No audio : sigh : Ulead 10 on Vista

[brankrunch]

Alright, so typical newbie post. I had Windows XP and I've been using Ulead Videostudio on it for a very long time. I'm very familiar with the program and what not. I decided to update to Vista, and with that my computer's hardrive was wiped. Therefore, I lost all my codecs and whatnot. I reinstalled ulead 10, and when i try and make a project I can't get any audio.

For example, I play an AVI clip and in the preview and project timeline there is no sound. I preview a MP3 file, and it plays. I put it int he project timeline, hit play, and again no sound. I open up Windows Media Player, and I try to manage the same files, and they work. The sound that is. Divx is managing these files, so does anyone have any idea what I should do?

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

I'll take a wild guess that your "avi' is a DivX file, that you are trying to edit. Of course you understand that the compression of DivX is very high, and it is intended to be viewed, and not edited. While VS10 can create DivX video files, there are always some problems when it comes to editing, which is not the fault of VS.

Now I assume that you do have the DivX bundle installed. VS uses the codec provided by DivX. IF not then get here; Divx.com. You don't necessarily need the Pro Bundle, but it does allow you to transcode MPEGs to DivX.

Please post your:
1. Project Properties (press ALT + Enter or go to File || Project Properties)
2. Video clip Properties (right-click on a clip in the timeline and select Properties).

Since you have sound in WMP, I also believe this to be an issue with a missing codec. The ones I show for AVI are:

• PCM
• IMA-ADPCM
• Microsoft ADPCM
• CCITT A-Law
• CCITT u-Law
• GSM 6.10
• DSP Group TrueSpeech(TM)
• Microsoft G.723.1
• MPEG Layer-3

Then of course the Dolby and MPEG audio Layer-2 for the MPEG codecs.

[brankrunch]

alright i've fooled around with it a bit and am still getting nothing. As far as divx, that's not the problem. I get sounds with audio files but not with any video files. So I'm guessing that that would mean that it's not just a missing codec? Changing it over to edit with avi files does nothing as well. if it's any help, here's the default project properties:

PAL (25 fps)
MPEG files
24 bits, 352 x 288, 25 fps
Frame-based
(MPEG-1), 4:3
Video data rate: 940 kbps
Audio data rate: 128 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 44.1 KHz, Stereo

and file properties:
Mpeg 1
with Mpeg Layer 2 Audio

but that's just me putting a random clip in. I can do the same with an AVI file and get no audio as well

[brankrunch]

I've looked around and tried other programs to see if they would work. Apparently it is a codec problem where one program is recognizing it and ulead is not. I still have no idea how to fix such a problem.

[Ken Berry]

If we are talking about an mpeg-1 video codec, then the one that Ulead (and other programs) use is the codec installed as part of Windows XP. There is no special Ulead mpeg-1 codec. Thus, if the same video plays in other programs, it should (logically) play in Ulead VS as well.

It sounds to me more like a problem caused by the imperfect interface between VS10 and Vista... Have you applied the Vista update patch for Video Studio?

[cadet03]

For what ever it is worth, this is exactly the problem I am having and wrote about in a previous post. I am anxious to find out if you have applied the vista patch to VS10 and have achieved results. I, unfortunately am a VS9 license owner and made the mistake of buying a computer loaded with Vista. So, faced with the decision to buy VS10 patched for Vista with limited functionality vs waiting for VS11 to be released, I chose the later. Hopefully VS11 will indeed be released soon.

[etech6355]

Well, for right now till the smoke clears looks like one harddisk for Vista to boot on and one harddisk to boot XP_SP2. Multi-Boot.

[Ron P.]

Etech,
The problem with that is the way retailers and manufacturers sell the PCs with the OS pre-installed and nothing but a stupid restore disk. I'd love to set my PC up for dual boot, however that means I'd would have to purchase another copy of WinXP. I've been down the road with the retailer and MS. I just can't get them to understand that I've already bought the license, so I need the full OS disks, not just a set of restore disks. They of course don't agree. However I'm not willing to shell out another $200 for what I've already paid for.

So for some folks I think this is the same problem. They would have to purchase an additional XP OS, especially if their new PC comes with Vista pre-installed.

[etech6355]

Ron, I know, it's also hard to repair a pc that doesn't have the install disk if it gets the blue screen on boot-up.
But that's how I plan to eventually install Vista, on 2 separate drives.
Vista doesn't boot like XP does either, so I'll keep them separate to be able to easily get to XP. One article I read suggested not to activate Vista until you know it's setup & working properly, otherwise additional installs drops the counter down on how many times one can install it.

[sjj1805]

Etech,
The problem with that is the way retailers and manufacturers sell the PCs with the OS pre-installed and nothing but a stupid restore disk. ......

Your best bet here is to do a drive image using dedicated drive image software, alternatively use Microsoft backup (built into XP) otherwise most of these restore discs do just that - wipe your computer clean and restore it to the way it was when you first bought it.

......One article I read suggested not to activate Vista until you know it's setup & working properly, otherwise additional installs drops the counter down on how many times one can install it.

That sounds very worrying - is that a limit on the number of installs over a certain period of time - example 3 installs in a month then you have to ring microsoft to get more, or perhaps a grand lifetime total?

[etech6355]

Steve,
Maybe I read that on C-Net. The article was an evaluation of Vista. Sounds like a good suggestion.
When I bought my HP Laptop it came with XP Home disk and installed on the drive under /i386.
Never tried it but isn't it possible to make a XP install disk from the XP image supplied by the OEM on the harddisk?
Most of the installs are located in the /i386 directory. Some on another hidden partition.
In the end after hardware & software support catches up to Vista I would think Vista would be better than XP for all these new dual-core cpu's, and also going above 4gigs of real memory.

[jnijjar]

I am running Vista and VS10. I have installed the Vista patch. When I add any audio to my project I can play it back fine on its own when on the audio tab. But when I preview my project there is no sound. I have tried using the audio that comes with the sw, thinking that maybe it was my audio files, but i get the same problem. It plays fine on its own...but when I preview my project...I get NO SOUND. Any one have an idea why this is?

[Bugs66]

I downloaded VS10+ trial to see if it would work with my Vista 64 machine. The editing of video seems fine but I also am having the problem of no audio. I tried all kinds of video files, mpg, wmv, avi and no audio.

Also I tried to install SP1 for the trial and it fails, says I don't have VS10 installed. Also tried to install Vista pack and same thing. So I have no way to verify if these updates would fix the problem.

I am not going to buy this thing until I know it works. I had Premiere but Adobe is way behind on Vista support there, does not work either. Grrr! I need an HDV editing solution.

[Poyda]

I get the same problem as a number of others seem to get. I can import video "chapters" directly from DVD, or from mpeg files on hard disk. I get audio when I play the clips, but no audio when selecting project mode. I am running Vista Home Premium, having upgraded from Windows XP MCE. Is this a codec problem with VS10+ not recognising a codec in project mode?

[Black Lab]

Poyda, brankrunch, jnijjar, have you contacted Tech Support about this?