Canopus lets edit

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"Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Group,
> Just installed Lets edit to try it out, my only other experience has
> been Pinnacle Studio 8.
> Opening an avi clip created on Studio 8, the audio is terribly weak
> and lots of static like noise. This avi plays fine in any of the
> players (windows media, winamp etc)
>
> I opened Canopus lets edit, then under file/add clip to bin window
> I opend the *.avi. clicked on it then selected `arrange clip'
>
> That puts the individual sceens on a time line. Then click `play'
> and I get this horrible static. Under the statict I can faintly hear
> the dip audio track.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Harry,
I cannot help you with this although I have been using Canopus for years.
I think the best thing for you is to go to the Canopus forum.
http://forum.canopus.com/

Good luck!

Peter in Sweden

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Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> I bought Let's Edit at the recommendation of a video professional in
> my area who uses Canopus products extensively and swears by them,
> and I was very disappointed when the very first time I used it, I
> captured video from my camcorder, told it to save to AVI, and
> had the program crash. I wrote to Canopus support in the UK
> (I'm in Europe) and they pretended that this was news to them,
> despite people on their forum regarding it as a well-known problem.
> I de-installed LE and resolved to seek a refund.
>
> I then tried installing and using the alternative products I had
> available:
> Ulead Video Studio that was bundled with a FireWire PCMCIA card
> and Pinnacle Studio 8 that was bundled with my DVD burner. Both
> are far more stable and user friendly than LE, but neither of them
> have features like chroma-keying which are of interest to me. If any
> of you have a suggestion for an alternative full-featured but
> reasonably
> priced tool to replace LE, I'm all ears.


Depends what you consider reasonably priced. Have you looked at Sony's
Vegas? It's got a very full set of features, including chroma-keyer and
much much more. You can download a trial to play with if you want.

Mike

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"Mike Kujbida" <kujfam-misleadingspam@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:c5i3qm$1v56u$1@ID-113661.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> > I bought Let's Edit at the recommendation of a video professional in
> > my area who uses Canopus products extensively and swears by them,
> > and I was very disappointed when the very first time I used it, I
> > captured video from my camcorder, told it to save to AVI, and
> > had the program crash. I wrote to Canopus support in the UK
> > (I'm in Europe) and they pretended that this was news to them,
> > despite people on their forum regarding it as a well-known problem.
> > I de-installed LE and resolved to seek a refund.
> >
> > I then tried installing and using the alternative products I had
> > available:
> > Ulead Video Studio that was bundled with a FireWire PCMCIA card
> > and Pinnacle Studio 8 that was bundled with my DVD burner. Both
> > are far more stable and user friendly than LE, but neither of them
> > have features like chroma-keying which are of interest to me. If any
> > of you have a suggestion for an alternative full-featured but
> > reasonably
> > priced tool to replace LE, I'm all ears.
>
>
> Depends what you consider reasonably priced. Have you looked at Sony's
> Vegas? It's got a very full set of features, including chroma-keyer and
> much much more. You can download a trial to play with if you want.

I don't think the price is unreasonable - I pay that much for pro audio
software products from time to tome - but it *is* roughly four times
more expensive than Let's Edit. I'll keep it in mind, though.

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Late breaking news!

"Susan" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message news s3m70hvfhopnneumjatjjhfr3pec6e0oa@4ax.com...
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
[snip]
> >What am I doing wrong?
>
> You aren't doing anything wrong. This action is a "feature" of Let's
> Edit. LE can only successfully use Type 1 DV AVIs and only those
> encoded with the Canopus codec, Studio uses and creates Type 2 AVIs,
> encoded with the MS DV codec unless you tell it to use a different
> codec

I just dropped into the Canopus support page, and discovered that, as of today,
there's a new patch up to take Let's Edit to v1.06. The patch supposedly adds
AVI2 read/write support, along with some other features/fixes. I just downloaded
and installed it, and the one thing that I can confirm is that they finally fixed the stupid
crash-after-save-as-AVI bug!

So I guess I'll keep my Let's Edit for a while longer...