Adobe Premiere Saving Issue: Returning a Video Frame

     I have Adobe Premiere Elements 4 and have edited a video on it. The video format is AVI, from a camera that didn't seem to have trouble before this. It is a Sony if that is any help. I'm really hoping it isn't CODEC problems.
     Last night I finished my project and tried to save it on my desktop as a Windows Media movie, but an error popped up saying that "Adobe Premiere failed to return a video frame." I tried other saving styles to no avail.
     Thus I began the process of googling and then trying to solve this saving error by changing my edits. I have removed all Video Effects, except for three black and white shots. I have gone through and checked that I have no gaps, about five times. I saw that my audio (in a wma format) wasn't perfectly aligned with my visuals and had gaps, so I added in audio till there was never a silent moment.
     Is that audio format (wma) acceptable?
     I am playing two soundtracks over each other, one is the vocals and one is the music. The music's format is MP3.
     I have several still shots created with the program with titles over it. At one moment I tried to put a menu on the project, but it didn't work out. When I went to try and delete my attempt, I couldn't find the menu to remove it.
     The piece is about five minutes long. I can't think of anything else to tell you.
     I'm running out of things to change. I'm afraid my CODEC is wrong and I may have to start all over (is there a way to apply a fix to a CODEC error on a project?). Having spent all day on this, I'm at a point of desperation. If I can't get it to work, I'm about to start all over in Windows Movie Maker where at least I know I can save it and turn it in tomorrow.
     Thanks

For the Audio Assets, the best that one can do is to use PCM/WAV, and use any number of audio-editing programs to convert that.
Still, your error is "Return a Video Frame." That indicates an error in the Video portion of the Timeline.
Besides gaps, do you have any overly large still images?
As for any gaps, did you use the method outlined in the linked article? They can be very hard to see, even when zoomed into the max view (Frame View).
I still did not see the CODEC of the used AVI files. Can you provide that please, as it might make a differenece?
Good luck,
Hunt

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I did this ARTICLE for the most likely cause of "Failure to Return Frame" error.
You also make an important note of the Duration of the Audio vs the Video. As the Video takes center-stage, having even a few Audio Units extra, means there is a gap in the Video. To keep this from happening, and to also address some other potential issues, I always end each Timeline with about 02 sec. of Black Video, and always end the Audio within that.
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