[Ben Mears]

Thanks for the suggestion Jon. Unfortunately, it did not seem to work.

I opened AME and set up an export with my invisible Export Settings window open and then cycled through basically every single display resolution for both of my monitors and did not see the Export Settings window in any of them.

Any other ideas or suggstions? thanks.

[Ben Mears]

I think you may be right Mike.

If I hit “enter” the export data window pops up and then Media Encoder opens. I shrunk my Premiere window down to a small square in hopes that the Export Settings window was just getting hidden behind it but I still don’t see it (and the export settings window should appear over the premiere window any way).

It doesn’t look like the Export Settings window is minimized to the task bar so I’m guessing it is off screen somewhere? How would I go about bringing it back into view?

Thanks for your help.

[Ben Mears]

Sorry to hear the solution isn’t working for you Michael.

Before I got the answer from Philippe I was considering re-installing CS4 to see if that might fix the problem. I’m not sure if it will help or not but it might be worth a try. It would be a bummer to have to keep doing everything in CS3.

Good luck and I hope you get it figured out. (I know how frustrating it is, ha ha)

[Ben Mears]

Philippe, you are truly awesome!

Your solution seems to have worked because the Media Encoder queue has started without error and looks to be doing its job correctly.

Thank you very much for your wisdom!

[Ben Mears]

Ok, I feel that I should make an additional note about this workaround.

After exporting the final sequence I realized that some of the still shots and clips that had movement and/or scale keyframes weren’t positioned correctly. They were positioned correctly in the normal sized sequence but became misaligned after moving them to the oversized sequence. I’m pretty sure this has to do with the copying and pasting between the different dimension timelines. So, make sure to double check that your clips are positioned correctly in the final sequence that you will be exporting.

I found that the easiest way to adjust the clips was to make slight position or scale changes in the oversized dimesion timeline (the 1054 x 680 timeline) and then check the final, normal sized sequence (854 x 480) to make sure the positioning was correct. This required several attempts of slight nudging and back and forth checking to get everything lined up properly.

[Ben Mears]

Awesome! Thanks for the solution!

[Ben Mears]

Way to go Pauley !!! You solution seems to have worked !!!

So, in case anybody else is having this problem, here is what I did:

– My current time line/sequence is 854 x 480 so I created a new timeline/sequence that was 200 x 200 bigger than this size (1054 x 680)

-I copied all the clips and transitions from my current timeline into the 1054 x 680 timeline. Some of the footage didn’t touch the edges but some of it did (since the footage touching the edges had already been scaled up past the frame boundary of the 854 x 480 sequence). The thin pink or green line was visible on the transitions in the 1054 x 680 timeline where the footage touched the edge of the frame.

-I created a new 854 x 480 sequence and moved the entire 1054 x 680 sequence into it. Be sure to move the sequence itself and not just copy and past the clips and transitions again.

-The new 854 x 480 sequence is sized correctly and does not contain the pink or green lines during the cross dissolves.

Thanks again Pauley!

[Ben Mears]

Thanks for the idea Pauley.

I had thought of this too but unfortunately the line follows the frame and not the clip, so scaling the clip up doesn’t solve the problem. Interestingly enough, if I scale the clip down so that the edge of the clip isn’t touching the edge of the frame, the line disappears. I have no idea why. The same kind of thing happens with positioning, if the clip is touching the right edge of the frame at all the line appears. The line will disappear if the clip doesn’t touch the right edge of the frame. This doesn’t really help me though since I need the clip to fill the entire frame at an 100% scale and touching all edges.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, please keep ’em coming!

[Ben Mears]

Thanks for the suggestion Eddie.

Unfortunately, this solution didn’t work either. I tried converting the WMV footage to both MOV and AVI before importing it into Premiere and I still got the thin colored line on the right side of the screen during the cross dissolves. I have other footage that will successfully cross dissolve without any problems and it seems like the other video transitions work fine so I’m even more confused now, ha ha.

Looks like it’ll have to be straight cuts for me on this one. Thanks for the help though and please keep posting possible solutions if you have them!

[Ben Mears]

Interesting, thanks for the workaround idea.

Unfortunately, adding an opacity keyframe to the footage didn’t solve the problem and the pink/green line is still present. This is pretty frustrating because cross dissolves are pretty much the only transition I need to use and it looks like I’m going to have to figure something else out.

thanks anyway and if anyone finds a solution to this bug, please post it here