Rendering in Videostudio9

[owenj117175]

Have recently bought VS9 and am having problems rendering my project. It gets so far and then resets the computer. Checking the disk shows 'invalid procedure call or argument' in several .avi files.

Anyone any ideas please?

[Ken Berry]

Can you right click on the problem .avis within VS9 please, and write down the properties. And tell us where they came from and any editing you may have done to them. Also tells us exactly what you have done to 'render' them.

I ask, you see, because .avi is only a carrier or wrapper format for a variety of other sorts of video formats. There is an uncompressed .avi which is huge (about 65 GB per hour of video). Then there is DV/AVI from mini DV digital video cameras (13 GB an hour). But it is mostly highly compressed (and difficult to edit) mpeg-4 formats which also use the extension .avi. The most common are DivX and XVid, but there are others.

A lot of movies are transcoded to these formats because they produce very small but still high quality video files which can be burned to a CD rather than a DVD.

To use them in Video Studio, though, you have to have the relevant codec on your computer -- and this could be your immediate problem.

Depending on the exact source and properties of your files, it could also be that they use the H.264 codec which is relatively new but growing in popularity. However, just about every user of this Board who has tried to use it has had major problems doing so.

[owenj117175]

Ken - Thanks for your prompt reply. Original recording made on a Sony Digicam DCR-TRV355E. Its a school concert split into 4 main parts and it seems to be the 4 large files that are the problem.

Properties:- Microsoft AVIFiles-Open DML
Rate 25 fps/ Data rate 3515 KBps
File lengths in excess of 2,000,000 KBs
Video Comp- DV Encoder type1
24 Bit 720 x 576 4:3
Audio Comp DV Audio-PAL
32000 Khz 12Bit Stereo

These files have been edited for length and audio volume adjusted for quietly spoken children.

I first tried burning a DVD directly from the share page and then tried to create a Video File, both failed rebooting each time.

Hope that gives you enough info.
Thanks once again

[Ken Berry]

Thanks for that. Those properties look OK. (You might note that you would improve your audio quality by increasing it to 16 bit. But you have to make this adjustment in the camera itself - consult your manual - and leave it for all future filming you do. Using 12 bit should not, however, be causing the problem you are experiencing.)

Can you tell us a little more about exactly how you went about creating a video file of your project: what format did you use and what were its properties?

It could be that for some unknown reason, a minor corruption has entered some of your DV captures. That error message sounds a bit like that. You could try recapturing them. Or you might want to Google for, and try, a free specialised DV capturing program WinDV and try it instead. Then you simply insert those new captured files in VS and see if they work.

[owenj117175]

Hi Ken

I downloaded WinDV and recaptured everything, WinDV showed no dropped frames, but the same result when I tried to burn the DVD in VS9, this time with no editing just dropped the files onto the storyboard.

Thanks once again for your help.

[Ken Berry]

When you dropped the new (or old) DV files into the storyboard, did you first go to Share > Create Video File > DVD? (That is our recommended procedure.) This produces a DVD-compatible mpeg-2.

You then close your project or empty the timeline if you haven't actually assigned a project name to it. Then with an empty timeline, click on Share > Create Disc to open the burning module. Then click on the first of the Add Media icons in the top left of the burning screen. Point it to where your new mpeg-2 is stored. It will then appear in the burning screen timeline.

Click on the Options cogwheel icon down in the bottom left and make sure 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' is ticked.

Create your menu if you want one, then burn (or choose to make an image ISO file or DVD folder instead. You can then check using a software DVD player to see if everything looks OK.

(Incidentally, I forgot to ask earlier. You say you only bought VS9 recently. Where did you buy? I ask because VS10 has been out nearly a year now, and I would have thought any retailer would be selling that rather than an older version. Or was it a 'bargain basement' sale?)

[owenj117175]

Hi Ken

Tried going to Share>Create Video File>DVD and half way through the rendering the computer rebooted.

I bought VS9 because the reviews were better than VS10 and as you guessed it was a very good price!

[kebrinton]

Hey John --

I originally bought UVS 9 because for some reason the electronics superstore near me had it for US$19 -- right after release, can you believe it? And I'm sticking with it because of what people were saying about VS10 when it first came out. I have no need for HD capability.

However, in another post somebody was describing ways to adjust volume in the music soundtrack (background music) and it sounded different from what I put up with -- stretching those durned rubber bands! -- so I wanted to ask anybody if VS10 has really different volume options. Or have I just not discovered all the great features of VS9 yet?

Keith

[sjj1805]

You may be interested in viewing the following short videos:
VideoStudio Demo & Training Videos

I think you will be surprised at how different VS10+ is compared to VS9.