terrible video quality for imported vids. 22 version

[MikeWDW]

Hi All,
I just upgraded from 2020 to 2022 and immediately had an issue.
When I import videos which were perfectly fine before in the older version I'm seeing bleached out color bands across the videos in 2022 version.
I just installed the update but this was not corrected.
Does anyone know if it's the file format i'm recording or if i'm supposed to set something differently in this version?
This version is useless to me unless I can correct this issue.

Thanks all!

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forum.

Does anyone know if it's the file format i'm recording or if i'm supposed to set something differently in this version?

It's rather difficult to tell you that when you haven't told us anything about the specifications for the video you have inserted. So please right click one of the videos in the VS timeline and copy all of its Properties here or take a screenshot of the Properties box and upload it as an Attachment. It would also be useful to get an idea of your computer specifications, as that too can often affect the way a video works with VS.

That being said, if the videos worked in a previous version of VideoStudio, there must be a fairly obvious reason why they aren't working in VS 2022. But depending what your earlier version is, then 2022 does not involve any significant difference in setting up than earlier versions.

I'm sorry to hear, though, that you have already uploaded the update patch for 2022. That is causing a significant other problem with the way VS handles inserted video, and Corel is aware of this and have experienced it themselves. In the meantime, we are advising people not to install the update but to reinstall VS 2022 using the cleanup tool at the top of this forum at https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?p=329686#p329686 , and reinstall to build 472. Reinstalling also occasionally helps fix other problems and could conceivably fix yours.

[MikeWDW]

So it turns out it was having a 60 frame rate set on my camera. When I changed it back to 24 not only did the picture quality improve but the playback stopped stuttering.

[Ken Berry]

So can we assume that in the earlier version(s) you used 24 fps and only changed with version 2022? I suppose, then, that you realize 24 fps is known as cinematic quality video, given that many movies have been made using that framerate. If so, you will need to keep a close eye on the frame rate of your video -- not only in VS 2022 but all versions, just to make sure it is used consistently. Any version of VS should be able to handle 24 fps as it is an international standard. But most home users would use 25 fps (or interlaced 50 fps) in PAL countries, and 29.97 (or rounded up to 30) fps or interlaced 59.54/60 fps in NTSC countries. 24 fps is a standard common to both PAL and NTSC countries.

But if, say, as you have found, you go from a 24 fps video to, say, an NTSC 30 or worse a 60 in terms of Properties of the video during rendering, then VS is going to invent new frames to fill in the gaps from the existing 24 frames per second, and since they will be repeats of existing frames, this will cause pretty obvious jerkiness in playback, which will be worse depending on how fast the action in your video it is.