On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:09:17 -0000, "Andrew Potts" wrote:

>My PAL DV movies export fine from P5.1 (ready for playback via Spark and
>Adaptec DvSoft CoDec), until I intoduce a still image. When the renderer
>gets a few frames past the start of the still in the timeline, I get a "bad
>format" error. Everything I can see is set at 25 fps, audio is a 44.1/16/2.
>I am so stuck, esp as the still is critical and right at the end of the
>movie... If I preview-render the critical part of the movie only, I get the
>same error. If I then do it again, then it will render that part of the
>movie. If I then go to do the whole export, it errors.
>Any help would be much appreciated.

How about making a short AVI clip of the rendered still, then
dump the still and substitute the AVI?