[Jeanne Kyle]

Thanks so much – I’m going to try that method too; in the meantime, I was able to use the video that I exported from After Effects, and export a good audio track from a new Premiere Pro file. Then I placed the After Effects video export and the new PP audio export into Encore, linked up the menu and it all came out good. Just in time… Thanks for the support!

Cheers,
Jeanne
(beginning Premiere Pro/Encore CS4 user)

[Jeanne Kyle]

Thanks for the suggestion – I opened Encore and don’t understand or see a way to import a PP file…? Talked to an industry friend earlier and think we determined that my PP file has become corrupt :`( …he suggested opening the project in After Effects then exporting from there. Well, the video exported fine but the audio came in with a double off-sync echo. So now I’m trying his other suggestion which was to import the PP file into a new PP project. It seems to be working (still laying down the audio) – I don’t really understand how because it’s coming in as a solid audio/video timeline, not as 2 video and audio tracks (original footage from 2 cameras), but if this works I’ll sort it out later. Would like to find a way to recover all my edits/cuts without having to recreate it, but then again if I can get a good quality DVD I might just call it a wash. Will post results in a little bit….

Cheers,
Jeanne
(beginning Premiere Pro/Encore CS4 user)

[Jeanne Kyle]

Encore export settings included widescreen which is why I’ve been experimenting with different export settings, but now I cannot get Premiere Pro to do another export – every time I go to Export Media, PP crashes 🙁

Cheers,
Jeanne
(beginning Premiere Pro/Encore CS4 user)

[Jeanne Kyle]

Thanks so much for all the info about audio! I successfully compressed my video with Dolby audio and it’s 4.4 GB so I’m making progress 🙂

DVD Studio Pro now won’t let me use the new assets in my project… it says the old missing assets cannot be removed because they are in use and the new audio file type is different. Do I have to trash this project (I had already set up my menu page and linked to chapters) or is there a way to tell it to use different assets? Either way, I should be able to finish this tonight so I’m very happy!

Cheers,
Jeanne
(new FCP user in LBC)

[Jeanne Kyle]

[Rafael Amador] “export your audio as AC3 (Dolby) with high bit rate.
448Kbps will yield high quality”

Thanks for the suggestion! My computer’s been tied up trying to make an mpeg4 for the last 10 hours (argh!) but I will give that a try tonight when I get home from work. Is ac3 (someone else suggested “ac4”) a setting in Compressor? Should I just be using the Dolby produced by Compressor instead of the aiff? I’m just learning all this… By the way, love your promo video on your website and very cool effect at the end.

Cheers,
Jeanne
(new FCP user in LBC)