[Jeff Klein]

Uncheck the “constrain proportions” box, which is located right next to the scale values in the transform properties. Then you’ll have control over the X & Y values individually.

[Jeff Klein]

Thanks Dave, you beat me to a response by a couple seconds. If you have any Media Encoder suggestions it’d be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

[Jeff Klein]

I figured out how to encode the alpha channel out of AFX and I’m feeling pretty dumb, you just select RGB+Alpha from the drop down list. I don’t know why I was thinking there was a checkbox b/c I don’t think there was one in CS3 (maybe I was picturing Encoder).

So my first issue is resolved, but I’d still like to know how to solve the Media Encoder problem if anyone has any suggestions. Again, the problem is I can’t import AFX comps into Encoder (crashes) and I can’t export Premiere sequences at all (Encoder tells me “Encoding Failed. Could not read from the source”).

I tried the following possible solution but it didn’t work. The next possible solution is to reinstall CS4, but I’d like to avoid that if any one has any suggestions. Thanks.

Solution 1: Create a shortcut to the Premiere Pro executable file, rename the shortcut to Premiere, and move the shortcut to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\dynamiclink.

1. Close all Adobe applications.
2. In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. (If you installed Premiere Pro CS4 in a location other than the default of C:\Program Files\Adobe, then navigate to your custom installation location.)
3. Right-click on Adobe Premiere Pro.exe (which might appear without the .exe extension) and choose Create Shortcut.
4. Rename the newly created shortcut to just Premiere.

Important: The name of the shortcut must be exactly Premiere with no other characters.
5. Open a second Windows Explorer window, and navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\dynamiclink.
6. Move the Premiere shortcut that you created into the dynamiclink folder.

Thanks.

[Jeff Klein]

I found a solution that worked for me:

I had upgraded from CS3 Master Collection to CS4 Master Collection by installing CS4, and then uninstalling CS3. I was then running into the same Premiere encoding problem described in this thread. I found a solution that worked for me.

I noticed that even though I had uninstalled CS3, there were still CS3 folders in program files/adobe. In other words, inside the Adobe folder there were two folders for every program (ie. a Premiere CS3 folder and a Premiere CS4 folder).

My solution was to just erase all the CS3 folders, knowing that those programs had been uninstalled. After doing so I immediately tried rendering from Premiere CS4 and it worked. Hopefully this will solve some problems, good luck.

[Jeff Klein]

Hey Jason. Thanks for the response. That’s pretty much what I expected to hear. Although as you said doing it this way does, in a way, make it possible to accomplish what I’m trying to do, it does seem like there should be a better/more intuitive way. Anyone know if this is one of the things that changed in CS4?