difficulties with VS9 using album transistions

[Oldwarvideo]

Hi

I have just installed VS9 (upgrade by CD) and are putting together a wedding video that begins with a number of still jpg images. When I try to use the album transistions I find that when I look at the Project Playback that the transistions are partial or not present. Coupled with this I find that after dropping the transistions between the the images I sometimes cannot Custom edit the transistion. My PC is fast and has 1 GB of RAM.

Am I doing something wrong or is this another VS9 bug?

Thanks,

michael

[Ken Berry]

I have just looked at my version of VS 9 and have exactly the same problems with the album transitions (sometimes play, sometimes play jerkily, but after the first play, they tend to disappear; also cannot customise, and with one, I could not even change the duration).

This also occurred a lot in VS 8 (though curiously they worked in my copy), but when people rendered their final video, the transitions worked. You might want to try that and see. Mind you, I don't know how you get around the customisation question.

[MikeGunter]

Hi

I have just installed VS9 (upgrade by CD) and are putting together a wedding video that begins with a number of still jpg images. When I try to use the album transistions I find that when I look at the Project Playback that the transistions are partial or not present. Coupled with this I find that after dropping the transistions between the the images I sometimes cannot Custom edit the transistion. My PC is fast and has 1 GB of RAM.

Am I doing something wrong or is this another VS9 bug?

Thanks,

michael

Hi,

Is timeline bad in the computer or on a PAL screen? IOW, has the project been rendered out to DV source?

Is the capture CODEC and project properties a DV AVI? That would be the best quality.

Finally, what are the sizes of the jpgs? You'd want a 4:3 ratio, unless panning and scanning.

Mike

[Gra]

Hi Mike

I think it must be an inherent problem in those transitions. I have excactly the same problem in VS8. Fortunately I do't need to use them often but I'd be interested to know if there's a fix out there somewhere.

Best regards.
Graham

[MikeGunter]

Hi Mike

I think it must be an inherent problem in those transitions. I have excactly the same problem in VS8. Fortunately I do't need to use them often but I'd be interested to know if there's a fix out there somewhere.

Best regards.
Graham

Hi,

If you are using MPEG data on the timeline, and that data is highly compressed, then a number of transition will look bad.

Mike

[Oldwarvideo]

Mike Gunter wrote

"Finally, what are the sizes of the jpgs? You'd want a 4:3 ratio, unless panning and scanning."

Thanks for all the suggestions and comments. The project is only composed of jpg images at this stage, I am yet to add the video. I am interested in the 4:3 ratio for the images, why is this a possible cause of the transitions coming unstuck? The images (with various ratios) have been cropped from larger images. I will try the following suggestions:
. use only 4:3 ratios and
. render the project to see if the album transitions occur.

Thanks again,

Michael

[joosuna]

I am experiencing problems with the album transitions. They worked fine with VS8 but the disk installed VS9 appears to have a glitch with the album transitions on my computer. All the other transitions that I have tried work, except for album transitions. Is this a proble unique to just a few computers like mine or is it prevelent ?

[MikeGunter]

Hi all,

I've tried all the album transitions on the timeline without a hitch.

I mismatched content, 720x480 NTSC MPEG1 to 320x240 MPEG1 content and DV AVI NTSC content.

No problems.

If any one having problems had VS8 on their machine, it might well be that it it needed to be uninstalled prior to installing VS9. I just don't know.

Mike

[TJ2]

Hi Michael,

I was having those same problems in VS9 (could play it once or twice in preview, then it was gone). This carried over to the rendered version and was not just a preview issue. I updated my video card driver through Windows Update (per recommendation of Ulead support) and now the album transitions work. I am still having a problem using a custom graphic as the "book cover", but other than that the album transitions work great.

Tim

[Oldwarvideo]

Hi
I reported the problem of album transitions, quoting general instablity and crashing. Someone made the comment about ensuring that i should have the latest driver for my video card (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200). When I did this all the problems seemed to go away. If you are having problems do this, it seems that VS9 really needs have the best video driver.

All the best,

Michael