vs 7

[roopydoopy]

i got this prog with a phillips dvd writer. i have it installed before, but my installation now always crashes. i get the error report message, but i cannot copy the text to send to corel. any advice? my system is easily fast and big enough t cope with video editing.

thanks

roopy

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forums!

You say your computer is easily big enough and fast enough to deal with video editing. But we don't know that since you never filled out the questions we asked during the registration process about your computer set-up. We ask it then since inevitably we need to know about your computer, and it saves having to ask for it now!

We also don't know what kind of video you are trying to edit. If, for instance, it is from a modern AVCHD high definition camcorder, or even an HDV one, there is no hope in the world that VS 7 is going to be able to deal with it in any shape or form. VS 7 is, in technological terms, positively ancient. I started off my video editing life with it about 8 years or more ago. It's a good program, but that was then and a lot of technological water has flowed under the bridge since then. Moreover, if it came with a DVD burner, it is likely to be an SE (Special Edition) which means that it has been crippled in various ways. And back then, there were VS 7 SE editions which could not even write DVDs -- only VCDs and SVCDs... It had to be called 'VS 7 SE DVD' for it to be able to burn a DVD.

So we need to know what kind of video you are dealing with, where it came from, how you captured it etc. And what you are trying to do with it.

Please have a look at this sticky post at the top of this forum -- it is called, indicatively, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?p=41454#p41454 Then get back to us with the information requested and hopefully someone will be able to help.

As for copying the error message to send to Corel, don't you have any screen capture program? Or a pen and paper?

[roopydoopy]

i understand what you are saying, here is the info. I have some small mpeg video files which i am trying to use in vs7. i appreciate its ancient, but it should still work without crashing. every time i use it, i load some video, when i start to play it, it crashes.


Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.25 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded

Board: nVidia-nForce2
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 10/07/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
873.03 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
814.62 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON LTR-12101B [Optical drive]
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y120L0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y3LC8GCE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy
USB-HS WDC WD2500BB-00R USB Device [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 4
WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WCAT00230434, rev 05.04E05, SMART Status: Healthy
Zio Corp CF Card CF USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Zio Corp Multi Card MS USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3 1280 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 122.93 GB 101.76 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.11 GB 477.32 GB free
i: (FAT32 on drive 4) 250.00 GB 235.54 GB free

[Ron P.]

One would think that it should not crash, at least not that often. However we know something of your system now, but not really much about the video file you're trying to edit, or if you can even insert a video file to the time-line or library.

MPEG file, are they MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4? If it is MPEG-4 then I'm sure VS 7 does not support them. If it is MPEG-2, they could still be a high-def video file, which as Ken advised, VS 7 will not be able to edit.

What are you doing when the crash occurs? Does it crash by just launching the program? Does the crash occur when trying to insert a video file? Does it occur when trying to edit, and if so, what specifically are you doing?

[roopydoopy]

they are mpeg 4. i have also a trial version of vs 11 i think it is. this has the same problem. i can import to library, then when i drag to timeline, perhaps after the first insert or the third maybe, the crash happens. could it be drivers? i installed all the options, real player etc.

thanks

roopy

[roopydoopy]

i may have solved it. vs 7 and 11 work with wmv, so maybe mpeg is too demanding. no crash when editing timeline so far. fingers crossed, thank for all your suggestions.

roopy

[Ken Berry]

Which camera did your mpeg-4 come from? Is it high definition? Since you can at least import it into the VS library window, can you please right click on one of the files and copy ALL its properties here please.