Premiere Elements 11 Sound turns off after 5 seconds on DVD

Question

Hi Folk,
I have been using Elemnts 11 for a few months with good success. I created a video from 8-9 clips and it play fine in the tool. I can see the images OK and hear all the audio throughout the video. When I burn a DVD to a Folder on my laptop and play it using Quick time the audio drops out after about 5-6 seconds. I also did a test run and burned the DVD files to a physical DVD and tried to play it and got the same result of the audio droping out.
Thaks For you help,

Answer 1

SnapDragon_M5
Bottom line: I have no problem taking your M2U00715.MPG file into Premiere Elements 11 NTSC DV Widescreen project and burning it to DVD-VIDEO Widescreen on a DVD-RW (4.7 GB/120 min) disc, with full playback of video and audio on the computer or via the DVD player of my TV.
These are the details:
Your source media
720 x 480 @ 29.97 interlaced frames per second. MPEG2 video compression and Dolby Digital Stereo 2 channel audio. This interlaced video is characterized by Fields = Upper Field First, so this must be taken into consideration when the end product is DVD-VIDEO whose format calls for Fields = Lower Field First.
Importing the file could be done two ways:
a. Add Media/Files and Folder/ and then dragging the file from Project Assets to the Timeline. The program should automatically set the project preset at NTSC Hard Disk Flash Memory Camcorders Widescreen 48 kHz because it is recognizing that Fields = Upper Field First. Check Edit Menu/Project Settings to verify that is indeed what the program did.
IMPORTANT. When you bring the file into Add Media, look for a progress bar at the bottom right of the interface. I found an Indexing, followed by a Conforming process at that point. Do not proceed with any work until after those activities are completed and the progress bar closes.
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b. Opening Premiere Elements 11 Windows, going to File Menu/New/Project, selecting NTSC DV Widescreen in the New Project dialog, putting a check mark next to "Force selected settled Project Setting for this project" and exiting from there. Then I imported the clip with Add Media/Files and Folders to Project Assets from where I dragged the file to the Timeline. On the Timeline, I right clicked the clip, selected Field Options and its Reverve Field Dominance option.
I used b.
What was on that Timeline had a duration of 50 minutes and 47 seconds. In the burn dialog, the Quality section, the Space Required = 3.15 GB and Bitrate = 8.00 Mbps (megabits per second). The DVD-VIDEO was produced via Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc, using the preset = NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD. The DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc was completed in about 30 minutes. It played back with Windows Media Player, VLC player, CyberLink Power DVD with full video and audio.
In view of the above, I would suggest the following:
1. Repeat what I have just described as a successful run. Take the Organizer out of the equation for now and import the file directly from its hard drive save location via Add Media/Files and Folders.
2. When that file hits Project Assets, do not drag it to the Timeline until you are sure that there is no progress bar at the bottom right of the interface, indexing and/or conforming the file.
3. If there is no sound or only a bit of sound on the DVD-VIDEO disc produced, then take the disc to someone else's computer to determine if the file has no sound with this other person's player (computer or TV DVD player).
4. This one file has a file size of about 2 GB. How many files are you typically burning to DVD-VIDEO from the Timeline. In this context, how much available RAM and free hard drive space does your computer have? Are you getting any low memory messages at any time during the workflow?
Please review, let us know the results, and we will try to help further if needed.
Thanks.
ATR