dropped frames during rendering

[photoguy]

Hello All, I have been having 'dropped frame" messages when I try to render and edited .avi. I use Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and it simply STOPS the render and I have no way of correcting it. I WAS capturing my video clips with ROXIO MEDIA IMPORT, doing my editing in Adobe, then rendering, then creating a DVD in ROXIO EASY MEDIA CREATOR 8. *whew* But this last project ( a lengthy part of a wedding ceremony) just won't render. Any suggestions!?!? THANKS

[edDV]

Is this MiniDV material?

Capture in DV format with Premiere Pro or WinDV, edit with Premiere Pro in DV format and encode to MPeg2 with Premiere Pro (Export Timeline - Adobe Media Encoder).

Then you can import that MPeg2 into whatever DVD authoring program you want to use.

[photoguy]

Footage was shot on a Sony TRV350 Digital 8. I'm linking directly from the camera to my Dell XP computer, with lots 'o power. Would I lose much detail by simply converting my avi to mpeg? I have a program that does this.
By the way, I have shorter edited piieces (4-6 minutes) that seem to render just fine.

[edDV]

Footage was shot on a Sony TRV350 Digital 8. I'm linking directly from the camera to my Dell XP computer, with lots 'o power. Would I lose much detail by simply converting my avi to mpeg? I have a program that does this.
By the way, I have shorter edited piieces (4-6 minutes) that seem to render just fine.

Digital8 over IEEE-1394 is the same as MiniDV (same format). Transfer is at 1x speed to a HDD DV file using WinDV or another app.

If you try to encode while transferring you get lower quality and high probability of dropped frames. The fact that you are getting dropped frames indicates the MPeg2 encoder isn't up to real time, your computer isn't optimized or some other application has hard disk priority.

Advice is to transfer at 1x, then edit and encode at the end. Then it is all about how fast your CPU can go. You won't drop frames even if other processes are running. They will just slow the encode.