Hi,I am a new user to Digital movie editing and I am using Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 11,ok

I save all my project in  C:/My Document/My project

And  all my Video source(AVCHD from Sony HDR-SR8)are stored in   C:/Mydocument/MyVideo

Everything just under control and working nomal,then my computer got Virus and I have to format my computer,before I format,I back up all my Projects and Video sources to an 500 GB External HDD,my computer formated and I reinstalled Studio 11,then I just copy all my Project from the External HDD to C:/MyDocument/MyProject and copy all AVCHD video source to  C:/Mydocument/MyVideo     then I Launch studio 11 then open the existing a project,the whole project loading nomal to the timeline but all scenes turn in black when I click to each scene to review all I can see is a Black screen and ! in the midle of the screen,I could understand it may something wrong with the Video source or the project can not find the video source but I dont know how to fix this problem,can some body have experience about this and please help me out,thank you very much

Try these steps.

1. Close Studio
2. Move the videos to another folder.
3. Open the project
4. Studio will ask you to find the new folder for the videos that you moved. Lead it to it.

This worked for me before, let me know if it works for you.

Welcome to the Forum

In addition to Marc P's Post above, please confirm the following:

I save all my project in  C:/My Document/My project

Studio's Default Location for studio Projects is: My Documents / Pinnacle Studio / My Projects. Please confirm whether or not your Project is in that Folder & that you have a Grey "Film-Strip" Studio Project Folder, together with it's associated  .stx File Icon, with the same Project Name as the Project Folder, that Opens  the Project Folder into the Timeline.

If you have the Project Folder, Right-Click on the Folder / Properties & Post how many Folders, Files & Size in Mbs, are shown.

Thanks  

ADDED - I've re-read this quote:

the whole project loading nomal to the timeline but all scenes turn in black when I click to each scene to review all I can see is a Black screen and ! in the midle of the screen,

I initially thought that you had black thumbnails showing in Timeline, but it seems that you have correct thumbnails showing, but Preview Screen has a blue exclamation mark?

 

Good one colour, I missed that one.

Hi,yes I  save my project in 

C;/Mydocument/Pinnaclestudio/Myproject

yes I can see all folder like what you say in it,right click on the folder,I see 1,773 files,36 folder and 92MB on it

yes,Preview screen has a blue !(exlamation mark),dont know what to do

Hi,yes Idid for low yor steps but still same problem,dont know why

Hi,yes Idid follow yor steps but still same problem,dont know why

yes I can see all folder like what you say in it,right click on the folder,I see 1,773 files,36 folder and 92MB on it

OK, that's good news.

And  all my Video source(AVCHD from Sony HDR-SR8)are stored in   C:/Mydocument/MyVideo

If you moved the Source Video File(s) to another Folder, as suggested by Marc P, move them back to your "My Videos" Folder. Then they are in Studio's Default Folder.

It may be that, since you started your Project, you have re-named your Source Video File(s). If you have, you need to re-name them back to exactly their original name, otherwise Studio can't Link them to your Project.

 

Let us know what happens after trying Colour's suggestion.