Tip-2 My HFX thumbnails in Studio are black

By Loosecannon - Published on Saturday, August 11, 2007
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(Total votes: 33)
Category: Tips & Tricks Special effects HFX [EN]
Last updated on Sunday, March 02, 2008
Created on Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:27 PM

After you have created an HFX effect or after the installation of an HFZ file, you discover that your thumbnail transitions do not appear correctly in the list of transitions in HFX Pinnacle Studio, they are black.

No need to panic, sometimes Pinnacle Studio and the Easy FX Editor get mixed up... The following procedure will help you to restore everything.

Open Pinnacle Studio
Put two clips on the timeline
Apply one of the Déclic Vidéo transition between your two clips
Double click on the transition
Click on the EDIT button to open Easy FX Editor
Do not do anything in Easy FX Editor, just close it
Close Studio

When you re-open Studio, your Declic Video transitions thumbnail should be there and displayed correctly.

Windows Vista users: take note that it is strongly advised to turn off UAC (User Account Control) when running the batch file (in order to regenerate the HfxXML folder) *and* when running Studio.

Comments

By Herbert @ Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:37 PM

After trying this 3 times the thumbnails are still black, so this doen't work with me.

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Sunday, November 18, 2007 8:34 PM

Can you please contact me by email (contact page) so we can try to solve the problem ? Without additionnal information, I can not help you further.
DV

By Rini @ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:08 PM

Same here, but after emptying the folder:
Program Files\Studio11\Plugins\RTFx\HfxXML
All worked fine!

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:07 PM

Thanks Rini for the confirmation. This is also what is explained in our Tip-1 "HFX effects do not appear in Studio". Tip-1 and Tip-2 must be frequently applied all together.
Have a nice day, Déclic Vidéo FX

By Herbert @ Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:43 PM

And again I followed your instructions and also emptied the folder HfxXML, but nothing changed and most of the thumbnails are still black. I also have some double transitions and some other transitions have another name as that they should be. Strange.

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:07 PM

Herbert,
If you have Vista + S11 you may encounter some problems. I will soon provide a solution. If you can test it, that would be great, I have just sent you an email....
DV

By DSW @ Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:14 AM

JUST DO WHAT HE SAID, AND DELETE ALL THE CONTECTS OF THAT FOLDER
C:\Program Files\Pinnacle\Studio 11\Plugins\RTFx\HfxXML

THIS ALSO FIXED A PROBLEM THAT HAPPENED EVERTIME I INSTALLED NEW TRANSITIONS

NOT BLACK JUST WRONG THUMBNAILS WOULD SHOW..

NOW THE PROBLEM IS FIXED

COME ON PINNACLE JUST MAKE A SMALL PATCH TO AUTOMATICLY DELTE THSE FILES AFTER ANY HFX INSTALL

OR SOME1 MAKE THIS... PLESE

By Klaus @ Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:00 AM

Many thanks for this tips!
Using Vista + S11 and following the instruction Tip 1+ 2 all thumbnails are now correct. The only thing, there are no re- created files shown in the folder C:\Program Files\Pinnacle\Studio 11\Plugins\RTFx\HfxXML after starting Studio. What are that files for?
By the way, is anyone out there who can help me to get a free audio plugin working. I used it in S9 and S11 shows it as premium content.
Sorry for asking that here.

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:08 PM

DSW, Klaus,
Check the tip which has been updated and try to disable the UAC, it should help and solve your problem.
DV FX

By Klaus @ Monday, March 03, 2008 10:03 AM

Thank you again!
All is working fine now.
Best regards from Berlin
Klaus

By hajacaeswe @ Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:28 PM

Ik had graag de tip in het Nederlands.
Bij mij werkt het niet.
Misschien beheers ik het Engels niet zo goed dat ik iets verkeerd heb gedaan.
Groetjes Hannie

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:38 PM

Dear Hannie,
I am sorry, but we are already translating our tutorials to french and we can not translate it to dutch... Nevertheless, I strongly encourage you to contact some people in the dutch forum, I am sure that you may find someone who can help you.
DV FX

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By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Monday, April 28, 2008 8:34 AM

Dear Luiz Antonio Dos Reis,
I am sorry but we do not speak portuguese. If you like our tutorial, do not hesitate to subscribe to the newsletter, we will inform you as soon as a new tutorial is posted. Otherwise, be informed that we do not sell anything. Everything is free on our website. Have a nice day,
DV FX Team

By Herbert @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 3:06 PM

And still it doesn't work with me!!

By Déclic Vidéo FX @ Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:06 PM

Herbert,
Please get in touch with me (through contact page) so we can try to solve your problem. You are the first one to encounter problems after we have published the new tip (with UAC turned off and which was creating some problems for users).
DV FX

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