Weird sound and continual crashes uvs 10

[pedro26]

Hi

Problem number 1

I place a library media file (video footage from a Sony/JVC 8cm mini DVD camcorder) into my timeline. If I play it as a clip the intro wedding organ music is fine, but if I play it as 'project' (its the only item in the project timeline) the organ sound (and singing) warbles in a weird way, switch back to playing as 'clip' in the same preview window the sound is fine. ? any ideas as to why ?

[EDIT After a bit of research I found sjb's post about what is the difference between the project and the clip. When you play the clip vs simply does that, i.e. refers to the original file (so that's why it plays ok), but when you play project it still uses the original file but applies your editing instructions to it. Steve uses the analogy of cookbook instructions telling uvs what to do to the the original file, before playing it. So it is those instructions which are somehow corrupting the sound. Now why and how to fix ?]


Problem no. 2

I'm on a a fairly clean Windows XP system (fresh re-install) that has done UVS 10 DVD production in the past without a great deal of bother once I followed sjb's and Ken's instructions on video profle proper work flow etc. (that was patched at the time and I think I had deleted(following advice) or altered uvs.ini. But with my latest project UVS 10 is continually crashing out when playing a bigger project which has the same clip as the above as the first scene. It plays for about 15 seconds then there is an application error when one memeory location seems to be trying to read itself.

THe new installation is uvs 10 plus, un patched and with uvs.ini still in place I guess.

Maybe there is now something weird about the project file, but this week I have put a lot of work ointo grafting together about 95% of mini DVD footage with ~5% of DV tape footage. The first thing I inserted into the timeline was the DV tape, but mini DVD is now the first item and dominates the project, but project properties are set to match the 5% DV tape bit rather (first item that was put into timeline) than the mini DVD. I thought it might be more forgiving towards mini DVD, than its natural settings for a mini DVD would be towards DV tape bit. Correct ?

Any tips ?

BTW Weren't the old patches for uvS 10 just to make it work with Vista ? (Think I did apply them to this machine though, which has always been an XP machine.

Any advice gratefully accepted,

Thanks in hope.

[lata]

Hi

First update the program to include all patches.
There is a link at the top of the forum for Patches and Updates.

Project Properties, I doubt if these are causing the poor playback, but have you set the properties to match your video file, I assume you have “Show Messages when Inserting first Clip…2 selected via preferences.

You can set the project properties manually to match the DVD video.
Interlacing, can you check this with regards to both video types, MiniDV will use Lower field, the DVD may use Upper field, given that this is 95% of the footage you should set project properties as DVD type.


Workround……….
Mini DV type video DV-Avi should be the easiest to edit, I am surprised it is giving problems.
As its only 5% of the movie you may wish to convert the DV-Avi to the same settings as your DVD footage, I assume that is Mpeg2?

Update
Sorry I may have misunderstood which video type is giving problems, can you provide details of the DVD video properties.
Right click a clip in the timeline and select properties, what are they.?

Take a snapshot of the window, create an image and Attach to your post.

[pedro26]

Hi Lata,

I'm afraid that all the updates and patches to UVS10+ have been removed by the new owners of the brand. Previously there was an FTP site, which you got linked to. Strangely the 5 in 1 patch exe for UVS9 is still operative from the ftp site.

Looking back in the forum archive this seemed to hit a lot of people, instruction at memory referenced memory location could not be read.

Sometimes it was faulty UVS downloads (mine's a CD)
sometimes it was DEP
sometimes it was faulty ram (i'll check tonight)
sometimes it was conflicts with quick time, real player, alternative real player, QT < VLC etc.
sometimes it was virtual memory too low
sometimes rendering a project more than once

Cheers

[lata]

Hi

Hmm, the update patches were available but as you say the links now go from X2.

Attached is a pdf containing links to VS 10 update patches.

Hope that helps

UVS10_Eng.zip

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[pedro26]

Thanks Trevor,

I applied all those patches except for the vista, and now UVS will not launch at all. Here is the message Security box unable to load the library "TBYB" see attached

[lata]

Hi

Upps………….

TBYB is the “Try before you Buy, I guess you should not have installed that patch.
Strange that in installed anyway as the installer recognises the version type, then installs or not.

Your best option is to re-install the program doing a clean install. That will remove all patches
Re-Installing would have been the next option anyway.

[pedro26]

Trevor,

I did the recommended clean re-install, and based it on the instructions given on the forum by sjj for UVS9 modified for version 10. Installed the base package, then the number one patch and the burning patch, and left it at that.

In my normal profile that got rid of problems 1 and 2. Thanks for the patches ! I think it was obviously those that did the trick (I didn't even have to go in and change the uvs.ini file (i.e. add the line Advance=1).

In my video profile problem 1 was eliminated, but I still got the application error instruction at memory location xyz referenced the same memory location. memory can be read etc. with a option to debug (which every on knows is useless to the normal user) and UVS crashed out.

(BTW I was getting this error for UVS (has to close) without even launching the UVS package !! So I figured that something UVS related was launching in the background)

So I went back into my normal profile and in the advanced tab of the system program of control panel I added as DEP exceptions all the UVS related exe files.

Up to press that seems to have cured the problem with the application error even in my video profile (I had had a proble with that as I had disabled so many services that I was getting no sound in my video profile. I use kx drivers with soundblaster card. None of those could even be seen in control panel ...device manager. Obviously I had disabled at least one service too many, but which one ? It was not windows audio, with the time my old PC takes to re-boot and go in and out from the video profile to the admin profile checking them one by one was not viable. So re-enabled most of them and them checked out the links in sjj's original article on creating a video editing profile. Two of them are gone, but the gamer and elder geek links still work. So I used them to select which services to disable. I still probably have more services.msc enabled than is necessary in my video editing profile, but at least my sound works in that profile now !

I played the project through from begining to the end and the only problem is (not a UVS problem I assume) that on the last section which is a mini DVD clip there are two scenes. Somehow it confuses the player where one ends and the other starts. The timer seems to freeze then eventually it jumps to the second scene.

There is something strange about this mini DVD. To get the video file recognised I re-named (as for the others) its file type from *.VOB to *.MPG, and I tried importing it into windows movie maker. With the other two mini DVDs these as normal indicated % progress on the lower advancing bar, but with this clip the bar went across to the end immediately and the progress timer was not showing percentages but a large number in the millions which was constantly changing. Each time the import was attmpeted the same result was produced. At some point the 940 MB file was imported into windows movie maker (the other files of a similar size were reported as 0.9GB, maybe something maybe nothing). I need to check it that also behhaves strange at the scene transition.

[I also have a limited bundled version of cyberlink power director, and in case the issue with UVS10+ wasn't resolved as a Plan B I've also been capturing the DV tape output and importing the mini DVD to that. There is no Dolby decoder in that software, so I've had to convert it 'slightly' using freemake to change the sound codec (if that's the correct terminology). I don't know what happens at that iffy scene transition yet, as it had been a long evening and I had two separate PCs on the go, my old XP machine with UVS10+ installed and a fairly modern PC with power director, and after several hours it was time to call it a day.

Cheers,