Hello All
Having downloaded the Ulead Studio 9 trial version i have created a small slide show trying out all the effects. Now when i come to save the slide show to the computer all the options appear to be NTSC living here in the UK i would like this to be PAL. when i set the software up, I chose the |PAL option and just to be doub'ly sure i uninstalled the programe and installed it again however, the options remained the same. can any one tell me how to change the options to PAL
Thank You Jack Stoddart
Hi
Video studio has a bad habit of defaulting to ntsc.
I think the full version 9 has little improved.
Go to File / project properties /
Select ‘Edit file Format’ as Mpeg files
Select Edit and change the setting to:-
Tip--Use the compression tab first.(Media type Pal Dvd)
PAL (25 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 576, 25 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-PAL), 4:3
Video data rate: 6000 kbps
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo
When you Share Create Video File select same as Project Settings
You should have the Pal dvd option as well.
Hello Trevor,
Thank you for your advice re the above, I have tried every combination offered but still cannot get Studio 9 to change to PAL.
Havinig only attempted to created a slide show with studio 9 so far I decided to try and create short film... a further problem has arisen, Windows XP does not ecognise my Sony TR110 Digital eight camera, this is connected to the computer via a1394 firewire cable I have looked in the device manager box and the camera is not listed there. I have tried disabling all other firewire cables connected to the computer but it still won't work. Have you any suggestions for this problem?.
Thank you for your help so far Trevor and also the very usefull link.
Jack Stoddart (silver surfer) nay at 74 years of age tis nearly white! is it any wonder...
The trial version is not one of the best programs. I had loads of problems using it.
I eventually upgraded to the full version, which at the moment is working fine.
Ntsc to Pal
Try this
When you have finished editing your slide show, go to share create video file.
Select ‘custom’ / ‘options / compression tab / media type / Pal Dvd.
Do you see Pal Dvd as an option.
If yes change the settings to match the ones shown earlier.
If that does not work it may be best to reinstall the program,
Make sure you check the Pal option and country location during installation.
As for camera connection, can you start a new post giving more details.
Video studio version (trial)
Pc set-up
Other video editing programs installed
Type of camera
Connection (Firewire)
At the present I have no suggestions but a new post should generate further responses from other users.
But when I switch my camera via Firewire I get an Imaging Device added to the Device Manager, irrespective of Video Studio, suggesting the problem is the pc rather than VS.
Try setting the Normal Template to the defaults you would usually use for your capture and editing work. You can always refine this for the occasions when you are doing a slide show rather than a movie from captured clips.
Open UVS and Go.. Tools/Make movie manager
Select Normal, then click Edit
Set the defaults that you want for your normal video capture/editing projects and save this template as Normal. UVS should now open with, and apply these defaults, unless you deliberately modify them in File/Project Properties, or in the Capture module if you are capturing video clips. For example .. you could apply Frame Based properties for a slide show consisting of stills, instead of an interlaced LFF/UFF setting, although maintaining the interlaced mode is OK too. The opening post on this board recommends the settings for analog/Digital capture for both PAL and NTSC video formats.
Although I do not have a problem with managing my project properties I was interested in your comments re the ‘Normal Template’
I have made several templates from the movie manager, which show themselves in the ‘Create Video File’ stage, very useful.
But I have not seen a template that can be changed to set the default settings. (Normal Template).
I don't know how I came upon the Edit template feature... ie Make Movie Manager.. I think it is something I spotted in the Ulead Tutorial Videos, that recommended creating your own templates.. I wonder if many people who downloaded UVS9 actually download the tutorials as well.. I suppose some might consider them a bit Noddy-ish, but as a first intro to UVS9 can be really useful for users new to UVS... and they are very well presented.
Being a patron of PAL format, I modified the Normal Template precisely because of the UVS tendency to default to NTSC for any new project. Now whenever I open the program, I know that the settings are correct for my Normal use, and I only need to edit the Project Properties when I need to deviate from that standard.
I have used the manager from VS 7, creating my own templates to match the length of my movies, made it easy to control.
So you are saying that the normal template existed from the start, after installing VS 9.
Using VS 9, I have never seen this template, the Make Movie Manager, was completely empty, which was a bit of a shock when I was used to seeing a load in VS 7 / 8.
Strange
It makes me wonder if we are all running the same software?
Yes, no templates at all does sound odd.. How did VS9 know what project profile to open with if there was no Normal template..? The fact that it defaults to NTSC points to there actually being a Normal template, but not being displayed in the Make Movie Manager template editor doesn't seem Normal (Pun intended).
You can create one if you felt you needed it... or use one of those that you created which gets the most frequent use... just rename it Normal. Then I believe that UVS would use this template as default for any new project.
Like you, I am happy with VS9, having downloaded the upgrade (from UVS7SE) a couple of months ago, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to Jack or anyone else... In spite of the wrinkles which we see come up in these posts, it is still the most User Friendly piece of Video Editing software that I have come across..
When VS9 was first released, there was a minor discussion here between people who could see the templates in Make Movie Manager and those who could not. I was among the latter. I have in any case made my own templates, which appear. And in any case, the templates were obviously there somewhere (though I have never got them to show), since the program worked fine even before I made my own custom templates.
Re the NTSC/PAL business, I first experienced this on my first load of the full version of VS7 just after it was released. I immediately did an uninstall and then reinstalled the program. But this time -- and I must say, for every subsequent install of every Ulead product that I use (MF 3/4, DVD Workshop 1.5 and 2, Cool 3d and Production Studio, and Media Studio Pro 6.5 and 7) -- I first choose the Country option in the install process (which sets Australia and PAL), but I ALSO then click on the 'set TV system' option and choose PAL. This way, I have never experienced a Ulead product defaulting back to NTSC...
Hello everyone
May i start by thanking you all very much for your advice much appreciated. Firstly let me say i have now got the computer to recognise the Sony TR 110, how, I do not know the only thing I changed was the fire wire lead from one USB socket to another one. I now have a box asking me if i want to use the new device I click yes and hey presto the camera is there. Secondly the NTSC problem remains the same but when I get to... "create a file"... and clicking... "same as project settings"... it does show PAL (25fps) microsoft AVI files!...So am I to assume that if i go ahead and save the movie and then record it to a disc it will play in the PAL format and also on a domestic DVD recorder region 2... On the question of templates I do not understand what they are but my box is empty and partially greyed out?
(I have friend who does not call his computer a computer he calls it a confuser I agree entirely)
Once again many thanks
Jack Stoddart
I have not been using VS9 as long as some of you guys, and was not aware that there was this mystery surrounding the visibility of the generic Normal project template. It seems particularly odd that some systems displayed the templates and some did not. That must be an issue for the Ulead Technical Support group, I guess..? The Normal template was visible to me in Tools/Make Movie Manager from the beginning, and as VS9 was defaulting to settings I did not want... ostensibly NTSC instead of my PAL requirement, I decided to use Edit to change the template. Rather like you might do with MSWord.. Since then VS9 opens a new project with Normal giving this profile.
Microsft AVI
24bits, 720x576, 25fps
Upper Field First (AV capture)
Uncompressed
PCM, 44,100KHz, 16bit, Stereo
I selected for AV capture, because I have been and still am converting a large number of Hi8 tapes to SVCD and DVD. I do capture DV as well, and so modify the settings in File/Project Properties accordingly.. and of course make sure that these settings are reflected right through the process from Capture Module to Share Module.. I have also tried capturing AV directly to mpeg2 with some success, but occasionally had dropped-frame problems... particularly if capturing with audio. This improved greatly by adding a Serial RAID0 stripe to the PC interface as the capture drive... as discussed in other threads in this Forum.
I made a comment to Trevor about the VS9 Tutorial Videos.. Heavy-gang job to download if you don't have an ADSL connection, and probably considered a little patronising by seasoned exponents of Off-Line editing , but quite rightly directed at entry-level users, I think... I don't consider myself to be entry-level... having been playing with OLE since ATA33 was considered fast, yet I found myself latching on to key points as I browsed thru' the 8 chapters.. Somewhere in there was a brief recommendation to set custom usage templates.. and I picked up on that when VS9 wanted me to capture to NTSC format..
If whatever the individual does by way of template management works for him/her, then I guess that is the bottom line..
Glad to hear that your pc is recognising your camera and that you can now capture.
You appear to have captured to Dv-Avi which is good.
After editing you need to go to Share--Create Video File
If you select ‘same as project’ and get PAL (25fps) microsoft AVI files This would be used if you intended exporting the video back to your cameras tape.
To burn a Dvd you need a Mpeg 2 file.
Select Pal Dvd From the list, this will make a compatible Mpeg file that you use for burning a Dvd.
A footnote to GeorgeBW: my version of VS9 functions beautifully. But under Project Properties, I only get the basic choice between MPEG and AVI (DV) -- though you can edit these. Make Movie Manager remains obstinately empty apart from the templates I created myself.
But when I actually go into Share > Create Video File, I get the full choice of all the usual templates (VCD. SVCD, DV 4:3 and 16:9, DVD 4:3 and 16:9, MPEG-2, streaming. WMV etc). That is what I mean when I said all the templates are there somewhere. They just don't show up under Make Movie Manager. So I have just learned to live without them there. I suppose if I wanted to be totally anal, I could re-create each of them in Make Movie Manager and given them their Ulead names and properties. But since everything works nicely just as it is, and I can edit a template to suit a particular project if I want using Make Movie Manager, I have learned to live with it, as I suspect everyone else with a similar set-up has done as well!!
From installing VS 9 I was immediately aware of the lack of templates in ‘Make Movie Manager’.
Although I had no templates, on starting, Vs 9 always defaulted to a Pal template.
I have no problems with that, a big improvement to VS 7/8 which appeared to please itself.
I am able to create my own templates to use when I like, but I cannot change the default (File / New Project ) template.
It always starts with the same settings.
When it comes to capture I find the easiest way to set your properties is to use the option Project Template Value, you are then capturing to the same settings as the project properties.
I am aware that the templates may not be what I need and always double check every process settings.
I may be just nit-picking but Video Studio could be a bit more informative when it comes to setting the capture properties.
In the Create Video File stage there is a good selection of templates to choose from, without having to go through the ‘advanced ‘settings.
May-be its designed mainly for Dv-Avi capture where you have no settings to select.
