Unfortunately I still have not overcome my problem. I can drag the sample music in Pinnacle to the time line okay. My problem appears to be capturing the cd tracks. I can capture a track, play it on an audio line but this is not dragging it to a particular point. My understanding is that I should have the list of tracks from the CD in a window from where I drag and drop to the appropriate place on the timeline (as you advised). This is what I have not been able to do , hence my problem may lie with how to capture the CD properly and bringing up the the tracks - then dragging/dropping should be fine. Can you advise?