I have an AVI video that is 2 hours 12 minutes and 48 seconds long. I want to use smartsound to play music in the bakground (these are 8mm home movies that were made into AVI files and have NO sound).

I am using power director 10, the latest release.

The problem is none of the smartsound music will allow me over 1 hour and a couple of minutes duration If I enter the length of my AVI file (a little over two hours, the duration field in power director goes back by itself to a few minutes over an hour. . In the instruction video, cyberlink gives us an example of a 14 SECOND clip, useless. I tried dragging a second 1 hour section down on the music timeline but one of two things happens:

1) When the sound reaches the end of the first sound clip, the movie ends and goes back to the beginning to be played again. Anything AFTER the first smartsound section (over ONE FULL HOUR OF VIDEO) never gets played and, for that matter, can not be accessed.

2) If I position the second smartsound section just right the movie will play until the end of the first smartsound section - then there is a period (10-20 seconds) of video with no music - then the second smartsound block on the timeline starts to play, but for about 30 seconds to 1 minute the video is frozen so you have this music playing the frozen video, not acceptable. I thought smart sound was supposed to determine the length of your video and fill it from beginning to end? How do I make it do that?

Neither of these behaviors MAKES ANY SENSE TO ME. Is there a way to get smartsound to allow me to enter the length of time for smart sound to fit my movie and bypass this little over 1 hour of smart sound I can use?

I do not want my movie, because of smart sound restrictions snapped backwards a little over an hour to the beginning; neither do I want my movie "frozen" in the middle for a minute when the second instance of smart sound starts. What is the proper way to put two smart sound blocks on the audio portion of the timeline so #1 and #2 above will not happen? I spent two full nights on this and I can't get it. Power Director fights me at every angle.

Not only that, but I get long hangs in power director when trying different things with smart sound, each little change can hang my Core i7 980x hexacore cpu powered PC to a crawl. It may not be the cpu is where the hang is, but thanks to the "hot keys" power director lays over windows, I cannot get to the resource monitor with the windows sequence I've always used.

Note I cannot apply any compression to the AVI file because these are 8mm films over 30 years old "ripped" to VHS and then fed into the computer as AVI files. They are hard enough to see so as it is (8mm looked so crappy in the first place) and any compression would make them pretty much unviewable - I've tried it with horrible visual results.... The current movie file I am working with is near 190 GB. PLease help me and direct me if you can. I would appreciate any help from the community that is available, as this is where I believe the experts are.

Thank You,

Bob