On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:10:02 -0700, kyrene
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>Hello,
>I have Vista Premium running on an HP a6120n desktop computer. On the whole,
>the OS and applications are stable with one exception: any kind of simple
>video editing program, including Moviemaker, Movavi Videosuite, AVS video
>editor, Kate's Video Cutter and Quick Video Cutter (yes, I've tried many) is
>unstable.
All of the above are junk. Try a REAL video editor.
>Some crash right away, some after a few minutes. These are the
>latest versions, supposed to be vista-ready. For example, I might load a WMV
>file into moviemaker, cut it up, start assembling parts on the storyboard and
>get a crash. (usually appcrash). AnyDVD is also unstable and frequently
>crashes. (Windows Media Player works fine and never crashes. GOM player has
>crashed, but rarely.) I have deleted extra filters from Moviemaker and
>turned off Aeroglass as some suggest, no help. Running the programs as
>administrator doesn't help. The instability has always been there, since I
>got the system last month.
>What does this (Video editing and anydvd unstable, everything else OK) point
>to? what do these programs all do that other programs do not? Is it likely
>to be a codecs issue?
Video editing is one of the most demanding tasks you can do on a PC.
The biggest issues are with codecs (file compressing/decompressing)
and the video files themselves having corruption, which for some video
editors even just a single bit or two will cause them to lock up or
totally crash your system.
>I have no idea which codecs need to be there or even
>where they are kept, or how to sort them out. driver issue?? AnyDVD just
>fiddles with the DVD driver and doesn't do graphics, while the others do
>graphics but do not touch the DVD. Any idea where to start trying to fix
>this?
>Aside from this, I like my Vista. Maybe SP1 will fix this???
>
>Thanks
>Kyrene
Assume you kept up with Vista updates. If you've installed any of the
infamous codec packs, that could be the problem. Best bet remove all
of them and start over and only install one codec at a time and only
those you absolutely need, not dozens at once.
You didn't say what the source of your video files are. Stuff you get
off the web, from newsgroups, shot with your own video camera,
captured from a streaming source, from a DVD, from some tv show you
taped, what? Each presents it's own set of problems.
Two things you may want to try just to try to pin down the problem.
Download and install VirtualDub. It is a SUPURB yet simple to use
basic video editor written long ago by a guy that oh my God, actually
knows how to program. Imagine that! It is well supported on the web,
has many followers who have developed many filters for it. It is
totally free, blazingly fast and if it does crash which it does rarely
it often says exactly why. Better it can rebuild a file's all
important index and get past minor corruption so if something is
missing or corrupt it will fix it on the fly without you having to
tell it to do it.
Something else you should have in Microsoft's Media Encoder. Also
free, similar to but more powerful than Movie Maker and way faster
too. Use it to re-encode source files THEN try the resulting file in
Movie Maker as your new "fixed" source file. This isn't an editor at
all, just an encoder and a pretty good one that will produce various
flavors of WMV files.
If you want a good full blown feature rich video editor/DVD maker
application Sony has the best (see link below) unless you're willing
to take out a second mortgage on your house, then you may be
interested in one of the pro versions from Pinnacle or AVID that start
around $25K
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/default.asp
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