,

To not have VS playback the rendered file, when you go to Share>Create Video, there is an Option button. Click it, then you should see a radio button Play After Creating it. Uncheck it.

The other, I will pass that on for a feature request for the next version, and see what Ulead thinks. Ulead designs it's GUIs to be full screen, which of course does away with the minimize, and / or resizing the "window" it works in..

Ron P.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Paul

Using a larger monitor and screen resolution allows windows to display the tool bar/quick launch bar..
From here you can access other windows programs.
If you cannot see the toolbar press the windows button on your key board.

Saying that I would not recommend working on any other program whilst rendering unless you have a good fast pc. In fact you are recommended to switch off all background processes you can to give VS full cpu and memory usage.

Give it a go but don’t be surprised if the program freezes.

Trevor

[THoff]

I prefer using WinDV for my captures, it is a very simple program with a resizable window, and it can buffer 99 frames in memory if the hard disk is temporarily busy -- it is much more forgiving than the capture code Ulead uses in Videostudio and Mediastudio, and less likely to drop frames.

That being said, that doesn't mean that you can't do other things when Videostudio is busy capturing or rendering. Right-click on the Taskbar, go to the Toolbar submenu, and enable the Quick Launch toolbar. One of the icons you should now see is "Show Desktop".

When you click on "Show Desktop", all open windows are minimized, or restored if they were previously minimized (it's a toggle). This makes it easy to launch other things sitting on your desktop, and to me is much more convenient than navigating the Start menu.

[paulnapaca]

Hi Trevor and THoff:

Thanks for your responses!

I do use the task bar, quick launch, and ALT-TAB to toggle to or open other applications. I just would like the ability to minimize VS9 while it is rendering.

Memory isn't really too much of an issue. I'm running a 3.4Ghz CPU, with 2 gigs of RAM, and 256 megs on the graphics card. I occassionally end-up with a BSOD crash but it seems to be more related to a corrupt file.

Thanks again!

Paul

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[paulnapaca]

Thanks, Steve! I did a quick scan through the article and it looks pretty interesting but pretty voluminous, also. I'll check it out!

Paul