A Terrible Product?

rsm · Post by **rsm** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:23 pm

Hello,

Unfortunately i was sucked in by the marketing hype of VideoStudio 9 and went ahead and brought it. I have to say that my experiences to date have lead me to believe that this is a terrible product.

Sure you can edit video with it but its performance characteristics make this the reuslting video unusable.

I have a 3.1 GHtz machine with 2 Gb of RAM and i cant produce a video in anything under 15 to 16 hours. I actually have to leave this hunk of junk running over night before my video is rendered. I have tried all of the *share* formats available.

The resulting file is totally bloated as well. For instance my latest attempt was to take a 23 minute segment of a 1 1/4 hour avi movie. The total size of this file was about 750MB. 23 minutes is about a quarter of the movie so i figured i'd end up witha file that was about 750MB/4.

Instead im left with a 1.8 GB file that completely useless for the purpose at hand.

In my opinion this is a terrible product and i would definitely recommend that you *DONT* buy it. Try another vendor.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:05 am

...a 1 1/4 hour avi movie. The total size of this file was about 750MB.

You have an unusual AVI format. Although there really isn't one-true AVI standard format, you can't fit 1.25 hours of uncompressed AVI on a 750 MB CD. The rule of thumb is 13GB per hour. Is this an MPEG-4 file or something? MPEG-2 would be about 3GB per hour.

...and went ahead and brought it.

Too bad you didn't take advantage of the free 30-day trial.

(You can get trial versions of most other video editors too.)

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:06 am

No offense, but are you aware that there are different codecs that can be used to compress both the audio and video contained within an AVI file? Did you use the same codec(s) for your output file as was used by the source? Are you further aware that Ulead doesn't provide ANY codecs for AVI files, and that compression performance (both the speed and space savings) are therefore not under their control?

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:08 am

DVDDoug wrote:The rule of thumb is 13GB per hour.

That's for DV video, which uses a compression ratio of 5:1. If you have uncompressed video and audio in an AVI file, figure ~65GB/hour for DVD-resolution material.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:36 am

rsm,

There's probably an explanation, we just need some more information from you...

Please list the properties of your source .avi's (how were they compressed, what resolution, bitrate, codec, audio format, etc...)

How did you obtain the source video, or where did the source video come from -- how was it captured or transferred to your computer

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:48 am

Has anyone noticed that shortly after "DVD Decryptor" was pulled from the
web that people are now using Rippers to convert Dvd's to avi/divx format.
Then they try to load that movie and go back to dvd format?

Then they complain when something doesn't work.
Like a burglar complaining the door's are locked.

Hmmm.........