Re: VideoMeld issues & feedback
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 4:28 am
Hi Chris
I started using VideoMeld just a couple of days ago and have to say, that how much can be done with that piece of software is just amazing. As far as I can tell for now, it just has everything I was looking for (and most definitely a lot more)
However, I'm posting a comment in this thread, because I am experiencing the same stability issues described by JakubM. Maybe there is also some additional info that could help you...
- program becomes unresponsive in many occasions (difficult to really describe a clear pattern)
- error message "TCanvasD2D" in various occasions, typically when playing with settings and preview in the video effects dialog, but also when melding the movie to a file
- when melding the video, often getting only partial rendering of some parts of the movie
- typically having problems when using static pictures; png seems to be more stable than jpg, but it does not fix it all; sometimes the pictures are missing in the final video file, or video effects are not applied properly or missing altogether
- the problem seems also to occur randomly: e.g. the "TCanvasD2D" error never happens twice exactly at the same place during rendering
Been playing yesterday with a short project, containing one video clip (mp4 ~4 minutes), one mp3 music intro, a few static pictures and a couple of captions. Didn't manage to render it completely with "Youtube 720" settings (various problems occured, as described above). With "Youtube 360" settings, it worked like a charm... Obviously, can't really call that full HD
Also very strange, rendering apparently is much faster on an older machine. My brand new laptop (100+ GB free space on both HD + SSD drives, i7 quad CPU, more than enough RAM...) exhibits all the symptoms above. The first rendering attempt of that 4 minutes project took over an hour... and produced an unusable file (one of the static images at the beginning remained in front during the rest of the movie, hiding the video clip). In average, the rendering is significantly faster on my older laptop (~2 years old, no SSD, i5 CPU). Both laptops are running Windows 8.1.
It does look like a memory leak - or worse, memory overwriting.
I hope that you could fix it soon... If that is of any help, I could send you the project files.
Stéphane
I started using VideoMeld just a couple of days ago and have to say, that how much can be done with that piece of software is just amazing. As far as I can tell for now, it just has everything I was looking for (and most definitely a lot more)
However, I'm posting a comment in this thread, because I am experiencing the same stability issues described by JakubM. Maybe there is also some additional info that could help you...
- program becomes unresponsive in many occasions (difficult to really describe a clear pattern)
- error message "TCanvasD2D" in various occasions, typically when playing with settings and preview in the video effects dialog, but also when melding the movie to a file
- when melding the video, often getting only partial rendering of some parts of the movie
- typically having problems when using static pictures; png seems to be more stable than jpg, but it does not fix it all; sometimes the pictures are missing in the final video file, or video effects are not applied properly or missing altogether
- the problem seems also to occur randomly: e.g. the "TCanvasD2D" error never happens twice exactly at the same place during rendering
Been playing yesterday with a short project, containing one video clip (mp4 ~4 minutes), one mp3 music intro, a few static pictures and a couple of captions. Didn't manage to render it completely with "Youtube 720" settings (various problems occured, as described above). With "Youtube 360" settings, it worked like a charm... Obviously, can't really call that full HD
Also very strange, rendering apparently is much faster on an older machine. My brand new laptop (100+ GB free space on both HD + SSD drives, i7 quad CPU, more than enough RAM...) exhibits all the symptoms above. The first rendering attempt of that 4 minutes project took over an hour... and produced an unusable file (one of the static images at the beginning remained in front during the rest of the movie, hiding the video clip). In average, the rendering is significantly faster on my older laptop (~2 years old, no SSD, i5 CPU). Both laptops are running Windows 8.1.
It does look like a memory leak - or worse, memory overwriting.
I hope that you could fix it soon... If that is of any help, I could send you the project files.
Stéphane