Good evening, Trevor,lata wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:45 pm I just do not understand why you are having so many crashes as to make the program unusable.
Just thinking out loud here……….
1 / There must be a common denominator that is causing this, and yes that may be Video Studio, although you do say that “In most cases, the third-party features didn't work properly or at all.”
2 / I did ask what type of video files you were using just to rule those out of the mix.
3 / You mentioned having an external DVD burner that fails to burn discs, if you create a Disc Image ISO, ( that’s just a data file) are you able to burn that to DVD using other software, ImgBurn would do that, or does that fail as well.
4 / Do you use an external Hard Drive, those can cause issues especially if they “go to sleep”.
If you have not done so you should contact Alludo Support to see if they can help, maybe taking control of your PC.
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5 / Some users have had issues with the graphics, changing or disabling the Acceleration options may help, worth a try anyway......
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I'd like to know why VS keeps having significant problems with my laptops (past and present) too. Is it my deodorant? Do I snore too loud? Does VS have a bias against Toshiba and Lenovo laptops, or Intel i7 processors, or NVIDIA GeForce cards with dedicated memory? I have no idea.
I agree. There must be a reason, but even Corel's tech team couldn't find anything to explain why many of the third-party features didn't function properly or at all in VS, and why VS itself would often crash (usually by suddenly closing everything simultaneously) for seemingly no reason at all. When checking Task Manager after the crash, VS would often be gone from memory. Sometimes, however, VS would still appear in Task Manager but it'd be completely inactive (except that you couldn't access it or run VS again until you closed it via Task Manager).
My video files are usually MP4 files, but some are MOV or AVI files. My image files are usually PNG files, but some are JPG/JPEG files. My audio files are often MP4 files, but some are WAV files.
I have an external DVD burner for my present laptop. My prior laptops had DVD burners built-in. It works fine when copying files to DVD using Windows Explorer, but VS won't compile videos in any format without crashing, including DVD files.
My laptop only goes to sleep or hibernates when my children play near my laptop and accidentally disconnect my laptop's power supply or turn off the power bar and my laptop's battery runs low enough to trigger the sleep or hibernate mode on my internal drive(s). This rarely happens, but (for the sake of being thorough) I decided to share my observations.
I only use an external HDD for backing up and archiving files. I don't use them for projects, since all of my active projects and their respective media are all located on my NvMe SSD internal primary (C) drive (for speed). My present laptop also features a SATA connection for my SATA SSD internal secondary (D) drive. Since I never had a secondary internal drive before, I didn't know that it would default to going into standby/sleep/hibernation mode even when my primary internal drive was set to never sleep, never hibernate, etc.
Anyways, that's the only reason I know that VS has issues when two internal drives are used to store project files but have different speeds.
Alludo Support? What's that?
I've read an article somewhere that addressed certain acceleration options in VS, and I've tried VS with those options activated and deactivated. It doesn't have any noticeable differences, except that VS may run a bit faster with it activated (unless those options were put there as a cruel placebo to see if people falsely believe it does something when it actually does nothing). Haha.
Thank you for your recommendations and for sharing your thoughts. Brainstorming is always good, especially if it brings positive results!
Good night and have a great week!
