[Bram Tulloch]

I understand what you mean, but you need quicktime installed to create quicktimes as it requires the quicktime engine to make them.

Quicktime is not just a player, it’s a whole world of encoding, and AME CS4 needs quicktime installed (version 7.6 or higher) to make quicktimes.

I’m not suggesting this is going to solve your problems, but it’s one of the most important things to check. If I was having your problem, that would be the first thing I would check. Your quicktime version.

[Bram Tulloch]

What are your settings exactly?

I’ve just had a look on mine (CS4 AME) and I get progressive no problem???

[Bram Tulloch]

What version of quicktime are you running.
You should be running quicktime 7.6 or higher to run with with CS4.

Just a thought but it may not solve your problem.

[Bram Tulloch]

Yep
Everything back to normal.
But as I said, I only had it installed for about 10 minutes and after failing to even set up a project correctly, I bailed on it and went back to 4.1.1

Are you making sure you uninstalled the previous version and the install again? Silly question perhaps but just a thought, especially since you have the problems remaining even with the roll back to 4.1.1.

[Bram Tulloch]

Yeah I didn’t even get that far into testing.

I don’t think I’ll touch it until they get rid of the “RC1” thing.

[Bram Tulloch]

Yeah
I installed the 4.1.3 drivers and wow… it took me all of 10 minutes to roll back to 4.1.1

Probably not a good sign that there was “RC1” in the file name of the driver. Interesting they would release a release candidate to the public!?

Will be interested to hear what issues you came across. My first big one (which was all I needed to see) was Premiere crashed when I tried to alter the render settings for a sequence (which were actually greyed out anyway?!).

[Bram Tulloch]

Have you tried rolling back to Xena drivers 4.1.0?

I had a few problems with 4.1.1 and rolling back seemed to do the trick.

That said, I am now running 4.1.1 with no problems on a vista 64bit system. The re-install of the drivers may have fixed my issue, but it was the 4th ot 5th time I did so!

[Bram Tulloch]

Well it seems that this is now a thread about how CS4 Media Encoder doesn’t work for some people.
I feel for you guys and I’m sorry to hear it.

It certainly works for me but it works very slowly (compared with CS3 export > movie). I agree the Export > Movie function in CS3 was great and simple.

Aside from all this, does anyone have any ideas regarding the original post?

Is it a CPU assignment issue or memory related? Perhaps it is an AJA codec thing? Although it’s just as slow when using “none” or “animation” codec.

Yosep, you say Media Encoder CS4 works fast on your computer. What is your set up?

Thanks for the help.

Bram

[Bram Tulloch]

When I installed CS4, I reinstalled the whole OS.

I had CS3 running on XP 64-bit and then Server 2008.

Unfortunately I had to give up Server 2008 (politics) and went with Vista 64 business.
So there was no sign of CS3 on the computer before CS4 was installed.

[Bram Tulloch]

I have no troubles in CS4 with my HD dpx files.

Haven’t tried 2K but I was able to do that in CS3. All depends on the speed of your storage.

And yes, you will have to change your Xena drivers as there are no presets for CS4 with the Xena 3.5 drivers.

Bram