Hi, just started using my dazzle external video creator to copy some old vhs family videos. Everything went fine with sound\video except the fact Pinaccle Studio 9 crashed when i was editing. Then i uninstalled Studio 9 and tried capture from the windows movie maker and intervideo and both didn´t run:the error files were msvcrt.dll (wmm)and editing.dll (intervideo). Don´t have a clue to solve this. Thanks.

First, I'd try to capture the files using dazzle. Make sure they play without editing. Then copy the file & try editing that one, with Pinnacle or windows Movie Maker.

Thanks for the reply. i reinstalled Studio 9 and downloaded the patch. Now it´s working fine. I still have some questions: - I created a 12 minute video avi file and i was really surprised after i saw it´s size: 2,8 gb ! i wonder how i can create a dvd from an one hour or even higher lenght videotape... impossible right ? - It is possible to copy those files into a dvd reader or i need to buy a DVD-RW drive ?

I am running Studio 10.7, but I would assume that 9 would be similar (I hope). After you finish your authoring, click "Make Movie". Studio will figure if you have enough space on the disk and post the result. If there is not enough, you can lower the quality setting. I have not seen any noticeable loss of quality when playing over a standard 640x480 resolution TV. You can also go into the menu and lower the bitrate until it all fits. If worse comes to worst and the result is not acceptable, you lose one DVD disk, not a major financial loss :0) . What I have done also (since I insist on best quality) is to break the authoring into two sections in the editing screen and make two DVDs. At the end of the first you can have a menu, "Please insert disk two". Works great (at least my family thinks so). Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

Ok, thanks. One more thing: why my computer goes down and starts over after i leave Studio 9 ? with 3ghz and 1 GB Ram it´s somewhat strange. I get the "The computer recovered from an error" message. (All Studio 9 video events works fine now on my computer).

Sounds like you have some corrupted file that is causing a crash when you log out of Studio. At this point, if Studio is running good, my suggestion is to finish whatever projects you are working on, delete Studio and reinstall it. Be sure to delete it first. I tried reinstalling Studio over the top once and it really messed up everything. Also be sure to save your projects off-computer just to make sure you don't lose anything. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.