Render Issue - Skips, Stalls, Jerky MPEG2

Folks I am trying to export from .mts and .avchd files into MPEG2 and the result I am getting is a skips in usually two areas of the rendered video. This is a frame skip or stall and with each render it is in a different place. At first I thought it might have been the machine. So I went and I purchased a new one. The results I get are the same. The video skips frames in usually two places. It is always in different places and not where there is a cut.
The machine I have is
ASUS I7 2630qm second gen processor
8gb of ram 1333mhz, 750gb (7200) rpm hard drive.
I am confident that the issue is not with the machine as this one is a week old and I have tried it with my older machine and got the same results. I tried a variety of things. The latest being export to Microsoft AVI and then render to MPEG2 and the result is the same. I have tried with Max bit Depth, Render Quality and Frame blending, and without. Same results.
I have tried with a couple of different footages and format options and same results. I have tried Exporting from Premiere and queing and rendeing from Adobe Media Encoder. Tried Exporting in HD and SD, the problem does not go away.
I am starting to think that there is a bug with Premiere CS5. Any thoughts anyone.
I almost forgot the most important thing. The issues are happening when played back in Windows Media Player. I need to have it play back correctly..
Thanks

Ok folks, the reason I did not specify NTSC or PAL is becuase I am having the issue with both. I rendered NTSC into NTSC and the same issue happens. I understand that once I renderer to PAL that the quality is not the best, but this is not what I am trying to find an answer to. The issue is that the video stalls for a fraction of a second and then it jumps to another frame. This happens usually a couple of times in the video. Other than that I am very happy with the quality.
Let me throw this out there as well. Today I rendered the MPEG2 NTSC file (the skippy one) into another MPEG2 NTSC file using Mainconcept. Guess what the video did not skip, it was perfect. This leads me to believe that there is a bug inside of Premiere CS5.
Although this is a work arround, I would love it if I could just rendered out of CS5 and get the same result.
I do appologize if I was not clear from the beginning. The raw footage has been NTSC, however the issue was happening whether I rendered to NTSC or PAL.
The source files were avchd and mp4 for different projects of course.
Thanks

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Michael Trauffer wrote:
but i figured maybe one of you esteemed gentleman may be able to see the tree in my forest.
I see a lot of trees here, so I'll grab my chainsaw and start swinging away
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but i can't really get a good read thru, the timeline after about 5-7 secs will start to hold up.
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Yes dropping frames is exactly what it was doing...I am running a quad-core xeon with 2.8ghz, with 4 daisy-chained firewire 800 drives.
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If by "internal harddrive" you mean your system drive, this is a big no-no. I can only assume here, but I think you're working with ProRes material at this point. Depending on your specific Mac, the internal drive may not be up to the task. If you consider that that drive is running your entire OS, plus any open application, plus Final Cut Pro, plus accessing the render files, plus any other source material that you may have stored on that drive, you're asking that one drive to do a whole lot of work.
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Xdcam 720p30 project settings based on xdcam clips, 1280 x 720
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I wish i could and I will when i get back to the office after dinner.
Chainsaws can get pretty heavy after a while. I'll take a break here and see if I hit anything of value.
I think you did...but confirm for me. Color's render directory, whats a better place for it? And thanks for the quick response it is duly appreciated.

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I discovered that setting the footage size to even width and height figures when exporting from AE eliminates the problem sometimes, but it does not help in all cases.
Also it sometimes help if i take such sequence, crop and export using QT under the same settings, just a few pixels less in size. But again - it helps sometimes.
Can anybody help me with these?
Anybody experiencing similar issues?
Thanks a lot.

I had the same problem when we started to edit on Pro Res timelines. The solution I found was to go the Sequence Settings > Video Processing > and change the Render setting to "Render in 8-bit YUV" that allowed me to actually render the timeline and view my work. Hope that helps.

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