problems with corel studiox2 v 12

BETOLED · Post by **BETOLED** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:28 pm

I am frustrated and angry that having bought Corel VS recently from Amazon and spent $80 on this program, I simply can not get it to work in editing AVCHD video clips.
The problems are numerous , for example it takes over 5 hours to burn an
AVCHD disc and in the middle I get an idiotic "unspecified error" message.
Then when I try to render still images in DVD Mpeg 2- my music track is
all garbled.
This is just a couple of numerous problems with the program. I understand
Corel is now selling for $20 at Frys. I plan to write a scathing review on
Amazon urging them not to carry the product and for their customers not
to buy it.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:27 pm

I understand your frustration. (It's too late now, but Corel does offer a free trial download.)
I wish Corel would work on some of these (CODEC?) problems, rather than adding new features!

Have you downloaded and installed the patch?

AVCHD seems to be one of the "problem formats". It may depend on where the AVCHD file came from... Some files may work and others may not.

If you're making regular DVDs, you can try converting to MPEG-2 with SUPER (FREE!!!). (SUPER is a bit confusing, so try to copy the DVD-compatible MPEG-2 settings from one of the Video Studio Project Settings. I havn't tried SUPER with AVCHD files, but it's "saved the day" for me several times with other problem files.

What format are your "still images" and your audio? If you're using MP3s or something similar, try converting to WAv before importing into Video Studio.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:59 pm

Hi

Just to add, manually updating Direct X has cured some problems with VS X2.

Read the announcement at the top of this forum Direct X March 2009 Update

Rickly · Post by **Rickly** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:52 pm

I have similar problems to those of Betoled.

The first 100 times I started VS 12 Pro X2, it simply crashed with no explanation. Then I had the brilliant (?) idea of rotating my screen (normally in portrait mode) to be in landscape mode and then VS worked fine. I don't mind rotating my screen, but doncha think Corel might have told us this? The words "portrait" and "landscape" don't appear anywhere in the user guide or the installation instructions. True, the workspace is definitely suited to a landscape display, but if you can't ever see it because the program crashes first, how would you know that you need to be in landscape?

Furthermore, if there is an error like this, doncha think that Corel should say what's happening instead of just crashing?

When I finally got it working, I also could not open AVCHD files. That is, VS would not even let me open the folder with my *.mt2s files in it, even though it says it is looking for mt2s files.

Since the reason I got this program is to work with HD video, I am going to trash it too if it can't even open my AVCHD files. I'm still investigating, though, and any suggestions would be helpful!

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:51 pm

Hi

I don¡¦t use X2 (think I may have to upgrade though) anyhow. Can you explain a little bit about the portrait and landscape aspects.

I don¡¦t really understand whether your referring to VS display or images that you have inserted to the timeline.

Rickly · Post by **Rickly** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:54 pm

I really meant it when I said it crashed when I started it! I normally have my monitor physically rotated into portrait mode, and I have a utility that rotates all windows to match that, so that my resolution is 1200 wide and 1920 high, for instance, instead of the other way around. That's great for reading web pages and Word documents, but with VS Pro X2, I got nowhere whatsoever before it crashed. I would start VS Pro X2 from Windows, and I would see an opening screen that gave me the choice of

VideoStudio Editor
Movie Wizard
DV-to-DVD Wizard

Then if I clicked on any of those choices, the program crashed and I got the standard Microsoft error message: "Windows has to close this program...Report...Don't Report."

If my monitor is rotated to be in landscape mode, then it doesn't crash, etc., leading me to the comments above.

Richard57 · Post by **Richard57** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:36 am

BETOLED, you said "I understand Corel is now selling for $20 at Frys." I just checked and they are selling X2 for $69.99 and X2 Pro for $79.99.