• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Newbie cant export to mpg2

  Posted by Ramjet on October 19, 2006 at 11:17 am

  I can export footage up to approx. 4000 frames but above this the process aborts with a dropped frame. I am processing MiniDV camcorder footage imported into PP and then edited on the timeline. I have several sequences which need to be exported as SD mpeg2(PAL) so that I can create a DVD using Encore. My system would appear to be adequate(P4Dual Core 1gig DDR2/250G SATA HD’s *2) Any ideas?

  Ramjet replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Alex Jusay

  October 19, 2006 at 3:05 pm

  It might be that your miniDV footage has a drop frame in the first place. Right click on your clip and select Properties.
  Also, check if at 4000 frames, you have an empty timeline space or black. Sometimes, Premiere renders black with drop frames which is not a big deal.
  Hope that helps…
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  Ramjet

  October 19, 2006 at 11:04 pm

  I have many clips which will export OK but it appears as if my resources are limiting things above approx 4000frames. No sign of dropped frames but I will check again. Also why is it only after a substantial footage? And it occurs on the second pass close to the end of footage often. Ive tried re-importing into new project..same result. Encore will burn DVD with the same footage in AVI. I prefer to import mpg2 for Encore. I am editing footage with PP V7.0( transitions mainly but also some color corrections/levels etc)
  Thanks for your help so far.
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  Ramjet

  October 21, 2006 at 1:21 pm

  I am having some success now using Adobe Premiere Elements. I did have to change my audio encode settings to Mpeg1 Layer2 from Dolby. That seems to be quite significant. But this change did not help with PP..still working on that. I’m happy with the results I’m getting with PE. Hats off to the designers of that software!
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  Ramjet

  October 22, 2006 at 10:32 am

  The problem is fixed.I scoured this forum archives to find the following thread. I dont think changing the executable name fixed it but downloading and installing the MainConcept 1.1 upgrade to the encoder certainly did.(https://www.mainconcept.com/adobemedia/downloads.html)
  At first I got extremely large pixellated/blocky result until I realized I had changed a parameter so reverting to the default now gave good results. I notice also the default is now set to quality=max. Now the encoding process does not abort and the quality is extremely good and well worth the wait.
  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=3&postid=767772&archive=T

  Cheers all ..

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