There's one thing that seems to remedy the "dropping and repeating frames" problem when stepping through the frames in the playback monitor with MPEG-2 files produced by PowerDirector, and that is produce the mpeg-2 file with a custom profile where you have changed the GOP sequence to IBBPBBPBBPBB for PAL video and to IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB for NTSC video.
You can't change the GOP sequence from within PowerDirector, but you need to create a custom profile in PowerDirector and make note of the name of the profile, such as "Custom Profile -1." Exit from PowerDirector.
Next use Explorer to navigate to the file "Profile.ini" in the hidden App folder. I'm still on XP so the Profile.ini file is in C:\documents and settings\[owner name]\application data\cyberlink\powerdirector\10.0.
Open up the Profile.ini file with notepad, then search for the custom profile name. Once you've found it, look for the next <Pattern> tag and you'll see the default GOP sequence. Change the sequence to one of the sequences I gave earlier depending on your video format. Save the file.
Now produce your MPEG-2 file using the custom profile. After you've produced it, put it on the timeline and step through the frames to verify that none skip or repeat.
When I saw that the GOP sequences didn't start with an "I" frame, I suspected that might be the problem.
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