[Kyle C.]

Thank you very much Roland for your helpful responses! Much appreciated…have since closed up some programs (TONS of FireFox windows), thus clearing up some RAM and everything now works great.

Great advice on the Disk Cache drive as well, will keep that in mind.

[Kyle C.]

I appreciate the suggestions, and will try them out next time I open this project.

But more-so I am wondering about the concept behind this event? What causes AE to do this? Does this happen on all effect heavy compositions?

I also might not have my disk cache folder set up properly (not connected to the external harddrive I usually use). Perhaps this could be the cause…(doesn’t do it on less ‘heavy’ comps tho)

[Kyle C.]

You guys are the best, thanks for that!! Both replies were stellar

[Kyle C.]

Thanks for your response Dennis,

Tried both, but neither worked. When I create a new project, the ‘Interpret Footage’ function glitch still carries over to the next project.

It seems this is related to the update (v 6.0.2). I uninstalled my Production Premium, ran the CS6 cleaner and then re-installed after a restart. Upon opening, my footage was back to widescreen as desired, and my Interpret Footage function worked.

I then tried to re-apply the update. And what you know–once it was finished, I opened Premiere and my footage was back to a 4:3 ratio again…not cool!

Will be re-uninstalling everything tonight and will be keeping plain ol’ version 6.0.0 until Adobe puts out another update! (Which hopefully will be soon).

[Kyle C.]

Thanks Dennis for your suggestion. I tried both but unfortunately neither one fixed it.

Will keep those two steps in mind for future bugs though, thanks.

Any other suggestions?

[Kyle C.]

Nope, just tried it but the line remained near the very bottom and the Bezier handles still don’t move. Thanks for your suggestion though! Keep em coming!

[Kyle C.]

Thanks for that input! I tried the H.264 and it worked pretty well…but I guess I just hadn’t searched for presets deep enough, and now I think I’m able to ask a more specific question:

For uploading a video to a website like Slideroom.com, which preset from the 3 ‘Web’ quicktime groups would you recommend: Download, Streaming, or Web Video Cast?

[Kyle C.]

Well, after a bit I kept trying and trying to fix it, and I figured out a way to make it work.

For some reason, copy and pasting the audio and video from the timeline into a new timeline of a new project (with the exact same settings as the old) works!

The only thing I can think of is maybe my original project is too large (I’ve only been exporting part of it to quicktime), and maybe that’s why the audio messes up? I really have no clue why simply copy and pasting the timeline to a fresh new project works…but it did!

Setting the field dominance to NONE also fixed my video distortion, so thanks to Andy Mees for that.

[Kyle C.]

To be more specific, changing the levels helped a smidge, but there is still a hint of distortion during parts of heavy bass, even though its set to -3 db. The song is definately better, but now that it’s better I can see that all my other audio (mostly dialogue) is EXTREMELY messed up as well. The best way I can describe it is it sounds too LOUD and SHARP, much more so than it is in the timeline.

Looking at my timeline, it’s just a mess. A mixture of 44.1 and 48 khz, or 16 and 24 and 32 bit…all my audio files are different because when I converted them via MPEG Streamclip, I forgot to change the audio from ‘Auto’ to 48 khz…something that I’m regretting now.

This is all just very confusing for me. I mean, it plays back perfectly in FCP…is there not a way to get it to play back perfectly when exported as well? Ugh…dunno what to do guys

[Kyle C.]

I’ve tried both, and neither helped.

I did a little test: I started a new project and imported the same 32 bit, 44.1 KHZ song into the new project. I changed the sequence settings to ProRes422 HD (like I was using in the original sequence), and WITH ONLY THE AUDIO in the timeline, I pushed export to Quicktime.

For some reason, within a new project this 32 bit 44.1 khz song comes out JUST FINE.
But in MY CURRENT PROJECT, for some reason it will not export at full quality and comes out EXTREMELY scratchy and distorted. Does ANYBODY have any idea what could be wrong??? This is driving me INSANE!!!!