High quality saving impossible

[Gaja-Gamini]

Hi all!

Just today I found out I cannot save any high quality videos I edit in Corel VideoStudio Pro, and I don´t know why. I have this program for about three months and there were never any problems. However now, when I want to save the final product and choose the usual WMV HD 720 option (or any other high quality option), the video saves in the lowest quality possible! I don´t know what might have caused this. Does it mean I have to re-install the whole program?

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

If in the past you were able to, and now you can't, that is indicative of a change that is causing it. What has changed since then ? It could be an update of the program, update to your system, update of drivers. Have you uninstalled any similar programs, like earlier versions of VS, or even another video editing program? Have installed any other similar programs?

The WMV profiles are shared between various editing programs. So it may be possible that removing another program took the necessary codecs (WMV profile) with it. To replace them, you may need to at least attempt a repair install of VS, if you get that option in the add/remove, or Programs and Features uninstall.

There's one thing that I really, really don't like in Vista, and I assume it's the same in Win7, trying to add or edit WMV profiles is protected. You have jump through permission hoops to be able to, and how and where the system installs them. Not the same in WinXP.

[Gaja-Gamini]

Thank you for welcome!

There was one change - I installed a free trial of Video avatar. Since then it went donwhill..... But the quality decreased even before I uninstaled it.... I´m really not a computer expert.....

[Black Lab]

Even though you uninstalled the Video Avatar, it may have over-written something that VS used. You may have to reinstall VS in order to get it back to its original state.

[Gaja-Gamini]

So I re-installed VS.... and it is still not working.

[Ron P.]

You say you want to save... are you using the File Save as? If so this just saves the Project, which is a VSP file, it is not a video file of any sort. You should see when you go to the final step in the editor (advanced editor, not the easy edit garbage), the option under Create Video file, these options:

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Are you saying that you don't? Then when you select the WMV option and 720p, what happens? You should then see Create Video File dialog window, where you provide a name for your video file, the location to save (render) it to, and some other options. Do you? When you set it to render your new video file, does VS proceed to render the file?

Ok also try selecting the Custom option under the Create Video File menu. Then in the next dialog window for the Save as file type click the drop-down menu and select the WMV option. Then press the Options button and go to the Profile tab.

First when you select the template based option, in the Save as dialog, look at the pane on the left to see what the properties are:

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You should see those..

If not then do the Custom thing and on the Profile tab, click the drop-down menu and see if these are present on your system:

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I think that VS installs all those HD profiles, since they do have the name Ulead in front of them. Those would not be something that Microsoft would install.

[Gaja-Gamini]

Yes, this is the way I´m saving the finished projects. And it really worked fine. Usually the saving took about 20 minutes. Now it´s done immediately and the quality of the new created file (video) is horrendous. I though I may have uncousciouslly change something in the settings, but this is simply weird.

[Ron P.]

Sorry I was appending my post, I added more, please look..

[Gaja-Gamini]

Thank you for taking the trouble. I think this might be the problem. I do see several different options for WMV, but none of those posted above!

[Gaja-Gamini]

So is there any way to get these options back? (It´s just weird they do not show even after I re-installed VS)

[Ron P.]

Look in the add/remove programs (Programs and Features in Vista) and see if you have WIndows Media Encoder 9 Series. They might come from there. It's difficult for me to pin-point this since I have so many versions of VS, DVD MF, and also MSP installed. Anyone of those could have installed them. If you don't have the Windows Media Encoder 9 Series installed, you can get it from here: http://www.brothersoft.com/windows-medi ... 60854.html

[Gaja-Gamini]

Thank you so much! It works now!

[Ron P.]

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