VideoStudio 6 Crashes In XP H.E.

[MJC]

I purchased Video Studio 6 Upgrade a few days ago and played with it and everything seemed to work fine. Then I started a BD project with stills and DV from my Sony DV camcorder. When I went to the trim bar on the project window and moved it VS would crash and the MS message would come up and ask me if I would like to send a report. I did three times, but it crashed four times. If I drag the trim bar real slow it works O.K. I had VS 5 and did not have this problem, if I dragged a little to fast the hour glass would come up and then everything went back in order. Also I cannot trim a Video clip with my keyboard arrows, I could in VS 5. I have a 1.2ghz Athlon, 1,024 megs of ram, a ATI AIW Pro Video Card, plenty of hardrive space. I am running Windows XP H.E. I have the latest ATI drivers on. I emailed Ulead but they cannot email me back because they are off for the Chinese New Year for a few weeks. NO JOKE

[Foofighters02]

When i tried the demo for ulead video studio it also crashed on me. that was in only an hour worth of use. Word is that Ulead customer support is terrible, almost non-existant. (similar to sonic). my word of advice is to drop Ulead and go with Adobe Premiere or if your on a tight budget use Pinnacle Studio 7

good luck

[Trainman]

The VS6 trial crashes on me within 5 minutes of use every single time. Windows98SE, 733mhz, 128ram.

On the other hand, Pinnacle Studio DV 7 has been great, so long as I output to mpeg2 (which appears like it's stuttering or strobing when played), then do a final mpeg2 encode with ULEAD DVD MovieStudio (which corrects the stuttering/stobing -- actually making the end result look quite perfect!).

[Rich927]

I also have upgraded to VideoStudio 6, running under XP H.E. i have not had any problems. My computer has 256 meg of memory. when I do use VideoStudio, I turn off my Virus checker, lock my internet connection and shut down any background programs. This assures me of having more resource. I have done DV AVI/MPG-1 projects as long as 42 minutes. what I do to save time and hassle, is that when I capture from my Firewire, I use the scene detection feature. this breaks up the scenes into smaller files. A 20 minute capture may have 20 scenes or more. So, now whwn I edit, I just pull up the scene I want to work on. Now that the file is smaller, it's easier to work with and doesn't use up a lot of resources. also when I archive the project, I can save the files over a set of CD's. Instead of having a file of 6gig, I have a set of smaller files around 12-150 meg. These files are much easier for Video Studio to work with. Hope this helps

[bobman]

Have the same problem withVS 5 running on XP/Sony VAIO (512 MB RAM). Read a tip that changing virtual memory to 1.5X of RAM will eliminate the problem.

I tried it and it did seem to help, BUT, it still crashes (i.e. have to shut off and reboot system) sometimes on trimming. Wish we could find the real solution as it renders the software almost unusable. Just when you're tooling along and you start to like VS, this bug rears its ugly head.