Ulead Video Studio 10 plus burning problems

[Magicman]

This subject may have come up before but I can't find the specifics to my problem.

Problem is sometimes I can get to the desplay which allows me to click the "burn" icom and somethimes not.
In all cases as soom as I get to a certain spot the program crashes and the computer reboots....every time!!!

I have uninstalled and re installed the program 3 times. NO CHANGE!!!
Help!!!

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the Forums

First we are going to need some more information. Please view This Thread, it provides a guideline to the specific information needed to help you.

Please complete your System Information in your profile. Clicking on this button --> will take you to a short tutorial, explaining how to find and complete that information. This way it will always be available, and will save you from retyping it in the future.

A Recommended Workflow has been developed to help guide you through the mine-field of video editing, as it pertains to Ulead's VideoStudio Programs. They can be viewed here:
Recommened WorkFlow for VideoStudio

Until we get more information we can only speculate. Right now I suspect it has to do with your workflow and/or the video format.

[Ken Berry]

We also need to know whether you have the Nero suite, or equivalent Roxio Creative suite, installed on your computer. More particularly, whether you have the Nero InCD module, or equivalent Roxio (or other) packet writing software installed. (This is software where you drag and drop files for eventual burning to disc). The problem is that these programs often take over the disc burner and deny use of it to other programs, such as Video Studio.

Some of these programs allow you to disable them temporarily, but InCD has to be totally removed.

[Magicman]

I have updated my profile as suggested with all my hardware discriptions.
I do not have Nero InCd on my computer but I do have a copy of a Roxio program on another drive (my secondary drive).

Mike

[Ron P.]

Thanks for updating your profile. Now how about a little more detail...

1. What's the source of your video clips? Where did they originate, and how did you get them into your computer?

2. What if any editing did you do, just simple cuts, or did you add filters, effects etc..?

3. What workflow are following? Capture, Edit, Create Video File, New Project, Share Create Disk, or Capture, Edit, Share Create Disk?

4. Are you attempting to work with highly compressed video files, such as WMV, DivX. Xvid, MPEG-4?

5. Are you running a dual-boot system? You mentioned that you have Roxio installed on your secondary drive. Does Roxio's packet-writing application get loaded in the background while you are attempting to edit and burn with VS? Try disabling it.

[Magicman]

1. The source of the videos are two part. I captured the first movie from a Sony DV camcorder and the file is still good. ie I can load it work with it etc. The second video is from my Sony HD camcorder (the reason I purchased this program). I can also work with this file as well. Both were captured using this program.

2. I have started editing the two file together (these files came from two different camcorders taken at a wedding and I am attempting to edit them together to make one movie) but have yet to finish. I was going to be seeing the bride this weekend and many weekends in the past so I thought I'd burn the raw videos (seperately) to give to her while she was waiting for the finished product.

3.That being said I just loaded enough of the videos into a project raw (no edits) went to share, sometimes it crashes there sometimes I make it to the page where I can burn but in all cases ithe program will crash before burning. I even tried loading the raw file, creating a video file, exiting the program, loading the program, uploading the video file into a project, skipping edit etc going directly to share, create a disk (unchecking create menu) and this is about as far as I get. If I leave the "create menu checked I can make it to the burn page and then it crashes after clicking burn.

4. The files are saved as .AVI 's as created during the capture process.

5. No duel boot system that I am aware. I can certainly access the secondary drive but it is not set up like a RAID boot, if that is what you are asking. I do not see Roxio being loaded or running in the background and has not been loaded onto the main drive.

[Ken Berry]

Thanks for that extra detail.

One obvious things sticks out to me at least. First, you say that all the video -- from the two cameras -- is in AVI format. But I don't see how that could be. Certainly, from the mini DV camera, it should be DV/AVI format. But from the Hard Disk camera, it would surely be in some variant of mpeg-2 format, which is what those cameras use as their native format.

More to the point, though, the two cameras use opposite field orders, and this could be part -- a big part -- of your problem. The mini DV camera will shoot using Lower Field First as its field order, while the hard disk camera will use Upper Field First.

And as I have just finished saying in another post, never the twain shall meet -- at least not in one project. A basic rule of video editing is that you cannot mix videos using different field orders in a single project (except perhaps if one of them is frame based). One or the other will suffer -- though it is usually in the quality of the final video. Jaggies and other blocky artifacts show up, particularly in fast movement or in panning and zooming shots. And you certainly don't want that in a wedding video.

But normally, it wouldn't cause the whole program to hand. So I am still mytified about that. Sorry.

Anyway, at the very least, we would need to have a more detailed idea of how exactly you captured the video from the two cameras. And please also right click on one video from each camera within Video Studio, and copy the two sets of Properties to here.

[Magicman]

Good catch...
I checked again and the one file seems to be an AVI file while the other one from my HD Camera (BTW it's a High definition camcorder not a Hard Disk camcorder) is infact a MPG file. This is the way they were captured?

From what I hear you saying....It is not a good idea to try and edit these two files into one project...is this correct? Is there then some other way to capture the lesser grade video (AVI) using a MPG format so I can mate the two?

Even if the two are not compatable any guesses as to why the program will not burn to disk a project (crash the program and cause a reboot of the computer) using just one of the files as a stand alone?
Do I have to go through each of the tabs ie. edit, effect,overlay,tile and audio before I sellect the share tab? This would seem silly or would it?
As I mentioned , I bought this program because of it's ability to capture and edit video from the Sony HDR-HC1 HDV handycam.

[Ken Berry]

Sorry about the misunderstanding over 'HD'. Still, I think my comments still apply as I think your HD camera still uses UFF.

And I repeat yet again, you cannot -- must not -- mix video using different field orders.

Yes, you could try capturing from your DV camera direct to mpeg-2. Depending on your computer, though, this could cause some problems. If it is not fast enough, then video will back up in a transcoding cache, and the capture will be interrupted from time to time to allow the video in the cache be processed. Then capture will resume. It is a demanding process for computers.

But this will not solve your field order problem. Video shot in a DV camera will be Lower Field First regardless of whether it is captured as DV or mpeg-2.

And as I said, I don't think the mixing of different field orders is causing your computer to crash.

That is more likely to be something like a corrupt file. But beyond that, I have no better idea than you of what might be wrong. Sorry.