Glitches in a simple slideshow %$#$%!

[Navygakman]

 

I bought EMC9 just last night online and so far I am REALLY disappointed.

 

All I tried to do is to make a simple slideshow with some Jpegs and music with pan & zoom. Nothing exotic.

 

First problem: I tried both the "dissolve" and "slow-dissolve" transition on ALL the slides, with the slides almost 11 seconds apart. Every other slide it would do a dissolve like it is supposed to but the other (every other) transition would be a abrupt "pop" to the next slide. Makes the whole show inconsistent.

 

Second problem: In the middle of the show, it would "hang" like a digital skip on a CD. It would "unhang" only when I hit some other keys.

 

Third problem: The program freezes when I tried to render it to a file.

 

First I thought it is a hardware/machine problem so I tried this on another computer. Same glitches.

 

This program is USELESS to me - I bought it to do good slideshows. I also bought and paid for MyDVD earlier and it does a better job with the slideshow - except for a hiccup every 5 minutes or so when the screen goes blank and the music goes dead, only to recover a couple of seconds later.

 

Don't these guys TEST the software before putting them out????

 

[Navygakman]

Projects, even simple ones like what you've described, work fine for most, so I'd say it sounds like problems with your video adapter/driver. EMC 9 offloads most of the video work to your video adapter now, the other MyDVD you had did not.

 

You could try updating your video drivers to the latest along with the most current version of DirectX 9. If you already have the most recent video drivers installed, try uninstalling then reinstalling them. That sometimes helps.

 

If that doesn't help, post back with your system specs info, especially video adapter, and maybe someone can spot something.

 

Thanks Larry for the post.

 

The PC I am running is a fairly new one - maybe 3 months old

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 on a Gigabyte S series board with an AMD processor

OS is XP Pro

The system cranks on any other rendering programs (like CAD etc.)

 

Tonight I took your suggestion and updated the display driver from NVIDIA, reinstalled EMC 9 from scratch (after a complete software removal and reboot). I still have the same problems I described.

 

I should also say that I tried this on my (also fairly new) Dell Latitude D620 - and get similar - and as many errors as I do on the desktop.

 

I would think that if I am Roxio, developing a software that is (like you say) counting on the video adapter to do most of the work - they should put in a routine to "TEST" the user's video adapter during installation. Pass or Fail - and advise the user to either - update the driver, or whatever???

 

EMC 9 seems to have a lot of great feature - but it is not worth a s#@$ if they don't work. And it is terrible to make a paying customer waste hours and hours trying to get it to work - and fail.

 

After giving up on EMC 9, I bought Ulead's DVD slideshow for about $30. I build a slideshow with over 500 pictures on it and a looped music track. The DVD created performed flawlessly without a single glitch, nice clean dissolves throughout with no hiccups, and the slideshow was at least 45 minutes long.

[Larry]

Projects, even simple ones like what you've described, work fine for most, so I'd say it sounds like problems with your video adapter/driver. EMC 9 offloads most of the video work to your video adapter now, the other MyDVD you had did not.

 

You could try updating your video drivers to the latest along with the most current version of DirectX 9. If you already have the most recent video drivers installed, try uninstalling then reinstalling them. That sometimes helps.

 

If that doesn't help, post back with your system specs info, especially video adapter, and maybe someone can spot something.