I am currently using Ulead Videostudio 9 (with the latest update pack) and I am running into an immensly frustrating problem. This has been going on for about three or four weeks and I don't know what the problem is. I've even formatted my computer twice to hopefully resolve my issue! This is what's happening.
I have a library of home movies that have been taped over a period of fourteen years, so, hearing great reviews and past experience, I picked up a copy of Ulead Videostudio 9. The program works great and it's full of many useful features, except this problem.
I have a DVD-R + VCR combo that I picked up to record the movies onto dvd, and then later edit them on the pc (quick and easy). After importing the DVD-VR disc into my timeline, I went ahead and edited it.
When I tried to burn my project, I did the following. I didn't make a menu, but I made chapters every 3 minutes. The settings were default; I don't change any of them because I want to preserve quality. When I burn, about 7 seconds on the timer at the bottom, it crashes, in uvsepa.dll. Upon further research, it's the smartrender dll and I think an mpeg-2 dll. So I thought it was my codecs. I tried many things to correct it but nothing worked. My pc was due for a reformat anyway, so I did that and installed UVS9 again. Same problem.
Also I tried unticking the box that doesn't convert compliant mpeg files, and it still crashes.
I tried other DVD programs, but they take too long (like premiere taking a full 24 hours to render a DVD).
Just it always crashes about 7 seconds into rendering, and it generates the same error every time. It worked for me once before, but it hadn't after that. And, I didn't change anything in between the first to my second movie. I was recording them all at once onto dvd-rws first. I thought it was the movies also, so I re-recorded it and the same problem happened.
I am running windows XP + all updates from windows update. I have a ton of free space left, AMD 2600, 1 gig of ram, A7N8X motherboard, All-In-Wonder Radeon 9000. Reformatted four days ago.
I can provide a crash log if anyone needs it.
So I don't know what to do. I am immensly frustrated! Someone please help me regain my sanity so I can preserve my family movies.
Thank you!
It worked.