Hi Ken Thanks for your reply Taking your last point first, it was really a lack of time - this time last year I was holding down a full time job while running a part time photography business, and quite a number of things got done to a good enough level while wishing I had more time. Now the day job has gone, hooray, and I really want to do things to a much higher level - the area of disatisfaction with that DVD was the "shimmer" which I've now seen several references to in the forum, but is not evident in the slideshow I've just produced, though I've only been able to view on my PC and laptop, transferred to the laptop by burning the files to a CD and copying. In terms of what am I doing differently from last year, as far as I can tell, nothing! The only change in my hardwear set up is that the DVD writer has been replaced; the old one failed and was replaced by Dell as part of the three year warranty I have on the system; however all DVD's which I use to back up files onto can be read by both my PC and my laptop. Video tracks I can assemble using Roxio, burn to DVD and view on my TV through my Philips DVD player. I can't check whether last year's show still works, as I no longer have a copy of it. Despite what I said in my post, I've actually had a rest from the DVD aspect today - I felt I needed a break from it and have got on with some other tasks instead. Tested out slideshow features such as the limited usage and disable printing/copying facilities instead, checking that I can happily give clients their wedding previews in this way and not lose my reprint sales! The procedure I've been following is to assemble a slideshow in pte, with a sound track, using "Create slideshow as" and saving it. Then clicking "Video"; leaving pte open and without clicking "Finish", I open Roxio DVD Builder in Easy Creator 7, import the pte avi, and burn the DVD - it will playback on my PC but not on my laptop, and not on my DVD player. And I really can't work out what I'm doing wrong!! But I'm sure that suddenly it will work, and I'll never be sure what I've done differntly. Jerry