Dissolve Transition In Videowave

[FalvinP]

I'm creating a project in Videowave (Creator 2009). I've put in a few dozen pictures so far. I usually use a dissolve transition between pictures. Today, as I've been creating this project, the dissolve transition stops working. It acts as if there is no transition between pictures. Sometimes they will work again if I close the program and reopen it, but not all the time. Other times I've had to reboot the computer, after saving the production, to get the transition to work. The other transitions seem to work.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why the transition stops working?

[sknis]

Ok thank you, it appears to have transferred yo mydvd just fine. But how do you change the thumbnail photo on the main menu screen. I am using the movie theater menu. I did try to click on the current photo and 'change thumbnail' but no luck.

 

Thanks for your help!!

 

What happened when you right clicked on the button? Did you get a pop up Window> Try clicking on the walking man icon near the top of the page and "Make all menus still" Try again. When you switch back to moving menus, does the start image stay the same or switch back to the first image?

[sknis]

I am having the same problem with the pictures degrading, sorry but you lost me on the DAT file. I do not know how to do that. I am about ready to copy my video wave file to MY DVD, if I do not correct this will it cause me problems there or when I burn it?

 

Thanks for your help!!!!

 

The DAT file is in the same folder where you created the file. If you are ready to load the slide show project into MyDVD, just go ahead and do it; the final video should be OK. (Read about creating, previewing and burning an IMAGE file (ISO).

[FalvinP]

I'm not sure if I should start a new thread or not, but since this situation is part of the ongoing problem, I thought I'd pose it here.

 

I'm still having problems with the transitions working some times but without warning not working at other times. Sometimes saving the project brings them back, other times not. Same thing with closing and restarting the program. It takes close to 5 minutes to save the project, which seems long to me. The only thing that seems to fix the problem is to reboot. Naturally, this is very time consuming.

 

An issue that I didn't mention before, because it was not much of an issue, is the fact that, over time, the thumbnails (photo and panels etc.) seem to degrade over time, to the extent that I can't tell which picture it is. Little boxes with what look like little x's gradually appear in the thumbnail. It reminds me of how a jpeg image degrades the more often you save it. If I were to delete the image and replace it with the same image, things would be normal, but once again, they would start to degrade. I noticed today that this was occurring with new images I just put in, even before the project was saved for the first time with the new images in it..

 

All this leads me to believe that perhaps my video card is not up to snuff on this project. I have a BFG GeForce 7950 GT card with 512 Mb of video ram. It supports DirectX 9, which is the minimum to run Videowave. Since this is a minimum specification, would updating the videocard solve the problem? Even though the minimum specification will work, I imagine it could work better with a DirectX 10 card.

 

It would be nice if I could solve this problem because it's taking much more time to complete my project.

 

Thanks for your advice.

[jboe]

Ok thank you, it appears to have transferred yo mydvd just fine. But how do you change the thumbnail photo on the main menu screen. I am using the movie theater menu. I did try to click on the current photo and 'change thumbnail' but no luck.

 

Thanks for your help!!

 

 

 

 

 

The DAT file is in the same folder where you created the file. If you are ready to load the slide show project into MyDVD, just go ahead and do it; the final video should be OK. (Read about creating, previewing and burning an IMAGE file (ISO).

 

[sknis]

I'm not sure if I should start a new thread or not, but since this situation is part of the ongoing problem, I thought I'd pose it here.

 

I'm still having problems with the transitions working some times but without warning not working at other times. Sometimes saving the project brings them back, other times not. Same thing with closing and restarting the program. It takes close to 5 minutes to save the project, which seems long to me. The only thing that seems to fix the problem is to reboot. Naturally, this is very time consuming.

 

An issue that I didn't mention before, because it was not much of an issue, is the fact that, over time, the thumbnails (photo and panels etc.) seem to degrade over time, to the extent that I can't tell which picture it is. Little boxes with what look like little x's gradually appear in the thumbnail. It reminds me of how a jpeg image degrades the more often you save it. If I were to delete the image and replace it with the same image, things would be normal, but once again, they would start to degrade. I noticed today that this was occurring with new images I just put in, even before the project was saved for the first time with the new images in it..

 

All this leads me to believe that perhaps my video card is not up to snuff on this project. I have a BFG GeForce 7950 GT card with 512 Mb of video ram. It supports DirectX 9, which is the minimum to run Videowave. Since this is a minimum specification, would updating the videocard solve the problem? Even though the minimum specification will work, I imagine it could work better with a DirectX 10 card.

 

It would be nice if I could solve this problem because it's taking much more time to complete my project.

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

The next time it hangs or loses the transitions, just go to the top menu and select tools, options and then clear the proxy files.

 

Make a copy of the DAT file associated with that project. Move it somewhere else where you know where it is (just for safety sake). Now delete the original DAT file. It should be rebuilt almost immediately and your images show be the way you originally saw them. If that doesn't work, you can delete the original and put the copy in its place. Make sure it is exactly the same name and location.

 

[FalvinP]

Thanks for the tip. I did as you suggested. I got back accurate images of the thumbnails and transitions, but the on again/off again issue with the dissolve transition is still there.

 

I'm constantly trying to figure out exactly what I can do to work around this problem. For a while, if the transitions didn't work, I could replace the first transition in the production and all the others would work. Other times, when I would preview a large part of my presentation, the transitions would not work and then then they would work. I'd stop and go back to the part where the transitions didn't work and they worked. Go figure.......

[malatekid]

I'm just curious if this will make any change at all. In Videowave menu bar, select Tools|Options. Which one is checked- Hardware or Software? Checked the other one (if Hardware is checked now, put a check beside Software, or vice-versa). Now get out of that dialog box. Preview the production. The issue still exist?

 

 

[FalvinP]

I've done some more testing and it seems that the transition stops working after I right click and adjust the duration of the transition. If I have to save and restart Videowave every time I change the length of a transition, using Videowave will be quite clunky.

[grandpabruce]

I've done some more testing and it seems that the transition stops working after I right click and adjust the duration of the transition. If I have to save and restart Videowave every time I change the length of a transition, using Videowave will be quite clunky.

 

I tried what you did, and I had no problems changing the duration, and have the transition work. I use dissolves for most of my productions.

 

Also, I have found that if I put a dissolve transition, after a picture, then insert a black panel, then another dissolve transiton, it fades into the next photo, much nicer than just putting a dissolve between the pictures.

 

I make the dissolves, 2.5 seconds in length, and the black panel, at 5 seconds.

 

You can try that, and see if it works for you, but I doubt that it will fix your problem.

[jboe]

The next time it hangs or loses the transitions, just go to the top menu and select tools, options and then clear the proxy files.

 

Make a copy of the DAT file associated with that project. Move it somewhere else where you know where it is (just for safety sake). Now delete the original DAT file. It should be rebuilt almost immediately and your images show be the way you originally saw them. If that doesn't work, you can delete the original and put the copy in its place. Make sure it is exactly the same name and location.

 

 

I am having the same problem with the pictures degrading, sorry but you lost me on the DAT file. I do not know how to do that. I am about ready to copy my video wave file to MY DVD, if I do not correct this will it cause me problems there or when I burn it?

 

Thanks for your help!!!!