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Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/3/2005, 9:48 AM
This is a very rare problem with this program.

Lots depends on what OS you're using, how much RAM you have, how much free space on your hard drive, how fast your computer is, if you have ever been able to use the program, how long your project is and what types of files you're building your project out of.

Can you offer us some clues, bluedog?
bluedog wrote on 3/6/2005, 7:04 PM
I have Windows XP Media Center edition with Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 180 GB hard drive (with 90 GB free at the moment).

It shouldn't be doing this. I was using the program fine with no problems until recently. I uninstalled, reinstalled and had the same problems. So I deleted the files I was having trouble with and am going to recapture them. (I am transferring old home movies to dvd...captured as mpeg and imported into Sony). Haven't had that problem again since I deleted those files.

Now I have been building a project from a recently captured mpeg file. It is saved as a sony file as usual. When I try to open it, it says that an error has occurred during this process and an exception has occurred.

????????

And thanks grisetti for replying!
bluedog wrote on 3/6/2005, 8:07 PM
Nevermind. My boyfriend found a way around the problem. Evidently sony saves a backup file as well and i was able to just change the backup file to a regular .vf file and it worked just fine.

Although I'm still unsure about why it happened in the first place but thank god for backup files.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/7/2005, 2:38 PM
For what it's worth, Bluedog, the MovieStudio Knowledge Base recommends against using MPEGs as your native editing files -- and with good reason. They don't edit well and can cause all kinds of bugginess in your final output including out-of-sync issues, video but now sound, flickering video.

I'd recommend converting your files to DV-AVIs using VirtualDub rather than editing raw MPEGs.
http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=701&p_created=1021611600&p_sid=VFNEoQzh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzImcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MTcmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9JnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9JnBfY2F0X2x2bDI9JnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9bXBlZw**&p_li=
bluedog wrote on 3/7/2005, 5:38 PM
OH. I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me. I'll definitely look into that.
bluedog wrote on 3/7/2005, 6:30 PM
i downloaded virtual dub and can not figure out how to convert mpeg to avi with it. I tried capturing with that program but it didnt capture audio.

Any suggestions?
IanG wrote on 3/8/2005, 1:07 AM
Try Virtualdub -MPEG2

Ian G.