Ulead VideoStudio 9 won't open, nor Media Studio...

[etecnifibre]

I get the "Program has encountered an error and needs to close, sorry about your damn luck."

Surely someone else has encountered this problem. I JUST reformatted my hard drive yesterday. Installed the programs, they worked. I installed some ATI programs, captured some video, went to edit the video, and the programs (Ulead) didn't work.

This is pissing me off to no end. Someone, please help!

[etecnifibre]

Bump, anyone?

[junkmalle]

I'd try uninstalling and reinstalling UVS9.

[etecnifibre]

I've tried that.

[junkmalle]

Uninstall the "ATI programs"?

[edDV]

I'd start over with reformat and get the ATI stuff installed first if that is what you suspect.

I haven't seen ATI drivers or MMC interfere with my other video programs but the ATI driver is currently fighting with my USB devices including mouse.

[Richard_G]

I did a complete re-install just recently and everything, including Ulead Mediastudio Pro, Ulead DVD Workshop and ATI MMC all work perfectly.

My prcedure was to install Windows XP (SP2), install ATI video drivers, install Soundblaster drivers, install ATI MMC, install Ulead software.

It may be, as junkmalle and edDV suggest, that you installed the ATI stuff and screwed up the Ulead install.

[etecnifibre]

I uninstalled MMC 8.8 (why it was still on there, I don't know, I had installed that from my CD, then upgraded to 9.6) and my programs worked again. I had to installed MMC 9.6 again a couple of times to get it all worked out, and I just went back to VIdeo Studio 7, had to get my remote working again, but it's all good now.

About the Ulead Video Studio programs, is there a real difference in editing capabilities between Ver. 7, 8, and 9? It all looks the same to me with different colors.

Thanks for the people that responded here. As you all know, it's tricky to get it all working right.

[edDV]

I uninstalled MMC 8.8 (why it was still on there, I don't know, I had installed that from my CD, then upgraded to 9.6) and my programs worked again. I had to installed MMC 9.6 again a couple of times to get it all worked out, and I just went back to VIdeo Studio 7, had to get my remote working again, but it's all good now.

About the Ulead Video Studio programs, is there a real difference in editing capabilities between Ver. 7, 8, and 9? It all looks the same to me with different colors.

Thanks for the people that responded here. As you all know, it's tricky to get it all working right.

There was a huge improvement from 7 to 8.
I haven't tried 9 yet. I'm waiting for a rebate sale at Fry's.

[etecnifibre]

Huge improvement how? I use the same exact features in each of the programs. Mostly what I do is edit basketball games to make small highlight reels. Cut the video, insert transitions, real simple. I have noticed if I get a file that is fragmented or whatever, it takes 7 forever to process anything, when cutting, deleting, adding transitions. Have you ever had that problem, and does 8 do that to you?

[edDV]

Huge improvement how? I use the same exact features in each of the programs. Mostly what I do is edit basketball games to make small highlight reels. Cut the video, insert transitions, real simple. I have noticed if I get a file that is fragmented or whatever, it takes 7 forever to process anything, when cutting, deleting, adding transitions. Have you ever had that problem, and does 8 do that to you?

I was having alot of errors with v6 and v7 that were fixed in v8.
v8 also got the realtime Mainconcept MPeg2 encoder enhancements.

I just use VS8 to realtime MPeg2 encode off the cable box (via ADVC DV transcoder) and quick chop commercials. The improved multi-trim feature in vs8 was nice too.

I don't recall your problem. Mine encodes about the same speed even with extreme fragmentation but that sounds more like a HDD issue or the wrong mix of codec formats. Make sure you r project format matches your sources to speed things up.

[etecnifibre]

I capture my video with the ATI program. Capturing at Mpeg2, I can simply pause during commercials. What I'm talking about is when I open the file in VS7, it will sometimes take forever to work with the video in general. My video will be at say 6500kbps, 160kbps audio, 48khz, ready to go to DVD.

[etecnifibre]

And now, what a joy, ATI MMC 9.6 crashes on me. I upgraded to 9.8, same crap. I've uninstalled all my ATI software, and plan on reinstalling. Lordsmurf recommends MMC 9.2. Where can I get that?

[Richard_G]

The ATI website recommends nothing later than MMC 9.02 for Radeon 9000 and earlier cards. As your details say you have an 8500, 9.02 is as late as you should go.

I run 8.9 and it works so I have no desire to upgrade, later does not necessarily mean better. Ealier versions can be found at https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

[etecnifibre]

Just updated my profile, Richard. I am actually now using a 9600XT. Thanks for the response. I did find 9.2, and have had nothing but success since.