Pinnacle studio 7 not writing/previewing/editing mpegs

[Speedpuppy]

help guys/gals, on the road with new laptop and loaded up my pinnacle to work on the road. yes i updated to 7.15 verision. tried a simple test. took several pictures put in a row with transitions then tried to write a small mpeg movie. nothing happens. yet on home system it would write it.

secondly while putting the slides in usually (at home) i can hit play button in preview and i can watch the transition in the preview. this time nothing happens. both are running xp (lap top is professional).

i thought i could edit mepgs in pinnacle cant remember but on laptop looks like only .avis.???

[MarcD]

Pinnacle did not add MPEG import and edit functionality until Version 8 to its Studio line.

Sorry. (Ya I was a sucker too and bought 7 without realizing this drawback).


Marc

[Speedpuppy]

yeah i got that about the no mpegs. but what bothers me is i can not preview nor write a movie at this time dont know why. perhaps i need codecs? kinda pissing me off on the road. knowing the program can do this at home but not on a faster? laptop? wierd.

[donpedro]

I believe that PS7 creates mpeg2 by itself so you don't need another codec to create mpeg2.

Hmm.... what could be problem ???

1. Are they exact same version ? Check again....

2. Is your disk full ? Just an idea... Check where is your "temp" direrctory (Auxiliary Files).

3. Try to explain more in details what do you mean by "nothing happens". What exactly do you do ?

[Speedpuppy]

i mean when you click it instead of seeing it render the movie and see it do it in preview window. nothing happens.

wierd. in fact i downloaded windows media encoder ver 7.1 so i can work on stuff on this laptop (bran new compaq evo n610) and it to doesnt want to work like the exact same program on home computer. which is 1 year older runs xp home instead of profession on laptop.

anybody have any ideas?