chemsaf
Thanks for the reply with more details of your situation.
Sounds like good news about MPEG and AVI files, but are these SD or HD files?
Your camera records with AVCHD compression to give an AVCHD file with either mts or mp4 file extension. From what you wrote, you have
been recording with the AVCHD.mts setting for 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97 interlaced frames per second. Could you record a 1 second AVCHD.mp4 clip
with the camera and determine if it behaves the same in Premiere Elements as the AVCHD.mts. In the case of AVCHD.mp4, record using the frame
rate of PF29.97 to give 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97 progressive frames per second. The results should be interesting and helpful. Use the Premiere Elements project preset
NTSC
DSLR
1080p
DSLR 1080p 30 @ 29.97
But, let me ask again, just to make sure I have not gone off track here....
When you say
The export to a simple MPEG gives a good result. The problem is that I cannot do any edits to make a quick and dirty edited clip to show
are you saying that you can take your AVCHD.mts 23 seconds clip and export it to a file via Publish+Share/Computer/MPEG with one of the presets there and get good results. But, your issues are confined to edits and controlling them in the Edit area? Please define what kind of MPEG and AVI exports, SD or HD?
If this all turns out to be an AVCHD compression issue, is it going to be worth your while to do conversion of the AVCHD.mts to MPEG2 HD.mpg prior to import of the file into a Premiere Elements project in the present computer environment?
Please review and consider and then we can decide what next.
Thanks for the follow ups.
ATR