VF1 fried after installing VF2 to correct 75 event limit

chriselkins wrote on 4/12/2002, 5:34 PM

I just tried doing this:
"If you have VF1.0, you may be seeing a limit of around 75 avi files on the timeline. If that is the case, download the VideoFactory 2 demo version and a new avi plug-in will be installed. This solves the "75 .avi" problem, even in VF1.

You might consider upgrading to VF2, or even Vegas Video 3, but that's not mandatory to fix this particular issue. "
Now her VF1 wont work at all. So, I uninstalled VF1 and VF2, then reinstalled VF2. Now VF2 opens projects up, but the videos are not there. The edit decisions of the project file are there, but on two of three project files, they are empty. I have done all the obvious...like making sure they are pointing to the correct file locations and etc. Another odd thing is that when I click on the media file from VF2's explorer, with auto-preview activated, it says "unable to determine media stream" or something to that effect.

This is for a friends computer, so I only get a few hours at a time to try and troubleshoot it. This is a pretty large project she has been working on since August for an elementary school's "end of the year" video hi-lighting the year's events, and it needs to be ready very soon!

Help!

Thanks.

Comments

Former user wrote on 4/13/2002, 10:24 AM

I may be wrong on this, but VF1 would allow you to capture as TYPE1 AVIs, whereas VF2 does not. It only captures Type 2 AVIs. It might be that some of the media is Type 1 and VF2 is not able to read it.

You might do a search for a Type 1 to Type 2 AVI converter and see if that helps.

Dave T2

p_l wrote on 4/13/2002, 11:03 AM

If that is what can help, here is a free DV file converter:

http://www.canopuscorp.com/products/fileconv.php3

chriselkins wrote on 4/14/2002, 1:28 PM

Thanks for the suggestions, but I guess I should have indicated that it was doing this (video blank) before installing VF2. That was one of the things I was trying to fix. Once I put VF2 on the machine, nothing worked. I could open vf2, but eventually the program would lock up and crash.