Help me decide if it's the one

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:47 am

Hi there, after having used Final cut pro on a mac, i'm looking at using my pc to edit videos. I looked around and found Ulead Videostudio, downloaded the trial version and i'm trying to use it now to decide if it's the one. Unfortunately, it keeps crashing.
I'm wondering if the trial version is slightly bugged or if registered users have this problem too.
Thanks for you help

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:52 am

Which version on what hardware, OS?

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:59 am

version 10 on winXP

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:06 am

the laptop i'm using it on is quite fast IntelCore Duo 1.66, only 512DDR but that should be plenty to run a wee bit of editing. It's been crashing at different times during burning or just in the middle of thinking !!!

PeterMilliken · Post by **PeterMilliken** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:19 am

It shouldn't crash on you, the VS series is very stable.

It might be (or rather, most likely is) a product of what else you have installed on your system i.e. I have used VS 8 and 9 for several years now - I loaded VS 9 on my father's computer for a nephew to do a school assignment - we both had machines loaded with XP, but they were different hardware i.e. they were both "generic" machines - and different from each other. Anyway, VS 9 was very "fragile" on my father's machine and crashed relatively frequently - but that didn't stop the nephew from completely the school assignement (it was a 10 minute video). VS 9 has never crashed on my computer.

Since then, I have re-imaged my father's machine from scratch and installed my VS 9 (I have migrated to MSP 8 and so nolonger need VS 9) and since then he hasn't experienced any "crashes".

So I would suggest that your problems are most likely caused by something other than VS 10 - whether you are able to "fix" it or not is difficult to say from here. Personally I am extremely "anal" about my computer - I originally installed all my software applications and took a disk image backup of the c: drive. I regularly "restore" from that image as a mechanism of keeping the machine "lean and mean" i.e. as you surf the Internet, load trials and demos etc etc any windows system seems to collect bloatware - and who knows what installs itself and then proves to be incompatible with other applications? So regularly restoring from backup keeps my system at a nice "clean" level.

Hope this helps,
Peter

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:10 am

Thx Peter for the good advice. I forgot to mention that my laptop is new and i havent connected it to the net yet, so it's still pretty clean. I like this ulead program enough to give it another chance... i may try it on my desktop pc to see what happens. Is there a big difference between 8,9 and 10? I could always try an earlier version.

bb193 · Post by **bb193** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:54 am

As a newbie, I wonder if it is relevant to ask what sort of video you are working with? And what you are doing when it crashes?

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:37 pm

Is there a big difference between 8,9 and 10? I could always try an earlier version.

Stay clear of VS 8 as it was a very buggy program. VS 9 and 10 are both good.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:53 pm

I wonder if it is relevant to ask what sort of video you are working with? And what you are doing when it crashes?

Good question! You should not have any problems with a "clean" AVI/DV file from a camcorder.

All of my crashes and other weird problems (lip-sync problems etc.), were caused by bad MPEGs. Most of these corrupt MPEGs played-back OK, so it can be difficult to diagnose. Other users report lots of problems with DivX & Xvid files.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:28 pm

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:22 pm

MD -- for my own benefit, and that of others, can you explain in detail what you mean by a 'fast export'. I am sure it would be helpful to add to our collective arsenal, particularly given that others seem to suffer a lot of problems along these lines.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:00 am

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:31 am

oops - entered in error

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:29 am

Thanks a lot. I have had MF since version 3, and never realised that this feature was there and had such a useful capability.

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:42 am

Thx guys. May be just the type of video i imported there to try Ulead. I havent captured anything yet, just took some video_ts files from my Final cut pro edits. Those files might be corrupted, it's a good point. I'll start fresh next time and see what happens.
I may have to go back to FCP for the finishing touch of the clip (which as you know is a mac programme), any advice for best compatibility?

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