VIDEO WAVE FREEZING

[RINSO57]

I bought a new PC details as under and bought the Roxio Easy Creator 10 Suite software to edit camcorder DV tapes.

 

I experience this programme freezing on me. I close it by task manager and PC is working all right.

 

Any ideas of the problem?

 

Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Intel core duo E6750 @2.66GHz 2.66GHZ

Nivida Geforce 8500 Gt DirectX 10 graphics card with 256 MB RAM

Memory DDR2 RAM 2046MB

Hard Drive 500GB SATA 7200 RPM

 

 

[lmead]

I am not sure if it is better to post into an existing thread or to start a new one even if the problem is the same. With ANY module other than classic when it is started it pegs my cpu (AMD Athelon 64 Processor 4000+ 2.4 Gig) I have an XPsp2 Machine with a 256mb ATi card and 4 gig of ram that ran V8 just fine. I am trying to create a slideshow with music and the softare just slows up, hangs or dies at about each step.

 

I start up Videowave

Select New Slide Show

Select Photos

Select Add Backgound Audio

I Select Media Selector to go to my music files

 

During the first four steps my CPU just sits at 100% utilization and blames VideoWave (or MyDVDA or VideoCopy & Convert) for the problem but the applications responds, if sluggishly. On that last step the application just sits. I gave it 30 minutes just to see if it was a slow process as with each of the other steps I had time to play some solitare between actions. I had no other applications running in the background other than AV. (I killed that later just to see.) I used msconfig to keep all other programs from starting up so that they would not interfere. I did an uninstall and reinstall with no change in behavoir. I managed to create a file by skipping the audio process just to see if I could get the thing to work. I then went on to burn a DVD without audio. I opened the project in MyDVD and when I tried to navigate to the file the application again just hung. I am currently downloading the 700mp update file to see if that will have any impact. While I wait I thought I would add to this. My me it looks like anytime I have to pull an explorer window to navigate to a file the software dumps out and hangs.

 

I'd like to know if I am missing anything in trying to get this to run

[bimicher]

I bought a new PC details as under and bought the Roxio Easy Creator 10 Suite software to edit camcorder DV tapes.

 

I experience this programme freezing on me. I close it by task manager and PC is working all right.

 

Any ideas of the problem?

 

Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Intel core duo E6750 @2.66GHz 2.66GHZ

Nivida Geforce 8500 Gt DirectX 10 graphics card with 256 MB RAM

Memory DDR2 RAM 2046MB

Hard Drive 500GB SATA 7200 RPM

 

How about some details? What are you doing when it crashes? Capturing? Editing? or what?

You have given no information to work with

 

Did the EMC 10 come with the computer or did you buy it separately as a full retail version?

[grandpabruce]

In addition to answering Walt's questions, make sure you shut down any processes running in the background, shut off Windows Defender and and any other antivirus software you may have running.

[Sloan]

I too am having a similar problem and was researching it when I found this thread. In addition to my similarities, I have some differences, and here is what I have found thus far.

 

The ONLY time I have the problem is when I have Native Audio turned on. With it on there is much disk activity--LED on solid and Resource Monitor shows the majority of activity is from several VideoWave10.exe threads. Eventually, when Native Audio finishes doing whatever it is doing, the excessive disk activity ceases and VideoWave is usable again. Then, as soon as I do any kinds of edits, the process starts up again and I can go back to my game of hearts, or trade some stocks, or anything else not related to EMC.

 

My suggestion for others who have posted on this thread is to turn off Native Audio to see if we have a common problem.

[bimicher]

I too am having a similar problem and was researching it when I found this thread. In addition to my similarities, I have some differences, and here is what I have found thus far.

 

The ONLY time I have the problem is when I have Native Audio turned on. With it on there is much disk activity--LED on solid and Resource Monitor shows the majority of activity is from several VideoWave10.exe threads. Eventually, when Native Audio finishes doing whatever it is doing, the excessive disk activity ceases and VideoWave is usable again. Then, as soon as I do any kinds of edits, the process starts up again and I can go back to my game of hearts, or trade some stocks, or anything else not related to EMC.

 

My suggestion for others who have posted on this thread is to turn off Native Audio to see if we have a common problem.

 

How do you turn the "native audio" off? I don't see how you can have "several VideoWave10.exe threads" running since EMC 10 only allows one to be running.

[Sloan]

How do you turn the "native audio" off? I don't see how you can have "everal VideoWave10.exe threads" running since EMC 10 only to be running.

 

To turn "Native Audio" off: in Timeline view, simply click on "Native Audio" button if it is blue.

 

I don't understand the remainder of your question. If you want to see the threads of a given process that are causing the disk activity, start up "Task Manager", click the "Performance" tab, click the "Resource Monitor", then expand the "disk" section. When I had the problem I would have as many as 8-10 instances of VideoWave hammering on the disk.

 

But, for my problem, I have solved it by performing a clean installation. Don't understand why that was necessessary, because I had no prior versions of EMC installed, but I won't argue with success, other than to say if EMC 10 is this sensitive to corruption, Roxio needs to spend some time cleaning up existing releases as opposed to adding new features.