Problem with Quicktime videos

keimosabe · Post by **keimosabe** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:24 pm

I have searched and cannot find an answer to this question so can anyone point me in the right direction?

I am using VideoStudio 11 with Vista and everything works fine except Quicktime files. I can preview the clips just fine, but once i add a clip to the "movie" timeline, playback goes to crap.

Even if I render the project the final result is a horribly slow video file. It only happens with Quicktime files so I am assuming that it's something with that codec, but I don't know what to upgrade, replace, or fix to correct the problem. Anyone have an answer? Thanks in advance for the help guys

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:09 pm

The more-compressed formats frequently cause trouble. Try converting your file to MPEG-2 with SUPER (FREE!!!) or SVCD 2 DVD MPG (FREE!!!). Although, I'm not sure if these programs run under Vista.

MPEG-2 is not completely trouble-free either.... If you have trouble with MPEG-2, you'll have to look around for a different conversion program to convert the file to AVI/DV (the most trouble-free format). Video Studio can save a file as AVI/DV... but only if it can open & decode the original file.

Oh... SUPER can save in AVI/DV format, but it doesn't have the correct settings/options for NTSC. It might work OK for PAL.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:41 pm

There have been compatibility problems between QuickTime video files and successive versions of Video Studio for some time. The basic advice always seems to be to retain the version of QT installed as part of Video Studio. Upgrading the QT version after installing VS always seems to cause incompatibility, and most problems, on the other hand, seem to be solved when the user reverts to the version which came with VS.

Not a great situation, I understand -- but that's the hand we have been dealt.

keimosabe · Post by **keimosabe** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:07 pm

cool, thanks for the help guys, I'll try converting the viles to another format.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:56 pm

Wonderful typo: "viles"!! Luv it!!!!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:08 pm

A new name for troublesome, corrupted files.

keimosabe · Post by **keimosabe** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:26 pm

hehe, woopsie. "viles" is a very accurate term for Quicktime files though.

HEY!!!! That SUPER program friggin' rocks. Thanks again for the info guys. I was at an impasse' there for a bit but all is well once again

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:49 pm

Whilst SUPER may be able to successfully encode the quicktime files to mpeg2, it of course introduces an additional encoding step to the workflow. It would be better if Corel sorted out the problem that VS seems to have with quicktime.

Other "SUPER" like freeware programs you might be interested in are "AUTOGK" used to encode to xvid, and "Staxrip" and "MeGui" used to encode to h.264.

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