Hi
Have you installed the Windows 7 patch for X2
Power Calibration Failed (When Burning)
Moderator: Ken Berry
Hi Trevor,
Let me just add one or two points:
Please keep in mind the issue with the disc compatibility is solved, after I burned one of those ISO files using Windows burner. You may have missed that point, but I reported it a couple of days ago.
Then, after what I did today, using the same drive and the same discs, would be further proof that there is no incompatibility there.
And, last but not least, I did what you recommended and, voila, it worked. As I write this note, the burning process started, using the same discs and the same drive, in the machine that runs on Windows 7... I'm crossing my fingers...
And I'll let you know...
Endless thanks.
P.S. -- Just read your latest post... I didn't even know there was one!!! I'll look at that immediately. Thanks.
Let me just add one or two points:
Please keep in mind the issue with the disc compatibility is solved, after I burned one of those ISO files using Windows burner. You may have missed that point, but I reported it a couple of days ago.
Then, after what I did today, using the same drive and the same discs, would be further proof that there is no incompatibility there.
And, last but not least, I did what you recommended and, voila, it worked. As I write this note, the burning process started, using the same discs and the same drive, in the machine that runs on Windows 7... I'm crossing my fingers...
And I'll let you know...
Endless thanks.
P.S. -- Just read your latest post... I didn't even know there was one!!! I'll look at that immediately. Thanks.
Hi Trevor,
X2 patches: I must take back what I said before. When I got to Corel's Patches & Updates page, I could tell right away that I had been through it before. Actually, I even sent an email to Corel complaining about the fact that they caution clients to be sure to have installed the last updates before downloading "this most recent update"... They even showed how to find out the version installed... Without ever specifying which was actually the very last updated version that one SHOULD have installed!!!
I told them what build I had installed and they replied that "it seems" lika I had the most recent version... Oh, well!
Back to VS10...
Bad news... As I said before, I could overcome the missing "Next" button with the Alt+N keys and all seemed to be working fine. It started, it went though all the works and it ended with this message:
"Operation successfully completed."
I exulted, but soon find out I had not solid reasons to exult... My disc was as blank as when I introduced it into the drive!!!
To make it short: One more unexpected hurdle. I suspect it may be related to the VS10 compatibility issues with Win7.
Now I have to put this aside for a while to take care of other business and will be back later to give it another look...
Thanks.
X2 patches: I must take back what I said before. When I got to Corel's Patches & Updates page, I could tell right away that I had been through it before. Actually, I even sent an email to Corel complaining about the fact that they caution clients to be sure to have installed the last updates before downloading "this most recent update"... They even showed how to find out the version installed... Without ever specifying which was actually the very last updated version that one SHOULD have installed!!!
I told them what build I had installed and they replied that "it seems" lika I had the most recent version... Oh, well!
Back to VS10...
Bad news... As I said before, I could overcome the missing "Next" button with the Alt+N keys and all seemed to be working fine. It started, it went though all the works and it ended with this message:
"Operation successfully completed."
I exulted, but soon find out I had not solid reasons to exult... My disc was as blank as when I introduced it into the drive!!!
To make it short: One more unexpected hurdle. I suspect it may be related to the VS10 compatibility issues with Win7.
Now I have to put this aside for a while to take care of other business and will be back later to give it another look...
Thanks.
Updates... 
I have a mixed bag of news to report:
I had already been able to burn a video file in an XP-Pro machine, using Ulead VS10 and the same Matshita DVD drive as I had used before.
Then I installed and tried to use VS10 in my Win7 machine, in spite of the known compatibility issues. With Trevor¡¦s shared expertise, I was able to overcome a few hurdles that I assume were connected to the compatibility issue. However, even if all seemed to go smoothly to the very end, the truth of the matter is that I ended up with a completely blank disc¡K Go figure!...
This was yesterday.
Today, I decided to give a try to VS11-Plus, which I had installed in my Windows 7 laptop. To be sure, this was still using the same Matshita drive as always. So I loaded a video file that I had burned before with VS10 in my XP machine and went through the works to burn it again, this time in the Win7 machine using VS11-Plus.
Voilà!... ¡§OPERATION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED¡¨!!!
I was skeptical, having experienced a bad surprise when I tried to do this with VS10 in the Win7 environment. So I closed the VS11 program and ran the DVD, to be sure...
And, yes, it worked!
Summarizing:
-- I burnt two ISO files created by VS12 into DVDs on a WIN7 machine using Windows burner (this gave a passing test to the drive¡¦s ability to burn a DVD and eliminated any possible incompatibility issue between the two);
-- I burnt a video file created with VS12 into a DVD on an XP machine using VS10;
-- I burnt the same video file into a DVD on a Win7 machine using VS11-Plus;
-- I have been unable (after several attempts) to burn the same video file into a DVD on a Win7 machine using VS12;
-- The DVD drive and the discs have always been the same (Mathsita and DVD+R 4.7 GB or DVD+R DL 8.5 GB).
Being a reasonably patient man and trying to also be as methodic and thorough as I possibly can, within my many limitations and self-acknowledged ignorance (no false modesty here, believe me) I will give it another try in the Windows 7 laptop, using VS12 (X2) and the same drive and discs.
Then, if I¡¦m still thinking straight, I should be in a position to either:
-- Leave these issues behind me, at least for the time being, should this last attempt turn out to succeed or
-- If the infamous ¡§Power calibration¡¨ message pops up again, to conclude that I must have a non-working version of VideoStudio X2 Pro. In which case, what should I do?
In either case, I will report back.
Meanwhile, your guidance, suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated, as always.
Thank you all for your saintly patience...
I have a mixed bag of news to report:
I had already been able to burn a video file in an XP-Pro machine, using Ulead VS10 and the same Matshita DVD drive as I had used before.
Then I installed and tried to use VS10 in my Win7 machine, in spite of the known compatibility issues. With Trevor¡¦s shared expertise, I was able to overcome a few hurdles that I assume were connected to the compatibility issue. However, even if all seemed to go smoothly to the very end, the truth of the matter is that I ended up with a completely blank disc¡K Go figure!...
This was yesterday.
Today, I decided to give a try to VS11-Plus, which I had installed in my Windows 7 laptop. To be sure, this was still using the same Matshita drive as always. So I loaded a video file that I had burned before with VS10 in my XP machine and went through the works to burn it again, this time in the Win7 machine using VS11-Plus.
Voilà!... ¡§OPERATION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED¡¨!!!
I was skeptical, having experienced a bad surprise when I tried to do this with VS10 in the Win7 environment. So I closed the VS11 program and ran the DVD, to be sure...
And, yes, it worked!
Summarizing:
-- I burnt two ISO files created by VS12 into DVDs on a WIN7 machine using Windows burner (this gave a passing test to the drive¡¦s ability to burn a DVD and eliminated any possible incompatibility issue between the two);
-- I burnt a video file created with VS12 into a DVD on an XP machine using VS10;
-- I burnt the same video file into a DVD on a Win7 machine using VS11-Plus;
-- I have been unable (after several attempts) to burn the same video file into a DVD on a Win7 machine using VS12;
-- The DVD drive and the discs have always been the same (Mathsita and DVD+R 4.7 GB or DVD+R DL 8.5 GB).
Being a reasonably patient man and trying to also be as methodic and thorough as I possibly can, within my many limitations and self-acknowledged ignorance (no false modesty here, believe me) I will give it another try in the Windows 7 laptop, using VS12 (X2) and the same drive and discs.
Then, if I¡¦m still thinking straight, I should be in a position to either:
-- Leave these issues behind me, at least for the time being, should this last attempt turn out to succeed or
-- If the infamous ¡§Power calibration¡¨ message pops up again, to conclude that I must have a non-working version of VideoStudio X2 Pro. In which case, what should I do?
In either case, I will report back.
Meanwhile, your guidance, suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated, as always.
Thank you all for your saintly patience...
As promised, I'm back to report that I just finished burning a DVD in my Win7 laptop, using X2. To my astonishment, since I admit I was fully prepared to encounter a completely different outcome, the results were...
"Operation successfully completed!"
At this point, I don't know what to say. I'm relieved that the problem, whatever it was, may have resolved itself or disappeared, and I leave it to you guys to try and make some sense out of all this.
The facts were reported all here, the best way I could, as they kept unfolding. I don't have the slightest idea why, for example, that message about the "Power calibration" came about, why it kept popping up, why it would not appear when I used the drive to burn some ISO files, why it did not show up in the XP machine with VS10, the same in the Win7 machinre with VS11 and now, NOT EVEN with VS12 and Windows 7...
If someone has any idea of what may have happened here, I would very much appreciate it if he would do me one more last big favor and kindly let me know what it may have been.
In any case, I want to reiterate, once again, my deep sense of gratitude towards all and each one of you who cared enough to keep guiding me through this quite complex process -- at least complex enough for me, who knew nothing at the start and now I can say I know a little bit more -- thanks to you.
Thanks to you all, indeed.
"Operation successfully completed!"
At this point, I don't know what to say. I'm relieved that the problem, whatever it was, may have resolved itself or disappeared, and I leave it to you guys to try and make some sense out of all this.
The facts were reported all here, the best way I could, as they kept unfolding. I don't have the slightest idea why, for example, that message about the "Power calibration" came about, why it kept popping up, why it would not appear when I used the drive to burn some ISO files, why it did not show up in the XP machine with VS10, the same in the Win7 machinre with VS11 and now, NOT EVEN with VS12 and Windows 7...
If someone has any idea of what may have happened here, I would very much appreciate it if he would do me one more last big favor and kindly let me know what it may have been.
In any case, I want to reiterate, once again, my deep sense of gratitude towards all and each one of you who cared enough to keep guiding me through this quite complex process -- at least complex enough for me, who knew nothing at the start and now I can say I know a little bit more -- thanks to you.
Thanks to you all, indeed.
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Trevor Andrew
Hi zelopes
Sorry for the delay in replying, just been a little busy this end.
I am delighted that you seem to have managed to burn the DVD using W7, and that the other options now seem to be performing well.
There¡¦s been a lot going on here, burning discs with different operating systems and using different versions of video studio, difficult to use these as a direct comparison.
We discussed earlier the ways to burn an Iso (Disc Image). Video Studio 10 has the means to do this. The program installs a VCD/DVD Disc Image Recorder, you will find it from the Start Menu-Video Studio. Another option for burning the ISO.
I assume your next project will be using W7 and X2, I hope you continue to have success.
As for the Power Calibration, I am still thinking disc compatibility, but that¡¦s cos we haven¡¦t found any other reason. Maybe a bad batch, who knows.
One way or another you are able to create your disc, and that¡¦s all the matters, I suppose.
I am like you it though, would be nice to know why.
Sorry for the delay in replying, just been a little busy this end.
I am delighted that you seem to have managed to burn the DVD using W7, and that the other options now seem to be performing well.
There¡¦s been a lot going on here, burning discs with different operating systems and using different versions of video studio, difficult to use these as a direct comparison.
We discussed earlier the ways to burn an Iso (Disc Image). Video Studio 10 has the means to do this. The program installs a VCD/DVD Disc Image Recorder, you will find it from the Start Menu-Video Studio. Another option for burning the ISO.
I assume your next project will be using W7 and X2, I hope you continue to have success.
As for the Power Calibration, I am still thinking disc compatibility, but that¡¦s cos we haven¡¦t found any other reason. Maybe a bad batch, who knows.
One way or another you are able to create your disc, and that¡¦s all the matters, I suppose.
I am like you it though, would be nice to know why.