Can you edit Pinnacle Studio .stu files?

[madmartian]

I believe I have a corrupt .STU file as it is doing weird things like fading some clips to black even without a transition there. I am hoping I can edit the .stu file manually to remove whatever erroneous entry is causing this. Can the .stu file be edited or is there some way to reapir a corrupt .stu file?

[PhreakPhish]

is that file for the background images?

[madmartian]

No, it's the scripting file for your project, but it's not in text format.

[Redd]

Of course a .stu file can be edited...by Studio. This is extreamly basic. The .stu file is the edited avi project file. Course you need the original avi as well.

[madmartian]

That is not correct. The STU file is not an AVI file. It is a series of instructions. For example, it will have the file name of a clip with the start point and duration. Some of it is viewable but most is not as it is not a text file.

[madmartian]

I may have misRedd your post - yes, it is a project file, which is nothing more than batch instructions for creating the project. In VideoWave, the file was a text file and could be easily edited in Notepad. Unfortunately Pinnacle has chosen a binary format. Hopefully someone has determined how to edit it - or perhaps there exists a program for fixing correct STU files?

Oddly enough I dumped VideoWave because it was too buggy, only to use another product that is too buggy...

[madmartian]

Oops - that should read CORRUPT stu files...

[donpedro]

Not sure... but did you try to delete "Auxiliary files" ?

[madmartian]

I found that Studio has a mode where you can indeed edit the text entries for scene transitions. Never noticed that before. Indeed there were some bogus transition entries, causing the program to react in all sorts of strange ways. I couldn't just delete the bogus entries - I had to delete all tranisitions, bogus as well as good ones. After that, all weirdness stopped and my STU file was viable again. Since all transitions were the same anyway, it took seconds to redo the transitions. I was much happier not having to redo everything in another program.

So Redd, you were correct - I could edit the instructions in Studio!

I have no idea how the bogus entries got created...

[ktnwin]

I have srious doubt that you can edit the .STU file. Only the software folks that design this software know the structure of this file to be able to manipulate it.
Not only that, if you are smart enough to figure out some of the bit and byte in that file and then modify them, there many be a checksum in the file that need to be updated for PS8 to read it. How to compute this checksum is another good guess.
Good luck,