[icepurple]

I brought ECM7 few years ago. I never got around to installing it til last weekend. I loved the features it is suppose to have. With that said, I created an awesome video production for my family gathering that was coming up only to have my heart broken because I could not get it burn to a disc in no kind of way I knew. I have windows XP service pack 3 and explorer 8 with window media player 9. Every time I tried to burn the production, DVD builder would freeze and crash. I even tried to save the file to hard drive and use windows to burn the file, but that did not work. I could not find a fix on Roxio web site or the internet. So I decided that I need to upgrade my antiquated software. But my major concern is that production I spent days working on, if I will be able to burn it if I upgrade to 2009. Since I could never burn it, will it be saved and recovered to burn later upon uninstalling ECM7? GOD! I spent too much time trying to make that program work.

[myguggi]

I brought ECM7 few years ago. I never got around to installing it til last weekend. I loved the features it is suppose to have. With that said, I created an awesome video production for my family gathering that was coming up only to have my heart broken because I could not get it burn to a disc in no kind of way I knew. I have windows XP service pack 3 and explorer 8 with window media player 9. Every time I tried to burn the production, DVD builder would freeze and crash. I even tried to save the file to hard drive and use windows to burn the file, but that did not work. I could not find a fix on Roxio web site or the internet. So I decided that I need to upgrade my antiquated software. But my major concern is that production I spent days working on, if I will be able to burn it if I upgrade to 2009. Since I could never burn it, will it be saved and recovered to burn later upon uninstalling ECM7? GOD! I spent too much time trying to make that program work.

Bad news all around.

First, by installing IE8 you broke EMC7. IE7 also did the same to EMC7. The only way to get EMC7 to work is to roll IE back to IE6 which I don't think is possible once SP3 was installed.

The other bad news is that project files from EMC7 are not compatible with any later version. So if you get Creator 2009 you will have to redo your whole project.

Did you create your EMC7 project using Videowave? Can you output it to a DVD mpeg, best quality file? If yes then there is some hope you can put your awesome production on DVD yet but you would have to use one of the later versions.

[icepurple]

I was afraid someone would say that I would have to redo the darn thing. I did try to output it to Best Quaility. It took at least 36 minuets, but when it completedd=, it gave me the option to veiw it. I dont knowwhere the file was saved to. What I thought was the file, was only a shell of some sort. When you click on it, it opened Videowave program and showed where the pictures were supposed to be. It wasn't a slideshow and that was only 34MB. The slideshow took lots of time and has to be at least 1GB in size. Don't know where to find the slideshow Best Quality file.

Bad news all around.

First, by installing IE8 you broke EMC7. IE7 also did the same to EMC7. The only way to get EMC7 to work is to roll IE back to IE6 which I don't think is possible once SP3 was installed.

The other bad news is that project files from EMC7 are not compatible with any later version. So if you get Creator 2009 you will have to redo your whole project.

Did you create your EMC7 project using Videowave? Can you output it to a DVD mpeg, best quality file? If yes then there is some hope you can put your awesome production on DVD yet but you would have to use one of the later versions.

[myguggi]

I was afraid someone would say that I would have to redo the darn thing. I did try to output it to Best Quaility. It took at least 36 minuets, but when it completedd=, it gave me the option to veiw it. I dont knowwhere the file was saved to. What I thought was the file, was only a shell of some sort. When you click on it, it opened Videowave program and showed where the pictures were supposed to be. It wasn't a slideshow and that was only 34MB. The slideshow took lots of time and has to be at least 1GB in size. Don't know where to find the slideshow Best Quality file.

Just redo the file creation since it only took 36 minutes
or
Follow the same procedure as before to Output to best quality. It should try to put the file in the same location/folder as before - make a note of it and then look in that folder for your file