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Thanks guys. Once more into the breech...

Back to my favorite subject- Layer Breaks. Ran into another 'Can't find a suitable layer break' message. After reading Blutach's excellent guide on splitting cells using VobBlanker, I did just that. Splitting cells was easy using the guide. Tried to burn again and got the same message- no LBs. I have searched (I promise) and found nothing about HOW TO CHOOSE THE CELLS TO SPLIT TO PRODUCE VALID LBs. I'm guessing it isn't a random process? Please help, I need Edjicatin. For my attempt, not knowing any better I split a couple of cells as near as possible to the midpoint of the VTSs. I picked some with slow transitions to make the break less noticeable. What should I have done?

Thanks for the info. I don't blame you for your impatience, I guard my time also by necessity. Before posting (1st time on a forum) I read the admonitions, read the guides, and did do searches. I read thru pages and pages of threads with no useful info (often the search phrase used but no explanation). Probably means I need to learn how to search more effectively. After searching, I read posts with likely Subject lines- found only 2 with some useful info. I'm yada yada-ing you just to give feedback from the point of a rookie, which every user is at least once. Things apparent to an experienced person often are not obvious to a rookie. As a design engineer with 30 years experience designing, documenting projects and publishing articles, the best but toughest thing to do is put yourself in the place of the reader who doesn't know the details like you do. It's especially tough to do when you are time limited. This is NOT meant to be a lecture, just some feedback. Feel free to ignore, delete this post, throw rocks or make fun of me. I think the answer is implied, but please answer directly: Any potential layer break points listed, ARE valid break points. I'm still a dumb rookie, but you guys have made me smarter- thanks. Blutach, you should expect dumb questions from someone in the Northern Hemisphere where toilet water swirls in the wrong direction when flushed. G' Day Mate

Thanks 1, 2, 3 Can you define a cell? 1. What can it link to other than a cell? I assume if it is displayed in the list, whatever it is linked to, it is a valid break option? 3. "If it can't find any cells to align, make some more." HOW? Is this something I do?

Read the guide, searched the forum, saw nothing about my question, but then I often have 'Senior Moments' and could have missed something. Question is about the ImgBurn layer break screen. 1) I often get break point options where the Preview Selected Cell button is not active- if you can't preview it is it a valid break option? If not why is it displayed? (Guess that would be a suggestion). If it is valid why can't I preview it? 2) In some Previewable break points the navigation controls aren't active, like there is nothing there? 3) Just had a 1st, for me. ImgBurn couldn't find any possible layer break points. I was burning 4 movies onto a DL disc (Verbatim). Some of the movies had lots of black transitions from cutting out commercials. Kinda hard to believe ImgBurn couldn't find a good break point! Log file included below. 4) What is SPLIP and does it have any impact on choosing a break point? Please educate me, or feel free to explain what a donuthead I am. ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 - Log ; Monday, 03 December 2007, 00:03:45 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 23:58:17 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 23:58:17 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 23:58:17 Total Physical Memory: 1,310,000 KB - Available: 863,148 KB W 23:58:17 Drive C:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. W 23:58:17 Drive D:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. W 23:58:17 Drive E:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. W 23:58:17 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. W 23:58:17 Drive I:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 23:58:17 Initialising SPTI... I 23:58:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 23:58:19 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 00:00:21 Operation Started! I 00:00:21 Building Image Tree... I 00:01:39 Checking Directory Depth... I 00:01:39 Calculating Totals... I 00:01:39 Preparing Image... E 00:03:38 Unable to find any cells that could be used for the layer break! E 00:03:38 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:03:16 I 00:03:45 Close Request Acknowledged I 00:03:45 Closing Down... I 00:03:45 Shutting down SPTI... I 00:03:45 ImgBurn closed! ;