Audio Timeline Freezes Up Now

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:13 pm

I downloaded some mp3 soundtracks last night from a website and then converted them to WAV files and then imported them into the audio track of my project. After a while of reviewing the rubber bands and scrolling thru the audio track while in the Audio Timeline mode, the scroll bar at the bottom the timeline would freeze up. My mouse cursor would not move vertically off of the scroll bar slider. I had to hit Ctrl/Alt/Delete to unfreeze. Then the program was not letting me add or adjust keyframes in the rubber bands. It would constantly freeze up. I'm not sure why all of a sudden the Audio timeline portion of the program is doing this, but it is. The storyboard mode and regular timeline mode work perfectly, and the project file will SmartRender and will save. When in the Project playback mode, the audio soundtracks are responding perfectly, it is just that the Audio Timeline mode is acting up on me and not letting me adjust the rubber bands or scroll thru the timelime without freezing up now. Should I back date my computer using Windows XP System Restore or should I just uninstall the entire program and reinstall it? If I uninstall the program and reinstall, do I need to move all of my project folders and files out of the Ulead Video Studio folder hieracrchy before removal, to avoid them being deleted or misplaced?

Thanks,

Bryan P.
Florida

Joe Louvar · Post by **Joe Louvar** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:35 pm

My guess is your computer system isn't keeping up. Checkout this thread - http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13950

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:22 pm

My computer system had no problems with this program before last night. I have a new Dell XPS400, 2.8 GHz Pentium D 820 dual core processor, 2 GB of SD DDR2 RAM, 320 GB hard drive and a 3GB page file, running XP MCE. I have made lots of tweaks to the system to maximize performance. This morning I did a disk clean-up and a defrag and cleared the page file upon shutdown. Today the audio timeline responds the same way it did last night after importing a converted mp3 (into WAV) soundtrack was downloaded from a website. The audio timeline has never reacted like this before. Now the program freezes up whenever I try to scroll thru the audio timeline or adjust the rubber bands. It even does this when I work in a different project file. The program works fine whenever I am working in the storyboard mode or the regular timeline mode.

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Bryan P.
Florida

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:30 pm

I know this will sound counter-intuitive, given that we usually recommend that people convert problem mp-3 files to .wav. But have you tried using the mp-3 files as they are? And if so, what happens? And what program did you use to convert them to .wav?

I personally have often used mp-3 tracks with no problem. But I use a standard mp-3 codec. It appears that ones produced with the LameMP3 codec are the problematic ones.

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:47 am

Ken,

I use MusicMatch Jukebox to convert mp3 files to WAV.

Everything I import into my project files are of the uncompressed or nearly uncompressed file types: Video (DV_AVI), Audio (WAV) and Image (BMP).

Do you think it would help if I used XP's System Restore function to back date the computer to the day before I noticed this problem with my Audio Timeline freezing up?

Thanks,

Bryan P.
Florida

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:16 am

It's certainly worth trying. And of course the good thing about System Restore is that if it doesn't correct your problem, you can always Restore forward again...