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[horndog]

I bought an ATi Radeon 7500 All in Wonder and it came with ULead's Visual Studio 5. I am not liking this software because when you load a video clip, and want to find a section of the video to edit, it needs to reload the whole thing again! I would assume it would load it all into memory, but I guess not. Am I doing something wrong? This is a very painful task just to get to the task I want to complete. Is this typical?

I downloaded the two patches they have for it, and that seemed not to do anything.

The other issue is recording sound from a CD, that seems like a no-no. I record it, then it wants to save it, then it locks up my computer.

Well, I thoght I would give you guys a whirl, I will be calling their tech support as soon as they are open to tell them my issues, but maybe you guys can help me out...

System specs:

PIII 733
512mb ram
2 x 20gb hard drives
Radeon 7500 AIW
Windows 2000

[bahichs]

Hi, I'm from California, originally from Bosnia, Sarajevo. I just need to post this on some place on your site, because I found perfect and simple way to make perfect VCD.
It might that you'll know for this, u might not, but anyway here it is. I hope that will help to many VCD lovers.

I'm capturing 352x240 ntsc MPEG-1 (do not try this with MPEG-2)with old WinVCR v.2.0 (Cinax) in resolution 2xCD which is exact 2097 kbs. Than I'm doing quick cutting in I-FilmEdit v.1.4 (10 x faster than in TMPG). Ready clips I'm openning in TMPG in MPEG tools (merge and cut session)choosing Mpeg Video CD as option. Than I'm making mpeg file clicking on RUN in Tmpg which become VCD standard (2.0). That file I could burn in Nero (not in Easy CD Creator, allow only 1150 Kbs)as a standard VCD. It's working great in any DVD, sound is good, picture quality near Svcd, and I can fit 42 minutes on CD-R. Best of all, no conversions, just realtime capturing and editing.
With new VideoWave III i can (must have wdm capture driver)capture MPEG-1 maximum 5200 Kbs. Using same method to burn cd-S I'm getting better and better resoults, but with less space on a disk.
I hope that you will post this somewhere on your site, so people will not loose too much time experimenting with some other programs and methods(I tried everything belive me). This is shortest and best way to make perfect VCD.

Regards
Bojan Bahic
Art Creative Service
From No Men's Land, Oscar for Bosnia *****

[Whitespliff]

bahichs, is there a version available for winXP?

I've been looking on their site but they have so many products that all look alike.

I've d/l CinePlayer DVR Plus 2.5 but it's not compatible with XP.

ps: I've been to Sarajevo in 1996, very nice city (destroyed buildings excluded off course).

[Spicuzza]

horndog,

I have carefully and repeatedly read your post and I think I understand the problem you are having.

If after loading your video clip you are clicking on the render button to the left just under the preview screen then the program is "rendering" the whole clip and, yes, this may take a while depending on the length of the clip and other variables. It is NOT necessary to render the whole captured clip prior to editing some clips out of it.

You can scroll through the clip with the scroll buttons on the very bottom of the timeline. Simply press F3 at the mark-in point and F4 at the mark-out point, click make-movie, choose the file format you want to render/save the clip in, under options click "preview area" and then it will only render the clip from the mark-in/mark-out points.

VideoStudio 5.0 does not have an instant preview where you can just click play and it plays, it renders the project before it plays it and yes this was a pain in the ass. Version 6.0 has eliminated this problem and you can do an instant preview of your project without having to render.

There is a learning curve to VideoStudio but once you master it you'll find it's a fantastic video editng program.

One thing you left out of your system specifications is your sound card!?
What is it? If you have onboard sound on your motherboard you are going to have continuous problems with your captured audio.

The ATI All-in-Wonder cards are great pieces of hardware but they require a top of the line sound card to work properly. Creative Labs Sound Blasters are the usual cards of choice.

Good luck,

Gary Spicuzza
cic7@juno.com