studio 9 won't play video captured in studio 8

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:38:40 GMT, Ronald O. Christian
<ronc@europa.com> wrote:

>
>This is strange. I recently upgraded to Studio 9. When I open an avi
>clip previously captured in Studio 8, it shows up in the top edit
>window but refuses to play it. When I drag a clip to the storyboard,
>sometimes it lets me (but still won't play it) and sometimes it gives
>me the error "nonstandard frame rate". Are all of my previously
>captured clips useless now? Do I need to dump this and go back to
>studio 8?
>
>I have clips captured via a digital 8 camcorder, and older clips
>captured via DC10+. Studio 9 won't play either of them. Windows
>Media Player plays them fine.

Upgrading to Studio 9.4.2 did not fix the problem. Windows Media
Player will play the clips, but Studio 9 will not. I've tried with
hardware acceleration enabled and disabled. Anything else I should
try?

Windows XP Pro on Athlon 2000+, 512 megs memory. At one time I had a
working Studio 8 installation.


Ron
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"khobar" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "Ronald O. Christian" <ronc@europa.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > This is strange. I recently upgraded to Studio 9. When I open an avi
> > clip previously captured in Studio 8, it shows up in the top edit
> > window but refuses to play it. When I drag a clip to the storyboard,
> > sometimes it lets me (but still won't play it) and sometimes it gives
> > me the error "nonstandard frame rate". Are all of my previously
> > captured clips useless now? Do I need to dump this and go back to
> > studio 8?
> >
> > I have clips captured via a digital 8 camcorder, and older clips
> > captured via DC10+. Studio 9 won't play either of them. Windows
> > Media Player plays them fine.
> >
> >
> > Ron (a bit frustrated)
>
> Ron,
>
> Sorry you're frustrated, and I don't have an answer for you, but I noticed
> some strange things happen regarding codecs. For example, I have Commotion
> Pro 3.1.1 and saved to a Microsoft AVI (uncompressed). Studio 9 couldn't
> open it. Media Player could open it but couldn't really play it. I went
back
> to Commotion and rerendered to MS AVI using an MJPEG codec and that fixed
> the problem for me in both Studio 9 and Media Player. Virtual Dub had no
> issues with the clip either way.
>
> My system is an Athlon XP2500+ running Windows 2000 Pro with 1.5GB DDR.
>
> Maybe somewhere in there is a clue to your situation - I hope so. BTW,
have
> you tried Pinnacle's forums
>
(http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_forums.asp?WebboardID=13&SectionID=228
> &lng=1)?

Try
http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/re [...] =227&lng=1

Paul Nixon