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BB · Post by BB » Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:26 am

I just installed VidioStudio Pro X2 on a new PC with Windows 7 64bit Home Premium. It has an AMD Phenom II X4 910 processor, ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card, 8GB of system memory. I am trying to create ACHVD DVDs from HD .mts files. So far the projects are only about 2.5 GB in size. I have installed both of the updates from the website. The program is very slow.... often it will "not respond". If you wait long enough it usually recovers itself. When I try to burn an ACHVD disk I always get "Out of Memory" errors. I have been able to burn 2 standard DVDs. Now with the 3rd one I got an "Insufficient Memory" error. It takes about 9 hrs to burn a standard DVD. I have watched the PC performance monitor duing this time...Processor runs about 43% and the memory usage is usually only 2GB with almost 6 GB of available. Is there anything that can be done to make this work or was this just a waste of money? I have a $189 Sony DVD burner that will burn a HD DVD directly from my camcorder in 20 minutes every time, but that is unedited.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:34 am

I am hamstrung in what I can say in response to you by the fact that though I have two computers running Windows 7, it is the 32 bit version. Moreover, one of the computers is a netbook and thus not suitable for running X2; and the other is an older P4 3.0 GHz and thus cannot play AVCHD.

However, it does sound very strange that you are having these problems with such a good computer. I can only hope someone with Windows 7 64 bit can comment.

So far, though, no one else has complained about the speed of processing/rendering discs using X2 with Windows 7. I personally have produced a couple of standard definition DVDs on my P4 mentioned above using X2, and found the rendering speed roughly the same as under Vista. A one hour project to fill a single layer DVD takes a little over 30 minutes. Note here, though, that I always produce DVD-compliant mpeg-2s of my project before opening the burning module, and use these. That takes anything between one hour and 90 minutes for a one hour project, depending on how complicated some of the editing might have been.

I also burn quite a few AVCHD hybrid discs (which is what I am assuming you are talking about) on standard DVDs using my Quad 6600/Vista Ultimate 32 bit, though using HDV as the high definition source material. There I usually reverse my normal workflow, and insert my edited project file into the burning module, and let the conversion from HDV to AVCHD take place as part of the burning process. In theory, you should not have to do this since your source material is already AVCHD. But with a HDV project or projects sufficient to fill a single layer DVD, I find that the whole process of conversion and burning takes about 2 hours, more or less, to produce an AVCHD hybrid disc.

So again it sounds very strange that you are having these error messages and long burning times... X2 was of course written before Windows 7 emerged, but so far the only reported problems seem to have been associated mainly with the missing (or rather, invisible) buttons in the burning module, and the most recent patch has fixed that. Second, I understand that Vista 64 bit tends to take advantage of multiple core computers running X2, and I would think the same thing would happen with Win 7 64 bit.

So again, hopefully someone with Win 7 64 bit and X2 might be able to offer more concrete comments...

BB · Post by BB » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:16 am

I was able to create the "folder" to hard drive this last time. It was .mts files with only a few words added to the beginning (Title) and transitions between segments. No Menu or other editing. It was a 59 minute video that I saved as DVD, not AVCHD, 16:9., surround sound. It took a little over 2 hrs to render and save to Folder. The exact same project produced an error message of "insufficient memory" when I attempted to burn to standard DVD. I then used Power2Go to burn the DVD,,this took another 15 minutes. I have not tried doing the same procedure and save as AVCHD.

BB · Post by BB » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:23 am

I re-checked.. only took 7 minutes to write and verify the DVD with Power2Go.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:36 am

The two hours to convert and 'burn' a 59 minute project to a standard def DVD folder is pretty normal...

BB · Post by BB » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:27 pm

After throwing away many more DVDs that failed than I have been able to burn... I have concluded that VideoStudio Pro X2 is NOT Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit compliant. What a waste of money. I have High Def Sony AVCH files..can only burn a standard DVD if I go to file first.. then use another program to actually burn the DVD...Can't burn the an AVCH file at all... have added the patches...have uninstalled and reinstalled...I have always been pleased with the Corel PhotoShop, but this program has lots of bugs...tried to call customer support and got a message saying that they were in staff meetings...call again.