I just bought Pinnacle Express 1.01 and I was trying to author a VCD, however, I am having some problems with it. My CD burner is HL-DT-ST Model # 8160B. I have a 2GHZ Pentium 4 w/256 MB RAM and 80GB hard drive. Every time I try author a VCD from an existing VCD-compliant mpeg file on my HD, my cd burner spins for 2 minutes but no VCD is created.

Now, I have used Nero to import the same file and author the VCD and guess what? It sure did make a VCD that was playable on home DVD player.

Can anyone tell me why Pinnacle Express doesn't work with my cd burner?
The software does recognize the name and model of my cd burner, but some how it just won't burn any kind of CD-Rs!!!

The video-capturing part of the program works nice! It does capture video(in AVI format) from my digital camcorder but when you try to author a VCD/SVCD from the captured files, I get stuck !! The CDR keeps spinning and nothing gets created. What did I do wrong??? Could anyone please help resolve this mystery ??????

I called tech support, but the people there couldn't solve the problem!!