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[Suzanne H]

I am having problems with my DVD Builder portion of the Easy Media Creator 7.  I have been building a DVD  project and am getting errors when I try to open the project to continue with the creation.  The program says it "cannot open the project" but it does open the project.  I don't know why I keep getting this error.  Sometimes the DVD builder doesn't open and I get an error message that the program has to close.  

The project is actually a collection of my daughter's family photos that I am attempting to set each child's photos in their own titles on the main page and have certain songs play with each collection.  The project is 68KB and each title contains approximately 68 photos.

Any clues what may be wrong?  I work with multiple photo and music programs.  Are there any other programs that may be interferring even when they are not running?

Suzanne H

[grandpabruce]

Suzanne H, on Sep 8 2006, 05:27 PM, said:

I am having problems with my DVD Builder portion of the Easy Media Creator 7.  I have been building a DVD  project and am getting errors when I try to open the project to continue with the creation.  The program says it "cannot open the project" but it does open the project.  I don't know why I keep getting this error.  Sometimes the DVD builder doesn't open and I get an error message that the program has to close.  

The project is actually a collection of my daughter's family photos that I am attempting to set each child's photos in their own titles on the main page and have certain songs play with each collection.  The project is 68KB and each title contains approximately 68 photos.

Any clues what may be wrong?  I work with multiple photo and music programs.  Are there any other programs that may be interferring even when they are not running?

Suzanne H

There may be something wrong in the production that is causing it.  I don't know what to tell you except, from now on, build your productions in VideoWave.  DVD Builder is a program for authoring the productions that you make in VideoWave.  It was not intended to be used for building the productions.

[Suzanne H]

grandpabruce, on Sep 8 2006, 03:33 PM, said:

There may be something wrong in the production that is causing it.  I don't know what to tell you except, from now on, build your productions in VideoWave.  DVD Builder is a program for authoring the productions that you make in VideoWave.  It was not intended to be used for building the productions.

Thank you for the help... what a bummer!  I only have 4 days to get this project burned and mailed for my brother's birthday... well, here goes.  Thanks again grandpabruce!  I'll check back with an update.

[grandpabruce]

Suzanne H, on Sep 9 2006, 12:00 PM, said:

Thank you for the help... what a bummer!  I only have 4 days to get this project burned and mailed for my brother's birthday... well, here goes.  Thanks again grandpabruce!  I'll check back with an update.

Good luck, and if it is late, I am sure that your brother will appreciate what you went through to make his day a good day.

[ml]

You can take that production from DVD Builder into VideoWave in the following manner.

Open your DVD Builder production, do an Advanced Edit and change something minor.  Close the edit.

Now with your DVD Builder production still open.... Do a Windows\ Start\ Search   and do an advanced search (include subfolders and hidden files and folders) for a .dmsm file.    

When you find it, double click on it to open the file in VideoWave.

Do an immediate File\ Save as..... and give it another name.    Now you'll be able to edit the file in VideoWave.

[grandpabruce]

mlpasley, on Sep 9 2006, 08:29 PM, said:

You can take that production from DVD Builder into VideoWave in the following manner.

Open your DVD Builder production, do an Advanced Edit and change something minor.  Close the edit.

Now with your DVD Builder production still open.... Do a Windows\ Start\ Search   and do an advanced search (include subfolders and hidden files and folders) for a .dmsm file.    

When you find it, double click on it to open the file in VideoWave.

Do an immediate File\ Save as..... and give it another name.    Now you'll be able to edit the file in VideoWave.

Good idea, ml!  I forgot about that.  Thanks for the assist.

[ml]

grandpabruce, on Sep 9 2006, 09:40 PM, said:

Good idea, ml! I forgot about that. Thanks for the assist.

Almost two months ago, Steve(the other one) suggested that I pin a 'how to' on the board and I'd forgotten until I read this post.

I pinned the directions tonight.  

[grandpabruce]

mlpasley, on Sep 9 2006, 10:05 PM, said:

Almost two months ago, Steve(the other one) suggested that I pin a 'how to' on the board and I'd forgotten until I read this post.

I pinned the directions tonight.  

  Life is good.

[Suzanne H]

grandpabruce, on Sep 9 2006, 08:17 PM, said:

  Life is good.

o.k., I'm back... sigh... I have tried everything including recreating the project from scratch in Video Wave, but my program keeps locking up before I can save anything no matter which way I try to go (especially the DVD Builder)  Both Video Wave & DVD Builder give me error reports and say that the program needs to close. I'm at the point of trying to reinstall the program, but I can't find my disk!I have my "Content" disk, but can't find the program disk.  I have even tried checking for updates for the program, but it says there are none available.  

Any new Ideas?  I'm feeling pretty frustrated.

[tbrewst]

Instead of reinstalling why not try a repair instead.You may not need the disk for that,then again you might.

[ml]

This may not help, but occasionally the Windows Performance settings can cause this type of problem.

Go to your Control Panel\ System\ Advanced settings and under Performance\ Settings, change to Adjust for Best performance, ok.    

While you're there, under the Performance\ Advanced tab, go to the bottom of the screen and select the Virtual Memory, choose Custom and set your minimum memory to the RAM on your computer and the max to twice your min..... ie. 512, 1024.

[myguggi]

Suzanne H, on Sep 9 2006, 11:48 PM, said:

o.k., I'm back... sigh... I have tried everything including recreating the project from scratch in Video Wave, but my program keeps locking up before I can save anything no matter which way I try to go (especially the DVD Builder) Both Video Wave & DVD Builder give me error reports and say that the program needs to close. I'm at the point of trying to reinstall the program, but I can't find my disk!I have my "Content" disk, but can't find the program disk. I have even tried checking for updates for the program, but it says there are none available.

Any new Ideas? I'm feeling pretty frustrated.

I don't think you have ever listed your system specs, especially video card. Sometimes that listing will help us spot a potential problem. Could you please list them similar to what I have in my signature.