Thanks Bob,
the project includes mpegs and jpegs, plus one avi file. Audio includes mp3 music tracks & wav files. The latter are from a voice recorder.
I selected dvd format after clickig “make movie,” and vegas support directed me to render the audio to wav.
Another error message that I forgot to mention happened just once upon opening the program. It said I was missing some plug-ins.
But the error that always appears reads:
Vegas Movie Studio 9.0
Version 9.0b (Build 66)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x4890000 IP:0x24A02BE1
In Module ‘mcdddec.dll’ at Address 0x24A00000 + 0x2BE1
Thread: Audio5Reader ID=0xA6C Stack=0x3F8F000-0x3F90000
Plus this:
03F8FEDC: 23206DF6 23200000 + 6DF6 (mcmpegin.dll)
> 03F8FF10: 23205977 23200000 + 5977 (mcmpegin.dll)
> 03F8FF30: 7C802600 7C800000 + 2600 (kernel32.dll)
> 03F8FF34: 7C802542 7C800000 + 2542 (kernel32.dll)
> 03F8FF40: 33BBA440 33BB0000 + A440 (mcplug.dll)
thanks again…