The help function describes adding files from your hard drive. It does not go into any details about adding them from a DVD player. I discovered that opening my DVD drive with the source video removes them from the time line. Closing the drive with the same DVD does not automatically restore them to the time line. Inputing them from the DVD library at this point, causes them to appear at the beginning of the timeline, and all the titles are pushed out to the end of the timeline. They can be moved back to spaces alloted to them, but it is a difficult task. The best way for me to recover from either opening the DVD drive accidentally, or recovering from a reboot, is to start a new project and reload the DVD video. Hopefully, I have saved the project to the hard drive and can then restore the project with everything coming out ok. Doing this in reverse by restoring the project first and then importing the files causes the problem of the titles being shoved over to the end of the timeline.

One reason I have described this proceedure in detail is the method for handling multiple DVD inputs. I currently have a recovered project with everything
showing up correctly in the timeline. However, there are no videos appearing in the window of the Media Files and it is showing a message to add files. I
am not sure at this point is the videos I am seeing are on my DVD player disc, or has the program stored them somewhere on my hard drive. I know of no way to display what is currently stored in the media library for this active project. Hopefully, when I go to produce it, the files will be found to add the video. The problem remains how to best handle inputing files from separate DVD's. Although I have two drives, I must reserve one of the drives as my burner drive. I'm not sure what would happen if I temporarily used my burner drive for reading and switched over to burning after the video was produced.
I'm afraid I may lose some of my video in this process. I guess the only workaround here is to copy additional DVD's to the hard drive and use these files
to add as media input to the final product. It would be nice if the program did all this automatically for you, adding files from the DVD player to some working area on the hard drive as they are inported, thus freeing them up for additional inputs.

This is something the author's of this program have not addressed in their help pages, but I think it is a very common and practical issue. Any suggestions to make this process easier would be appreciated.

To: sherwindu


Hello,

Please note that project files do not contain the actual video, the only contain the links to the media files you used in your projects. It is strongly recommended not to change the location of the media files used in your project while working on it. So, we advise you to transfer your DVD to the hard drive before starting to work with your project.

Best regards.

What you say makes sense about the links. I still cannot understand why my display does not show the individual video inputs in the Media File area. It only shows a request to add more files. Is this because I have moved all the videos to the time line? As I mentioned, I restored the entire project from the
DVD inputs and the saved vep project file. The video is visible on the timeline. Is the video still linked to the sources on the DVD, so that producing the edited file will incorporate them into the final product?

To: sherwindu


Hello,

All files used in the project link to sources. Specify whether you transfer your DVD to your PC or use video from the DVD disc.

Best regards.

So far, I have only imported videos from the DVD player. In the future, I will have to use a combination of DVD and Hard Drive sources because I am combining videos from more than one DVD. Those additional DVD's will have to be copied to my hard drive to allow this combination.

My concern still remains if the files I linked from the DVD player are included in the project although they do not appear in the Media File Library display.
They are visible on the timeline. In previous edits, the files from the DVD player were always visible in the Media File Library display up to the point of
producing the final product.

To: sherwindu


Hello,

Please make sure you use the latest version of AVS Video Editor 6.2:
http://download.avs4you.net/distributives/AVSVideoEditor.exe

Please specify what you mean by " the files I linked from the DVD player " - whether these files are stored on your PC.

Best regards.

It would be simple if I did not have the latest version of the Video Editor. Unfortunately, I do have the latest version 6.2, and have had it almost since it first was made available.

To: sherwindu


Hello,

We regret any inconvenience caused. Could you please specify what you mean by " the files I linked from the DVD player " - whether these files are stored on your PC.

Best regards.

The videos I am talking about are not stored on my hard drive. They are resident only on my DVD player.

To: Lex


Hello,

Please try to transfer the video you use from the DVD player to your PC and try to edit it again.

Best regards.