Getting Results with VS9 - Charlie Hills

[Winifred]

I recently downloaded the book "Getting Results with VS9" from Getting Results.com. I decided to purchase it electronically because the postage to the UK is expensive. There are several exercises to do - however, I have been unable to open the VS9 files, messages appear re relinking, but when you try this messages appear either file mismatch or unable to read file. I have had support from Charlie Hills but he too cannot explain why this should be happening. The Windows Media Player files and the image files all open successully, but not the video studio files. Is there anyone out there who might be able to shed some light on this problem. Has anyone else bought the book - which is usually on a CD and if so does this work okay.

My operating system is Windows XP Media Centre Edition - which is Windows Professional.

[PeterMilliken]

Just purchased and downloaded (used the 100MB option - but am also downloading the whole enchilata). I opened the crossblur project and it asked me to relink g:\projects\shuttle\0012.mpg - which I did and VS9 reported a successful relink and then loaded the project - the project then previewed without any problems at all.

I know this doesn't provide any real help - but it did work for me.

Peter

[Ron P.]

Last night I also purchased the book, Download version. I then burn't it to a CD. I only had a few minutes this morning before leaving for work to look at it. So far no problems..

I also d/l the whole enchilada, and 100meg parts. I had a couple of CRC errors while installing. I used WinRar and extracted the files from the 100mb ones to fix it...

[Winifred]

Last night I also purchased the book, Download version. I then burn't it to a CD. I only had a few minutes this morning before leaving for work to look at it. So far no problems..

I also d/l the whole enchilada, and 100meg parts. I had a couple of CRC errors while installing. I used WinRar and extracted the files from the 100mb ones to fix it...

Can you explain the last bit - "I had etc., did you burn to CD after extraction of the files? I extracted the files from the zipped version with window XP.

[PeterMilliken]

I tried the full version this morning (I left work before it finished downloading on Friday ) and the full version installed perfectly - no CRC's or anything. I relinked one of the projects and it loaded with no problems - I must assume that vidoman's CRC errors were caused by a faulty download.

Certainly both sets of download files (100M parts and the entire thing) worked without a hitch on my computer.

Best of luck on this one!
Peter

[riverhoop]

The the book worth the price. Or is there another book out there for VS9.

[PeterMilliken]

Bill,

I haven't had a chance to read the book as yet but I have the same problem Winifred has i.e. the cost of postage etc makes getting books (or even CDs) from the US very expensive. So finding this in downloadable format for that price it was impossible to pass up We have a lovely colour printer here at work, so I have already printed it out in booklet form and hope to give it a read over the next week or two

Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
Peter

[Ron P.]

The the book worth the price. Or is there another book out there for VS9.

Simple answer: yes...
The book is geared toward novice, new users. However it also has some good tutorial style information with example files of things that I didn't know could be done with VS9..It gets you to thinking out of the box..

So far I've read up to about page 200...

[Winifred]

Charlie Hills told me I was the first person to repport to him not being able to open/relink Video Studio 9 files. Auto Music is not working either in my Video Studio 9 - no sound on playback. I know other people have had this problem, and I followed Smartsound's procedure for fixing it. However, the problem still persists. The top and bottom of this is I think is that hat my version of VS9 must have some bugs in it. I downloaded it from ULead and haven't got a boxed version. If I can prove purchase of VS9 to them, which I can, they are going to send me a link for downloading VS9 again. I am loathe to do this, as I got Gif Animator5 bundled with my download. Also it would have to be a clean uninstall and sometimes in my experiene when you reinstall you can get other problems you didn't have before. All I want to do is make a DVD - to have to sort out all these technical problems first - and I am not as technically minded as most of you out there - is making me "fed up".

Peter if you read this can you tell me exactly the procedure you followed for d/l the book, storing it, opening it and relinking it. I will then have one last go before completely giving up.

[PeterMilliken]

Hi Winifred,

Have a look at this thread for links to allow re-downloading the ESD http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=7135, Unfortunately it doesn't have any links to the Gif Animator5.

A suggestion - assumes that you originally downloaded the files directly rather than using ULeads stupid so-called "smart download manager" - is to archive the files that you downloaded (this should include your Gif Animator5 file(s)) to DVD(s).

Re-download VS9 from the links above and then attempt a full install - do not load up the Gif Animator 5 files yet. Then re-install (re-download?) the book files and attempt to use VS9 to open one of the project files. I didn't do anything that you wouldn't have done when you downloaded i.e. if you downloaded the "parts" version then running the first file (.exe) then it should have automatically unzipped the other parts etc. As for relinking, all I do is note the name/path of the original file it is trying to find i.e. "g:\projects\shuttle\0005.mpg in the case of opening projects\exercises\camera-flash.vsp and then browse for it in the path where I unzipped the book i.e. c:\tmp\Getting Results\grp-vs9\projects\shuttle\0005.mpg in my case.

Another thing you can try (perhaps first - before doing anything else? ) is to create a small project with a video clip (or still image - it doesn't matter), save the project, close down VS9, move the video clip into a different directory (which will cause VS9 to ask for a relink), re-open VS9 and the project and see whether the relinking problem is related to VS9 i.e. if your VS9 won't allow re-linking to the file then it has nothing to do with the book files but rather is a problem with your VS9 install.

Hope this makes sense, don't give up (I know it can be frustrating )

Peter

[Ron P.]

Hi Winifred,

Did you mean to d/l UVS9 or Charlie Hill's Book?

To download the book go back to his website http://www.getting-results.com/, click on My Account, you'll have to log in, and should have received an email confirming your purchase and having your log-in name and password. Then you should see some options, one being You have an order to download. Click on that link and it takes you to the page where you can download them.

I downloaded them all into one folder under My Documents. If you use the "whole enchilada" then click on it to unzip it. I unzipped it into another folder. I then burned all those files onto a CD, using Ulead's Burn Now . There is an "Autorun.inf" file included. I think that should be modified to have the CD autorun when loaded, but I didn't do that. I'm not a big fan of autorun..

In regards to the re-linking, while going through the book, Charlie states that the files will have to be copied from the CD onto your hard drive, and the attributes changed to from "Read only". To do that just right-click on the folder you copied the files to, and select Properties. Then uncheck the Read Only.

Now when you load an example project file into VS9 it will ask you to re-link, (most of them used by Charlie are under the Shuttle folder). Just navigate to the folder and click on the file that it's asking for, exampe: 005.mpg. It will then tell you that all files have been re-linked. However I have found that I need to do that each time, bit of a hassle, but really no big deal...

Hope that helps

Ron

[Winifred]

Hello both, thank you for replying. I have tried creating a small project and relinking which was successful. The problem lies I think somewhere between d/l and unzipping - although what I do not know. Charlie Hills is going to send me a CD of the book - so I will wait and see what happens.
In the meantime, I am going to try and download it again as I am really curious as to why I am having this problem.

My procedure for this is to delete the book from my system, redownload the zipped version, save in programs file folder, unzip it to "my documents" folder , delete the original file from the programs folder and try to open in VS9. On second thoughts I might try the 100mb parts.

Opening the .mpg files is fine, it is just the .vsp files that won't work. VS9 just doesn't want to know.

When Charlie Hills was trying to sort this problem out he thought the answer might be that the "read only" box in properties was ticked, but it wasn't. He is as perplexed as I am.

If all else fails, I will then have to reinstall VS9 and hope for the best.

[Klaus Christo]

Boy after reading all these problems - after download, I'm wondering if I made a mistake buying this book. I mean I havn't even been able to download it yet, paid for it but download failed and have not received a reply in 24 hrs.

[hillsc]

...paid for it but download failed and have not received a reply in 24 hrs.

I received your email at 1:04 pm my time and replied at 1:15 pm. I'm not sure why you didn't receive it, but I really would rather not have the last word on this thread to be anything about my unresponsiveness. I guess as far as "all these problems" there's one person with issues (the OP) and I'm actively trying to get it working for him.

[PeterMilliken]

Yeah, the book is fine - Ron and I had no problems at all in accessing the content. I agree with Ron's assessment of the content - I like the book and I especially like the price. Plus the access as great as well (how difficult is it to access books such as this from Australia - I visit Borders here and regularly check video editing section with no luck on VS9 - I love it when people make stuff available for download on the Internet ).

Obviously Winifred has some unusual quirk in her computer system - personally I would like to think that having the CD will solve the problem but if repeated downloads haven't then I suspect the CD will make little difference (unless there is some form of virus/unknown element in Winifred's system that is corrupting the files as they are unzipped - but since she doesn't complain about reading the pdf of the book, only access the .vsp files then even that thought is a little farfetched). It is extremely puzzling that VS9 will load the .vsp file and yet be unable to resolve the link - the file is a binary format but if you looked at it the path/file to each component of the project is easily readable and visible, so why VS9 is unable to re-link them is truly puzzling - I have even manually editted a .vsp file (I don't change the path/file length though!) and change the file path/name with no ill effects on VS9 being able to read and preview the project.

So good luck with getting Winifred up and going with the book Charlie - and thanks for making this resource available to us for a reasonable price!

Peter