Install Trouble 4.51C with DV Storm Card

[michaeltobias]

From what I've seen in the forum, I'm not the only one who's having trouble installing 4.51C on a computer that has a Storm Card. I've tried the suggestions from the forum with the reinstall after Windows Cleaner and also clearing the Temp Folder in Applications with no success. I still get the Error Message at startup. If I try to startup from a previous project shortcut, the computer just hangs. I did see a possible solution involving removing my Storm Card, but I don't know what the procedure is to do that? My computer is older, but it ran all the previous Edius versions fine. Is there a definite solution out there? Thanks for your help.

[Angelo]

Did Edius work before the 4.51c update?

I didn't have any trouble updating Edius 4.xx to 4.51c. During the install make sure DV Drivers, QT and DirectX are also selected. DVStorm must be installed at all times when installing Edius CD or Updates.

...Angelo

[STORMDAVE]

Time for an XP Reinstall. I know it's painful and time consuming, but worth it.

I just reinstalled my Storm system, took me about 3 hours to get everything up the way I wanted. I made a ghost image of my system with 4.51c. My system had not seen a fresh copy of XP for over 3 years. Now bootup and shut down is so quick and so is launching applications etc.

[mattmatt]

Yeah, I just did a re-install too...it's like getting a new system.

[michaeltobias]

What steps would I have to take to do an XP reinstall? Do I have to reinstall Edius 4 and the Storm software as well as all the other programs (such as all the Adobe products) I use too? Or just the XP? I've never had to reinstall XP so I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks for your help.

[STORMDAVE]

Do you need Storm Video, Storm Edit?

All I did was just reinstall Windows XP SP2, ran all the Windows updates, made a Ghost image.

Went back, and started installing Edius 4.0, with the Canopus DV driver. Then ran the 4.51c updater, reinstalled drivers, then installed TitleMotion Pro, Xplode 4.5, DVCapture v1.11, SCLive, and other applications that I use. Made a new Backup here with Ghost.

I did not install the Storm Edit applications because even though the audio meter comes in handy, I don't use it anymore.

[michaeltobias]

So, I don't really have to uninstall everything on the computer? I still use the Storm Edit software for recording audio tracks.

[STORMDAVE]

No those were instructions on what to do after wiping your HD to reinstall Windows.

As far as recording audio, what you can do is enable take the line out of your storm and then go to your Line In of your sound card (If you haven't already) then in the sound manager enable recording for Line In. Open up DV Capture to enable the DVStorm hardware, then select your analog in (I assume StormBay?) and open a sound recording application such as Audition 2 and start recording in there. That's what I do anyway with Voiceovers. It's very clean and I can see the waveform as it is being recorded, and it's clean as a whistle. Make sure to record at 48Khz 16bit Stereo.

So you don't really need Storm apps. I didn't put it on the new install because I don't want it to cause conflicts.

[michaeltobias]

Working Again

After the clean install of XP, and after some expert advice from my tech support guy Jay at CoreMicro Systems who helped me track down the motherboard driver as well as walk me thru the Bios adjustment I needed - something changed the Bios settings in the XP install, I was back to work.
Thanks for all the advice here too!

I still cannot open Edius 4.51C from the main desktop icon, but it's not a big inconvenience to open the project file inside my project folder.

Thanks again to the forum.

[pjsssss]

Perhaps get rid of the existing desktop icon and open Explorer and drag a new shortcut icon to the desktop. See if that works.

[michaeltobias]

I tried deleting the original icon and created a new one from the Edius folder but it still crashes upon opening. I'll keep opening from the indiviual project unless someone has another workaround to try. Thanks.