Although Ulead is very basic as you said, it’s worth a hundred bucks you paid for it. May be you have files of different formats? If so try to convert them all into AVI II before editing. In Ulead Studio you do it through Share -> Create Video File -> DV -> NTSC (or PAL if this is your case).
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