Studio 11... still lacks audio tracks

[Mike Warren]

I am a newbie and yet I was greatly disappointed to learn that studio 11 has no more audio tracks then before. I find it extremely limiting when mixing music and sound effects. I always seem to need at least one more audio track to be creative. I wish they had given us one or two more audio tracks instead of so many vidio tracks, which I rarely use. What to do? You can add this to the wish list, if its not already there. Mike

[heinz-oz]

VS is an entry level program, most new users will not even notice the lack of video and audio tracks.

If that is too basic for you you will have to move on to a more prosumer orientated program like MediaStudioPro or any of it's competitors.

Please pardon the analogy, a standard run of the mill everyday motor car is never going to be turbo charged. If you want that, you will have to buy it, won't you?

No offence intended.

[daniel]

add you first two audio tracks,
using the create step, export audio to another file,
delete the two original audio tracks and insert the mix on track one.

Add a third on track two. Rinse. Repeat.

[Mike Warren]

On Studio 11, while capturing video from my Sony DV Camcorder the capture would keep stopping every few moments, though the camcorder kept playing video. During each such pause, about 30 seconds of video was not captured. I also was getting occasional colored checkering across image. But... when I captured same video on Studio 10 I had no such problems. The capture was perfect. Both my Studio 10 and 11 are on my C drive with plenty of free space. Trying to remedy, on Studio 11 I selected "Repair" which I think reinstalled it. But problem remains. Am I the only one having this problem??? Thanks. Mike

[Ken Berry]

That sounds as though you are capturing from the mini DV camera, but trying to do it direct to mpeg-2 format. The regular pauses and loss of video for a period often indicates that the computer cannot keep up processing the incoming DV signal into mpeg-2 on the fly. The unprocessed video builds up in a 'transcode buffer' which quickly fills up; no more DV is accepted until that already in the buffer is converted (transcoded) into mpeg-2.

If this describes what you are trying to do, then make sure you are capturing to DV format. Edit in DV and only as a final step in the editing process, go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to convert the project into DVD compatible mpeg-2. This is a workflow much less demanding of computer resources.

The only other thing I can think of, if you are indeed trying to capture to DV format, is that changing the Encoder Type from the default 2 to 1 often helps. Pixellation is a common symptom of the wrong DV Encoder being used -- though I confess you would not normally experience the sorts of pauses in capture you are having...

To check the Encoder type, make sure DV is the selected Capture format, Then click on the Options cogwheel icon on the Capture page.