Help! My DVDs Now have Lots of Dropped Frames

[George Tyndall]

Background: When I wanted to create in PE4 a 1-hour Blu-ray DVD consisting of a number of separate slideshows that I had made with PSE4, I would output the sldeshows from PSE 4 as HD WMV 720p then use TMPGEnc to convert the 720p's to m2t's. I would then import each of the 1440x1080 m2t's onto to the PE4 Timeline, one after the other (HDV preset).

Usually, before adding my DVD Menu to the Timeline, I would output the entire 1-hour PREL movie to my PC's HDD as MPEG 1080i 30 ("Use for playback on this PC or burning to DVD") then play back the MPEG2 in Windows Media Viewer. If there were no flaws in the 1-hour MPEG2, I would import it into PE4, add my DVD Menu, then Share it all to Disc (whether SD DVD or Blu-ray).

Problem: Now, when I try the above procedure with PRE7, the only difference being that I am now importing my 2288x1520 stills onto the Timeline with a NTCS-HD-1920x1080 preset then outputting them to PC as MPEG2 1920x1080i 30, the MPEG2 files play back well in Windows Media Viewer from my HDD, HOWEVER, if I try to use these MPEGs for the purpose of burning a Blu-ray DVD, the resulting DVD has lots of dropped frames.

In short, at the present time the only method that works for burning a Blu-ray DVD is to burn a single 4- to 5-minute music video directly from the PRE7 Timeline, which means I get only one 4- or 5-minute music video per blank Blu-ray disc.

Help please!

[JohnnyO]

Are you sure you are seeing dropped frames? Try to reverse the filed dominance an see if that helps.

[George Tyndall]

Are you sure you are seeing dropped frames? Try to reverse the filed dominance an see if that helps.

I am assuming that the red spaces that I am seeing are dropped frames. Is that correct?