maestro

[midge]

I HAVE A SMALL PROBLEM
ALL I WANT TO DO IS CREATE JUST THE MAIN MOVIE WITH MAESTRO
I HAVE INPUTTED THE MOVIE,AC3 AUDIO,CHAPTERS AND SUBTITLES
WHEN I PRESS COMPILE IT ASKS ME TO SAVE SO I CLICK YES AND IT TELLS ME NO VIDEO STREAM FOUND DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET ROUND THIS

[BJ_M]

re-name your video stream to a shorter name 8.3 naming convention and don't put it in a dir more than 3 layers deep ..

then re-import it into maestro ...

[SLK001]

A quick question: Did you link the movie to anything? If your movie imported with a report of "OK", then I suspect that you need to link it to something (like FIRST PLAY).

[BJ_M]

A quick question: Did you link the movie to anything? If your movie imported with a report of "OK", then I suspect that you need to link it to something (like FIRST PLAY).

you dont have to - you may get a error during compile that no first play is found but the disk will play fine ...

some versions and on some platforms maestro hicups on really long path names/ file names and file names with weird charactors in them .. this was a known problem going back some time , rememeber maestro was written to be used only on NT4 in fact .. which is a testiment to how well it was written that is can run so well on any nt platform ..

[midge]

added first play still the same message

[midge]

i have only a 4 letter name
still wont work

[midge]

if anyone has a walk through that works please mail it to me

owensmidget@aol.com

[BJ_M]

make sure you are also using the latest version

[midge]

i am using version 2.9

[Peka]

I checked the file you emailed me and I got the same error. On closer inspection I noticed you had 5 movies, only 1 of which actually had video/audio. I deleted the 4 unused movies, as well as the blank menus and command sequences, and it compiles OK now.