I've been using Videowave 7 Professional for the last 3 years. Although I had problems w/ burning the dvd's due to updates on my computer (example: installing internet explorer 7.0), I often found the cure through troubleshooting online. Not this time. During the burn process, it continued to have an error during the menu writing phase and would close before finishing the burn.

I then went out and bought Vegas Movie Studio Platinum/Dvd Architect Studio 4.5. I rendered/converted my project into an avi. file in which I placed it into the Vegas Movie Studio. The program was able to read it and preview it beautifully. I prepared the file, burned the file, and it stated "burned successfully". However, would not play in my dvd player stating "Cannot play this disc" (but can play discs that I've burned in the past w/ the same dvd burner & in the same format - NTSC). I took the dvd to a friend's house and the dvd played (barely) w/ green little blips all over the screen, blips in the music and pictures. I am utterly exhausted on trying to figure out what the problem or incompatibility is. My computer is five years old, which I hear is "really old" in computer world and my burner three years (and I don't use it that often). I went on each website and downloaded the updates for my firmware, videowave 7, microsoft, vegas movie studio platinum 8.0, and Architect Studio. I would be greatful for suggestions...