Too small video preview

[EricBuist]

Hi,

After I successfully imported some videos into VideoStudio, I tried to preview them. Originally, the video preview was taking a quarter of the screen. It is still the case, but when I start playback, now the video size becomes half of this (half ot the quarter screen preview). I am searching since half an hour without any success for a solution. Google always return me PDF documents describing main features of Corel VideoStudio as well as reviews of the product. I thought this could be related to the fact project properties are set to output video at 480p, but I cannot set the project properties to HD. The HD option is just not there. Seems VideoStudio X6 Pro can only work for DVD projects and upconvert to HD after the fact. I found some page showing how to configure project as HD, but the layout of the options does not correspond to VideoStudio X6. Could this be because X5 had HD and X6 has not? Would be quite surprising. Seems I really have to ask support from Corel, seems an unknown undocumented issue, but I am now outside the 90-day warranty period and don't want to pay to be told to reformat my computer. So I will try other software, be pissed off during weekends and weekends and probably end up trying with another computer or asking a friend with a Mac to do the editing for me with Final Cut (and literally wait MONTHS to get a single 30-minute video). Thanks for any help.

[EricBuist]

Seems DISABLING hardware accelaration for editing solved it. The problem appeared after replacing my HD4000 with a NVIDIA graphic card. So maybe that works only with anti-Linux ATI cards. Definitely not possible anymore to build an all-purpose dual-OS machine, will remember that next time I have to build a computer. At least I have a workaround, so can live with that. Hope this can be useful.

[EricBuist]

No, that fixed it just temporarily, then I started to get small previews again. And audio recording with Bandicam is just bad, voice being too loud with clipping. I just never had some many simultaneous problems and difficulties and no one can help except telling me this is a PC issue.

[EricBuist]

I finally found the problem. I am running with 150% DPI (larger fonts), which was screwing up the preview window for some reason. I configured VS6 to run without the scaling, fonts are smaller in the program, but at least the mouse pointer is fine and the preview works. I could go further, quite further with that, but then I ran into video encoding issues. Seems I found a workaround (recompressing audio to PCM) but yet have to see the output. This is definitely one of the hardest video editing experience of my life!