bakerlite

The - sign in the name does seem to have been the cause of the problem. When I gave it a new name without symbols, it created an AVI file and I was able to burn a DVD without any problem. Strange but there we are. The error was from P2E. Thanks for your advice and thougts on the matter. I do hope the full version of P2E 5 comes out soon; I will be an instant convert! Mike

I do believe I may have solved it! I was trying to save it with a name like this: lucy-pte-4 I have now changed it's name to just Lucy and it seems to be coding as I type! lets hope so. I am puzzled as to how saving it with some - symbols in causes problems, but I will report back if it's OK. Mike

sorry, I should have said; I did try that; same error message! I appreciate your advice, I am new to using this forum, as you will see, Mike

p2e 4.48. I have the beta version of p2e 5 on my machine but have been careful to saty with p2e 4.48 for this particular job. It's a wedding with about 160 pics all scaled down to 1600 pixels max dimensions producing a p2e file of about 40 Mbytes.

I have previously been able to produce DVD videos from PTE of some of my slide presentations without any problem. Today I had an 11 minute presentation with an MP3 continuous music track (synchronous) which ran sweetly in preview (and as an exe file) but would not create an AVI file. I could see a preview but it would not create a full AVI file. The error message that came up was: catCantcreate file Anybody out there had this problem or can offer advice. I have spent hours on getting a really nice presentation and find this very frustrating!