When you say AVI, it could mean a great many things. It's a little bit like QucikTime. There's many different QT codecs tht create QT movies but not all are comopatible with all apps. eg: I created a divX-AVI format movie tonight (out of full quality standard dv video) & Toast has no probs recognising it (I didn't use divx to burn it with though.) So your avi file could have been encoded any no. of ways! I presume you were refering to Toast right?! Try selecting Video & drag & drop it into the toast window. For Toast 6 that's easy. For Toast 5, depending upon whether you choose video cd/dvd it might need to be converted by Toast (Click on other & choose options.)

Oh Morgwen, the 1st link was to the closed thread, the 2nd to the original you were referring to. I corrected after I realised it was closed!