[Brian]

Interestingly, I have exactly the same camera and am having the same problem with PP 2.0. In 1.5 I never had any trouble with dropped frames. Now I’m trying to capture to a newly-defragged 500GB drive that has ~250GB free. I have 1GB of memory and a 3.2GHz P4 with HT, which should be plenty of horsepower for a simple capture. The only change besides the software upgrade is moving from a Radeon 8500 video card to a new GeForce 6600 GT, but that’s an upgrade so I don’t know why that would be the issue unless there was some kind of interference from the video card driver.

[Brian]

Okay, thanks to your pointers, I’ve been able to demultiplex and add markers in Premiere Pro. At this point, I’m concerned about video degradation. Is there a way to direct stream copy the video and audio and just embed the chapter markers in Premiere Pro, so that I don’t lose any video quality in the transfer to Encore?

I don’t have enough space left on my hard drive to do a lossless AVI to import into Encore DVD. I’ve been editing the DVD content as a single MPEG-2 file. If I use the Adobe Media Encoder in Premiere Pro to export the footage in MPEG-2, will Encore still be able to see the chapter markers I’ve set up in PPro? It’s obvious that this works if you use AVI, but I don’t see anything about exporting markers in the Media Encoder. Also, would the encoder give the same results (without new artifacts/quality loss) if I export and re-encode in MPEG-2 from MPEG-2?

Thanks for all of your help and advice! I’m still learning the ropes…