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  Error exporting long movie in Premiere Elements 4

  Posted by Grant Harding on April 10, 2012 at 3:43 am

  I just finished editing a movie in Premiere Elements 4. Every time I try to export the movie, it begins rendering, gets as far as about 15%, and then says “Export Error: Error compiling movie. Unknown error.” This happens no matter what format I choose.

  I’ve read that this problem can be caused by titles and transitions, of which this movie has both. But I think the problem is entirely due to the movie’s length, which is six minutes and fifty-five seconds. I say this because if I split the movie into 25-to-50-second chunks, leaving all titles and transitions intact, all the chunks export with no problems whatsoever.

  I’m not running any other programs while the movie exports, but that doesn’t help.

  The source files are MOV (and one PNG), and the resolution is 1920×1080. I want to export it at the same resolution, otherwise what was the point of shooting in that resolution? I’m running Windows Vista on a Samsung R522 laptop, if it helps.

  For what it’s worth, I did manage to successfully export the audio portion of the movie as a WAV file.

  What can I do? My movie is due to premiere at a local arts festival in a few weeks, so I need to sort this out. I read somewhere that the ideal setup is to have three drives — one for the source videos, one for running the program, and one to export the file onto. Will that help?

  Many thanks for any suggestions you may have.

  -Grant

  Grant Harding replied 14 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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