Hello all,

I recently picked up a copy of SpruceUp from a friend and I'm trying to work with some files I already have on my hard drive. When I try to import them it gets to 6% then I get the following error:

"Temporal References in a GOP are out of sequence"

Has anyone seen this and can you tell me what the problem is?

This file was captured using PowerDirector Pro v2.55 as an MPEG2 @720x480 with LayerII audio @ 224kbps embedded in it, so it is a combined MPG file.

On another note, I really like the capture quality of PDP a lot, but it has the fatal flaw of transcoding audio back to PCM when calculating project sizes! As a result I cannot get to the stage where I can author the video with chapters, menus, etc!! DVD Movie Factory handles it with no problem, but there are instances where the video and the audio get out of sync periodically before coming back together. I don't care for the interface much either, so switching programs is not an option - at least not to the Ulead product. Anyone have any other recommendations for capture software to try?

I'm tremendously upset that I registered PDP only to find out that I can only burn an hour of DVD video to a disc! Anyone know any way around this limitation? I really like the program and the features a lot, but most of my stuff will be sourced from master VHS tapes and some may be up to 2 hours in length.

Dirk