PE7 transcoding error

    I'm having an issue burning my latest project to blu-ray. At the 33% - 35% completion mark, PE7 fails and returns a "transcoding error - PE failed to return a video frame."   I've gone through my content multiple times, and the timeline is fluid and complete. When I preview the movie on the title composition page, it plays without error.
     Any suggestions on how to figure out which video file is corrupt? Does the completion percentage correlate with the length of the timeline? i.e. - if my movie is 12 minutes long, and my transcoding error is at 33%, should I be looking around the 4:00 minute mark?
     Thank you for your help.

The camcorder is a Sony HRD-SR10 camcorder. My computer has 90GB free on the hard drive, is a 3.2 GHz dual core processor with a blu-ray burner and 4GB RAM. I have successfully burned 15 minute blu-ray movies via PE7 on this computer before. As for presets, I cannot recall exactly, but they remain the same as the settings I used in my previous movie.
I went through every frame of the timeline, and it is without a single gap. Here is the only thing I can speculate: I have two sequences in my 12 minute movie where I scroll through high resolution still photos (10+ megapixel and over 4 MB per shot). I have read in the forums that I should down-size these shots, as they can cause a transcoding error. I will attempt this shortly (when I can find the time with my work schedule). My only hesitation is that I have done the same still sequencing in the past with high-res photos, and it never caused a problem.
Thank you for your help.
-Evan

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