Created AVI video garbled, audio OK

[vitesse1998]

I've successfully created an EXE with 24 images and 23 transitions synchronised to music. Each picture is about a 2MB JPG. However I cannot create a good AVI file (PAL standard) after trying all combinations of 'Making of AVI Video File' including 'DVD-Video' and 'Create custom AVI file'.

So I haven't even got as far as preparing the file for DVD burning yet. I have previous experience with making DVDs using Adobe Premiere, TMPGenc & Sonic so I'm not new to all this but I'm no expert either!

I've tried playing the created AVI files in Adobe Premiere and Media players but the video is always garbled in some way (for example no transitions, out of order slides, mainly blank frames, but audio always OK). I run on Windows 2000 and wondered if this was platform related. On the same PC (Pentium III 800MHz) with dual-boot original version of XP (no SPs) I got different results using the same .pte project file but still the video is garbled in some respect. This even occurs on a test presentation with just three slides. I did notice the P2E Video Codec shows up in the Custom list when running on XP and not on Win2K. I've even tried Uncompressed option with no luck.

I'd like to know if this AVI creation feature only really works on latest XP platforms, does this work for anyone on Win 2K?

Does anyone have a clue as to what might be wrong with my configurations?

[DaveG]

Try reducing the size of each of your slides to around 300 - 400 KB at 1024x768 maximum (or whatever your screen resolution is).

DaveG

[vitesse1968]

I've found I can successfully create DVDs, when running on XP, now I understand that P2E needs to be running for that temporary AVI to be decoded.

One questions remains though... does anyone know if the AVI creation can be made to work when running on Windows 2000 - e.g. are any vital DLLs etc. missing that P2E assumes are already there in XP?