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I am trying to make a nice slideshow for my Dad's 80th birthday, he is ill and it will probably be his last.
I have spent weeks scanning in old pictures. I scanned them into photo editing software, saved them in jpg format and then loaded them into the videostudio library.
As soon as I do an edit function, such as clipping, the program just disappears, not closing graphic, no error message, just "poof" its gone and I am on my desktop.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled, I have gotten my start menu to 0, killed all processes running that I can, even removed a virus program that I couldn't stop in the task manager.
I installed the DirectX update you have posted in this forum.
I ran scannow from the run command.
And btw I did a reinstall of windows XP about 2 weeks ago, so clean install (at least it should have been).
It worked last night, so I did tons of work on the slideshow to make up for lost time. And now this morning it will not work again.
This makes absolutely no sense, because I made no changes to my computer between finishing my work last night and when I started again this morning.
All I have done so far is add pan and zoom and clip the end, so have still picture at the end of pan and zoom and added background color, and a few transitions. All images, no video.
It is NTSC format, with out put files as mpeg.
All images are JPEG 100 to 250 kb in size.
I did look up my video codecs, don't know which might affect videostudio,
here they are:
Cinepak Codec by Radius,Inc.
Duck TrueMotion Codec
Indeo codec by Intel
Indeo video 5.10
ir41_32.ax
iyuv_32.dll
Microsoft J.263 Video Codec
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec v2
Microsoft RLE Codec
Microsoft Video 1
msh261.drv
msyuv.dll
tsbyuv.dll
VDOnetVDO/wave /vudei /cidec
Vivo H.263 Video CODEC v 2.0.0
Xfire video codec (XFR1)

I hope I haven't forgotten any pertinent info.
Hope and pray you can help me solve this problem so I can give my Dad a wonderful Birthday.
Thanks!
otdyomama

I would guess that there's something about the JPEGs (or some of them) that Video Studio doesn't "like".

There's probably no easy solution if the JPEGs are corrupt or incompatible with Video Studio...

Are you using any audio files? Sometimes Video Studio will crash when trying to transcode MP3s.

If there are not too many images, you can try opening them with your photo editor and and re-saving them as uncompressed bitmaps (BMP), or another format. (The most-compressed formats tend to cause the most trouble. This is true with video, audio, and stills.)

These are the formats Video Studio claims to support:

- Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF,
IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR,
RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, UFP, WMF

Or, you could try re-scanning (and re-editing/cropping) with different photo-editing software.

Or of course, you can look for an alternative to Video Studio.

P.S.
Happy birthday to your dad! And, I hope you have a week or so to get this frustrating problem figured-out before his birthday party.

Best I can figure, it seems to have something to do when I import certain images on the timeline. All seems well for a while and them VS just closes. I think the files are a problem, but with frequent saving of the project, I can work through a project and editing if I just have to use those particular files. Sometimes the saving had to be every 10 secs or so if I really needed to use the problem source images.

DVDDoug wrote:I would guess that there's something about the JPEGs (or some of them) that Video Studio doesn't "like".

There's probably no easy solution if the JPEGs are corrupt or incompatible with Video Studio...

Are you using any audio files? Sometimes Video Studio will crash when trying to transcode MP3s.

If there are not too many images, you can try opening them with your photo editor and and re-saving them as uncompressed bitmaps (BMP), or another format. (The most-compressed formats tend to cause the most trouble. This is true with video, audio, and stills.)

These are the formats Video Studio claims to support:

- Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF,
IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR,
RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, UFP, WMF

Or, you could try re-scanning (and re-editing/cropping) with different photo-editing software.

Or of course, you can look for an alternative to Video Studio.

P.S.
Happy birthday to your dad! And, I hope you have a week or so to get this frustrating problem figured-out before his birthday party.

Thanks for the good wishes and the reply. I at first used png files and couldn't use pan and zoom, so I changed them all to jpg's. I have also tried bmp's, but don't know if that made any difference, will check to see if it does. Thanks again!