Hi,

Most importantly, save your project with a different file name, like the one you have followed by r1 (revision 1) just in case something goes wrong.

Now for burning, try something else. File, Export, File as Magix video. Then create a new project in PhotoStory and import the video just created. Then try burning that to a DVD. You will have to create any menus that you made previously. Test this to see if it works.

Alternatively, File, Export, Files as video MPEG-4. Do the same process.

First thing to see is that you can at least create a video file. There seems to be a lot of problems burning projects to DVD using Magix and other programs.

Secondly, if you manage to create the exported file successfully but cannot burn successfully to DVD, then try the following. Do not put a DVD in the DVD burner. When you get to the DVD Burning screen, click on Encode in directory, select a directory, supply a filename, and Burn. It will create the files required for a DVD in a directory (folder). Then go to file, Additional programs, Magix Speed BurnR, and navigate to the directory that you just encoded to, and burn the project this way. I have had success this way whereas I have had problems burning directly from PhotoStory and Magix Video Edit Pro. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Must be computer gremlins.

Lastly, if you manage to encode to a directory but not burn using Speed burnR, then try another burning program like Nero, if you have one.

HTH

Thanks for your suggestions brow12. I will try them as soon as I can get the project encoded - my gripe deals with the encoding and not the burning to disc part; at least not yet. The slideshow project as I have described below which plays perfectly okay in MAGIX Photostory's program interface monitor, fails to complete the encoding stage of the "burn" process as (a) an AVCHD DVD movie where it appears to stall after completing about 85% of the project; this after over 2 days in continuous encoding mode and (b) when I tried to "export" a WMV Full HD movie file, where the encoding process crashes at the 85% mark! I finally resorted to MAGIX Photostory's troubleshooter's suggestion to test the project composition for flaws and errors by generating a MPEG-4 DVD file prior to copying to disc. Well, this time I did get a fully encoded file but not without errors, and this is when I began to suspect what might be the problem. The mpeg4 file played back perfectly up till - you guessed it - the 85% mark where the remaining 15% contains the end credits of the movie. Now the end credits contain a complex, 4-stream mix of still images, video footages, the text and audio track, each one positioned on a separate level of the time line in order from top to bottom. The composed part of this 15% section is meant to display the still images and video footage in two separate, scaled-down (640x360) windows, one above the other which are positioned to one side of the "credits roll" screen, with the scrolling text to the left side. As I mentioned above, this along with the rest of the composed slideshow displayed perfectly in the interface monitor, but the mpeg4 movie just showed the video footage and scrolling text. No still images. So, the question is: (a) is there a particular procedure or protocol in arranging separate multimedia streams on the timeline and (b) if not then, is the encoder capable of processing multiple streams of multimedia material? Because everthing stalls, stops and crashes prior to this 15% part of my slideshow project.