Stylus 1 movie files crash my video editing applications!

[wes mallard]

Recently took several movie clips with my Stylus 1. When I tried to import the files into corel Videostudio pro7 the application crashed. It does not crash when loading movie clips from my panasonic gx7.

I tried another app: Edius Neo 3.02. It worked normally with the Panasonic clips, but shutdown when I tried bringing stylus clips into the app for editing.

Anybody have a clue?

Regards,

Wes

 

[joe6pack]

Recently took several movie clips with my Stylus 1. When I tried to import the files into corel Videostudio pro7 the application crashed. It does not crash when loading movie clips from my panasonic gx7.

I tried another app: Edius Neo 3.02. It worked normally with the Panasonic clips, but shutdown when I tried bringing stylus clips into the app for editing.

Unless you are a codec expert, it is hard to say who is at fault here. But the bottomline is you are left unable to edit your movie clip. You can seek help from Corel's user-to-user forum.

Also try converting your Stylus 1 clip using software like Handbrake.

 

[Henry Falkner]

Recently took several movie clips with my Stylus 1. When I tried to import the files into corel Videostudio pro7 the application crashed. It does not crash when loading movie clips from my panasonic gx7.

I tried another app: Edius Neo 3.02. It worked normally with the Panasonic clips, but shutdown when I tried bringing stylus clips into the app for editing.

Check the extension of your Stylus movies - they are probably .MOV. Check whether your software specifies that it can cope with files of this extension. In any case you should have Quicktime installed (usually comes as part of iTunes), because .MOV files use the Quicktime codec.

I am a little surprised that your software just dies. Does it not tell you something like 'Unknown file format'?

Henry

 

[joe6pack]

Recently took several movie clips with my Stylus 1. When I tried to import the files into corel Videostudio pro7 the application crashed. It does not crash when loading movie clips from my panasonic gx7.

I tried another app: Edius Neo 3.02. It worked normally with the Panasonic clips, but shutdown when I tried bringing stylus clips into the app for editing.

Check the extension of your Stylus movies - they are probably .MOV. Check whether your software specifies that it can cope with files of this extension. In any case you should have Quicktime installed (usually comes as part of iTunes), because .MOV files use the Quicktime codec.

I am a little surprised that your software just dies. Does it not tell you something like 'Unknown file format'?

Henry

.MOV is just a container format. On the XZ-1, .MOV video stream is Motion JPEG. I don't have Stylus-1 but I bet it is MP4 / H.264.

 

[Henry Falkner]

joe6pack wrote:

.MOV is just a container format. On the XZ-1, .MOV video stream is Motion JPEG. I don't have Stylus-1 but I bet it is MP4 / H.264.

That is what it is on my SH-50.

Whether it is just a container format however bypasses my point.

If his editing software does not know the relevant codec however, it should not actually crash. It should advise him that the codec is missing. MP4 / H264 is an Apple format. Installing the Olympus software will give the codec to him. But not everybody does, since it is quite clunky in use.

Henry

 

[wes mallard]

To update the situation a little. I downloaded acdsee's video conversion program and converted the stylus movie clips to another format. The converted files load and edit normally in both editing apps: those being corel videostudio prox7 and edius neo 3.03.

Somethings up with the sylus 1's file format.

BTW, I have the latest version of quicktime installed.

Thanks for your replies,

Wes

 

[wes mallard]

Here's a link I discovered researching this problem behavior:

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forum.grassvalley.com

The discussion mirrors alot of the problems I've been experiencing. No satisfactory solution has been revealed. To me, rerendering/converting file for import to an editing app is time wasted and I'm not going to do it.

 

[joe6pack]

joe6pack wrote:

.MOV is just a container format. On the XZ-1, .MOV video stream is Motion JPEG. I don't have Stylus-1 but I bet it is MP4 / H.264.

That is what it is on my SH-50.

Whether it is just a container format however bypasses my point.

If his editing software does not know the relevant codec however, it should not actually crash. It should advise him that the codec is missing. MP4 / H264 is an Apple format. Installing the Olympus software will give the codec to him. But not everybody does, since it is quite clunky in use.

Neither MP4 nor H.264 is an Apple format. The software should not crash but since many video software uses known codec library, a library bug and/or out-of-spec media would cause the software to crash. It is a moot point to complaint about the crash, especially for software that has little to no support.

 

[wes mallard]

Very helpful!

 

[wes mallard]

Olympus import problem appears to have been fixed in version 3.5 of Edius Neo. The problem remains in Corel's VideoStudio ProX7.

Do not purchase the downloadable version of Edius Neo from B&H as it is the out of date version. To update to the current version is $83.99 on top of the $179.00 for the download.

The boxed version of Edius Neo 3.5 is $179.99. There doesn't appear to be a downloadable version for the latest 3.5 version of the software.

 

[Henry Falkner]

Olympus import problem appears to have been fixed in version 3.5 of Edius Neo. The problem remains in Corel's VideoStudio ProX7.

I did have problems with a video editor pre-installed on my Toshiba M60 ( about 2006), the name of which I have forgotten. Anyway, Corel took them over and eventually stopped supporting that software.

Do not purchase the downloadable version of Edius Neo from B&H as it is the out of date version. To update to the current version is $83.99 on top of the $179.00 for the download.

I use AVS4YOU software, specifically their AVS Video Converter. The whole package, last time I installed it on a new laptop, was US$ 69.- for an unrestricted licence on that machine. This did crash on the M60 on rare occasions when the CPU duty cycle was 100%. My current laptop is a Toshiba L650D with an AMD Turion processor equivalent to Intel i3. The CPU cycle there hovers at 98%, but AVS Video Converter does not crash at the 100% CPU duty cycle.

AVS Video Converter does recognise .MOV files coming out of my SH-50 and my SZ-30MR.

Henry

 

[Henry Falkner]

Neither MP4 nor H.264 is an Apple format. The software should not crash but since many video software uses known codec library, a library bug and/or out-of-spec media would cause the software to crash. It is a moot point to complaint about the crash, especially for software that has little to no support.

The .MOV implementation is Apple. Sandra's netbook refused to recognise .MOV videos until I installed Quicktime for her. Windows 7 politely asked me 'What the f is it'?

Henry