Sorry for all my questions but I am new

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

I haven't used VideoStudio since versions 4 and 5 and really never learned either of them and gave up and never used them. I am not going to do that with 10 Ultimate. I hope you don't get sick of my questions,

1. VideoStudio X10 Training opens in Edge, I don't use Edge don't like it or any IE products. How can I make it open in my default browser Chrome?
2. I was trying to explore Boris and I found it in the filters but when I try to drag it to the timeline I get the O with a line though it and it doesn't do anything.
I also can seem to find out how to access the Boris interface where you can control everything and make your custom graphics, I watched the tutorial but for one it goes too fast and when I try to follow it nothing happens. How can I open Boris to create the graphics Boris is known for?

[BrianCee]

I have never heard of the tutorials opening in Edge before - the complaint is usually that it opens in Internet Explorer - but in any case you just have to persevere in telling your computer that Chrome is your default - and eventually for me any rate it finally got the message and now opens in Chrome - but is it such a bad thing opening in Edge - if you only want to watch a video you don't actually have to use Edge to do anything.

The versions of Boris supplied free with Videostudio are not stand alone versions and cannot be started and run independently - you need to put a clip in the timeline first - can be just a plain colour block from the 'color' library - then drag the Boris icon down onto the clip and open the options panel and choose 'Customise Filter' then you can do things with Boris


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[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

I have never heard of the tutorials opening in Edge before - the complaint is usually that it opens in Internet Explorer - but in any case you just have to persevere in telling your computer that Chrome is your default - and eventually for me any rate it finally got the message and now opens in Chrome - but is it such a bad thing opening in Edge - if you only want to watch a video you don't actually have to use Edge to do anything.

The versions of Boris supplied free with Videostudio are not stand alone versions and cannot be started and run independently - you need to put a clip in the timeline first - can be just a plain colour block from the 'color' library - then drag the Boris icon down onto the clip and open the options panel and choose 'Customise Filter' then you can do things with Boris


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Chrome is my default that is why I am confused.

"but is it such a bad thing opening in Edge" Yes to me it is the devil !!!!

Thanks for the Boris info...

[Davidk]

Edge is the MS replacement for IE. You won't see a version 12 for IE . . . Edge is it. In prior VS versions, the video studio training icon's the install puts on the desktop all initiate via IE. See the following properties panel for the x9 version

And IE is the browser that comes with the usual windows version - until win10 at least: you can use another as your preferred browser, but you can't uninstall it.
So if you use windows 10, the default browser with that OS is Edge, VS install obviously detects that and thus the default browser in the training icon will be Edge.
I agree it would be smarter for the training tutorials to detect the current preferred browser and use it. And of course the preferred browser may change over time. Try telling that to the Corel programmers or educationalists who develop the tutorials. Until then, learn to live with Edge or IE

OR using your preferred browser just go to the Corel support website, choose video and then video studio, and select from the range of tutorials that are there for the asking.

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Yeah that is the work around I have been doing, just would be better if it opened from the program with the default browser like you said.

[lata]

Hi

I usually run Internet Explorer as my default browser, yes still available in Windows 10.
But a quick test to change the default browser to Chrome seemed to fail, but going through the Control Panel worked first time.

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Default Programs

Choose Google Chrome from the program list then Set this program as Default

Worked first time for me.

[Davidk]

Setting Chrome or Firefox (or any other non-IE browser) as the default browser doesn't change the way those VS training icons work: the program invocation (click the icon starts the program at the address shown) is as shown in the image of my prior post. It starts IE with the preset webpage of studiobacklot.tv and the VS X9 (etc) pages therein.

Ordinarily, the browser itself allows you to choose it to be the default (that criteria has to be stored somewhere in the registry for any browser to find, and they do - opened for any reason and not the default, happily they tell you to choose it as the default - so why the training program could not find and use it is a mystery). But to test any change using the control panel\default programs, I did that: opened it up, set Firefox as my default browser, saved and exited, then started the training program from the desktop icon. Same result as before - started IE, inserted the backlot web address and opened to the X9 page(s). Which given the way that training icon invokes the programs, is entirely expected.

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Setting Chrome or Firefox (or any other non-IE browser) as the default browser doesn't change the way those VS training icons work: the program invocation (click the icon starts the program at the address shown) is as shown in the image of my prior post. It starts IE with the preset webpage of studiobacklot.tv and the VS X9 (etc) pages therein.

Ordinarily, the browser itself allows you to choose it to be the default (that criteria has to be stored somewhere in the registry for any browser to find, and they do - opened for any reason and not the default, happily they tell you to choose it as the default - so why the training program could not find and use it is a mystery). But to test any change using the control panel\default programs, I did that: opened it up, set Firefox as my default browser, saved and exited, then started the training program from the desktop icon. Same result as before - started IE, inserted the backlot web address and opened to the X9 page(s). Which given the way that training icon invokes the programs, is entirely expected.

if you look in videostudios folder you see all kinds of IE explorer etc. files I tried to remove them or change the names to see if I would use the default then and it doesn't so edges worked into the program so it's the only one that can work so I just laid open once copied the URL and I just pasted in chrome then I save it to a link on my desktop is no way that you can do a workaround with the program itself

[lata]

Hi

Apologies, maybe I was looking at the wrong link, I was using the programs Help – Video Tutorials option, and that does open with the default browser.

The Shortcut link for VideoStudioX10 training does open using IE, but maybe that’s because the program was installed with IE as default browser, I wonder what happens if the program is installed with Chrome as default browser.

Besides its no problem as we can open in any browser then copy and paste the address to our default browser, then bookmark, once done delete the shortcut from the desktop.

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Hi

Apologies, maybe I was looking at the wrong link, I was using the programs Help – Video Tutorials option, and that does open with the default browser.

The Shortcut link for VideoStudioX10 training does open using IE, but maybe that’s because the program was installed with IE as default browser, I wonder what happens if the program is installed with Chrome as default browser.

Besides its no problem as we can open in any browser then copy and paste the address to our default browser, then bookmark, once done delete the shortcut from the desktop.

No apologies needed I messed up too, I just realized that When I said it was VideoStudio I meant it was a program that installs with VideoStudio. There were 3-4 other programs that installed when I installed Corel VideoStudio, the one that has it's own desktop icon is called 'VideoStudio X10 Training' that is the one that will only open in Edge or IE, to be honest I have hated IE for years and feel the same about Edge since it came out. (Just personal opinion , I am sure they could be very good )
So Trevor if I either click on the saved URL of that videoStudio training or go "help/tutorials" I get the same page. what opens in Edge or IE is something that you can try for so many days and then you have to subscribe and there is supposed to be a lot more tutorials, content and other things. As I get more familiar with this software I'm able to describe the issues and problems when they arise better. When I posted it first I had just installed it and everything was very new to me and I didn't understand these things so that's why my original post was a little bit misleading by saying it was videostudio X10, I should have said it's a program that came with videostudio X10.

[Davidk]

Hey guys,
Those methods both work, but they go to 2 entirely separate web pages.
The link Trevor cites is in the VS program itself, and it opens the discovery guide to the on-line support tutorials for VS using the PC preferred browser - in my case, Firefox.

The training icon installed as part of the VS install and on the desktop uses IE or Edge to open the studiobacklot site (where, if you don't have an account it suggests you create one) and then via the training tab to a choice of video editor (Pinnacle or VS) tutorials. NOT (apparently) the tuts Corel has in their support\tutorials page.

My prior comment about the training icon using the preferred browser still applies, but one also wonders just why - when there's several tutorial links already in the program, (the discovery centre and the help video tutorials link) - Corel would go to the trouble of making a business arrangement (presumably there's a license fee involved there somewhere) with studiobacklot to do the same thing with different material. I also note that - if you are stretched for tuts and don't want the email storm that invariably comes with an account at those sites - there are good tuts available on youtube (eg, Gripps).

Bluntly, for my movie class I don't even mention the training icon but suggest for tuts a student go directly to the corel support pages and use the tutorials there.

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

I agree 100% it had to have something to do with $$ and Microsoft!!!

Otherwise why not write it so it uses the default browser. Just my opinion.

[James_63]

Hi. I was reading about your problem and I have a solution that is working for me. You have to change the target of your VS Backlot icon.To do this right click on the StudioBacklot icon and click properties. In the target text box replace InternetExplorer\iexplorer.exe with Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe or whatever other browser you may be using. Your tuts will now open with firefox or chrome instead of iexplorer. Hope this helps.

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Hi. I was reading about your problem and I have a solution that is working for me. You have to change the target of your VS Backlot icon.To do this right click on the StudioBacklot icon and click properties. In the target text box replace InternetExplorer\iexplorer.exe with Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe or whatever other browser you may be using. Your tuts will now open with firefox or chrome instead of iexplorer. Hope this helps.

my problem was with screen capture, I don't understand what studiobacklot is would you care to expand on your workaround or fix.

[James_63]

Funny, you don't mention anything about screen capture in your original post.

1. VideoStudio X10 Training opens in Edge, I don't use Edge don't like it or any IE products. How can I make it open in my default browser Chrome?
2. I was trying to explore Boris and I found it in the filters but when I try to drag it to the timeline I get the O with a line though it and it doesn't do anything.
I also can seem to find out how to access the Boris interface where you can control everything and make your custom graphics, I watched the tutorial but for one it goes too fast and when I try to follow it nothing happens. How can I open Boris to create the graphics Boris is known for?

There are other ways ,as mentioned in the thread, that you can get tutorials, such as at youtube.I was focused on the VS tutorials icon that you should have had with your installation.That icon takes you to the VS x10 Training tutorials sponsored by StudioBacklot. I was just offering you a way to get them without having to use Edge or Iexplorer.