Serious Issues with VideoStudio 11

cosmicdrifter · Post by **cosmicdrifter** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:49 am

Hi. I would like to post some problems I have encountered with VideoStudio 11. I will start by describing my current setup:

Computer: Dell Inspiron E1505 (Laptop)
OS: Vista (Terrible operating system)
Software: Ulead VideoStudio 11
Video Camera: Canon XH A1
Connection: IEEE 394

VideoStudio 11 Issuses:

Will not capture HD video 60i 16:9 with down convert off. Error message: Unable to switch to capture mode or something like that. It will capture the video with the down convert on but what's the point. The video quality isn't HD. To verify that this isn't the fault of my computer or camera, I used HDVSplit (freeware) to capture the video and it worked flawlessly.

Rendering captured video at 60i 1440 x 1080 16:9 via HDVSplit to VideoStudio's HDV 1080i 60i (for HDV) resulted in choppy moving video.

Even worse, when I rendered the same video to WMV HD 1080 30p, the result was a video with a frame width of 208 and a frame height of 160. I got the same result when I rendered to WMV HD 720 30p as well.

Smart Render is not very smart. If I render with this option enabled the results are choppy video. If I render with this option off, the video is smoother.

I haven't tried this process with video shot at 30fps or 24fps as of yet, but I fear when I do I will get the same if not worser results.

Can anyone offer any suggestions on how to resolve these issues?

Thanks for reading this.

-John

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:21 am

Before we get to guessing, we may need just a bit more info that could be part of a critical issue.

How much RAM does your Dell have? For what I can find, it comes with only 512MB. That's not enough to run Vista alone.

Laptop HDDs are still only 5400rpm drives. This is a real slow read/write speed for video editing, and I'm talking SD not HD. Even if your system is a Dual Core or Core Duo, a computer is only as fast as it's slowest component.

cosmicdrifter · Post by **cosmicdrifter** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:54 am

Hi Ron, thanks for your reply.

The laptop processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo processer (2MB/1.83 GHz/667MHz.)
It has 2 GB of RAM which should be plenty. The hard drive is 120 GB and runs at 5400 RPM.

Like I said in my previous post, I had no problems running HDVSplit and capturing video so I don't think the computer is the problem. I also captured HD video using Microsofts Windows Movie Maker but typical Microsoft, it saves the video in a format that can only be used on Movie Maker.

I have no problem editing captured HD video in VideoStudio. It's the rendering and capturing process that has issues.

-John

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:05 am

Rendering captured video at 60i 1440 x 1080 16:9 via HDVSplit to VideoStudio's HDV 1080i 60i (for HDV) resulted in choppy moving video.

I take it when you captured using HDVSplit you left preview off and used the lcd screen on the cam along with stop capture on dropped frames.
I can capture from a Sony HC3 to an external usb harddisk on a laptop using HDVSplit, it's a 2.8Ghz non-HT processor. Uses about 10% to transfer the data from the cam to the external harddisk. Your Core_Duo2 will walk on this older laptop I have and I actually can use it for HD conversions but not playback.

First, take one of the videos .m2t files and load in into the VS11+ timeline. Then right_click on the video and select properties. If you don't see any fielding information then that explains the choppiness after you export the video to a program stream hd-mpeg2 video file.. You should see "Upper Field First" displayed under the properties of the inserted .m2t file.

I don't know why, in VS11+ when the file is in transport stream they are being read as frame_based. The properties will report nothing for the fielding information. The fielding information is necessary to have for proper conversions. Some transport stream files I have are being read correctly and some aren't, I don't know why.

When you tried to use the HD-WMV templates take a close look a the actual selection that is being assigned. I found mine didn't match so you would have to go into the advanced and assign or create a custom template.

What program are you using to playback your .m2t transport stream files captured using HDVSplit?
Nice to know HDVSplit works with Vista (don't use it yet).

I think you would be better off with VS10+ to import the transport stream videos. That's been my solution because VS10+ will convert them to Program Stream, then I can insert the program stream hd-mpeg2 video into VS11+ and VS11+ works with the program stream pretty nice, especially with the new mpeg optimizer.

If you don't have any other way to convert the videos to program stream I may have a program that is freeware that can do this. It works under Linux so I'll have to test the windows version, probably not Vista compat yet though.