No Enable/Disable 5.1 Surround button

[Terryjones72]

I am having trouble getting sound using Videostudio10 which is set to surround sound, my sound is stereo, but there is no "enable/disable 5.1 surround" button on the tool bar for me to try to resolve my problem with.

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums Terry,

Unfortunately I'm away from home, which is where the PC is that I have VS10 installed. I need to refresh my memory with it. However I would ask if you have installed the most recent DirectX? If not you can find the link This Thread, which is a sticky at the top of this forum.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

From Timeline View with the Audio tab selected.
There are 4 icons immediately below the lower digital clock.
1 / Smart Proxy Manager
2 / Batch Convert
3 / Overlay Track Manager
4 / Enable/disable 5.1 surround.

Do you see these icons

You can select 5.1 by editing the project properties and selecting Multi Channel Surround Sound as the Audio Channels.

[Ron P.]

Terry, which version of VS10 do you have? Dolby 5.1 was only available with the 10 plus.

[Terryjones72]

Thanks chaps,

On Ron's first point, I do have latest Direct X

On Trevor's point, thats the problem I don't have the enable / disable 5.1 button.

On Ron's second point, I don't know whether I have 10 plus, but my system does have the Surround Sound Mixer and the booklet discusses it.

I down loaded an VS X3 trial and the sound is OK.

I have also tried VS 10 on a different Vista machine and it doesn't work.

[Ron P.]

Terry,

If you have the plus version it will say plus at the end of your version number found by clicking on the in the upper right, and selecting About Ulead VideoStudio.

[Terryjones72]

Ron,

Thanks, i hadn't noticed the ? in the corner.

The version I have is VS 10.0.0100.0 This is there not the plus version. However, in Audio / Audio View the surround sound mixer functions are displayed. But I cannot disable them and go to plain stereo. Incidentally, I do get sound if a I play a clip but not when I play the project.

Terry

[Ron P.]

So you are showing Surround Sound in the Mixer? Here's a couple of screenshots of VS10 plus, one with 5.1 disabled and the second with it enabled. If your version has the capability of 5.1 it should look the same.

vs10_surround-1.png (56.11 KiB) Viewed 8033 times

vs10_surround-2.png (65.62 KiB) Viewed 8033 times

Also if you're running VS 10 on a Vista machine you need to install the Vista Patch. You can download it from the Corel website, on This Page. You will
download a zip file, that contains a PDF file. In the PDF document, are links to download the patches.

[Terryjones72]

Ron,

Thank you very much,

The first patch caused VS10 to crash.
The second patch when applied set everything right.
There is still no 5:1 button but that doesn't matter as I would never use it.
You saved me having to upgrade to X3, which would not have been good value for me as I very rarely use the programme.
Best Regards from Carlisle in the UK
Terry Jones