VSX2 multi-trim won't work

grampanick · Post by **grampanick** » Sat May 16, 2009 5:26 pm

I just bought X2. Cllip multi-trim freezes up. doesn't respond to click OK or CANCEL. I tried the same avi clip in VS11+ and multi-trim worked fine. The avi clip is 728MB. I removed and reinstalled VSX2 but muti-trim still doesn't work. Single trim works OK.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:32 pm

You wrote:....It's an AVI file ......

Sorry but that doesn't help much.
There are a small handful of file extensions that describe that a computer file is a video. These include
avi, mpeg, mov, rm, wmv, qt, swf
Plus a few others.
Think of these as groups of a certain form of video, within those groups are lots of individuals. Liken this to animals, there are dogs, cats, snakes, birds, rodents and so on.
Within these groups are several types. For instance a dog can be a Poodle, Jack Russell, Alsatian, King Charles, Greyhound etc.

The term avi can mean any one of perhaps a hundred different types such as DV, MPEG4, uncompressed, MJPEG, DivX, Xvid, RLE, YUV, Cinepak and lots more.

You need to be more specific.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:31 pm

Following on from Steve's reply, can you please right click on the AVI file inside Video Studio, either in the timeline or in the library window, and copy ALL its properties here please. Then we will have a better idea of exactly which flavour of AVI we are dealing with.

grampanick · Post by **grampanick** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:48 pm

It is a Microsoft AVI -- Open DML -- DV Video Encoder--Type 1, 24 bits, 720 x 480. I hope this helps. Thanks for your effort.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:18 pm

Where is your working folder set to? An external USB or Firewire HDD, a separate internal HDD, or another partition on the same drive? It works fine on my system, which is an older desktop PC running WinXP, using the same type of file, only twice as large as yours. I have 2 internal HDDs, and my working folders are set to my second HDD.

If the video file your using or your working folder is set to an external drive, try changing it to an internal drive and see if you still have the problem.

grampanick · Post by **grampanick** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:38 pm

my working folder was set to the C:drive I changed it to the other internal drive the E: drive but it still won't work.

grampanick · Post by **grampanick** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:45 pm

i found the answer on a previous post using search "multi-clip video ' I had just been searching for multi-clip. the answer is to hit the enter key, NOT clicking on OK. Thanks for your help: