Why does my Pinnacle Studio 8 Freeze every time i try to make a video?

[niwi7]

Every time i try and make a mpeg, svcd or vcd (i havent tried DVD yet) out of this movie i made thats about 38 minutes with about 108 diff clips, it freezes at all different times


well...sometimes it just freezes but most of the time it gives me the Studio Program File has encountered an error and needs to close and when i click on error report it says:
Appname: studio.exe
Appver 8.6 32.0
Modname: ntdll.dll
ModVer 5.1.2600.1217



my system is a 2600+ w/ 1 gig of ram

i used enditall when running studio and turned off my screensaver so there is absolutely nothing running


wuts the deal here?

 

[quadcells]

Hi,
What are your specs?
OS, video card, sound card?
Do you use one hard drive or do you have two? RAID?
A little more info and may be I can help.
I have used Pinnacle products for years but now I have moved to Canopus + Premiere Pro.

 

[oldfart]

Is the original movie AVI or MPEG? 108 different clips? That many in MPEG could cause problems. S8 likes to have the source video as AVI. I assume you are running 8.10.4?

 

[Kutter]

Pinnacle Studio 8 is notoriously buggy. It is imperitive that you update to the latest version.

I have worked on some MPEG format video in Studio 8 and found that it seemed to really bog the program down. I now try and convert all my video prior to editing in Pinnacle 8.

The forums on Pinnacle's website are usually a very good source of getting info on their products. Here is a link:



[L=]http://www.pinnaclesys.com/menusupport_n.asp?product_id=577&division_id=1&langue_id=7[/L]


HTH.

 

[Wolfsraider]

n/m

 

[anandfan]

I've got Pinnacle 8. That program has more ways to crash than any other I've tried! You can check out their forums and the latest beta, but basically, either the program will be reliable for you or you'll be another member of the "Pinnacle hates me club (and vice versa)".

 

[niwi7]

Computer Specs:

Windows XP Pro
GF4 Ti4200
Athlon 2600+
40 Gig 7200 RPM main drive
80 Gig 7200 RPM Slave drive
(i know its not alot for video editing, getting a 250 gig drive for xmas)
1 gig buffalo pc2700 ram
sound blaster live 5.1 gamer



The original file i am taking the clips from (when i say clips im not taking about seperate video clips....they all came from the same .avi file that i captured using pinnacle....im just talking about the clips in the movie when u drag them to the bottom....) is .AVI which i captured as "DV Quality" from my ZR60 minidv camera.

my pinnacle version is 8.6.32.0



any other info you need

also... ill be honost...i burned it from a friend and dont have the serial number anymore...so would i need this to upgrade my software? maybe ill just go buy a legit copy if i do...

 

[niwi7]

also--- just tried upgrading....registered and downloaded the update....when i run it it says pinnacle is not found on this computer however it definatley is installed and installed correctly i even checked the registry and its there too so i dont know why its not seeing it

 

[niwi7]

* i just realized i had the avi original on the d drive and the temp directory on the c

so i fixed that and put the video, the temp file, and the saved file all on the same drive

i was really optimistic

then

same problem


maybe ill just use a diff program...any suggestions? preferably an all in 1 like this where u can capture, edit and make dvd in the same proggy

 

[anandfan]

Many people like Ulead DVD Movie Factory for under $100. If you can get a student discount, there are some big buck programs that look really attractive (Adobe Premiere?). There are many freeware/shareware programs to edit movies, encode, burn, but I haven't found ANY that will also do menus.

 

[anandfan]

also... ill be honost...i burned it from a friend and dont have the serial number anymore...so would i need this to upgrade my software? maybe ill just go buy a legit copy if i do...

Looks like you got what you paid for! But then again, you got what I did and I did pay for it! I feel robbed.

 

[niwi7]

Originally posted by: anandfan

also... ill be honost...i burned it from a friend and dont have the serial number anymore...so would i need this to upgrade my software? maybe ill just go buy a legit copy if i do...

Looks like you got what you paid for! But then again, you got what I did and I did pay for it! I feel robbed.

hey at least im not ashamed of it or 1 of those dirty people who lie about it
i didint know if i was gunna get into editing and stuff so why spend 100 on a program im not sure if i will use...my friend had it so he burned it for me

looks like i mite hafta go actually buy a diff program now though lol

 

[oldfart]

I use S8 all the time and it works for me. I use it for DVD and sometimes WMV. For SVCD, or MPEG1/2, I use TMPGEnc.

 

[gsellis]

I would try upgrading to S8 8.8 which is on the Pinnacle site and reachable by using the Check for Updates menu component.

Also check the Pinnacle forums. There is a Studio forum that will cover issues like this.

 

[oldfart]

8.10.4 is current version.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: oldfart
8.10.4 is current version.

OK, I think I am even behind...

 

[niwi7]

UPDATE--- HOW I FIXED IT

I RELIZED I WAS OVERCLOCKING MY FSB BY ACCIDENT TO 170 (FROM DEFAULT 166)

FIXED IT

WORKS PERFECTLY

THANKS!

 

[Dewey]

Yeah, Studio 8 is very sensitive to overclocking. It would be a great benchmark for overclocking stability if it wasn't so buggy.