i read a post to take a short few second clip with no sound and a photo. load them into TMPGE and it will combine the 2 to make an mpeg clip that few seconds long. i have tried but here's what happens. my clip is 4 seconds and after the first second of the clip encodeing the photo dissapears. i play back the clip and of course the photo is on for 1 second then disappears. i thought the clip would stay on for the whole 4 seconds. i am creating a vcd of photos with background music but i don't want the images to fly across the screen. like i said i'm useing TMPGE to encode but i don't know if there are specific settings for this and Nero5.5 to burn.(non-standard)....a am mixing video clips also they are non-standard. finished will be a mix of clips and video all in one mpeg......any help???????