Bandicam videos unreadable by Corel VideoStudio X6

[EricBuist]

Hi,

I need to do some editing on captures made using Bandicam before uploading to YouTube, but Corel VideoStudio just refuses to open the video files, telling the format is not recognized. Only Windows Media Player can play them. Since I purchased this computer, I am experiencing issues after issues. Each and every software I am trying have problems leading to a wall taking me days of work to solve. I am about to give up and stop using that machine, but I need to understand why the hell this is happening. With my Pentium D computer running Windows 7, I was able to capture videos with FRAPS and edit them with Corel VideoStudio. Now with that Core i7, even with a NVIDIA graphic card, FRAPS crashes all the times and BandiCam, which I tried as a replacement after the failure of many others (EzVid, Total Screen Recorder, Dxtory), produces unusable video files. There is absolutely no good way to convert these videos. All Windows applications for this are just pain, offering a multitude of useless and nonsense options and just taking years to process a single video. There are some Linux conversion tools I had success with in the past, but the command line is so complex that it takes hours to figure out.
It is easy to blame BandiCam and stop there. I did this error myself before thinking that VideoStudio should be able to open videos in MPEG format. VideoStudio was my only choice, because the other candidate, Premiere Elements, is unusable, with too small fonts impossible to enlarge. BandiCam is the only way I found to record videos with audio. Other tools are just unusable (Total Screen Recorder even impossible to start), impose music I don't want (EzVid) or make the game freeze temporarily and audio stuter (Dxtory). FRAPS, which was working great under Windows 7, is unstable with Windows 8, making the screen flicker and finally freezing the game all the times. I am to the point of considering the purchase of HDMI input card and recording the screen output with another computer!

Anyone had success with editing Bandicam videos using VideoStudio? Maybe this is yet another Windows 8 issue so I now need a second computer running Windows 7, or REINSTALL everyting again with Windows 7 (seems I will have to do this every weekend now). Thanks in advance.
But if Windows 8 is the issue, that means EVERY, I SAY EVERY new computer is unusable! This is a major problem for home computing.

I also posted on Bandicam forum: http://www.bandicam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1919.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[lata]

Hi

First you posted here:-
http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 66#p269066
regarding a similar issue yet did not reply to our posts

Corel Video Studio does have its own Screen Capture facility, have you tried that.?

And Given that you seem to be having many problems with a variety of programs it does seem to indicate a pc issue

However there was a post referring to Bandicam and Video Studio not recognising the files, I think from memory it was a codec issue.
Can you do a search of the forum for Bandicam, I cannot recall whether the problem was solved or whether the poster simply gave up.

[EricBuist]

Hi,

The Bandicam problem is solved. I tried to import a directory of recorded files and only some of the files could not be read. Maybe these files are flawed, so at least I have most if not all my recorded material in.

If this is a PC problem, I am quite stuck, because I am getting no help other than "Try to reinstall, try to change RAM, etc.", which is just pointless loss of time.