The Library

[cgflembo]

I am using VS12 and when I transfer my video from the computer hard drive into the library of VS it does not seem to be a problem. With hundreds of thumbnails in the library that I have transferred just for one project, there isn`t any problems if I start editing right away. The problem is when I boot up the computer again and restart VS half(if not more) of the thumbnails are not in the library and have to be re-loaded again, which is annoying. Is this a common problem? or am I doing something wrong, can the library only hold a certain amount? There is plenty of spare hard drive space, so I don`t think that is the problem.

[Black Lab]

I have never heard of this problem, although I never used X2 much (pretty much went from v10 to X3).

What kind of clips are you dealing with? How did you capture them?

[BrianCee]

I don't know what the actual limit is but I am very interested to know why you need hundreds of thumbnails in the library for one project - my video and image libraries have very few thumbnails in them, just ones which I may want to use reguarly - and even for project libraries I would only have 4 or 5 thumbnails, where do the hundreds come from.

[Black Lab]

In defense of cgflembo, when I capture a season's worth of a sporting event I will have 100-200 thumbnails in my library (I actually just did a quick count and I am over 200 for this soccer season, with 1 game to go). I will not use them all in the project, but they are there for me to choose from.

[Ken Berry]

... and I might add that I too regularly have more than 150 - 200 clips in the library for even what might turn out to be a 10 - 15 minute final video. I split my incoming video by scene, and this of course creates lots of small clips. I regard this as completely normal and have been doing it as long as I have been video editing. Moreover, it has never caused me any trouble...

[cgflembo]

When I transfer the video from my hard drive camcorder it does so in thumbnails for each scene I take, so after a 2 week holiday amounts to quite a few takes, hence the amount of thumbnails transferred. So I`m guessing that no one else has this problem, regardless of how many thumbnails.Which makes me think that it could be a problem with my version of VS12 or my computer.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Video Studio X2’s Library Manager allows you to export the library.
Tools Library Manager-Export Library.

This creates a copy of the library, save these files to a folder on your desktop.

If you re-boot VS and find the library is missing thumbnails, import the saved library, does this include the missing thumbnails?

Your library files are called:-
VS_Video.dat
VS_Image.dat
Etc
For XP they are here:-
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Ulead Systems\Corel VideoStudio\12.0
Not exactly sure of the location using Vista, but will be similar.

Check the files to make sure Read Only is not selected.

[Trevor Andrew]

By the way, have you manually updated Direct X,
Even though your system may indicate the latest Direct X the manual approach does cure some strange/odd happenings with VS.

There is a post/link at the top of this forum.
From the Direct X site choose the "DirectX Redist (June 2010)" option.
First create a folder on your desktop.
Download the file, run to extract the files, Run the DXSETUP.exe to install.