FIX: Cineform Intermediate Codec Installation Crash

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:38 pm

If you install the latest version of the Cineform intermediate codec and you encounter a crashing problem with Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus, you may find the following info helpful.

Name and Save a Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus project file (.VSP) prior to any attempt to click CREATE DISC to open the DVD authoring module.

I've discovered that failure to name and save a project file before clicking the CREATE DISC (and then one of the disc options) will result in a program crash.

Hope this helps others who may have encountered this frustrating issue.

Jerry Jones

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:18 am

It is a good idea to name and save the project anyway because this will help preserve your DVD authoring - menus, texts, background sounds etc.
When you exit the DVD Authoring stage IGNORE the message that tells you it is saving your project - it isn't. No one here has yet worked out what it is saving. You must do a manual save before quitting VideoStudio or starting a new project.

If you do so you will then find that when you open that project again your DVD authoring will be intact.

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:20 am

Yes, I already knew that.

In addition, I have some bad news.

I spoke too soon.

If I edit any Cineform .avis, the program crashes no matter what I try.

If I keep the timeline free of Cineform .avis, I can open the DVD authoring module by saving the project file as I explained.

Something is broken.

I've re-opened a ticket with Cineform support.

Jerry Jones

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:35 am

My workaround is to do something similar to what I've done all along with VideoStudio.

1. Edit in the timeline.

2. Export a finished file.

3. Then, with *no* clips in the timeline, open the DVD authoring module -- making sure to have previously saved a .VSP file so that no crash will be triggered -- then after the DVD authoring module opens, I can directly import the finished high definition file.

Editing high def is so much easier on my Mac.

Jerry Jones

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:36 am

Well, it seems the mere presence of the newest version of the Cineform codec is just too much for the DVD authoring module of Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus.

They appear to be incompatible.

Now, I can't import *any* type of video into the DVD authoring module.

It always triggers a crash.

I've re-opened a ticket with Cineform support.

I'll probably have to remove the codec to get any functionality out of VideoStudio.

Man, this is just terribly disappointing.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:11 am

Installed the latest (March 2008) DirectX components from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

This has helped me regain enough stability to get some work done in my Windows tools.

But the performance is woefully behind the performance I get on my Apple machine.

Jerry Jones