VS X10 Crashing

[Mist001]

I just installed a MS update, August 30, 2019—KB4512941 (OS Build 18362.329) to be specific last night and now VS X10 crashes as soon as I add Colour Fixer Plus to the MP4 video loaded into my timeline. I realise that this is a pretty new MS update and not everyone will have it so I don't expect any solutions here, it's just a heads up. I'm going to play around and see what else doesn't work now!

MS.

[gewb]

Thanks for the heads up.

How I hate Windows 10. Will activate the update blocker ASAP.

[Mist001]

Found the fix for me. Before this latest update, I used to take a video file from my camera, load it into VS, edit it, add effects and so on, then render it, et voila! That was it. What I've discovered is that I can take a video file from my camera, load it into VS and then render it into a new file. I can edit, add effects and so to this new file without any problem. It's just the original file that makes VS crash, although it didn't before. This may be a solution if anyone else experiences problems.

MS.

[canuck]

Does this happen with every file from your camera? What are the properties of the file from the camera and waht are the properties of the rendered file?

[Mist001]

Using Mediainfo, the video file properties from my camera are:

Complete name : I:\DCIM\102_PANA\P1020008.MP4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/avc1)
File size : 39.7 MiB
Duration : 16 s 200 ms
Overall bit rate : 20.6 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
Tagged date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
PANA : DMC-TZ57

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, Reference : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=15
Muxing mode : Container profile=Baseline@4.0
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 16 s 200 ms
Bit rate : 20.4 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.393
Stream size : 39.4 MiB (99%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
Tagged date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 16 s 200 ms
Source duration : 16 s 128 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Nominal bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Source stream size : 252 KiB (1%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
Tagged date : UTC 2019-09-02 00:05:04
mdhd_Duration : 16200

As for saving, I'm just using the standard VS MPEG-4 template:

MPEG-4 Files
24 bits, 1920 x 1080, 25 fps
Frame-based
H.264 High Profile Video: 15000 Kbps
48000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo
MPEG AAC Audio: 192 Kbps

MS.

[lata]

The video appears to be using MP42 codec
I had not heard of this so did a google which seems to indicate being one of the original MP4 ( Version2 ) and used before MP4 was standardised
Not sure how true that may be.
The fix was to convert the video file to another video file, of course MP4 H264 would do which I believe you also found as a fix.
Mpeg-4 was originally developed from Mov, one trick would be to rename the video files extension to use Mov, works sometimes……….

Corel knowledge base does recommend installing the codec pack K-Lite when having issues with HD video
You could try that, at least It may avoid the video conversions?

[Mist001]

I have K-Lite installed. Like I said, it only happened after installing the latest update so maybe MS have reassigned a different codec or something. It's fixed for me now but if other people encounter the problem, they know what it is now.

MS.