Hi John Nice hearing from you. Let me give you an update regarding OpenShot. I used your latest version 1.3.0 to create a 2 hour plus video, the same video clips as I used with your previous version that I had importing problems with. Here are my findings. Version 1.3.0 is much improved over your previous version. I have a Panasonic ZS7 which produces individual AVCHD 720P video clips. I was still unable to import over 300 individual video clips all at one time so I tried importing a few at a time and gradually working up to all of them. It's been awhile now so I don't remember the exact number but I did hit a ceiling where I couldn't import even one more clip still leaving over 100 clips more to import, so this was my solution. For example, let's say I have 400 clips. I import 200 at one time and render all of them to create one large clip, then I start over and import and render the remaining 200 clips to create a second large video clip. Now I have my entire 2 hour plus video contained in two very large video clips. Now I'm able to import those two large clips and work with the entire movie. The only problem is that when editing the video, the scenes are no longer separated into individual clips and when I need to get rid of bad video, I then mark it and delete it and close the gap. Other than that importing problem, I am very happy with OpenShot. If the problem never gets fixed, then at least I have a solution. I don't have the specs in front of me but my PC is a quad core with 2 gig of ram.
If it is important, when I get a chance, if you want me to, I can experiment and find out the exact total number of video clips I'm able to import before OpenShot hangs. Thanks very much in advance, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Volk Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug 696863] Re: Problem creating 2 hour plus video This bug looks like it is very close to bug 642320. https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/642320 Removing the use of melt would probably help your problem when importing videos. ** Changed in: openshot Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696863 Title: Problem creating 2 hour plus video Status in OpenShot Video Editor: Confirmed Bug description: Congratulation for a great video editor!!! Here's my objective. Using OpenShot 2.2.1 on Ubunti 10.10. Camera is Panasonic ZS7 shooting AVCHD lite. 1) Problem importing 200 clips at one time. Successful doing 100 at a time then after 200 clips were imported, I needed to back of to 25 at a time. It seemed to take too much time trying another 100 clips after 200 clips were imported. I was able to successfully import 372 (0000 to 0371) clips from one memory card then another 103 (0000 to 102) clips from a second. 2) Problem with the small icons with each imported video clip. I had two memory cards, the clips were imported from both of them and the second memory card had clips 0000 through 103 which was the same id as the other memory card's clips. The actual video was correct but the small icons from the second set of clips displayed on the first set of clips. 3) Problem with the 300rd clip. At about 1 hour 26 minutes when I added clip 300 to the timeline, the timeline pointer would disapear when I tried to view any of the video. It would disapear about 2 seconds at the beginning of the video. Also, OpenShot started crashing. Also, earlier, the timeline pointer and it's line would become out of sync with each other. The line seemed to be on video but it's pointer was to the right of the line and when the line hit the center point of the timeline, they would become aligned. I had to eliminate clips back to about 1 hour 10 minutes then OpenShot seemed to behave enough that I could continue with the video in two parts, about an hour each. I had previously added a title at the beginning of the video and I was not able to go back and work with it. When I selected the title I was not able to bring up "Font Properties" but I was able to bring up both "Pick a Colors". I deleted the title and created a new one. No problems with exporting to DVD and creating a DVD from it. The video is about one hour 12 minutes long. I will continue with the next 1 hour video. I don't know how many people try to make a 2 hour plus movie but I think this was a good test. Please let me know if more information is needed. I am at work and quickly wrote the above. I hope it isn't too confusing and please E-mail me with any questions. Thanks for a great video editor and I hope this makes it even more amazing than it already is. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/696863/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenShot Developers, which is subscribed to OpenShot Video Editor. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696863 Title: Problem creating 2 hour plus video Status in OpenShot Video Editor: Confirmed Bug description: Congratulation for a great video editor!!! Here's my objective. Using OpenShot 2.2.1 on Ubunti 10.10. Camera is Panasonic ZS7 shooting AVCHD lite. 1) Problem importing 200 clips at one time. Successful doing 100 at a time then after 200 clips were imported, I needed to back of to 25 at a time. It seemed to take too much time trying another 100 clips after 200 clips were imported. I was able to successfully import 372 (0000 to 0371) clips from one memory card then another 103 (0000 to 102) clips from a second. 2) Problem with the small icons with each imported video clip. I had two memory cards, the clips were imported from both of them and the second memory card had clips 0000 through 103 which was the same id as the other memory card's clips. The actual video was correct but the small icons from the second set of clips displayed on the first set of clips. 3) Problem with the 300rd clip. At about 1 hour 26 minutes when I added clip 300 to the timeline, the timeline pointer would disapear when I tried to view any of the video. It would disapear about 2 seconds at the beginning of the video. Also, OpenShot started crashing. Also, earlier, the timeline pointer and it's line would become out of sync with each other. The line seemed to be on video but it's pointer was to the right of the line and when the line hit the center point of the timeline, they would become aligned. I had to eliminate clips back to about 1 hour 10 minutes then OpenShot seemed to behave enough that I could continue with the video in two parts, about an hour each. I had previously added a title at the beginning of the video and I was not able to go back and work with it. When I selected the title I was not able to bring up "Font Properties" but I was able to bring up both "Pick a Colors". I deleted the title and created a new one. No problems with exporting to DVD and creating a DVD from it. The video is about one hour 12 minutes long. I will continue with the next 1 hour video. I don't know how many people try to make a 2 hour plus movie but I think this was a good test. Please let me know if more information is needed. I am at work and quickly wrote the above. I hope it isn't too confusing and please E-mail me with any questions. Thanks for a great video editor and I hope this makes it even more amazing than it already is. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/696863/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
