A registry error

[Redester]

'Guess some people have to be hit in the head!!

It finally occurred to me that this is a SCRIPT! Like BASH scripts, it must be told what it is. As soon as I added REGEDIT4 it was accepted and loaded! SHEEESH! Sign me,

Dummy!

However.... MSP8 STILL calls up MF version 4.2. DAM!

[Redester]

OK. FINALLY, the script updated the registry (MF 5) and I can see it there.

Now... In Editor, when I try to export, dvd authoring, my saved file as a dvp....

I get "File format mismatch".

MF 5 does not seem to be associated with MSP8 but as some stand alone thing!!!!!

I only wish at this time that Corel had bought and killed this POS before I ever heard of it. I cannot believe I have wasted nearly a year with this crap and only have frustration to show for it!

More power to any masochist that can use it succesfully. I'm about ready to clean it off my computer (as if it were possible as it is scattered/hidden all over the partition) and forget the $400 + I have wasted on it and more importantly, the time.

Thank you for your help steve,

Ray

[heinz-oz]

.... I run Registry Cleaner pro, Enditall and Windoze Clean-Up Pro on a regular basis. None can dampen the spirit of this hateful pop-up whenever loading the Editor or Movie factory 4.2.
.....

Ray_Edester@bellsouth.net

I have found over the years that, every time I used one of these darn registry cleaners, it was only a question of time until I would run into all sorts of problems. The registry is a very sensitive and vital piece of the OS. It's easily corrupted and I cannot see where a registry cleaning program should get it's intelligence from to determine what can be removed from it.

I have not had a problem with any of my programs since I stopped using these.

[Redester]

Hello Heinz,

Thank you for your response to my torture with this.... Uh, Junk.

I did not do anything (no other messing with a registry cleaner)
after running the script except REGEdIT to view and verify the associated.section. Then I ran the MSP8 editor, edited/saved my file then tried to export the *.dvp to DVD Authoring..... )_)*(*&(^$#

'Rebooted WinSloth XP and tried the same steps again... same song, same verse!!!!! MF 5 seems to be stuck on another planet! $$$
Sign me DAMNDISGUSTED with this trash!

Maybe it's back to Pinnacle Studio 9's crippled thing if I wish to continue this madness.....

Ray

[heinz-oz]

I'm glad that I'm using it all wrongly because I have used MediaStudioPro since version 6.5 without any hassles. Incidentally, it needs the burning mudule of MF 4 to be able to burn, this is installed with MSP and the script provided by Steve should make it use MF 5 if it is installed on your machine.

I also have used DVD MovieFactory since version version 2 and am now on version 5 plus. Again, no major problems to report.

If I were you ( I have done that myself many a time and will surely do it again one day) I would cut the crap, reformat my HDD and start with a clean slate, installing one thing after the other, trying it out in between, leaving out things I don't use anymore until, finally, every piece of software I need and want is installed. It tends to work wonders and any offending software can be identified that way.

[Redester]

Jeeezz,

Heinz, you seem like a court jester!! My desktop looks like a stamp collection and everthing has been running PRISTINE until this MF 5 installation.

Reformat, re-do the HD partition, re-install all ??? As my old Bahamian friends used to say, "Catch yoself, Mon!"

Tks, It proves you are reading the mail.....

Ray

[neonbob]

Jeeezz,

Heinz, you seem like a court jester!! My desktop looks like a stamp collection and everthing has been running PRISTINE until this MF 5 installation.

Reformat, re-do the HD partition, re-install all ??? As my old Bahamian friends used to say, "Catch yoself, Mon!"

Tks, It proves you are reading the mail.....

Ray

Man's absolute BEST friend when it comes this sort of thing is a disk image program!!

I keep a separate 250g HDD with nothing but disk images on it. Each time I install a new program, I play with it, test it, and make sure all is okay. Then I will do a disk image. Any time there is trouble, I simply revert back to the previous image. Unlike the XP restore system, this is a COMPLETE restore, right back to the emails that where in your box at the time of the image. I can't tell you how many times this has bailed me out!! I feel safe in the knowledge that I can totally blitz everything on my c drive, and be back up and fully running inside of 20 minutes.

If you have to re-do your drive, then do yourself a favor and get a disk image program!!

[sjj1805]

Whilst many are good at what they do, I think that Redester and Heinz have both hit the nail on the head.

Unless you know what you are doing it is dangerous to use a registry cleaner because they can and do remove things that you need to keep. If you are competent enough to use a registry cleaner you will know how to undo changes made by them.

This can include things like
1. Creating a back up of the registry before running a registry cleaner.
2. Creating a System Restore Point so that you can revert to the way things were.
3. Specify certain entries or items that should be ignored by use of an ignore list.

I would strongly advise that unless you are quite knowledgeable about computers you should be very wary of using registry cleaners.

If you suspect a registry entry is causing you a problem with any Ulead software then post your concerns on this user forum. There are plenty of experts here who will try to assist you and in some circumstances may in fact advise you to make specific alterations to the registry and may where necessary advise you to use a registry cleaner - but with detailed instructions.

[Redester]

Hi Steve,

I didn't mess with the registry since installing MF 5 +. Then, following with the registry script, which installed correctly AFTER I wrote it correctly!. Maybe it's time I should do so.

Cheers,

Ray

[Redester]

Again Steve,

The question now I don't believe concerns the registry, but MF 5. I had ASSumed 5 to be an upward compatible and ongoing program from MF 4.

Wrong again!

I have several saved files with MSP8 that I want to Export to DVD authoring into MF 5 as I was advised 5 would allow wider latitudes of menus, buttons, etc. These *.dvp files imported OK with MF 4. But 5 wants some other format, AVI or ?. I get the same "Wrong Format" complaint if I open MF 5 as a stand alone program which indicates Editor IS exporting to MF 5. (sigh)

Murphy's law: "Whatever you first set out to do, something else must be done first."

Is there a workaround for this corner I have painted myself into? And what other formats does Editor support/save files to?

Thanks again,

Ray

[sjj1805]

MovieFactory 5 appears to accept VideoStudio project files (*.vsp) but not
MediaStudio project files (*.dvp)

From MediaStudio create a video
File | Create | Video File
Because you will now be authoring a DVD from that video choose an MPEG format for the file to avoid rendering a second time once it has been opened in MovieFactory.

[Redester]

Well, that's confusing as the original file is a finalized DVD(MPEG) all the way from my camera to capturing with the MSP 8 Editor via the CDROM in the computer. I haven't questioned the Editors choice (if there is another) to the saved format. ??

The mini-Users Guide with MF 5 leaves a lot to be desired.

I will re-visit when I get Windoze up the next time though.

Thanks,

Ray

[Redester]

MediaStudio Pro 8 saves files ONLY with the DVP extention. No choices.

Curses to ULEAD...

I quit. (For now) Gone crazy! Maybe not return.

Ray

[Ron P.]

MediaStudio Pro 8 saves files ONLY with the DVP extention. No choices.

Curses to ULEAD...

I quit. (For now) Gone crazy! Maybe not return.

Ray

There is nothing uncommon about that. Most editing programs, be it video or imaging have a native, proprietary format for their working files. MSP=DVP, VS=VSP, MF=DWZ, PI=UFO. So for MSP not to save a project file to another format is not wrong. Does Premiere Pro allow you to save to MSP's format?

What I don't understand is why DMF5 or 5+ does not accept MSP's project files, that makes no sense to me at all, since MSP8 or earlier was out before DMF5 + was developed..

[Devil]

MediaStudio Pro 8 saves files ONLY with the DVP extention. No choices.

Curses to ULEAD...

I quit. (For now) Gone crazy! Maybe not return.

Ray

Not strictly true! A PROJECT file is saved as DVP, and it references all the other files used to make up the project. Consider it as similar to the index of a book; you cannot get the text from the index alone.

It can save the completed project in whatever format you like (provided you have the appropriate codec). Thus, you can save it in DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, XviD, WMV, MJPEG, uncompressed etc. but you have to render it into the desired format first (some of these formats must be enveloped).

I don't know of any authoring programmes that accept project (index) files of any make as their only input. They will all accept DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, XviD, WMV, MJPEG, uncompressed etc. to varying degrees. It is these that contain the edited video and audio data that you wish to author. If you are writing a technical paper and wish to make reference to previous work in a book, you cannot make your quotation from the index, can you?

Maybe a little time understanding what goes on when you have video in a computer would be better than wasting time on unreasonable rants??? Have a Happy Christmas!