Move projects from Ulead MSP8 to VS Pro X3

[Wesley47]

Hi all,

I am new on this forum. Just skip from Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 to full version of VS Pro X3.
Of course my first question is: Is possible transfer my unfinished projects to VS? And how?
Second: After capture my DV tape from Panasonic 400 to Hard Drive (with default setup and 16:9) I discovered that every few seconds video is distorted as well as sound is distorted too. I am sure that oryginal tape is OK.

Anybody can help me, please?

Thank you and regards

Wesley47

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Wesley

Welcome to the forum

Cannot answer question regarding MSP8, don’t use the program

You say capturing from Panasonic 400

Can you confirm that you are using Firewire and selecting DV as the capture format.
This will create DV-Avi files at 13 Gb per hour.

[Wesley47]

Hi, Trevor,
thanks for word

Correct, 1 hour move is ~13GB, but, of course is splited in few separate parts. I use firewire as previous in Ulead Media Studio Pro, when capture was with no problems.
I captured all 56 DV casettes (for duplicate copy reason) without check quality, assumed that all will be everything OK. But is, unfortunatelly, not OK. Any idea?

Thanks and regards

Wesley47

[Black Lab]

VideoStudio uses the vsp extension (Video Studio Project) for their project files. I have never tried to open another type of project file in VS and wouldn't expect it to work. However, since they are sister programs I guess anything is possible. Have you tried?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Wesley

When we capture from a Mini DV type camcorder via firewire we are transferring the data to the pc.
There is no re-coding, what you have on the camera is what you get DV-Avi.

Things can go wrong, bad cables or firewire card, but generally the software is no more than providing a link to transfer the video.

There is a free program called Win-DV, this will transfer the video to the pc.
You can then import to Video Studio to edit. If this improves things then maybe its VS at fault

Poor tapes or dirty camera heads can cause quality problems, usually shows as wide horizontal bands across the video.

By the way i use a Panasonic GS400

[Wesley47]

Thank you guys,

I'll dig deeper on this during weekend and let you know results.

Wesley47

[teknisyan]

Hello Wesley47,

I'm Abiel from the Corel Support. At this time, you cannot open the project file of Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 to VideoStudio Pro X3, since they are using 2 different file format. However a work around that you can try is to use Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 and create a video file of your project that can retain the best quality, my suggestion is either .mpg, .m2t, .m2ts. Then just import the rendered file on Videostudio Pro X3 and complete the project from there. This process will however degrade the quality of the video, since you the final output will be rendered twice.

[Wesley47]

Abiel,

thank you for tip. I did this previously but, you right, quality is not perfect. Maybe in the future you'll find guys some plug-inn?

Trevor, Black Lab,

I think I got it! Jerky video was produced by my new 2GB external Toshiba drive! Let me describe in short. I captured first DV tape from Panasonic to internal HD. And everything works fine.
After this I just made copy to external Toshiba drive and release space on my internal HD (unfortunately I deleted video files). When I opened video from this drive, I'd notice that is distorted. Even when I copied back video from External Toshiba to Internal drive! Ex HD was connected via USB. I use e-SATA cable-port instead, but drive is not detected (so far).
So i give up for today and I'll try tomorrow. Anyway this is problem to another forum proabably.

Thank you guys and best regards

Wesley47

[sjj1805]

I use MediaStudio 8 to capture (Transfer) the video from my camcorder to my hard drive.
I then use VideoStudio to edit/author that "captured" video.

You cannot open a MediaStudio "Project File" with VideoStudio, you can of course edit sections of the video with MediaStudio and save that edited section as a VideoFile - preferably DV (avi) and then use that in your VideoStudio project.

[Black Lab]

I'm Abiel from the Corel Support. At this time, you cannot open the project file of Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 to VideoStudio Pro X3, since they are using 2 different file format. However a work around that you can try is to use Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 and create a video file of your project that can retain the best quality, my suggestion is either .mpg, .m2t, .m2ts.

If you want to retain the best quality why in the world would you render to another file type when you have captured as DV-AVI

[Ken Berry]

use Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 and create a video file of your project that can retain the best quality, my suggestion is either .mpg, .m2t, .m2ts

I agree with BlackLab... Moreover, as far as I am aware, MSP 8 cannot handle .m2ts (AVCHD) at all, and I am not sure it can even handle .m2t (HDV) though I am not certain about the latter, not being an MSP user...

[Ron P.]

MSP 8 was dropped before AVCHD came around, and just after HDV, however IIRC, you could not import the m2ts, just the m2t.

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