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Hi, hope someone can help. I have just re-installed my ulead video studio 10+ on our new pc, which has vista home premium. I got the patch for mov quicktime kindly off this site in order to use my video clips from my panasonic lumix fx33. As soon as i installed the patch i could put them in the timeline until then it kept coming up file mismatch. Although the clips went in great after applying patch in some of the clips there is a ticking clunking sound. It isn't all the way through just every now and again and very annoying. It is spoiling it, unwatchable, hurts your ears! The quicktime clips do not have the ticking sounds in until i put into the time line. I haven't messed around with any settings whatsover. Any ideas on how i can get rid of the clunking/ticking. There must be something i can do. On our machine we have quicktime pro. Read somewhere that this could be something to do with the problem? I got the quicktime pro in order to convert the files from quicktime to avi, This is what i used to do before i got the mov quicktime patch with the our old pc, but as you all know it takes quality out of the clip and takes ages. With my last machine which had xp I had no problems at all, with quicktime pro or anything else with the mov patch installed it was so easy. Any advice on what could be causing it and how to fix the problem would be most appreciative. I am at a loss.

I got the quicktime pro in order to convert the files from quicktime to avi, This is what i used to do before i got the mov quicktime patch with the our old pc, but as you all know it takes quality out of the clip and takes ages.

You may need to go back to that procedure.

Some of these highly compressed formats are just a pain to work with... Sometimes the only alternative is to convert the file to a different format, or you may be able to find a program specifically designed to edit Quicktime files. (For example, I have a special-purpose MPEG-2 editor.)

These formats were not originally designed to be edited or converted. When you run into a "difficult" file, you just have to look for a "work-around".

There is always some quality loss when you convert from one lossy-compression format to another lossy-compression format. However, if you convert it to a less-compressed (higher bitrate) format, the quality loss should not be noticeable.

Even if you don't convert the file, the editing process may require de-compression and re-compression (depending on what kinds of editing you do). The 2nd lossy-compresion step can also reduce video quality.

I don't have Quicktime Pro and I don't know what it's options are... Note that "AVI" is not a single format. It is a "container" that can contain video with any compression-format. If it can make AVI/DV files, this is the ideal format for editing. At 13 GB per hour, AVI/DV is less-compressed and less-lossy than most formats. After editing you can re-compress the file to MOV, or whatever format you need as your final output.

When I need to convert a "problem file", I use SUPER (FREE!!!) to convert it. Since I'm usually making DVDs, I convert the files to MPEG-2. (I don't think SUPER can make a "proper" AVI/DV file.)

P.S
Since your problem seems to be with the audio, you may be able to use a 3rd-party program like SUPER extract the audio to a (uncompressed) WAV file. Then you can re-import the WAV file into Video Studio and use that audio for your project. (Just like video, the less-compressed audio formats are the least trouble.)

QuickTime Pro can in fact make DV/AVI clips, and in fact that was the main reason I bought it!

I seem to recall also that one or two other uses of .mov files had a similar problem with these high frequency pops. The solution they found was to change the volume of the .mov-sourced clips in the VS timeline to just below or above the 100 mark.

Can we assume also that you have used the VS10+ patch not only for .mov files, but also the specific patch that makes it more compatible with Vista?

is it possible that the "ticking" sound is just Vista windows sound effects, and is unrelated to video editing?
JM_2

In this thread http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 506#135506 it mentions that same "ticking" sound with mov files. There is a file you can download that fixes it..

http://www.steve-jones.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/uvqt.vio