[Ed Isenberg]

I have used Premiere Pro for four years in a professional environment. It often will fail while outputting a video file, with useless messages like “an error occurred.” It is not as stable as Avid. Can’t say much about Final Cut Pro, but I’m trying it next because Premiere Pro is so unstable.

[Ed Isenberg]

I solved my transcoding error by saving my Premiere project to a larger hard drive. When I burn a DVD from Premiere, Premiere will create a folder called Encoded Files, and in that it will make a folder with the name of the project. In that project folder Premiere makes another folder with the name of the time line. Inside that it makes a m2v and wav file that it uses to make the DVD. You not only need space, but it must be defragmented space.

CAUTION: Premiere Pro 2.0 may not recreate these m2v/wav files if you make small changes and burn a DVD again from Premiere. It will use the old m2v/wav files and skip your changes. Change the bit rate by some small fraction to force Premiere to recreate the files.