Movie Studio 17 build 223 - constantly crashing...

v-b wrote on 7/26/2021, 10:45 AM

Just updated to the 223 build and I now crash every few minutes. I am not doing anything fancy, just moving through my clips, trimming them a bit and deleting portions I do not want in the vid. When I do this a few times...MS v17 crashes (turns white and dies).

I am running on a very stable Windows 7 platform I use for development, work and video editing (have for several years).

What's going on??

I've been editing for about 1 hr and crashed 5 times in the process. Each time recovering the project and redoing some of the work I already did...I am now saving the project every few minutes...

Comments

v-b wrote on 7/26/2021, 10:57 AM

More info...if I play the clip I am editing, then trim it as it's playing, then delete the portion I do not want (earlier in the clip), that is when it crashes.

FayFen wrote on 7/26/2021, 12:39 PM

As far as I recall VMS17 is Win10 only. If it worked fine on your 7 why you update it?

v-b wrote on 7/26/2021, 1:06 PM

It's always crashed for me no matter what. I understand that v17 had some specific Win 10 aspects to it (features we don't use) but we are not power users of the software. Just simple editing and snapping some quick vids together. We do crop, and zoom and add music and audio but it was crashed in different ways.

This time...as of today after the 223 update, it is consistently crashing when I delete a snippet while playing another portion of the vid. I have since stopped deleting while playing. It seems a bit better.

As far as Win 10 (ain't going there anytime soon). It's an intrusive OS and we are in a very rural area with limited bandwidth. 10 eats that very quickly no matter what we set it to (I have 5 other computers, including and old XP, main 7, rest 10's). 10 is at best a PITA to manage and the fact I cannot turn all the crap off that it does, it will be a while before we go there for my main dev box.

FayFen wrote on 7/26/2021, 1:46 PM

I'm with you V-B, but if you decided, for all reasons, to stay on XP and 7 than keep your software just for them and never update/upgrade

v-b wrote on 7/27/2021, 9:08 AM

I do not believe the crash would be any different on Win 10 (it's not a rendering issue when making a video) nor am I using anything extravagant.

Saying Windows 7 is a no go is in all respects not the right answer. V17 stated some features will not work...but that does not cover crashing. Just makes is harder to use...

I also tried (and accidentally bought VMS v18) it works great but will NOT render a video on Windows 7. Waste of $...

FayFen wrote on 7/27/2021, 1:34 PM

Your next best option is to reinstall VMS17 with earlier built.