The file format appears to be the issue as I tried converting to .mov and so far it worked at least on one file.....Thank you for the advice......
AVR I will try to respond to your questions as it may still be helpful but I am after all a consumer and not a tech..so forgive what may seem two dimensional answers.....
The sound tracks are verbatim from original VHS sound recordings. They were converted to DVD with a over the counter Toshiba VHS to DVD burner/player. I determined the file format was .vob by looking at the files on each dvd I created in this way.....
I have tried to pull or rip files in both manners after I found the sound track issues....first I tried to pull them into PE12 straight from the home made DVD... Noting the same soundtrack issues I then loaded the DVD files to my hard drive and then tried to pull them into my project from there....same sound issue. I then edited the same files and successfully burned a DVD with a normal sound track using the MS Moviemaker software....however this is not the software I prefer....but, using it to convert vob to mov helped me make a file I can use in PE12 now....
Last, the editing I have mentioned is to cut sections of the video/audio out for time, irrelevant material or just bad video...I add titles and subtitles on additional tracks... the original timeline is always edited in whole sections..... never just video or just audio... and...yes I have tried to play the entire video in PE12 before any editing takes place... same sound issues.... it is with out a doubt, a compatibility issue with vob files and PE12.....so converting to another file format should should be OK and only a minor inconvenience.....
PS..something that may deserve another "Topic" or may be relevant here is the "style" option has stopped working in my titles module. I was using it to make very nice shadow letters in my titles and text.... after about three edited videos.... "Style" is now blank. I was thinking of reloading PE12 once my last project is burned and I have no more projects to lose..... suggestions?
Thanks very much for your time...............