djmc126: So what your saying is I can burn a BluRay file of HDV quality to a Regular DVD R and it will play in a BluRay player with a 1080i?   The answer is yes you can - but not with the PC that you currently have.  The minumum hardware requirement for 1440x1080i AVCHD video is a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor.  For 1920x1080i ...

Copy protection on DVDs is a complete waste of time.  There are numerous software add ons that allow almost any DVD copier utility to strip out the copy protection. CSS protected discs cannot be produced on commercially available DVD blank discs. Macrovision doesn't stop the DVD itself being directly copied, it just stops copies being made ...

Your PC is on the low end of adequacy for High Definition video editing (and the processor is below what is generally specified - but this would just be a speed issue).  The amount of RAM that you have is very small for HD work and possibly is giving you an output bottleneck (output actually requires more resources than input).  I think ...

tonycraig:OK - I've tracked this down to a corrupt music file.  I still think a better message would have helped, but there you are. Software designers pride themselves on error messages that don't actually help you figure out what's actually wrong. IanS

Because you can create a 5.1 track with Studio.  You just can't import one from elsewhere.  IanS

Yes - but only if you can source a compatible driver. IanS

I think we might be a cross purposes here. If I add additional sound effects into the project, I can move them anywhere in the sound field I wish, and they indeed come from the speakers that I would expect.  For example, if I include a sound and drag the symbol in the audio properties to the rear left speaker, then it comes from that speaker ...

Right, I followed your instructions, but something else obviously needs to be set somewhere. When I follow what you said, The movie plays back in 2.0 stereo downmix. The front left carries an identical signal to the rear left and similar for the front right and rear right. When I 'Make Movie' to produce an AVCHD disc with sound set to Dolby ...

For those following my tales of woe, I have now upped the spec of my PC and most of the problems have gone away. I am left with one however.  When importing AVCHD footage from a Panasonic SD1, the files only appear to have stereo sound (left and right front) sound.  Studio will not play the surround sound and pacing the clips in a ...

I have been having no end of problems with Studio 11, in that I have completely failed to get it to produce any useable output.  In particular, I get export error messages whenever I try to make AVCHD format discs. I can tell you that if you succeed in burning AVCHD material to a blank DVD, the resultant disc should be non readable on an ...