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I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 2, with MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 2.0.1, on Windows XP SR2.

Firstly let me say I am not an experienced user of either of these products, but I have used the previous versions of both with no trouble.

The MC encoder I am very happy with as an encoder, but I am becoming increasingly annoyed with the problems I am currently experiencing, and as their Service section has no interest in returning my emails, I have turned to this forum for advise.

1. I get an error message: "Unable to write a picture header to the output file", when exporting a 40 min movie to mpg, using MC's export feature, with 2 pass and Multiplex. It works fine on 1 pass, or no multiplex, or a short section, but every time I export the full movie with 2 pass and multiplex I get this error near the start of the second pass.

2. Bitrate problem - if I set the Video to 8000 kbps, and the audio to PCM, and the Multiplex to DVD, export (1 pass as per above) as mpg, when I bring it into a DVD authoring tool it tells me it is too high a bitrate for DVD!
I can only presume it is in the Multiplex setting, which has a set Mux rate of 10080 kbps.

I'm not knowledgeable with all this, but I would have assumed when AC says "DVD" it means it is the correct settings for DVD! Surely that's not asking too much? If I change the setting to MPEG-2 and try to manually set bitrates I get a red warning it's not compatible with DVD.

How am I too export this movie to DVD standard using this damn plugin? And how am I to be able to use the plugin at all with 2 pass?

I would appreciate any advise, as I'm tearing my hair out (what little I have left) over this.

Michael