Hello Peter, Greetings from Quarryville, PA!! Thank you for your help and links but Peter I must be missing something very fundamental here since I as of yet can't resolve my problem. Here is a step by step list of what I do. 1. Load all my photos and MP3 sound file into PTE Deluxe with transistions and it runs beautifully! 2. While this program is still loaded in PTE I then click on the "create" button- lower left hand corner. 3. Then I select "AVI video file" 4. In the next window I choose (small circle) Create custom AVI video file 5. Set audio codec to default 44,100 khz, 16 bit stereo and then the video codec I have tried several listed there including the "PictureToEXE Video Codec. Must I purchase one of these video codecs and install it on my pc or is the PTE Codec fine and is in included in the PTE software? I have a feeeling I may be completely misunderstanding something here at this point. 6. click on on the "create AVI button 7 asked to save at my choice of folder destination 8. click on save and get this exactly spelled message in a small window "catCantCreateFile" I would appreciate your help very much! Thanks again Bill