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I enter my Registration name
and Serial number and they don't work. What do I do wrong?
It is important to enter your name (Registration Name) exactly as you did it at
purchase, because "John Doe" and "John A. Doe" or "JOHN DOE" are not the same
thing.
The simplest way is to copy the Registration name and the Serial number from
your registration letter and to paste them to the appropriate boxes of the
registration window. This is ESPECIALLY important if you have Unicode
characters in your name.
To do this:
1. high-light your registration name in your registration letter,
received from us and right-click on it;
2. select "Copy" in the right-click menu;
3. move the cursor to the appropriate box in the registration window of the AVS
Video Editor;
4. right-click on the box and select "Paste" from the menu. Do the same with
the serial number.
Some tips to remember:
1. Make sure that there is no space before and after the
registration name and serial number.
2. Make sure that you are not mistaking the letter "O" for the figure "0"
(zero).
You might also need to disable your antivirus or firewall or make sure that the AVS
Video Editor program is allowed to access internet.
See the animated tutorial on how to register your program easily -
AVS Video Editor Registration Tutorial.
Internet connection is necessary to complete the registration. Make sure your
computer has access to Internet, otherwise you won't be able to register the
software!
If you are sure that you are entering a correct login-serial
number combination, please visit our
Registration Help Page to receive immediate help.
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Where can I get a registered
version of the software or how can I register the software using the website
provided?
If you have installed our trial version, you do not need to download anything
else. To register the software you have to click at Help and Register button on
the main toolbar (located in the left-hand corner of the software window). You
will see a Register and Buy Now options. If you have already purchased the
software, please enter the unlock key which you have received from us, or click
the Buy Now button if you would like to purchase the program.
Important note: Internet connection is obligatory for the software
registration!
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How can I get rid of the
message in the middle of the finished movie?
The ad banner is only placed in the compiled projects made with the trial
version. If you purchase the program, there will be no text or other messages
in your movies and compiled projects. To get rid of the banner in the projects
which you have created with the unregistered version you will only need to
recompile the projects. To do that open the previously saved project and, if
you would like to, add some effects or edit it the way you like. After that
simply save the created movie into the format you need. There will be no
message in the middle of the output movie.
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How can I reinstall the
program?
If you want to reinstall the program, please uninstall the previous version
first. To do that go to windows Start menu, select All Programs -> AVSMedia -> AVS Video Editor -> Uninstall AVS Video Editor. After
you receive the notice that the program was successfully removed from your
computer, you can follow the link
to download the latest version of the program, copy the file to your hard drive
and then run .exe file. To register the program you will have to use your
registration key.
Important note: Internet connection is obligatory for the software
registration!
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Can I transform 4:3 files to
16:9 files and vice versa with the help of this software?
Yes, you can. Starting with version 3.2 AVS Video Editor supports aspect
correction. Just follow the steps:
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Start a new project. Select the necessary aspect - 4:3 or 16:9;
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Import a video file you would like to transform. Place it to the working area.
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Click the right mouse button to open the video file properties window, select Aspect,
and use Crop
to get rid of the mattes (black bars) on top-bottom or on the sides of the
video.
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Save video into necessary format. You will be offered to use aspect correction,
so that your output video could be displayed without distortions.
The output video will have a new aspect ratio.
Note: when using the Crop function, parts of the movie picture
will be deleted together with the mattes to maintain the selected aspect ratio.
If you do not want to lose any part of the movie picture, please leave the
black bars untouched.
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I have a video file which I
would like to apply some effects and filters to and save it exactly with the
same format parameters without recompression. Can this be done with your
software?
Practically, it is impossible to save the actual FILE after applying changes to
it without recompression. However, AVS Video Editor provides features which
will let you totally avoid recompression necessity and quality loss during the
process of editing.
The ideology of AVS Video Editor is built around working with projects rather
than with particular video files. Working with a project allows you to save the
sequence of changes in the file settings and all the applied effects and only
need to save the file when you absolutely complete the editing.
To save the project in which you are editing a particular video file, do the
following:
Select Project in the File menue and pick one of the saving options, instead of
selecting Save Movie File.
Note! If you select Save Movie File option, your video will be
recompressed while saving. If you saved a project instead, next time you open
it and go to Edit Video menu, all the changes that you have applied to your
video file during the previous editing session will be reflected on the
timeline:
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Whats the difference
between a Project and a Collection in this software?
Projects and Collections are the core ideology parts AVS Video Editor
is built around.
Understanding Projects
Creation of a new project is the first thing you do when you start working with
AVS Audio Editor. A project is the best way to arrange the
sequence, timing, position, and information about video clips, image files you
have added to the storyboard (timeline), audio tracks and also the history of
applied effects and changes. AVS Video Editor project file has
a .vep file extension.
Working with projects rather than with single files allows you to avoid
recompression and quality loss. Having saved a project you can open it later
and start editing from where you last saved.
Understanding Collections
A collections contains imported or captured with the help of AVS Video
Editor video files, audio tracks or image files. A collection
helps you organize multimedia material, stored at different locations on your
HDD and sort it by content (for example, only audio or only pictures), by
theme or otherwise. A collection is independent from projects, it serves as an
organized container for multimedia data and its content can be used in several
projects at a time.
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What video formats can I
save my file to?
AVI
is short for "Audio Video Interleave", the original Microsoft file format for
Microsoft's Video for Windows standard. It is an audio video standard designed
by Microsoft and is apparently proprietary and Microsoft Windows specific. It
is a format developed for storing video and audio information. Files in this
format have an .AVI extension. However, Video for Windows does not require any
special hardware, making it the lowest common denominator for multimedia
applications.
MPEG
Gives excellent compression with little loss in quality of the video. MPEG
support three types of data - video, audio and streaming. There are a number of
standards: among them there are two flavors of MPEG available today. MPEG-1 was
designed to provide VHS video quality and CD audio quality at a combined data
rate of 150 kilobytes per second. MPEG-1 is displayed at 30 frames per second
in a frame that is 352x240 (horizontal x vertical) pixels in size. This allows
relatively high quality video images to be stored in relatively small file
sizes for playback across computer networks or CD-ROM delivery. MPEG-2 is the
other side of the compression coin. It is a broadcast standard specifying a
playback size of 720 x 480 pixels at 60 fields per second. Data rates can range
from 2 to 10 megabits per second. This means large file sizes and data rates
that require specialized hardware for playback. MPEG-2 is one of the core
compression technologies for DVD. See the
MPEG site for more information.
WMV
This is Microsoft's new standard for audio and video which is closely tied with
the Windows Operating System. The player is able to play Windows Media Video
(.wmv) and Advanced Streaming Format (.asf) files, and also other formats such
as QuickTime, AVI, MPEG and MP3. See the
Windows Media site for more information.
RM
RealMedia provides one of the oldest and most widespread (85% of all
web-accessing computers have RealPlayer installed) Web delivery formats. The
RealMedia files (.rm) can be viewed using RealPlayer 3 and above. For more
information see the RealNetworks
site and their user
information site.
QuickTime (MOV)
MOV is a file extension for QuickTime Video Clip. QuickTime is a video and
animation system developed by Apple Computer. QuickTime is built into the
Macintosh operating system and is used by most Mac applications that include
video or animation. PCs can also run files in QuickTime format, but they
require a special QuickTime driver. QuickTime supports most encoding formats,
including Cinepak, JPEG, and MPEG. QuickTime is competing with a number of
other standards, including AVI and ActiveMovie. For more information see the
Apple site and their
Support page.
3GP
3GP is a file format which is used in mobile phones to store media (audio and
video). This file format is a simpler version of "ISO 14496-1 (MPEG-4) Media
Format", which is similar to MOV (used by QuickTime). 3GP stores video as
MPEG-4 or H.263. Audio is stored in AMR-NB or AAC-LC formats. 3GPP also
describes image sizes and bandwidth, so content is correctly sized for mobile
display screens. The term "3GPP specification" covers all GSM (including GPRS
and EDGE) and W-CDMA specifications. The following terms are also used to
describe networks using the 3G specifications: UTRAN, UMTS (in Europe) and FOMA
(in Japan). More information can be found on
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) web site.
MP4
MP4 is the global file extension for the MPEG-4 container format including all
kinds of multimedia content (video, natural and synthetic audio, 2D and 3D
graphics, animated avatars, user interactivity, etc.) that can be streamed over
any kind of connection or network. It exploits two primary coding strategies to
reduce the amount of data needed to convey high-quality digital audio: removing
the signal components that are "perceptually irrelevant" and can be discarded
without a perceived loss of audio quality and eliminating the redundancies in
the coded audio signal. Usual bitrates values are 64 - 256 kbps.
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What is aspect ratio feature
and how is it different from video resolution?
Video resolution is a constant measure which describes the width and the height
of a video file in pixels.
Easiest way to explain aspect ratio is to say that it means the ratio between
the width of the picture and the height of the picture. Normal TV's
aspect ratio is 4:3 (1.33:1) - Academy Stanndart, NTSC Television.
When it came time for the television industry to decide what shape TV would
take (in the early 1950s), the US National Television Standards Committee
(NTSC) selected Academy Standard as the official aspect ratio for TV
broadcasting in the United States (the current TV standard in the U.S. is also
called NTSC, after the organization that set the standard). Up to the 50s all
video production was made with this aspect ratio.
After the 50s film industry was faced with a problem: so many people were
buying TVs and staying at home to watch them, that theater attendance began to
decline dramatically, which lead to the appearance of wide screen aspect ratio.
There are two "standardized" widescreen ratios that are by far the most common:
Academy Flat (HDTV's) 16:9 - (1.85:1)
and Anamorphic Scope (2.35:1). Other less
used ratios include 1.66:1 and 2.20:1 So, as
you can see, aspect ratio is in fact a relative measure. When it comes to file
format, Aspect ratio is defined for all formats, except AVI, so in case with
conversion to AVI to avoid vertical or horizontal deformation of the picture it
is better to set up resolution which correllates to a particular aspect
ratio. Here's a small table, which correlates most common AVI video
resolutions with aspect ratios:
| 4:3 |
640 x 480
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| 16:9 |
640 x 360 |
| 2.20:1 |
640 x 292 |
| 2.35:1 |
640 x 272 |
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When I capture video, there
seems to be a file size limit of 4 GB per file. How can I change this?
Certain file systems have file size limitation. If your HDD is formattes uding
FAT32 system, you cannot create files larger than 4 GB
on it. If your files are splitted into 4 GB files when you capture, and you are
sure that you haven't set this split, it means that your HDD is using FAT32
file system. Normally, Windows XP and 2000 offer to format your HDD using NTFS,
but you can also select FAT32, when you install the OS. The only way out of
this situation is reformat your HDD using a more up-to-date NTFS file system,
or capture video to a HDD which is already using this file system.
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I have recorded a DVD, but
on my home hardware DVD player it only plays in black and white. Why is it so
and what can be done?
The television standards differ in different countries. That's
why it is possible, that either your hardware DVD player or your television set
support only one of the standards. For instance, you recorded your DVD disc in
PAL standard (using DVD PAL preset), but your hardware player is only NTSC
compatible (which is quite common for north america). So you should pay
attention to what standard you choose, when you select the preset for creating
DVD, VCD or SVCD video discs. If you do not know what standard is supported by
the television sets and DVD players in your country, see the table below:
| NTSC |
American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil (uses PAL-M system, based on NTSC-M standard
but using PAL color encoding - most films on DVD discs and VHS are NTSC, so DVD
players and VCRs are NTSC-compatible), British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman
Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Diego Garcia, Dominica, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Leeward Islands, Marshall Islands, Mexico,
Micronesia, Midway Atoll (a US military base), Montserrat, Netherlands
Antilles, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saipan also
known as Northern Mariana Islands, Samo, South Korea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.
Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad and
Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, Venezuela
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| PAL |
Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia,
Ascension Island, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus,
Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil (NTSC & PAL-M),
Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Cameroon, Canary
Islands, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China (mainland),
Christmas Island, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (People's Republic), Cook
Islands, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti,
East Germany, East Timor, Easter Island, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France,
French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Gaza & West Bank, Georgia,
Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong and Macau, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,
Laos (SECAM & PAL-M), Latin America, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia,
Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia,
Maldives, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco,
Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal,
Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Island, North
Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal
(including Madeira and Azores), Qatar, Republic of Ireland, Republic of
Macedonia, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi
Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tahiti, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand,
Togo, Tristan da Cunha, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United
Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City,
Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
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Countries with TV broadcast in SECAM standard (Andorra, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia (Kampuchea),
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (People's
Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Guiana,
French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Guadeloupe, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco,
Mongolia, Morocco, New Caledonia, Niger, Reunion, Russia, Rwanda, Saint-Pierre
and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Tahiti, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Wallis and Futuna) use DVD players with PAL
support.
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