Videowave9

[uncle mot]

Hello folks, I am a brand new owner of a Dell Inspiron (all of two days) and my computer came with Roxio. My wife and I have been shooting video with a Sony DVD camera for about a year now and have been wanting to edit our videos, which this computer finally gives us the ability. I purchased the Roxio Suite 9.1 because it is advertised as Vista compatible and this Videowave program is supposed to give the non-computer expert simple video editing capabilities.

 

Yet, Videowave keeps crashing on me. I am reading about Videowave problems elsewhere on this board but I am not certain whether my problems are the same as others. Does Videowave largely work for any other Vista users on this board or is there something I specifically have done wrong? I keep trying to edit our ".vob" files, but Videowave crashes every time I try to make a video cut or add an effect. Is it me or the program? Being that I just purchased this program yesterday, should I simply try to get my money back?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[sknis]

Try to rename the VOB files to mpg and then adding them to VideoWave. With Vista, I'm not sure how to unhide know extensions so you may have to look around. Make sure they don't end up as (name).vob.mpg.

 

What do you have for a video card/chip on that computer? I know that some people will scoff but updating the video card drivers has solved a lot of problems for a lot of people; yes even on new computers. When you have VideoWave open, go to tools then options and run the rendering test. Where is the dot after the test? If it is by software, leave it there and try doing the rendering again. Do not force it to hardware because that could cause problems.

 

If you still don't have any luck, try opening VideoWave from the Windows Start Program path. Sometimes that works for some people.

 

Look in the tips and trick area for several how to threads that may give you a quick start on how to work with the videos. One is "One way of doing it" there are also demos videos that may be helpful. The other threads there are also helpful.

[REDWAGON]

Hello folks, I am a brand new owner of a Dell Inspiron (all of two days) and my computer came with Roxio. My wife and I have been shooting video with a Sony DVD camera for about a year now and have been wanting to edit our videos, which this computer finally gives us the ability. I purchased the Roxio Suite 9.1 because it is advertised as Vista compatible and this Videowave program is supposed to give the non-computer expert simple video editing capabilities.

 

Yet, Videowave keeps crashing on me. I am reading about Videowave problems elsewhere on this board but I am not certain whether my problems are the same as others. Does Videowave largely work for any other Vista users on this board or is there something I specifically have done wrong? I keep trying to edit our ".vob" files, but Videowave crashes every time I try to make a video cut or add an effect. Is it me or the program? Being that I just purchased this program yesterday, should I simply try to get my money back?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Not sure about what you might have or not have done regarding Videowave, but I am running Vista Home Premium as well as XP/SP2, as a dual boots on my computer and have captured video from my Camcorder using a Firewire cable and the Capture program in EMC 9 and it works O.K. for me on either Vista OR XP.

 

There are a few EMC 9 programs on the Vista side that I still have a few questions about but basically everything seems to be working O.K. And the questions I have are not related to Videowave BTW.

 

My suggestion as opposed to other suggestions regarding keeping the program are Keep it and post a few more facts about how you are using Videowave with your videos. There are so many users that have totally different programming structures on their computers and running so many different types of hardware, that it really makes it very difficult to pin point any one users problems. However, the more information that is offered for a particular problem, the better it is to figure out solution.

 

Frank...