Thanks for those properties, though it reveals at least one other problem.
.ASF, by the way, stands for Advanced Streaming Format, which gives an idea of its intended use -- streaming video on the web, and not burning to disc.
First, where did the .avi files come from? However, I am assuming it was from a digital still camera in movie mode... The MJPEG (Motion JPEG) format is a little long in the tooth, but still produces good quality, though large, files. (It preceded the high quality DV/AVI format.) I am assuming you have the MJPEG codec on your computer -- it would have been on the installation disc which came with the digital still camera (if indeed that is where the videos came from).
However, even if so, you are requiring VS to process not only difficult .asf files, but also another completely different format, all in the same project. Moreover, the frame size of both .asf and mjpegs is 640 x 480, and this would have to be changed to one of the standard DVD formats within mpeg-2 if you wanted to burn your project to DVD eventually. This would be 720 x 576 for PAL and in essence this means that pixels have to be invented from the program (which usually means some loss of quality).
I am also now slightly mystified as to the original source of your .asf files. Did it come from some sort of high definition camera? I ask since you have now told us that for some as yet unexplained reason you were trying to convert the .asf files to High Definition (which is what HD stands for) 1080 or 720 wmv format... So can you tell us what the asf files started life as being, please .
I repeat my earlier comment about first converting both different lots of video first to DVD-compatible mpeg-2.
As for being able to use the re-link feature once you convert them, I am afraid it cannot be used in that circumstance. Re-link is only used when you have moved the original files to some other place on your computer and the program needs to find them again. It cannot be used when the files have been converted into some other format. Re-link is part of the project file operation, and the .vsp project files are merely small text files which tell VS exactly what files are used in the project, their format and size, where they are stored, what editing has been done to them etc. If you change their format, the size will also change, and then the project file will no longer recognise them for any purpose until you manually insert them all into the project and save the file anew. Sorry.
