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Based on everything you've posted, I do think that updating from Win7 is the best way to go, especially since you were able to get the clips working in PD18 the first time you tried it.
Based on everything you've posted, I do think that updating from Win7 is the best way to go, especially since you were able to get the clips working in PD18 the first time you tried it.
Sorry I haven't posted anything for a couple of days, but business calls and all that...
Anyway, I have done some more testing and here's what I found out.
First, I made a brand new clone of the WIN7 working system.
The cloned WIN7 system runs PD17 and PD18 just file, ProRes files import, edit and produce properly.
Then I cleaned up and uninstalled a barrel full of stuff not related to video editing. That lightened the drive by about 50 GB of files (I told you I had a bunch of stuff on it!)
After the cleaning process, PD17 and PD18s still worked as expected. So far, so good.
Next, I upgraded the cleaned up WIN7 clone drive to WIN10. Testing showed that PD17 works OK as far as importing ProRes files is concerned, but editing is very slow, and producing requires about 4x the run time as it does with WIN7, making PD17 effectively unusable. Unfortunately, PD18 crashes when attempting to import ProRes files.
Next, I installed WIN10 on a brand new drive and installed PD17 and PD18 on it.
Neither PD17 nor PD18 will import ProRes files without crashing the programs.
It appears to me that WIN10 is doing something to the system that causes PD to blow up when encountering ProRes files. Whether Cyberlink can locate and fix the problem is unknown, but I hope that they do.
If anyone is interested in pursuing this further, I will be happy to post the DxDiag files for each of the test systems.
Currently, I am setting up to compare all the loaded system components in each system to see if I can find something that is missing from the WIN10 setups. It's a long shot - and it may not work - but at this point, that's about all I have to go on. In the meantime, I will carry on using my WIN7 setup for video editing.
Ralph