I have made a project on a win 10 pc and stored on a moveable HDD, when moving the HDD to a win 11pc and opening the project only sound will be played and the videoscreen is black. I can open the same videofile in VLC player and everyting seems to be OK.
What can be the reason that movistudio do not show video picture?
Hi
Black video on import is most commonly caused by issues with the graphics card (GPU) drivers or display options settings in the program for hardware acceleration of decoding, processing and export, where possible, by the GPU .
Open the program settings shortcut Y key, select the Device options tab and change the 3 video mode options to CPU, confirming the changes.
If this fixes the display then the issue is with the GPU drivers which should be up-to date for Intel or AMD GPU's,
For Nvidia RTX GPU family check the driver version installed, if it is the latest 591.44 or 591.59 drivers, these should be rolled back to the last driver version of the 581.xx series for your specific GPU. The 591.xx drivers 'broke something' causing issues for several other video editors. This is being looked into by Magix.
If the above does not resolve the issue then we need more information to help diagnose the issue(s) you are having:
The specification of your computer system including Windows version and program version, see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and graphics card make/model in full, and also what monitor/screen resolution(s) you are working with if this is a laptop.
I would suggest you put this information in your profile signature so we do not have to keep asking for it.
Download and install MediaInfo and analyse one of the clips that is showing black and post the results, see this tutorial on how to setup MediaInfo and analyse a video clip for all the data required.
John EB
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Hi
I have changed the 3 videooption to CPU with no sucess.
Mu computer: ASUS Vivobook S15
Windows 11home ver 25 H2 (26.200.7462)
Processor: Snapdragon(R) x Plus-X1P42100 Qualcom(R) Oryon(TM) CPU 3244Mhz
Display/grafikk: Qualcom(R) Adreno(+M) X1-45GPU Driver 31.0.96.0 res 2880x1620 120Hz
Sound:Qualcom(R) Aqstic(TM) audio adapter device
HDD: 475GB (free space 270GB)
Memory: 16GB
I have tried to download the textfile from mediainfo, but it was not allowed to download textfile
Mvh
Odd Aagesen
Textfile
General
Complete name : D:\video21_0606_1206\My Record\Inspelning - 0001.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name : DVCAM
Format profile : OpenDML
Format settings : BitmapInfoHeader / WaveFormatEx
File size : 12.9 GiB
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 30.0 Mb/s
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Recorded date : 2006-06-03 12:04:50.000
Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCAM
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Time code of first frame : 00:00:03:20
Time code source : Subcode time code
Stream size : 12.4 GiB (96%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Little / Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1 h 1 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 024 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 450 MiB (3%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 40 ms
Ich glaube nicht, das man Video Files mit Open DML (MATROX AVI 2.0) auf einen ARM Laptop zum laufen bringt.
Das funktioniert auf ARM Laptops wahrscheinlich nur mit Software, die FFM peg für ARM benutzt.
Am besten konvertierst du die Video Files in HEVC oder AVC HD im MP4 Container um.
Hi
Thanks for the information.
I agree with @Marc-Goder comment regarding Open DML and playback on a Snapdragon device.
I assume that the Win 10 PC had an intel or AMD CPU, is this correct?
Do note:-
John EB
I have hundreds of short DV Avi's created with my Sony DV camera and the mediafiles of a few random ones are identical to your mediafile EXCEPT mine for some reason under VIDEO shows Encoder Settings (I don't think this is important) and the Audio is 48.0 kHz and yours is 32.0 kHZ - maybe this is important.
They all load into MS2025 without a problem.
A simple test - open Movie Studio and BEFORE you load the video file, open menu FILE / SETTINGS / PROGRAM / IMPORT-EXPORT and under IMPORT FORMATS untick "AVI Import Module" - don't panic, this will reset itself when you close and reopen Movie Studio.
Load in your video and see if it loads correctly.
Another simple test - Split (demux) the Avi file into it's video and audio components (I use Shutter Encoder to demux files, but Clever FFMPEG or other free programs work just as well) and then load the video portion into Movie Studio.
Does it load correctly?
AndyW
Hi Andy,
The 32kHz Audio Sample Rate should not be a problem but, as @Marc-Goder and @johnebaker have pointed out, the fact that @Odd-Aagesen has a computer with a Snapdragon CPU is very much the issue here.
Jeff
I agree with the experts Jeff, I have to as it's all gobbledygook to me. Snapdragon? I never even understood the Pentium 75 I started out with many moons ago.
On very rare occasions when I've had a problem AVI, closing the Magix AVI Import module and using whatever the system uses has allowed me to load it into MEP (not had the problem so far with MS2025)
IAs there was no mention of whether the file opens in VLC or MPC or whatever video player is on his system, I thought it worth a few seconds of his time to try.
AndyW
I agree with you! I know next to nothing about Snapdragon CPUs and am content to remain in my ignorance, at least for now! So the information from @Marc-Goder and @johnebaker was "news" to me.
Jeff
I can open the same videofile in VLC player and everyting seems to be OK.
Whoops! Missed that. Doesn't VLC use it's own built in codecs?
Still, stopping the Magix AVI Import may still be worth 10 seconds or so.
AndyW
Hi
Snapdragon chips are a 'System on a Chip' (SoC) , ie they are CPU, GPU, audio, and other hardware devices, all rolled into one chip with lower power requirements, then for example CPU, GPU and motherboard combinations found in PC's.
They are most commonly found in mobile phones, and tablets, however they are creeping into laptops/notebook as they have a longer battery life. The disadvantage they have, with them being a SoC, is there is no hardware upgrade path available to boost their performance or capabilities by upgrading CPU, graphics card and/or memory, this also applies to some laptops.
Their advantages are low power consumption and efficiency for tasks such as browsing the Internet, word processing and other 'light weight' software roles such as Image editing.
The disadvantages are lack of 'horsepower', for heavy duty tasks such as video editing, limited software compatibility and limited driver avaialbility for some external devices. The latter will improve as more external device manufacturers up their game to match the popularity of ARM based systems.
John EB
Thanks for the explanation John. I now consider myself an expert on the subject 🤭
It's a good job I'm not a fan of laptops; even my phone annoys me.
AndyW
Hi
Thanks for all interest
I have unticked the "input AVI import format" and tried a new download with no success.
There are still black window and the sound is OK.
I can open the avi file in VLC media player with both video and sound, I also tried to open in Windows mediaplayer i got a errormessage the AVI file is coded in DVSD format and can not be opened. The screen is black and sound is OK.
I downloaded the videofile from an Panasonic mini high8 camera tru a firewire connection.
Odd Aagesen
Hi
My last eperience I try to open the AVI files with windows mediaplayer on a widows 10 computer, no problem everything OK.
Odd
Hi
Please confirm what the Windows 10 pc CPU is - Intel or AMD?
. . . . open the AVI files with windows mediaplayer on a widows 10 computer, no problem everything OK. . . . Odd . . . .
Media Player being able to play the files on the Windows 10 PC only means the PC has the correct codec installed for decoding DV-AVI files with the OpenDML extension to enable playback. The codec may have been installed the first time you played one of the files in Media player, or from any installed Sony software that came with the video camera.
Unfortunately this has no bearing on whether the video editor on the Snapdragon notebook can import or play the AVI file encoding format.
John EB
Hi.
As far as I'm aware, that version of Windows that comes with the product is made for Soc type processors, as are those versions of the VLC and Media Player apps. To date, only the Da Vinci Resolve video editor has been adapted to work with Soc chipsets within Windows. Adobe has a beta version of Premier but not all of its add-on effects work.
Apple Mac Minis run a version of an ARM Soc processor and their software and apps are adapted to work with similar Soc hardware but only on their operating system.
I think that for most companies, making software compatible for Soc hardware is just not profitable enough as yet to justify the development costs.
That is why it is important to take note and understand the specifications page of any software one buys so that you have the correct hardware capable of running the program and ensuring full compatibility.
Ray.