This may be kind of a newbie video-editing question, although I am not a newbie to PCs. I have been using Premiere 1.5 to edit some old 8 mm family movies which were transferred to VHS about 20 years ago. I transferred to DV via camera and captured the hour’s worth of video. Sliced it up into manageable segments and corrected color and the many other faults that occurred when cameras were not as intelligent when the film was made originally. BTW, I am very impressed with what Adobe has been able to do with color corrections etc on video like in PhotoShop. I added music, titles etc. The problem that I’m having is when I export it via Export – Movie (I wanted to take a look at the ‘finished’ version prior to burning) it only produces an avi file of 3.2G covering a little over 14 minutes of the total 55 minutes. When the exporting starts out it tells me that I have a little more than 101,000 frames to render, it will take about 8 hours and it concludes the rendering without any error messages. I read thru the forum posts and made sure that viewing area bar was zoomed out far enough to view the entire project (although opinions seemed to be mixed that this really mattered when rendering the entire project). BTW, I have had no crashes or hiccups during any part of this process and also, the drive is formatted as NTFS so the problem isn't due to file size.

Here are the details of the export configuration:
Export
Video and audio
Entire Sequence

Filetype
Microsoft DV AVI

Video Settings
Compressor: DV (NTSC)
Frame size: 720h 480v (0.900)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Color depth: Millions of colors
Quality: 100 (out of 100)
Fields: Lower Field First

Audio Settings
Compressor: Uncompressed
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second
Channels: Stereo
Sample type: 16-bit

I have managed to figure out most everything else (so far) but am stumped on this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Hey Jim, I don't use premiere, but I believe that Skyman does, he should get around to answering soon. I also have a few students who use it, but won't see them until after 1/3, I'll see if one can post an answer if you don't have one by then.

Thanks for the response, Michael. I finally figured out that I had to render about 10 mins at a time and simply work my way through the whole video. This technique worked and I could then Export>Movie to get an avi file. But still had to use another video program to import and burn the DVD as PP would still not crash when selecting Export>MPEG2-DVD.