Issues with X3 trial version

[VinnyC]

Hi. I downloaded a trial version of Video Studio X3. I have some video clips in MPEG with sound that I want to put together for a movie. I have two issues:

1. When I import a clip to the storyboard and select PLAY the clip moves in Fast Forward.

2. I do not have audio with the clip.

The clips play fine in Movie Maker without a problem but I would like to utilize X3 instead.


I have Windows Vista Home Basic, 2.16 GHz, 3GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive. Please help!

[BrianCee]

Where did you download your trial version of X3 from ? Corel are now supplying X5 is your version of X3 from a trusted supplier - maybe it is corrupt why not download the trial of X5 from the Corel website .

Can you please tell us where the video clips came from - how did you transfer them to your computer.

please right click over one of the clips in the timeline of VideoStudio - choose 'properties; then copy those properties and post them on here.

[VinnyC]

Hi. The website I uploaded the trial version from was phpnuke.com. I used iVideo to download the clips off of youtube.

Clip File: MPEG-1

Video: MPEG-1 24 bits 640x360 29.97 frames/sec. Variable

Audio: MPEG-1 Audio layer 1 16 bit stereo 48000Hz 416 Kbps

[VinnyC]

Update-I uninstalled X3 and downloaded X5 from the Corel site. The same thing happened.

[canuck]

Can you post a link to the youTube clips you downloaded?

[VinnyC]

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgI6-E1R ... ure=relmfu

[canuck]

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgI6-E1R ... ure=relmfu

Which one of the 5 available formats did you download? I downloaded all of them and none of them seem to have the properties you posted earlier or are those for a different file?

VS X% would only accept the mp4 format file and it played correctly. the other flv file are not accepted by X5.

Does iVideo convert the files while downloading?

[VinnyC]

It does let you convert but the the nearest format to mpeg-4 was mpg. The other choices were wmv and avi as far as DVD format.

How did you find 5 files?

[canuck]

I use a download manager and when I click on the video to play, a small window opens asking me if I want to download and it offers 5 different formats for the download.

It seems that your download/converter is "corrupting" the video. Have you tried the avi format?

[VinnyC]

I didn't try avi. Just for kicks I downloaded X2 and it happened again. I tried each of the 8 clips and found only three played correctly. The ones that did had mpeg-2 audio-that was the only difference. Another unrelated clip I downloaded played correctly too so I'm guessing the clips are bad. What converter do you use?

[canuck]

I don't use a converter. 4 of the 5 files offered for download are in the flv format which VS does not accept anyway. The other file is in mp4 format which I can add directly into VS X5.

can you provide a link to a few of the other "bad" videos? Perhaps even upload one of the bad clips to a free web-hosting site suh as "4shared" or "up4down"?

[VinnyC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ3JSZBWjYc This is the first one that I had trouble with.

[canuck]

I am sorry but I have no problems with any of the youTube videos when I download them

You need to upload the video you have to a website like I mentioned in my previous post. We need to have the exact video you are working with.

[VinnyC]

I ended up converting the files into mpeg-2 and they worked fine. I don't know what I did but I couldn't get all of the files to work previously.