Pinnacle Studio 10 BSOD

[Paddy]

I've toyed with DVD authoring and found it a laborious process.
I have Pinnacle Studio 10 which I finally took out of the box last week.

I found that my XP3200+ struggles and the program seems rather unstable despite all the updates. After hours of getting nowhere I decided to perform all the editing outside of Pinnacle and simply use it to create a menu and author the DVD.

My source comprises of VRO files (from a DVD-RAM Camcorder) which I have imported into a VOB extractor to remove the individual scenes. I have edited and merged the files to create chapters. I have left the files in the original MPEG format.

The files import and play in pinnacle fine. I have created two menus which link to chapters and all seems to apart from one bit of quirky behaviour. Two of the menu-chapter links are reversed, i.e. link 1 points to chapter 2 and vice versa. If i intentionally point link 1 to chapter 2 then it points to chapter 1.. odd. Incidentally this only happens when i am linking to another menu.

In any case the preview function outputs as I would expect, but if I try to compile the DVD it renders the menus successfully and then BSODs with IRQ not les then or equal. My AIW 9800pro works fine normally and I certainly don’t get any errors outside of pinnacle.


Any thoughts? I have the completed project saved, I just need to compile it.

[Dr Mordrid]

I've read more posts about Pinnacle Studio version whatever being a buggy P.O.S. I swore I'd never install it. Then I picked up an ATI AIW PCIe and the SE version came with it, so I figured what-the-hell. 4 days later I couldn't un-install it fast enough

[Jerry Jones]

Well, I prefer MediaStudio Pro, Ulead's professional video editing package.

But out of curiosity, I recently bought Ulead VideoStudio 10+ -- the "consumer" package -- and I am impressed.

Ulead has packed a lot of new functionality into VideoStudio.

The last version of VideoStudio that I used was version 7 and the only reason I got it was due to the fact I was working for Ulead and so many people just needed help getting started with that software.

Version 10+ is incredible for a "consumer" software package.

In fact, it has many features that formerly were considered "professional" features.

http://www.ulead.com/vs/features_plus.htm

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Dr Mordrid]

Most notable is that it now has 7 video tracks and 5.1 Dolby. That would cover ~90% of event video projects. It's an amazing value.

[Paddy]

I've installed the trial of MSP.
I've inserted the mpegs into MSP and created chapters.

I cant see how to build a menu though....

[Paddy]

hmm.. it seems that I need to export the file into Uleads DVD Movie Factory
I'm not too keen on their DVD menu util. Any suggestions?

[Brian Ellis]

Depends what you are looking for. The prosumer Ulead product, a little old but very versatile, is DVD Workshop. Alternatively, there is DVDLab, which has three levels from entry to pro.

[IM_Riktar]

Well, I prefer MediaStudio Pro, Ulead's professional video editing package.

But out of curiosity, I recently bought Ulead VideoStudio 10+ -- the "consumer" package -- and I am impressed.

While the list of features is impressive, I still find the interface/timeline VERY un-intuitive. Why can't Ulead use the same timeline style of Pro? I would think it would make for an easier "upgrade" from the "home" to the "Pro" version.

[Paddy]

I just want to import these mpeg files and create a menu. No complex editing. In fact, no video editing at all. I set MSP going last night and it also caused a reboot.... Odd. The machine is stable apart from when executing this task.

I have tried this in the past and had problems with BSODs, but that was with Premiere and in a previous OS build.

Could I have a duff mpeg file that is causing problems? They play ok....

Any thoughts?

[Brian Ellis]

Indeed, MPEG files often cause problems but there may be other causes, as well.

[DJ]

Are you overclocking? An otherwise stable overclock PC can crash when encoding files.

DJ

[Paddy]

Cheers for the input DJ. No, I am not overclocking and the PC is stable in everything except this.... I'm tempted to get my server to do the rendering (Quad P3 500)...
Perhaps I need to do a rebuild?