Share Step intro Screen Sound volume level

[Oldiehuck]

Yes Trevor it's me again
Yes that was the original way to burn SD vids by choosing in the Prefs either Instant replay or H Q - sorry can't remember the actual words due to my old memory but you get the message. Now with ProX4 there is no choice in Prefs that I can find. So it's edit and direct to burn in the Share step - unless I have got it totally wrong as may be the case these days. Yes I can interrupt the Share step by producing a video file first but why should I when the prog does not demand that??
Like you I have been SD until my camcorder failed me before Christmas so I was forcibly dragged screaming into HD and I have to say the results are worth it. I have a much easier to use camcorder and it’s still a Panasonic so I am very pleased. However to get to HD/Blu-ray viewing the videos on a TV I have had to invest in a Blu-ray recorder player but the end result is again worth it.
For editing the AVCHD I had to upgrade my PC but that again was forced on me by my old PC failing me about a month before the camcorder made the same move. I now have a quad core PC (sorry can't explain more as am not PC literate) that processes the big HD files fast and well - actually better than previous VideoStudio versions did for my SD vids.
So overall I am pleased with the change and now you have helped me with the sound level on the intro menu screen I am like a bee in clover - well something like that anyway. Yes I do agree that in their Service Pack (when it arrives) Corel may well move the edited video thru a defined render process but may not tell us that is the way they have progressed as it means they forgot this stage in the first version of ProX4!! CLANG !!!
So that's my story now our visitors have gone to an early bed as our clocks (here in the UK) move forward this evening so we lose an hour's sleep. So goodnight to you and continue making good videos - SD or even HD.
Thanx again for your help and comments.....................Dennis

[Ken Berry]

The problem is that it is not just X4 which does not contain that so called intermediary step of first producing the relevant end format file after you finish editing but before you open the burning module. It is every version I have been involved with going back to VS7. The logic in all of them appears on the face of it to be Capture, then Edit, then "Share"/burn. So most people went that way. But back in the bad old days, quite a lot -- not just a few -- users had various problems jumping straight from the editing module into the burning module. And these various problems appeared to be fixed when, after editing, the user first went to Share > Create Video File > and then selected the end format. If they wanted to burn a DVD, then it would be Share > Create Video File > DVD.

A lot of us here -- including some oldies like you (I am 62, for instance!) -- in any case have been following that workflow since the year dot. Yes, you are right: it is not the only workflow, and if you can successfully jump straight into the burning module, then go for it.

All we say, though, is that if you have problems, then simply recall that there is another workflow which will often avoid the problems. Moreover, as Trevor said, you don't lose any time apart from the two seconds it takes to drag the new DVD/Blu-Ray/AVCHD-compatible file into the burning module timeline. Otherwise, conversion time, whether in the editing module or in the burning module, will be identical.

[Oldiehuck]

Hi Ken and many thanks for your piece of history - yes I do agree that the render step has been out for some time now but I didn't realise that it was way back with VS7 that it last appeared. I started with VS4 and when a new version is launched I tend to believe - being an oldie!! and just 2 and a bit years off 80 i.e. the gullible age - that a new program must be better than the one I am/was using. And I have been proved wrong so many time now (I even bought Digital Studio 2010 so that shows you how gullible I was/am) that I wonder why I still believe that. So I follow my well used pathway and get annoyed (as now) when something happens to disturb my output as no doubt do you and others. However in general I have got on well with most of the new progs in the many VS versions I have used and it does produce me a good edited video - always provided that I am ruthless with cutting out rubbish!! My average is that with a 3 hour video I manage to reduce it to about 30 to 40 minutes of entertainment - usually of wildlife from various unpronounceable places around the world. So that satisfies me as friends and relatives who should know better keep asking for copies of our wildlife vids when we return.
OK that's enough blah so many thanks for coming into this chat forum as all contributions very welcome
Kindest regards to all........................Dennis