To test Premiere's performance on HDV and on downconverted SD I opened a new project with HDV project settings and imported a number of short files I had captured using HDVsplit. I arranged these clips on the timeline and then attempted to export the timeline, using Export/Movie and Export/Adobe Media Encoder. Every time the rendering crashed at the same frame. So I went to that frame on the timeline, walking to it frame by frame from a few frames before, and Adobe crashed again.

Each of these crashes included a dialogue box announcing a serious error and requiring Premiere to shut down. If I went to a frame beyond the offending one and walked back frame by frame I could get to it okay. If I tried playing the timeline from anywhere before the offending frame, Adobe would crash.

The frame itself looks fine and is not a dropout; the motion is continuous and smooth across the bad frame.

What gives here? This was just an experiment but I'd not like to have anything similar happen on a real project.

Any help would be appreciated.

Richard L. Vaughan

Recapture that area of the tape and see if it still happens. Possible corrupt file?

Today I recaptured the entire 6 1/2 minute tape that contained the clip that (after being captured by HDVsplit) caused trouble yesterday. This time it exported without any problem.

Is it possible that HDVsplit occasionally returns a corrupt file?

Richard Vaughan

Is it possible that HDVsplit occasionally returns a corrupt file?
Richard Vaughan

I am wondering the same thing. I tried to export a sequence and I get the same error when the export gets to about 15%.