PeteFine

It worked!!! I checked the specs on all my audio files downloaded from Amazon and, as you suggested, re-saved them all with a 192kbs bit rate- they were all different! Now the DVD burns correctly- a exact duplicate of the pte playback. I never realized that mp3 downloads were not "standard" - apparently pte has no problem playing them but in the conversion to DVD things got crazy... you could see something was amiss because of the added spaces in the waveform... Thank you so much for your everybody! Pete

DG and Peter, First I want to sincerely thank you for all your valuable advice and for taking the time to try to help. Peter, your detaIed analyses of the audio is the first thing so far here that makes sense- no offense to the others. I did indeed download those songs at the request of the person for whom I was making that "memorial" project. I am very aware of the fact that wav files would be optimum but this was acceptable and necessary, as opposed to projects where I use my own symphonic music... I will start from scratch with the downloads and watch carefully not to mix sample rates, etc. I already know not to do that in any audio project and I just never thought that was happening. Thanks again everyone. I will give you an update when I'm done. Pete

After burning the DVd I went back and checked the pte file- there is now a long blank space at the end of the clip but, again, it plays as if there was still a waveform there. I could swear that this changed after I burned the DVD- I don't think it looked like that before. I must be driving some of you nuts. Sorry! I work with audio all the time. This is totally baffling. pte is a very easy to use and straightforward program. Why would a DVD burnt with it not be an exact duplicate of what is played in the program?

Ok, I took each alternate audio clip and transferred to a second audio track, as you did with Blue Danube, so no two consecutive songs shared the same track. Played beautifully in pte. Burned a DVD- even worse problems now. There is about a 10 second space between the 2nd and 3rd song on the DVD now, even though it looks fine, and plays fine in pte. This is getting very frustrating.

Ha! Yes, I thought of doing that- thank you. But the whole problem IS THE DVD. I can fix it any number of ways in pte- that playback has never been an issue. i'll try it, burn a DVD, and let you know. Pete

I appreciate the suggestion but I just opened the current audio clips in Cool Edit Pro and they are in mp3 CBR format. Therefore there must be another explanation. I want to reiterate something in hopes someone smarter than me will use it as a clue. The second "glitch" where a song is getting chopped off and the next song beginning, is still there, even though I moved the second song to start a little later. It is EXACTLY the same problem- in other words it is as if I never made the change. Again, it seems like the DVD builder is accessing a previous version of the audio track.

OK- I see what you are seeing. A couple od songs actually play past the visible sound wave. This is totally unexplainable. Pte is actually displaying a "compressed" waveform (not to be confused with compression as in audio processing) but playing as if the waveform was the correct length. ????? The sound files were downloaded from Amazon as mp3s, edited a bit and saved as mp3pro in Cool Edit Pro, then dragged to the timeline.

Ok- I have uploaded the project, as per your instructions, to Dropbox, named New Version. The two errors whenever I burn a DVD occur at: 1- about 9 minutes in- after Blue Danube Waltz ends, there as a long pause before the next song , Just a Closer Walk, begins. 2- about 11 minutes 30 seconds in- the song Just a Closer Walk gets chopped of about 5 seconds from the end and Blue Spanish Eyes starts. This ONLY happens in the DVD- in the file I sent you everything will play perfectly. Before someone asks me the obvious question... I did delete the song Just a Closer Look, saved the project, then added it back with a new filename, and even saved the pte project with a new filename, before sending this to you, just to "try everything". here is the link- https://www.dropbox.com/s/9edeump4kuqetbm/New%20Version_Nov17-2014_10-16-28.zip?dl=0 I will be deeply grateful if anyone can find something embedded in there that explains it.

Dave gee- thank you. I will attempt to do that. Yachtsman- thanks for your replies. However, there were no Error Messages in the problem I am having with pte so that is why I am not posting any!

I changed the rar file to extension .zip and it attached. (Yes, RAR is another type of zip file ...) this hopefully will she some light. Thanks for all replies New Version.zip

I do not understand this reply-..... yachtsman- I appreciate you trying to help me but you keep implying that my problem has something to do with the JPegs or setup. My problem is that THE AUDIO TRACK I CAN SEE AND HEAR while playing the slideshow in pte IS DIFFERENT than the audio I hear on the DVD. I see nothing in the Video Builder screen, or options, that allows me to choose which audio file it is using when burning the DVD. The project (pte file) that shows at the bottom of the screen when I publish is the correct file but the audio on the finished DVDis from a previous version. I don't know how to make this any clearer.

Not sure I understand. I can certainly send a few of the photos (jpegs) but the problems are not anything to do with the photos- they are both audio problems, as I described. Early on in this project I swapped photos at the point in time where the audio glitches were happening and that did not fix it, so the difference in the audio between playing the pte and playing the DVD can't be "attached" to any photos. I hope i've explained the problem clearly. Bear i mind that this is the 3rd large project that i've created in pte. The last one had several videos as well. However, this is the first one that contains more than 2 audio clips and crossfades. I appreciate you sticking with me, mortals! I am hoping that someone can explain this as a Windows or DVD burning (video builder) problem, not a pte problem per se. It seems to me that whenever I create the DVD, an older audio file stored somewhere on my drive is being accessed insterad of the audio track that is in the project, which contains the corrections. After all, if it is a photo problem, Project Options issue, etc. why would the pte file audio track play correctly on my computer? It should have the same unresolved problems whether I play it in pte, or DVD.

The zipped (.rar) file is pretty small- it isn't a size problem...

I zipped it- I still get that message.... Why do I need "permission" to send an attachment? Wow- now I have two mysteries instead of one. This is getting interesting

I am getting message saying I am not permitted to attach this type of file.... (pte). It's only 176kb. Why can't I attach it?