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Hobbs · 07-22-2005, 12:55 PM

OK Trouble, here's the deal

Being that I am the "King of all Media," I wanna so much be the hero on this prob...but I may be stumped.

We are using Studio 9.4 but I think the menus are pretty much the same if I remember. We are also using a breakout box called The Movie Box which is made by Pinnacle. It has every type of connection known to mankind on it (i.e. Firewire, S-Video, composite).

I got the same message when I tried to output video to tape, but only when I tried certain AVI files. When I went to the Make tab, clicked on the Open File button next to the player, and tried to select a video. The error message came up ~ "not compressed with Studio 9...blah blah blah." Not all video, just some video, and I am not sure why certain video would come in and some wouldn't.

Now, I did have limited success when I did the following:
I went to the Edit tab, open up the directory where the AVI file was located and clicked on the AVI file. In the window appeared thumbnails of all the scenes in the avi file. I dragged the thumbs into the filmstrip just below in the order that I wanted them to show. Afterwhich, I clicked on the the Make tab, and on the left window there is a green Create button. I pressed this and it created a compressed temporary file. Once it was done, I turned on the record on the VCR machine then pressed the Play button to output the video to tape (it doesn't say play, it is actually a button with an arrow on it just like a VCR control button) . I had limited success in the cases where I couldn't open a file directly, but there were some video files that I still couldn't open up. I got an error message that stated it couldn't open the file for one reason or another and in one case I got the dreaded "application sorry" error message and crashed the program.

If this doesn't make sense, let me know and I will try to explain it better. I included some visuals just to ease in the 'splainin'. I'm not sure how much experience youv'e had with Pinnacle.

Incidently, I hate digital video. This crap never seems to work as advertised. There's always some codec or compression prob that just doesn't make sense. Let me know if this works.

07-22-2005, 12:55 PM	#6
Hobbs Professor for the school of ass-clownery Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Surprise! Posts: 404	OK Trouble, here's the deal Being that I am the "King of all Media," I wanna so much be the hero on this prob...but I may be stumped. We are using Studio 9.4 but I think the menus are pretty much the same if I remember. We are also using a breakout box called The Movie Box which is made by Pinnacle. It has every type of connection known to mankind on it (i.e. Firewire, S-Video, composite). I got the same message when I tried to output video to tape, but only when I tried certain AVI files. When I went to the Make tab, clicked on the Open File button next to the player, and tried to select a video. The error message came up ~ "not compressed with Studio 9...blah blah blah." Not all video, just some video, and I am not sure why certain video would come in and some wouldn't. Now, I did have limited success when I did the following: I went to the Edit tab, open up the directory where the AVI file was located and clicked on the AVI file. In the window appeared thumbnails of all the scenes in the avi file. I dragged the thumbs into the filmstrip just below in the order that I wanted them to show. Afterwhich, I clicked on the the Make tab, and on the left window there is a green Create button. I pressed this and it created a compressed temporary file. Once it was done, I turned on the record on the VCR machine then pressed the Play button to output the video to tape (it doesn't say play, it is actually a button with an arrow on it just like a VCR control button) . I had limited success in the cases where I couldn't open a file directly, but there were some video files that I still couldn't open up. I got an error message that stated it couldn't open the file for one reason or another and in one case I got the dreaded "application sorry" error message and crashed the program. If this doesn't make sense, let me know and I will try to explain it better. I included some visuals just to ease in the 'splainin'. I'm not sure how much experience youv'e had with Pinnacle. Incidently, I hate digital video. This crap never seems to work as advertised. There's always some codec or compression prob that just doesn't make sense. Let me know if this works. Attached Images __________________ That's it! Send in the chimps!