"Camera roll" folder crashes VS X5 and other problems

[Kizzume]

Just accessing the "camera roll" folder crashes VS X5. I have to copy every video I want to edit from that folder to somewhere else in order to edit them. FLAT OUT LOCKS UP AND CRASHES if I access the Camera Roll folder in VS X5 in Windows 8.1.

Crossfade is extremely buggy, it leaves pops and sometimes even cuts out the sound completely if one is using a crossfade on a video that has the sound already on it. I usually end up having to record the output of the audio from VS X5 through "stereo mix" with Audacity, save it as a wav, and then mix it into the video again later while muting the original video.

Crossfades are extremely glitchy in general when using AVCHD, the only high quality format that doesn't degrade the sound to oblivion.

Saving as an HD MP4 results in such bad sound degradation that it's almost not usable if it contains music, everything above 12k is pretty much completely hosed.

Thumbnails will randomly unlink themselves, and when you try to re-link them, even though they're there, it doesn't know how to get the name, so you either have to type it in again or select it from the list.

Are these things fixed in X6?

[Kizzume]

Never mind. Microsoft Movie Maker seems to have taken care of my needs without any of the issues I've been having with VS X5. It even has the crossfades that I was looking for without it messing up the sound with pops or other visual glitches. I can add annotations, I can pretty much do everything I bought VS X5 for.

A FREE PROGRAM shouldn't work better. It really shouldn't. I just found out I can even insert an audio track.

I can't see any reason anymore to stick with Corel VideoStudio X5. Buggy pile of garbage. The final straw was today when it prematurely cut off video clips that play just fine in different media players, but it just wants to cut off like 5 seconds of my video, no explanation, nothing, it just randomly started cutting my video clips off and there was nothing I could do about it.

I'm glad Microsoft finally updated their Movie Maker to be something worth while. It certainly blows away Corel VideoStudio X5 now. I wonder if Corel will eventually drop VS altogether--I wonder if VS X6 is actually much better than X5--if not, I just can't see this being a product that sells anymore.

[canuck]

Just accessing the "camera roll" folder crashes VS X5. I have to copy every video I want to edit from that folder to somewhere else in order to edit them. FLAT OUT LOCKS UP AND CRASHES if I access the Camera Roll folder in VS X5 in Windows 8.1.

Crossfade is extremely buggy, it leaves pops and sometimes even cuts out the sound completely if one is using a crossfade on a video that has the sound already on it. I usually end up having to record the output of the audio from VS X5 through "stereo mix" with Audacity, save it as a wav, and then mix it into the video again later while muting the original video.

Crossfades are extremely glitchy in general when using AVCHD, the only high quality format that doesn't degrade the sound to oblivion.

Saving as an HD MP4 results in such bad sound degradation that it's almost not usable if it contains music, everything above 12k is pretty much completely hosed.

Thumbnails will randomly unlink themselves, and when you try to re-link them, even though they're there, it doesn't know how to get the name, so you either have to type it in again or select it from the list.

Are these things fixed in X6?

I have never experienced any of the problems you describe. Crossfades work exactly as they should,. HD mp4 gives excellent sound. I have no idea what you mean by "Thumbnails will randomly unlink themselves".

None of the problems you describe need fixing in X5 or X6. Most likely there is something corrupt in your system and it may be related to the W8 system you are using

BTW, what is a "camera roll" folder?

[Kizzume]

HD mp4 on VS X5 has *never* given excellent sound, it has always been degraded, on previous versions of VS as well, which is why I didn't use it normally. AVCHD has been the only good format, but that has problems with crossfades, and did on previous versions and on previous versions of the OS. My last system was Windows 7, and it had exactly the same issues on that.

Maybe you're one of the types who can't tell the difference between an mp3 and a wav. Who knows. A lot of people can't even hear anything above 12khz anyway because their hearing is so shot or they just never noticed it from the beginning.

As far as the thumbnails thing--if the files are in the wrong folder, like Downloads, and I load in a bunch of videos into the interface so it shows the thumbnails, if I quit VS X5 and come back to it, most of those thumbnails will have a yellow box on them, and if I click on any of them, they're no longer linked, and it asks if I want to re-link them, and of course when I do, it forgets the name of them and I have to select the file by hand.

None of the problems you describe need fixing in X5 or X6. Most likely there is something corrupt in your system and it may be related to the W8 system you are using

BTW, what is a "camera roll" folder?

The Camera Roll folder is the standard folder Windows uses to store files recorded with the standard Camera app that comes with Windows 8. If you don't know this already, then you don't really know much about Windows 8 and probably can't speak much for whether X5 needs fixing for Windows 8 machines.

VS X5 locks up and crashes immediately as soon as you click on any file in the Camera Roll folder (not actually OPEN it, but just single-click on any of them).

The Camera app is what I use to record most of my videos now. It's a really nice app for doing that, it works well. I hated how I had to copy the files it saved to a different location in order to edit them in VS, but I don't have to worry about that anymore, now that I've switched to the newer Movie Maker.