I'm using VS11.5, and have captured 16:9 DV footage with firewire from my Sony DCR-TRV33E. I'm in a PAL country and have tried to set VS to PAL, as well.
The problem is that when I try to preview my project in the Edit view, I do not see any real picture, I only see some noise. So I've done Capture and am in the Edit view. The preview area shows a still image of the active clip. But when I select "Project" and press Play, I fail to see the video preview I'm expecting but see this noise instead. Audio sounds good, though.
The same problem occurs when I drag the triangle handle that's just below the preview, regardless of whether I have "Project" or "Clip" selected.
I've tried to take a screenshot of what I see but I always get an all-black Preview area in my screenshot. I'm not sure how to best describe what I see. Imagine you have a VHS tape with nothing recorded on it. Then you use a poor-quality VCR to fastforward or rewind it so that you see a white noise screen with those odd horizontal FF stripes on it. Except that my preview is not all black-and white, the stripes are coloured.
However, I can play the video when a) I select an individual clip and play that or b) go to Share/Project Playback. I have not yet tried to burn a DVD but I imagine that would work since Project Playback works. The problem is quite annoying still, since cutting the clips and checking how two consequtive clips play together now requires a series of actions, instead of just being able to select Project and press Play.
The same problem occurs with older 4:3 footage that I've previously captured with VideoStudio 8, even if I just import those old AVI files to the library and then to the storyboard. I never experienced this with VS8 which I used with an Acer laptop with Win XP Home SP2.
I don't really think this has anything to do with the PAL/NTSC project setting issues I described here http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27205 but you never know.
My clip properties are
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
24 bits, 720x576, 16:9
DV Audio Pal
32000 kHz
25.000 frames/s
3515.63 kbps
Project settings are the same, with Lower field first and Edit file format set to "Microsoft AVI files".
No picture when previewing a project
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Thank you for the replies.
Jparnold, the clips play well with Windows Media Player. And they even play well in some parts of VS11.5, it's just the project preview that goes wrong. And the old clips played well in all parts of VS8 on a different PC.
Lancecarr, I'll check that this evening (it's morning now for me). If having that option wrong causes anything like this, it sounds just like the obvious simple thing I might have missed.
Jparnold, the clips play well with Windows Media Player. And they even play well in some parts of VS11.5, it's just the project preview that goes wrong. And the old clips played well in all parts of VS8 on a different PC.
Lancecarr, I'll check that this evening (it's morning now for me). If having that option wrong causes anything like this, it sounds just like the obvious simple thing I might have missed.
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Riv, Hello again quite scary this you have exactly the same camera as me!
Anyway I did have this issue on VS8 using my old machine,
I even made a DVD and that worked fine, just I couldn't preview in VS, or in Windows media.
I finally corrected it by updating the driver for my video card of all things.
(original machine was 98 then updated to XP which may account for it).
A few things I noticed was saving project as mpeg1 worked, just mpeg2 didn't.
I saved an mpeg2 and tried it at work, that worked also.
This then lead me down the video driver update.
Good luck.
Anyway I did have this issue on VS8 using my old machine,
I even made a DVD and that worked fine, just I couldn't preview in VS, or in Windows media.
I finally corrected it by updating the driver for my video card of all things.
(original machine was 98 then updated to XP which may account for it).
A few things I noticed was saving project as mpeg1 worked, just mpeg2 didn't.
I saved an mpeg2 and tried it at work, that worked also.
This then lead me down the video driver update.
Good luck.
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Yes, this was it! Many thanks for the quick help. I must say I feel slightly embarrased for not having realised this myself but I still wonder why previewing a Clip was different from previewing the Project in the same view. But the main thing is that this works now.lancecarr wrote:Try going to File | Preferences | Instant Playback Target and check to make sure Preview Window is selected.
Scotty, I'm glad I didn't need to update any drivers to make this work. But I'll remember now that you have just about the same system and history as I do, so I know who to ask if I encounter any other weird issues
