[Pickles82]

Just to let you know, I’m pretty inexperienced with Premiere myself, but another thing you could try to see if it’s a problem with the file/project or just playback.
Try exporting an avi file of the project and see if that plays properly.

To do this go file – export – movie.

If I remember correctly, I’ve done the same sort of thing with a mpg file and premiere just would play it, but it worked fine once exported.

[Pickles82]

Have you rendered the file before trying to play it back?
You’re saying that your video is mpg. Premiere doesn’t work the best with mpg, so sometimes it won’t play back properly until it is rendered.

You’re saying you’re really new, so maybe you don’t know this – To render just (with your timeline window active) press enter and it should render for you.

[Pickles82]

How I do this is to open up the DVD on the Computer (not play it, but open it as a folder). Somewhere on there, there will be a .vts (I think) file. Just look for the largest file, that will be it. This essentially is a mpg file, so copy it to your computer and change the extension from .vts to .mpg. Then you should be able to open it in any program you wish.

[Pickles82]

These may seem like easy questions, but I would again appreciate your help.

‘Adobe Apps run fine in XP64 in 32 bit emulation mode’.
Is a setting I can change (or check to see what I’m running)? If so how could I do this?

‘set PPro 2 export settings to be very much the same as Encore 1.5’
Is this talking about the compressed m2v export or the AVI? I understand how to set the m2v settings, but was unaware that there were AVI settings (if that’s the case), how can I do this?

That aside. There’s another piece of information that may be useful. Since getting my new PC I haven’t been able to burn a DVD directly from Premiere (not registering DVD burners, posted elsewhere), so I have imported short AVI files into encore and they have worked fine. That’s why I have a feeling that this has something to do with the file size.

[Pickles82]

I’m using Premiere Pro 2, Encore 1.5, and I’m guessing the latest Media Player. If it would make a difference I’m also running XP x64.

The computer is relatively new and this is the first ‘large’ project I’ve worked on. I do have only a single 300Gb Hard Drive, so yeah, it is the system hard drive (wouldn’t have a clue if it’s NTFS or FAT32). My old computer has a 40Gb and a 120Gb, so the system and AV files were seperated. Maybe this is the problem?

I haven’t tried exporting a m2v out of Premiere. I will.
Could this cause a compression loss issue?I’m pretty sure I’ve always just taken the avi into encore and let encore do the encoding. So will encoding it before encore cause quality issues?

[Pickles82]

I have the same problem, but I know it’s due to Premiere not recognising my DVD Burner. Because it doesn’t have a DVD Burner to select it can’t burn.

My DVD Burner is recognised by Encore and Nero. Does anyone know how to fix this problem.