Dissapointing VS11

[homeandaway]

I started with a free VS 7 SE. It came with the Realtek Winfast XP TV card. A perfect and user friendly combination. Then I started generating dolby VOB files so I had to move on to a new program. At that time VS10 was the obvious choice. Never did I have to wrestle so much with video formats as with this VS10. In the Share menu the formats never stayed the way I wanted them (4Mb PAL , Dolby 192Kb , upper frame first generated by the KISS DP-588). The only way it worked was by setting a template first and then importing in the Share menu. Starting in the Edit Menu and proceeding with Share never came up with the desired results. The video format was changed in the Share menu and I never could profit from smart render. So it was not ideal , but it worked. It was a trial version

Now VS 11 is available and I would like to buy a copy. I tried a trial version first of VS11, and now I can't import VOB-files and any file MPG-file I import leads to a "Fatal error screen.... send report??" from windows XP SP2 when I get in the Share menu. In the Share menu there is no option available. Only automatic selection of the chapter is available. And when I choose that button VS11 promptly gives me the "Fatal error.." screen.

I re-installed VS10 and re-install it every 30 days untill a good version appears (of whatever brand).

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

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Leadtek Winfast XP, Kiss DP-588, Win XP UK SP2, 2Gb RAM, Athlon dual core AM socket, MSI Dual core manager, 160 GB SATA-II Maxtor, Office 2007.

[Ron P.]

So you reformat your Harddrive every 30 days just so you can re-use trial versions?

They provided patches for the full paid for versions, however the patches do not install to trial versions. These patches (SPs) probably fixed the problems you're experiencing.

Compared to your freebie VS7se version, yes VS11+ is much better. It does have it's problems, but for most editing it works fine. Where people start getting into problems, is trying to edit highly compressed video formats, and installing codec packs, or their workflow does not work with their computer setup.

I've only experienced a couple of problems with VS10+, due to system, and hardware issues. I've used it to create DVDs from DV (avi) transferred via firewire to my pc.

I'm not into High-Def video, so I'm not up-to-speed on any problems, or procedures that need to be followed to sucessfully capture, edit, and publish those formats. But aside from that, VS11+ works great.

[sjj1805]

So you reformat your Harddrive every 30 days just so you can re-use trial versions? ....

So to go through that routine every 30 days just to save just to save $100 / ¢G60. Gee he must be on a tight budget.
Over a year (going by the annual upgrade that comes out) thats roughly $2 / ¢G1 per week.
I pay more than that for a loaf of bread.

[Ken Berry]

Insertion of .vob files was only possible in VS10, and for some unknown reason, they dropped it in version 11. Many of us here regret that too.

Some people are indeed having trouble in the burn module (Share > Create Disc > DVD). For most people, upgrading their DirectX from the Microsoft DirectX website with the latest patch (November 2007) seems to fix problems under both XP SP2 and Vista. Note that you will probably currently have DirectX 9.0c, and that version number will not change when you apply that patch, but it will definitely add quite a few fixes.

As to chapter menus, the initial choice is only automatic chapters, yes. And many (like me) use that most of the time. But if you move the slider below the preview screen in the Chapter menu page, even just a little to the right, then you will see that the other buttons become active, and you can manually insert chapters wherever you like just by moving that slider to the point you want.

That's if you apply the DirectX patch and this then stops the crashes...