Pinnacle studio 8 problem

[jim1976]

I have tried to edit some videos with studio 8 but in some cases the program stops responding. It loads them fine but when I drag and drop some scenes of the video file it stops responding. It doesn't happen with all the scenes but it creates me a lot of problems most of the times. These files are captured with my leadtek winfast xp2000 card and the program is winfast pvr. The type of the video file that makes studio 8 stop responding is DVD-pal(mpeg-2 720x576 with data rate 6000kbps).
I know that this type of video file can make such an editing program to slow down due to compression, but my Studio 8 stops responding.
Can someone advice me what to do?
Thanks

P.S : I also have to mention that when I edit an uncompressed AVI file, everything's fine.

 

[John P]

Couple of thoughts here.....

Try using Studio 8.0 to capture from your Winfast card - then you shouldn't have any problems editing with it. Studio 8.0 can capture from an analog device just fine. I have caputured several VHS tapes and put them on DVD using Studio.

If you don't want to take the time to re-capture with Studio or can't - can you just drop the whole winfast PVR file on the timeline in studio and re-encode to an DV-AVI file with Studio? Then just use that file to do your editing from.

 

[jim1976]

Well I have updated the drivers and run a program that tests the installation.
Here's the results :

Pinnacle TEST REPORT
====================

[Installation Information]
Install Version: 2.0.0.27
Language: 001 / English

[Operating System Information]
Operating system: Windows NT 5.1 Build 2600
System Default Language: 0x0409
User Default Language: 0x0409
Common Control DLL: Version 5.82
Shell DLL: Version 6.0
Date: 13.02.2004

[Soundcard Information]
Number of audio mixer devices: 1
Name of audio mixer 0: C-Media Wave Device

[Display Information]
Display resolution: 1024 x 768 True Color (32 Bit)
Driver name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver description: RADEON 9800 PRO (Omega 2.5.04)
Driver version: 0.00.00.0000
Vendor identifier: 00001002
Chipset identifier: 00004E48
Chipset revision: 00000000
Overlay pixel format: YUY2

[Software Installation Test]
Test executed: YES
Test status: OK
File D:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\lstone2k.sys - Version 2.00.556 (updated)

[Audio driver access Test]
Test executed: YES
Test status: OK

[Kernelmode driver access Test]
Test executed: YES
Access to Kernelmode driver failed

[DirectDraw Installation Test]
Test executed: YES
Test status: OK
File D:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ddraw.dll Version 5.03.00.0900 (updated)

[DirectDraw Primary Test]
Test executed: YES
Test status: OK

[DirectDraw Overlay Test]
Test executed: YES
Test status: OK

As you can see the problem, is due to failure in kernel access.
What does that mean and how can I solve it?

 

[John P]

Try searching the Pinncacle Studio 8 support forums and see if you can find any similar problems.

Do you have any driver conflicts/yellow exclamation points in device manager?

 

[jim1976]

No every device is working just fine and is installed properly. It must be a driver conflict related issue.
I checked the event viewer and there's a problem related to a driver(probably studio8)
Any other ideas?

 

[John P]

I haven't messed with editing files other than the ones I capture using Studio. There are so many different codecs, bitrates, resolutions, etc.. out there I would imagine Studio just doesn't like something in the file the other program captured.

You could always follow the standard procedure I use when I can't figure out a driver type problem on my computer:

1) Uninstall Studio 8
2) Uninstall Windows Media Player
3) Defrag hard drive

4) Refresh/Reinstall directx 9
5) Refresh/Reinstall sound card drivers
6) Refresh/Reinstall Nvidia detonator drivers
7) Reinstall Windows Media Player (or wait and reinstall after you get Studio working)
8) Reinstall Studio 8 and updates.

Also uninstall any other media crap like real player, Winamp, and stuff like motherboard monitor, etc... You can reinstall them after you get everything else stable. It may not make any difference, but you never know.

If it still doesn't work and you suspect it may be a hardware problem:

Rip out all my PCI cards and retry it. If that doesn't work then update motherboard drivers.

If it works after you take all the PCI cards out then reinstall them in different slots one at a time, testing after each one until they are all back in and you have a stable system.

 

[jim1976]

:brokenheart:

WTF?? :beer: