After editing and producing some projects, I tried to get to the Create Disc portion of the program to make DVDs.

Not once did I get past 30%, even when I went away from my computer to read for close to an hour.

I had read about conflicts with some MPEG codecs, so I made use of a spare partition to install Windows XP Pro and PowerDirector 7. I have not installed Windows Media Player, Roxio or any other media handling/display application and certainly not my packages of multiple codecs.

Now, I can easily open a project and get to the Create Disc section in a matter of seconds, but if I go to Edit, I cannot see the video. Well, I can see the video, but only if I hit the Play arrow under the preview window and nothing else (certainly not either of the sliders). Once I do anything other than Play, the video disappears, even if I move the slider all the way back to the beginning and hit Play again.

So... I have to boot into one partition to Edit and Produce a project, then boot into another partition to Create Disc, all because the programmers who wrote PowerDirector couldn't deal with some codec and couldn't be bothered to issue a popup telling me what the problem is and how to fix it.

I mean, really... how difficult is something like this to fix?

Jeff