Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 Service Pack 2 Release Notes
This document addresses issues that are not discussed in the Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 documentation. This document may be updated as more information becomes available.
About Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.2
Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.2 is a complete Digital Video Suite, offering Real-time MPEG capture, Realtime preview, as well as Real-time output. The inclusion of tools for video painting, CG graphics, audio editing and DVD authoring makes this your solution for powerful content creation - for broadcast, tape, DVD or the Web. This document has been updated to include details regarding the MediaStudio Pro 7.2 update.

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

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Microsoft, Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP Intel Pentium III compatible system (500MHz CPU) Microsoft DirectX 9 128MB RAM (256MB or higher recommended) 300MB of available hard disk space (4GB recommended) CD or DVD-ROM drive
Real-time features perform best with at least:

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Pentium 4, 2.0GHz CPU 512MB RAM 7200rpm IDE dedicated hard drive Dual Head (AV Out) Graphics cards for output

What's New

1. Support Ulead VideoStudio 8 project files. 2. Add new filters and effect: Pan & Zoom, Duotone and Album transition. 3. Support Recording Date/Time and display the arrangement. Production Library now supports extracting timecode from videos and audio/images from camcorders or digital cameras. Some camcorders and digital cameras may not record the media with recording date/time when using some specific settings. In this situation, the Production Library will not be able to show Recording Date/Time. 4. Support VST audio plug-in. 5. Support Auto Deinterlace. When creating a project using progressive scan and Auto
Deinterlace is selected, all video fields will be automatically deinterlaced when creating the

video file.

6. MPEG-2 2-Pass Encoding option was added. 2-Pass Encoding can be only be selected when you create a file; it is not an option for a project template.

Issues Addressed

1. Video Capture module crash problem was fixed. In the previous version, Video Capture crashes without any warning message when playing back captured MPEG files. 2. Windows Media Format VIO module was updated. 3. Customized Windows Media Format profiles can be used to create files. 4. Variable bit-rate (VBR) support for Windows Media format was added and additional Windows Media 9 encoding profiles were included. 5. Non-Latin character problem for Title Clip was fixed. 6. Pre-scan and capture related issues were fixed:
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Pre-scan and capture work correctly even when the DV tape has duplicated timecodes. DV camcorders that have built-in hardware buffer feature are now supported by Pre-scan Problem with Video Capture crashing when the video has more than 100 scenes was fixed. The Scan DV Tape button is enabled even when there is no device connected. Problem with MediaStudio Pro not opening a project when users select video matte in Video Overlay attribute was fixed. Changed Field Order A to Lower Field First and Field Order B to Upper Field First. Problem of the video flickering at the end of a transition effect was fixed. [For Ulead HD Plug-in only] Video Capture sometimes stop when there are scene changes. ADS Instant DVD II compatibility issue was fixed. Print to Tape problem was fixed. Problem with the background color always being black in a slide show was fixed. Problem with CG Infinity crashing was fixed. In CG Infinity, the problem of the object color changing when Moving Path is applied was fixed. Occasional problems with Microsoft Windows Media 9 audio were fixed. Problem when dragging and dropping image files onto the Timeline was fixed. Problem with DV files with corrupted frames when created on a system with Hyper-Threading

enabled was fixed.

Occasional synchronizing problems in Preview window were fixed. DVD-NTSC template configures the video's frame type wrongly therefore causing video with
Lower Field first to fail to Smart Render. This problem was fixed.

Problems when creating a video with incorrect field order when a 3D transition is applied were fixed. Problem with Remove Noise audio filter not functioning well when using Instant Play was

fixed.

Audio synchronization problem when a PAL MPEG-1 video is converted to a NTSC DVD video

was fixed.

Problem with the Field Order option being grayed out in some situations was fixed. Image relink problem for Media Library was fixed. Auto-Deinterlace is now applied on the video during Create Video File, not during editing. Scan for Scenes bug was fixed. Problem with Video Capture only pre-scanning and capturing the first segment of video and
ignoring the rest of the DV tape when the DV tape has duplicated timecodes was fixed.
Some camcorders have hardware buffer to hold previously played frames. Due to this, the
camcorder may send buffered frames rather than the actual frames and right timecode to
Video Capture. Video Capture has resolved this problem.

Known issues

1. Customized template settings (both in New project and Create Video File dialog boxes) of users will be archived and moved to another folder because the default template was updated. If you want to recover customized templates, follow the procedure below: a. In <MediaStudio Pro 7 installation path>\Backup, open Data.log in Notepad. b. Check the the path that is written in Data.log. c. In the Backup folder, copy both prjtmpMPEG.dat and savetemp.dat to the path specified in Data.log. This will overwrite the new files that were installed with SP2 with the customized templates. 2. When importing a VideoStudio 8 project with SmartSound audio clips, SmartSound audio clips will be ripped. Other audio clips can be imported without problems. 3. VST audio plug-in has to be put in a specific path to make it work. It must be placed in this path: <MediaStudio Pro root>\Ulead Systems\Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.0\aft_plug\VST

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 Service Pack 3 Release Note

(Build No. 7.30.0003)

This document addresses issues that are not discussed in the Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 documentation. This document may be updated as more information becomes available.
About Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7
Ulead MediaStudio Pro is a complete Digital Video Suite, offering Real-time MPEG capture, Real-time preview, as well as Real-time output. The inclusion of tools for video painting, CG graphics, audio editing and DVD authoring makes this your solution for powerful content creation for broadcast, tape, DVD or the Web.
System requirements Minimum Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP (Service Pack 2 required for HD Plug-in) Intel Pentium III compatible system (500MHz CPU) Microsoft DirectX9 Windows Media Player 9 Series 128MB RAM (256MB or higher recommended) 300MB of available hard disk space (4GB recommended) 16-bit sound card CD or DVD-ROM drive
Real-time features perform best with at least:
Pentium 4, 2.0GHz CPU 512MB RAM 7200rpm IDE dedicated hard drive Dual head (AV out) Graphics card for output, 128MB GPU for HD playback.

Whats New

Support Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series Encode your HDV footage or high quality stills to a variety of HD resolutions, such as 1280 x 720 progressive (720p), 1920 x 1080 interlaced (1080i), or 1920 x 1080 progressive at 23.976 fps (1080Psf). 24P Support: 24P Standard (2:3 pulldown) and 24P Advanced (2:3:3:2 Pulldown) from Panasonic AG-DVX100 and AG-DVX100A camcorders. This update provides device control, video capture, video editing and writing back to camcorder.

Issues Addressed

a. b. c. d. e. Fix problem with VBR encoding creating higher bitrates than the maximum setting. Fix problem with some.swf file failing to be imported into VE. Light video filter giving incorrect results. Fix Field Order problem of DV AVI created by Canopus Edius DV codec. Fix performance issue on.jpg file. When inserting some large size.jpg files on timeline, AP will take a very long time to display the thumbnails on the timeline. f. g. Crashing problem when importing DVD-VR files was fixed. Fix problem with MPEG Advanced Setting Max/Avg/Min bit rate always being reset to default after user adjustment. h. i. j. Fix the problem of AP crashing when scrubbing audio with some DX audio filters applied. Fix problem with Pan & Zoom resulting in incorrect field order. Bug fix for HDV plug-in 2.0 version: Fixed fail to build graph problem when capturing with Matrox G550 card. Fixed out of sync problem when doing long captures with JVC HD camcorder.

Known issues

1. Customized template settings (both in New project and Create Video File dialog boxes) of users will be archived and moved to another folder because the default was updated. If you want to recover customized templates, follow the procedure below:

a. b. c.

In <MediaStudio Pro 7 installation path>\Backup, open Data.log in Notepad. Check the path that is written in Data.log. In the Backup folder, copy prjtmpAVI.dat, prjtmpMPEG.dat and savetemp.dat to the path specified in Data.log. This will overwrite the new files which were installed with SP3 with the customized templates.
VST audio plug-in has to be put in the following path to make it work: <MediaStudio Pro 7 installation path>\aft_plug\VST