PhotoStory Not So Easy

davidhewett wrote on 9/6/2013, 10:41 AM

Had a client that had a lot of sequenced pictured of window and door replacements - hey he says" can you make a slideshow? bit of music ?"


EASY I thought - Presenting photos has never been easier. We are Told!
Photostory easy allows you to transform your photos from digital cameras and smartphones into amazing movies for mobile devices, TV and the Internet, even if you are a complete beginner! Includes an automatic image optimization feature, effect design and audio dubbing.

A week later + I AM Miserable +

Been Using Xara products for the best part of 30 years without drama - So I kind of think go with a firm you trust

Photo Story "EASY" should be easy But system crashes Freezes - corrupted files - Lost Files -

I EXPECT a learning Curve - but hells bells  :twisted:

On export your informed MAGIX want More Money - I think we needed to be told in advance folks - even if it is licencing for a Codec - (Thats Gibberish to most people)

So I create a show - Upload it to Magix Online - dammit on my site 16-9 squashed to 4x3 What a dreadful waste of time

So I remake all my slides and woooh - All my pictures are doubled up with an added filename.001.jpg - Ever seen a grown man cry?

Do a Save as make a new file -
Wherever those went I may NEVER find out - Im clearly missing something here -

Remake the Slideshow this time in 4x3 - all looking fine - and its only taken me 4 days to do a 5 min slide show - "EASY" !!!! Not

Press button Upload to Magix - FREEZE - Access Violation - Pulls remaining hair out! - The MAGIX forum appears to leave many users in the same boat hanging - Unless you buy yet more Support Vouchers?

OK Rant over

Comments

browj2 wrote on 9/20/2013, 12:35 PM

Hi David,

I presume that you bought and used PhotoStory on DVD and not Video Easy.

I am surprised by your problems. I tried out the program today, second time since June, created a couple of quick slide shows, added some music without using the wizard (also did one using the wizard), added a variety of transitions between some of the slides, exported to Share on your online Album, As Video, with the highest resolution, and created a new album for it in my online Album, and it worked very well. The result in my album in full screen mode was HD 16:9.

As for where the files go, when you do a Save As, the Windows Explorer screen comes up. Look at the top line or in the folders at the left to see where the program is proposing to put the project file. By default, it is probably:

C:\Users\your name\Documents\MAGIX\PhotoStory on DVD 2013 Deluxe

In Windows Explorer, look in My Documents under Magix Project\PhotoStory on DVD 2013 Deluxe and you will see other folders such as My Slideshows and My Record. You can decide whether or not to leave the project files in the root or place them somewhere else. Look in the menu - File, Setup, Program and under the tab Paths you will get a screen with the locations of the files and some connected programs. You can change the location of the Projects here if you wish. Here is the screen:

 

You may want to look at the other Program settings to make sure that the program correctly detected the settings on your computer. You can change some of the preferences, like the Standard picture length.

When you are using the program, note the 3 modes at the very left of the bottom pane - Overview, Storyboard, Timeline. Learn how to use them. Read the manual. The program is actually quite powerful, even if it is a stripped down version of Movie Edit Pro.

Finally, the program does not actually import or modify your base files - photos, music, etc., it only uses them. Thus if you use some files, like photos, save the project, close it, move the photo files, then reopen PhotoStory, it will not be able to find the files, which may explain why you "lost" some files.

I suggest that you try again by making some test files with a dozen or slides and trying out the Wizards, like Slideshow Maker and Soundtrack Maker. Use the Timeline mode to see the tracks and to see where the music goes. Try out the effects, especially transitions, they are quite interesting. If you make an automatic slideshow using the Wizards, you can modify the details in the Timeline mode.

Have fun,

John

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pjmuscat wrote on 3/23/2016, 4:58 PM

Hi there the program just crashes and I get the following log report, can anyone please help?

 

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MAGIX Photostory easy  23.03.2016  16:28
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CrashDump 20160323_162801_v2.0.1.54.dmp successfully written

Error in module "SMPWrapper.DLL" (Load address: 0x547c0000) to address 0x547c24d7
Exception 0xc0000005 "ACCESS_VIOLATION"

Unknown Thread   (ThreadID: 000015b0)
  eax=1f79fb78  ebx=1f79df51  ecx=000006ef  edx=00000050
  esi=269c3ffd  edi=12f0fa50  ebp=1300ff1c  esp=1300fea0
  eip=547c24d7  Flags=00010287

  547c24cf   00 8b 44 24 14 0f 57 d2
  547c24d7 > f3 0f 10 16 66 0f 60 d5
  547c24df   83 c6 03 66 0f 61 d5 66

Main Thread
  eax=00000000  ebx=00000000  ecx=00000000  edx=00000000
  esi=00000000  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=00000000
  eip=00000000  Flags=00000000

  fffffff8   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000000 > ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000008   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

Fotos.exe 11.12.2014  16:05   184d0871

Memory Allocation
Base:  776
PE:  128
Pages:  65.536

PI:  126.672
PI_TEMP_DATA: 24.000
SI:  237.800
SI_TEMP_DATA: 1.120
FSI:  188

Blocks:  0
Temporary: 138.440
BE:  72.000
PLE:  588.940
BE Pool:  168
PLE Pool:  0
wHdr/inst: 0
B.cache inproc: 0
B.cache outproc: 21.626.576(44)
B.cache mapped: 10.150.976(2)
V.cache outproc: 0(0)
V.cache mapped: 0(2)
Video:  5.184.080(5.184.080/0)
Bitmap:  27.688

Video thumbs: 0(0)
SI Display Cache: 1.184.688
PLE Display Cache: 2.496.664

Buffer:  0
Pointer:  0

Title:  0
Memory GF:  0
Memory GF Zero:  0
Memory GF Zero_Dyn:  0
Memory GF Dyn:  0
Memory TT:  0
Audio Effect:  200
PPE:  0

Video Monitor: 0
malloc/free: 0
DIB:  2.983.928

VP: admin:  504
VP+Trans: privateData:  120
Transitions::  0

Frame Cache: 0
EXIF:  768
VSW:  0
DVDMAKER: 0
global UI (malloc): 0
global UI (valloc): 0
NOWAGGLE: 0
MP3 Reader: 0
JPEG buffer: 0

Private Bytes: 249 MByte

TLS:  950
MXGUI:  53.243.404
Sum:  76.633.332

Pentium III (GenuineIntel)  MMX SIMD
Microsoft Windows NT 6.2 (Build 9200)
Free Virtual Memory: 1785 MB

Call stack:
Address   Frame
547C24D7  1300FF1C  SMP_EndResizeDib+737
57C11BE3  1300FF64  vcomp_fork+2A5
57C17393  1300FF80  vcomp_atomic_div_r8+12C
770438F4  1300FF94  BaseThreadInitThunk+24
77D55DE3  1300FFDC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+253
77D55DAE  1300FFEC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+21E


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MAGIX Photostory easy  23.03.2016  17:50
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CrashDump 20160323_175049_v2.0.1.54.dmp successfully written

Error in module "SMPWrapper.DLL" (Load address: 0x61a00000) to address 0x61a024d7
Exception 0xc0000005 "ACCESS_VIOLATION"

Unknown Thread   (ThreadID: 00000bf8)
  eax=1a028b78  ebx=1a026f51  ecx=000006ef  edx=00000050
  esi=22e03ffd  edi=089dfa50  ebp=08adff1c  esp=08adfea0
  eip=61a024d7  Flags=00010287

  61a024cf   00 8b 44 24 14 0f 57 d2
  61a024d7 > f3 0f 10 16 66 0f 60 d5
  61a024df   83 c6 03 66 0f 61 d5 66

Main Thread
  eax=00000000  ebx=00000000  ecx=00000000  edx=00000000
  esi=00000000  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=00000000
  eip=00000000  Flags=00000000

  fffffff8   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000000 > ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000008   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

Fotos.exe 11.12.2014  16:05   184d0871

Memory Allocation
Base:  776
PE:  128
Pages:  65.536

PI:  50.232
PI_TEMP_DATA: 6.000
SI:  83.640
SI_TEMP_DATA: 160
FSI:  0

Blocks:  0
Temporary: 276.880
BE:  24.000
PLE:  586.340
BE Pool:  196
PLE Pool:  0
wHdr/inst: 0
B.cache inproc: 0
B.cache outproc: 15.401.120(23)
B.cache mapped: 10.150.976(2)
V.cache outproc: 0(-2)
V.cache mapped: 0(2)
Video:  5.961.720(5.961.720/0)
Bitmap:  0

Video thumbs: 0(0)
SI Display Cache: 1.184.688
PLE Display Cache: 1.645.080

Buffer:  0
Pointer:  0

Title:  0
Memory GF:  0
Memory GF Zero:  0
Memory GF Zero_Dyn:  0
Memory GF Dyn:  0
Memory TT:  0
Audio Effect:  50
PPE:  0

Video Monitor: 0
malloc/free: 0
DIB:  2.983.928

VP: admin:  252
VP+Trans: privateData:  60
Transitions::  0

Frame Cache: 0
EXIF:  256
VSW:  0
DVDMAKER: 0
global UI (malloc): 0
global UI (valloc): 0
NOWAGGLE: 0
MP3 Reader: 0
JPEG buffer: 0

Private Bytes: 259 MByte

TLS:  943
MXGUI:  53.243.404
Sum:  76.464.438

Pentium III (GenuineIntel)  MMX SIMD
Microsoft Windows NT 6.2 (Build 9200)
Free Virtual Memory: 1107 MB

Call stack:
Address   Frame
61A024D7  08ADFF1C  SMP_EndResizeDib+737
650B1BE3  08ADFF64  vcomp_fork+2A5
650B7393  08ADFF80  vcomp_atomic_div_r8+12C
77CF38F4  08ADFF94  BaseThreadInitThunk+24
77E35DE3  08ADFFDC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+253
77E35DAE  08ADFFEC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+21E


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MAGIX Photostory easy  23.03.2016  21:28
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CrashDump 20160323_212839_v2.0.1.60.dmp successfully written

Error in module "SMPWrapper.DLL" (Load address: 0x5eb40000) to address 0x5eb424d7
Exception 0xc0000005 "ACCESS_VIOLATION"

Unknown Thread   (ThreadID: 00001be8)
  eax=1cedfb78  ebx=1ceddf51  ecx=000006ef  edx=00000050
  esi=217f3ffd  edi=136efa50  ebp=137eff1c  esp=137efea0
  eip=5eb424d7  Flags=00010287

  5eb424cf   00 8b 44 24 14 0f 57 d2
  5eb424d7 > f3 0f 10 16 66 0f 60 d5
  5eb424df   83 c6 03 66 0f 61 d5 66

Main Thread
  eax=00000000  ebx=00000000  ecx=00000000  edx=00000000
  esi=00000000  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=00000000
  eip=00000000  Flags=00000000

  fffffff8   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000000 > ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
  00000008   ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

Fotos.exe 16.04.2015  12:03   1e04ba7f

Memory Allocation
Base:  776
PE:  128
Pages:  65.536

PI:  104.832
PI_TEMP_DATA: 6.000
SI:  124.640
SI_TEMP_DATA: 160
FSI:  0

Blocks:  0
Temporary: 55.376
BE:  0
PLE:  587.280
BE Pool:  56
PLE Pool:  0
wHdr/inst: 0
B.cache inproc: 0
B.cache outproc: 21.052.480(40)
B.cache mapped: 10.150.976(2)
V.cache outproc: 0(0)
V.cache mapped: 0(2)
Video:  6.739.320(6.739.320/0)
Bitmap:  0

Video thumbs: 0(0)
SI Display Cache: 1.184.688
PLE Display Cache: 1.645.080

Buffer:  0
Pointer:  0

Title:  0
Memory GF:  0
Memory GF Zero:  0
Memory GF Zero_Dyn:  0
Memory GF Dyn:  0
Memory TT:  0
Audio Effect:  50
PPE:  0

Video Monitor: 0
malloc/free: 0
DIB:  2.983.928

VP: admin:  252
VP+Trans: privateData:  60
Transitions::  0

Frame Cache: 0
EXIF:  768
VSW:  0
DVDMAKER: 0
global UI (malloc): 0
global UI (valloc): 0
NOWAGGLE: 0
MP3 Reader: 0
JPEG buffer: 0

Private Bytes: 221 MByte

TLS:  951
MXGUI:  53.243.404
Sum:  76.973.446

Pentium III (GenuineIntel)  MMX SIMD
Microsoft Windows NT 6.2 (Build 9200)
Free Virtual Memory: 1999 MB

Call stack:
Address   Frame
5EB424D7  137EFF1C  SMP_EndResizeDib+737
5C8C1BE3  137EFF64  vcomp_fork+2A5
5C8C7393  137EFF80  vcomp_atomic_div_r8+12C
74D538F4  137EFF94  BaseThreadInitThunk+24
77645DE3  137EFFDC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+253
77645DAE  137EFFEC  RtlUnicodeStringToInteger+21E