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[Doug_F250]

Maybe you should find out for yourself, Mr C.

But, if you made the same mistakes, when you installed Creator 2009, as you did in past versions, Creator 2010 isn't for you.  

It would take a long time for someone to explain to me how an install can go wrong when the software does the install for you. I have followed all the installation procedures, uninstall procedures, driver updates and yet I continue to have similar problems with programs from Sonic. I have used EZ CD, a Sonic video program that came with a drive, Creator 9, Creator 2009 and now I am trying Creator 2010 and I am on my third computer. My computer is well qualified to run these programs yet I continue to have lock ups, lost work, time outs and encoding errors.

I recently installed Creator 2010 and tried to make a CineMagic project. The file size was 3.7g and I have worked on it for a week and I am still unable to burn a disk. Very frustrating.

When Roxio seems to be working hard, my resource meter says that 2% of my cpu is being used and 20 t0 56% of my 8g ram. Apparently my 9800gt Nivida graphics card is not good enough for C2010 and the program recommends using software instead of video.

Does any know the cure for these mysteries?

[myguggi]

It would take a long time for someone to explain to me how an install can go wrong when the software does the install for you. I have followed all the installation procedures, uninstall procedures, driver updates and yet I continue to have similar problems with programs from Sonic. I have used EZ CD, a Sonic video program that came with a drive, Creator 9, Creator 2009 and now I am trying Creator 2010 and I am on my third computer. My computer is well qualified to run these programs yet I continue to have lock ups, lost work, time outs and encoding errors.

I recently installed Creator 2010 and tried to make a CineMagic project. The file size was 3.7g and I have worked on it for a week and I am still unable to burn a disk. Very frustrating.

When Roxio seems to be working hard, my resource meter says that 2% of my cpu is being used and 20 t0 56% of my 8g ram. Apparently my 9800gt Nivida graphics card is not good enough for C2010 and the program recommends using software instead of video.

Does any know the cure for these mysteries?

Why are you using Cinemagic - it is a dumbed-down program with limited features. The program to use is Videowave for assembling your video project and myDVD for creating menus and burning.
Also your file size of 3.7GB means nothing - the important parameter is the timelength of the project. A standard 4.7GB DVD holds 60 minutes of video at best quality. Many of us prefer using the software render mode since it seems to give more reliable and for some better quality video.

[Doug_F250]

I started out with "edit video automatically" (also called CineMagic) which I think works well because it gives me a base point to work from. It sets video clips to music and adds special effects. From there I edit in "Edit Video Advance" to add more special effects, music, text, and possibly some content. No professional work but that is the lure of this program.

From there I go to "My DVD" (also called "Create DVDs") and I either skip a menu or I add a menu.

In this particular case I was working with 3 hrs of HD video and about 87 photographs. Is that taxing my system? According the the resource meter the answer is no.

What seems to help is to follow certain steps. Add text (usually five words) to a scene then save. Go away for ten minutes and come back to see if the save process is done. Major rule to follow is don't do anything without saving because all is lost in the next crash ("not responding"). Many times I had to do the same thing over and over again.

Maybe the amount of data being loaded is too much but the resource meter says no and I kept track of production time. The final output says the production is of high quality.

One thing I have noticed is that system reboot or just closing all programs without a reboot can speed up Roxio the next time it is opened. The reason I say this is that "My DVD" or "Create DVDs" changed from being unable to save the production to saving but being unable to burn because of an "Encoding Error" to now (as I type) being at 45% complete towards actually burning a disk.

My CPU is at 53% and Ram is at 68% of 8g. Software is the performance choice over Hardware. This is different than I what I witnessed saving the file using "Edit Video Advanced" where my CPU was at 2% and my ram was at 36%. Setting program priority to High did not change the CPU or ram usage.

This improvement could be related to loading DirectX SDK???? Who knows.

Did I leave anything out. Probably!!

The video content is my kids playing Soccer and Softball. Soccer is 16 games and Softball is 14 games per year. I am thrilled about using HD video and depressed when I think of the old silent 8mm real to real tapes that have lost my oldest memories. My next plans are to become capable of making an AVCHD disk. What do I need to buy to do that?

To sum up all I am saying is that I don't believe Roxio is using the full capabilities of my system.

Whew! I wrote a short story.

[Jim_Hardin]

Doug: Too much unrelated info, hard to pick out the relavant stuff   Yes you are taxing your system and I doubt any software will handle 3 hours of video without a severe hit in performance.

Give us your PC specs. CPU – RAM – HDD free space.

Give this a try:

Use VideoWave (Edit Movie – Advanced) load in about 1 hour of material. Play around with it a little to get a feel of response time in the Editor.

Then go under Tools – Options – Render and set it to Software. Do some more tasks you should see an improvement it response time.

Should be an instant change – but you may have to close VW and open it again. Save this project as Test 1 or something.

Just do this much for now, we will work on one thing at a time.

[ggrussell]

I am thrilled about using HD video and depressed when I think of the old silent 8mm real to real tapes that have lost my oldest memories.

If you still have those old 8mm film reels, they can be transfered to digital video.  Just do a Google search for a place near you.  I had some transfered and the results were great. Our oldest was from 1958!