[John Pertel]

Aanarav:

Thank you so much for replying:

Here’s all the info, hope I haven’t neglected anything:

Premiere Pro 2, (boxed version).
project settings:
editing mode: DVNTSC
timebase: 29.97 frame
video frame size: 720 x 480 4:3
pixel aspect ratio: D1/DV NTSC 0.9
fields: (lower fields first)
display frames: 30 fps drop frame timecode
audio sample rate: 48,000 hz

Media source is a combination of avi and bmp files.

My client needs me create Quicktime files. As I mentioned, when I choose the default settings for Quicktime export, no error message. Same thing goes when I want to create Flash files or WMV files. Its when I change a setting on ANYTHING that I get:

PRESET File I/O open error

Going back to the quicktime example, the “default” settings are as follows:

Range: Entire Sequence
Preset: QT 256 Streaming NTCS
Video Codec: Sorenson Video 3
Spatial Quality: 100
Frame Width: 160
Frame Height: 120
Frame rate: (fps) Custom 15,000
Field Order: None (progressive)
Square Pixel 1.0
24 bit color

That works, no error message…it’s when I change the frame width and depth to:

720 x 480 (which, of course, automatically changes the preset to “custom”)

That will give me the error message. Same thing goes if I deviate from the norm by one iota to create a Flash file, lets say I change the default frame width from 648 to 647, bingo, error message. Even if I try to reset things…by bringing it back to 648, and returning the Preset to its original, (default) FLV8 NTSC 400k setting, and click “OK” I get that Preset error message. I have to “X” out of the window, then hit File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder again. Talk about frustrating. I’ve been getting away with using the Flash default settings for all my regular work , but now I have a freelance project all ready to Export to specific Quicktime screen dimensions, and I can’t do it. Can you figure
this out? I’d really appreciate it.

John

[John Pertel]

Mike:

Using your suggestion, I can now listen to my audio channels in the source monitor.
(They are broken down into two distinct channels in the project panel…perfect) Now, let’s say I want to take the audio from channel 1 and bring video along with it, (I need to see the reporter doing his standup, feature the lav mike on Channel 1, but don’t want to hear all the extra traffic noise recorded on my nat sound camera mic on channel 2). Do I have to sync the video back up to the desired track, or can video be added to the timeline in the same edit? In Final Cut Pro, all you have to do is click a button, and you can direct a source audio track, (with or without video attached) to go to any program channel track. In Premiere, I can’t even make channel 1 go to channel 1, it throws both avi channels onto 3 and 4 for some reason! Any further suggestions before I decide to self-immolate in front of the Adobe headquarters out in San Jose.

John