I am having a problem with chapter creation in Nero Vision 4. No problems with Nerovision Express so I know it's my new version, recently updated - 2 days ago. Oh, and I have a 1.8 MH processor, with 2 gigs RAM, Windows 2000 - latest update. I also updated my Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 drivers (this stopped a problem with adding video - I had to engage the Task Manager to get this to work before the update) The problem is when I go to create chapters. The preview works good when clicking in a couple places in the video, but then hangs / slows way down. It comes back, but takes very long. This is very exasperating. This also happens in the editing page - but since I don't use it that much, I don't know all the details of the problem here. I do know that the preview hung / slowed way down on cutting out a chunck of the movie clip. I think it's the same problem with the preview function. Anybody have an idea here? Or how do I revert back to NeroVision Express?
I posted my problems with NeroVision 4 (4.1.0.15) hanging as you suggest. I have found no fix, but am waiting for an update that should be out in the next couple of weeks. For now, I am using version 4.1.0.9 that comes with Nero 7 v7.0.1.4, which does not lock up. I like to take mp4 files, like podcasts and transfer them to DVD to archive. The locking up made NeroVision 4 unuseable.
Things are even worse now. I'm really not happy with This version of Nero Vision 4 (4.1.0.15). It hangs up on video in preview mode - both in edit and creating chapters. The chapters don't always have associated photos with them. It really bogs down the whole computer too. When ending the program always generates errors as well. Was this version tested? Do not use this version!
Im getting this too. Just tried the new nero 7.2.0.3 and im getting it with that too. thought it would be fixed by now. HELP.
I also have this same problem and have since I updated past the initial release. I spent the entire afternoon yesterday trying to uninstall, clean, and reinstall the Nero program. What a waste of time! Stay away from any updates until they fix this MAJOR problem.
I posted in another thread that I might have found why later NV4 updates are having problems. It seems to me that if I run a video file which is encoded with a frame rate other than ~29.97 fps that the slowdowns and video freezing happens. So far I have only done ones at 23.98 fps and 11 fps, but I will try others if I can find them. I have run 3 files (.mov, .mp4, .avi) encoded at 29.97 fps with the 4.5.0.15 update and they seem to run almost normally. It does, however, seem NV4 is using quite a bit of CPU power, so it may need a really fast processor to make up the difference. I have a computer with a 1.9 GHz P4 I will try later tonight or tomorrow. To find out how your file is encoded, you can use Nero Recode and check the info tab. ************ OK, it is 2 hours later *********** The performance is definitely much worse with this 1.9 Ghz P4 256m non-hyperthreading. The processor runs so close to max, that if I even open IE, the video stutters. Editing does lock up the video even with the 29.97 fps ones, but they come out and catch up in a minute or so. What the heck, the video even stutters if I move the slider bar on the right of this newsgroup's reply box. The 2.8 Ghz seemed to edit some files fine, even though it would run 80-90% cpu usage.
Lokidog, gain 123, pmruzicka: I can confirn the unacceptably long startup for nerovision 4 (NBE 7203b). Startup took 2:25 - for my AMD 2600 x2 2 GB RAM awith SATA2 HDD!! A post to another discussion stated that the delay is due to the antivirus and I restarted after disabling AV TEMPORARILY. Startup now about 14 seconds. Still more than twice as long as Photoshop CS2. However once installed the application works very well, does not hang as so many previous versions hve done, seems to deliver a much better quality video. It is possible that there may be an audio issue but I have yet to confirm this. Ron
Ive tried NBE 7203b and tried disableing my zonealarm. I still get the problem. Im not to botherd about the startup time, Its more when im making chapters it hangs, And takes forever. And some of the chapter preview pictures come out blank with a black x on them. Its unusable for me at the moment.
Don't think it's antivirus with the delay, slowing down, hanging, or simply freezing of the whole computer that occurs while some files are processing - or previewing. I have turned off all antivirus scanners and it still does it. But not with all files - some are perfectly fine. I do have some programs running in the background, but since it's such a pain to turn them all off I have not done so. Also, this is not a consistant problem, only happens with some files. The program starting slow - this is consistant, but is not that slow for me - less than 10 seconds usually. This seems to be an independent problem from the Preview Mode one. I found a solution for the Chapter and Editing problem for at least some problem files. Start the program and add the file. Then go through all the steps - press next, next, etc. Choose "Do Not Create Titles" on the Select Menu Page in the 'Menus to use' Box. Then Choose burn to image recorder and burn the image to the hard drive. Then close the program. Reopen it and now start a whole new project - and add this newly created file - the *.NRG file. It won't come up automatically - you will have to choose "All Files" to show it. Now adding chapters etc. works smoothly. At least with some files. Remember to create a file with a different name the second go around if you are coding it to your hard drive again! A pain, and lots of hard drive space but it works! I've tried recoding AVI files with VirtualDub - but since I don't really know what settings to use and what Nerovision is hanging on, I have yet to be successfull with this method. Some recoded files won't even play at all in the new recoded AVI version, so I am probably not using VirtualDub properly, or have codec issues too.
lokidog "Don't think it's antivirus with the delay, slowing down, hanging, or simply freezing of the whole computer that occurs while some files are processing - or previewing" I agree, the AV is respossible for only the sery slow STARTUP of nv4. I must say that I have seen many of the other issues that you raise although my present system built around a Gigabyte GA-K8N SLI Pro and AMD x2 cpu 2 GB generic RAM (fresh installation of SP Pro SP2has been entirely free of these issues. When seeing them in the past I have taken the opportunity to install Nero on a newly built customer system. I have found that a clean system with only Nero and its components is stable. I believe that overheating leading to CPU errors can be responsible for failures of NVE3 to complete encoding a DVD. Ron
Possible work around for hesitating in NV4. I discovered that video files not encoded at 29.97 fps or maybe 25 fps seem to cause the problems during editing. The ones I was having problems with were encoded at 12 fps and 23.97 fps. You can check using Nero Recode to see what yours is. Venkman27 suggested recoding the files to bring them up to 29.97 and see if they worked. Using NeroVision4 in export mode, I did just that. The same file that would freeze or hang would now work almost normally. You must understand that in previous versions, it was not necessary to recode the files, which leads me to believe that NV4 is trying to partially transcode the files during editing. If you would like to check it out, download the Basic Instinct 2 (23.97 fps) video trailer from the Nero site. Put it in NV4 on the timeline. It will play straight through fine, but if you move the time marker 2 or 3 times, the hesitation starts. Depending on the file, after a 10 to 20 second delay the sound and timecode will resume. After about another 1.5 minutes the video will catch up. Nero needs to fix this! I have tested on 3 computers with fresh WinXP Pro SP2 installs and I really doubt it will work correctly on any computer, unless the processor is fast enough to hide it (> P4 2.8). If yours doesn't show these symptoms, please elaborate on your setup.
Alright I've found a "replacement" well I guess you could call it that. I use VSOConvertXtoDvd and make the whole dvd folder in about 1hr. Then I take TMPGEnc make a menu and burn it and it takes about the same amount of time Nero does/did and is more reliable. Nero 7 has been trouble ridden from the start and until 7.2.0.3b's slow everything improves drastically, I'm leaving that one alone.
photog! --question! when you say 7.2.0.3 delivers better video quality, is it because you didn't reset the quality setting on the older 7.0.8.2? when i rolled back to older 7.0.8.2 i forgot to set quality back to 'high' in the 'more' menu on the nero vision burn setup screen. it took a day for me to remember/figure out that that, after a lot of confusion on why the dvd video wasn't looking as good as i remember. i'm running nero on an amd 3200 64bit @ 2ghz w/1.5 ram and sata 0 hd. and yes the newer nero runs much smoother for chapter marking and editing, it hangs w/the older nero.
