I have been using PD 12 for about a month or so without issue. Very happy, does what I want.
A week ago, at the point where I was about to render, an alert appeared advising that the software was unable to render in the codec I had chosen (in this case H.264 AVC), and advised as part of the alert that I should update the video card drivers, as well as the quicktime codec (?might have that bit wrong?) etc. This struck me as very odd, since I had made no changes to the system, and had been rendering fine all morning up to this point.
I persisted for a bit more, trying other Codecs, no luck, all outputting garbage, and eventually got the blue screen... ouch. A simple restart did not solve the issue. Something was definitely corrupted in the software.
Rolled back the system to a state from 2 weeks prior using system restore... problem sorted. Have been happily editing for a week, rendering fine... until it all happened again today, and was solved in the same manner. A system restore to an earlier date.
I'm not doing anything too outrageous with it - just youtube videos, 10 min long.
Could the Codecs become corrupted over time by the software? Anyone experienced anything like this?
Kind regards,
Chris.
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit
Intel Core i7-3770 CPU 3.40GHz
8.00 G Ram
500G hard drive, mostly empty
Intel HD Graphics 4000