[Nadine Martinez]

Hello Jeff ~
Thank you for all of your efforts.
I’ve had pretty good luck with other regular computer issues talking with the support online people from HP. They can talk me through pretty much anything. But of course, they know nothing about Premiere, and Encore.
So what would I ask them? Can’t I just install another Codec?
~nadine

[Nadine Martinez]

Whew! Hi Jeff!
Yes it IS media Player 11
Okay, I started from scratch. Brought a 25 second clip into Premiere Pro timeline and then exported it as a movie. I played that clip in Media Player…called up properties and same thing.
Video Codec: DV Video Decoder and Audio Codec: AC3 Filter

I also played another avi clip without first going through Premier Pro and same properties were displayed.
OH, Jeff, please don’t give up. What can I try now. Do we need to go outside this forum?
~nadine

[Nadine Martinez]

Hi Jeff ~
This is the method I used to determine Codecs:

To determine what codec was used with a specific file, play the file in the Player, if possible. While the file is playing, right-click the file in the library, and then click Properties. On the File tab, look at the Audio codec and Video codec sections.

I played through Media Player and came up for Audio codec was AC3Filter and DV Video Decoder for Video.

I promise!! I never loaded anything! It just kinda defaulted to it!
If it is AC3 Filter that is the problem – how do you change the codec. Can you change it on the existing project? It’s just something you do on export, right?

Jeff –
you’re amazing, thank you!

A quick side note…let me know if I should post this seperately:

In Premiere Pro all of my stills change right on the beat of the music…after exporting as movie..and watching on media player..or even other DVD’s (from other projects) that I’ve watched in a DVD player…the video/picture changes seem to be just a hair off…not EXACTLY on the beat as on original. Ideas / solutions for this?

So back to audio Codecs – what now?

With much thanks ~ nadine

[Nadine Martinez]

Hi Jeff ~

Myself, not knowing how to even determine which codec was used, I googled info on finding codecs. Here’s some of what I found:

Q. How do I tell what codec was used to compress a file or what codecs are installed on my computer?
A. There isn’t an absolute way to do this, but the following are your best options:

• To determine what codec was used with a specific file, play the file in the Player, if possible. While the file is playing, right-click the file in the library, and then click Properties. On the File tab, look at the Audio codec and Video codec sections.

• Use a non-Microsoft tool, such as GSpot Codec Information Appliance or Sherlock–The Codec Detective.

Note that a file can be compressed by more than one codec. For example, one codec might be used to compress the audio portion of a file and another codec might be used to compress the video portion of a file. If you have the right audio codec installed on your computer but not the right video codec, when you play the file you’ll probably be able to hear the sound but you won’t be able to see the picture.

The Link: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/codec.mspx

Is there an alternative way to finding this out?

~nadine~

[Nadine Martinez]

Hi Jeff ~

When I export from Premiere Pro these are my settings. I export as a DV AVI. The settingas are pretty much default, I don’t have a choice on audio:

VIDEO
Compressor: DV (NTSC)
Color Depth: Millions of colors
Frame Size: 720 x 480
Frame rate: 29.970 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1 / DV NTSC (0.9)
“Recompress” is checked

KEYFRAME AND RENDERING
Lower Field First
“Optimize Stills” is checked

AUDIO
Compressor: Uncompressed
Sample Rate 48000Hz
Sample Type: 16-bit
Channels: Stereo
Interleave: 1 Frame

If I were to export as simply AVI (NOT DV AVI) there are many optoins on Audio Compressor:
IMA ADPCM
Microsoft AD PCM
CCITT A-Law
CCITT u-Law
GSM 6.10
DSP Group TrueSpeech (TM)

But then, of course, I don’t have the 48000Hz option for sample rate and that is how it was brought in.

Incidentally, I am using Encore because I was unable to export directly to DVD in Premiere Pro. It would hang up halfway through the transcoding process…no error message…just freeze up.
What now, Jeff? And again THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Nadine Martinez]

By “killing the processes” you mean going into task manager and “ending the process”??
Okay…did that. Actually I found out that InCD was part of Nero, so I uninstalled Nero and did an “end task” on lightscribe. Tried to make another DVD out of the exported avi from premiere pro. Goes through the transcoding of Video and then stops after the video is done with the same message: Decoding of Audio Failed DVD Error 47007.
What is going on here? Any and all suggestions will be much apreciated. Thanks ~nadine~

[Nadine Martinez]

Jeff ~ I can’t thank you enough for taking time to help me out with this! On task manager – nothing really jumps out at as being related to Nero or Sonic. There are a lot of processes, though. I tried to copy and paste them to this post, but no luck. I am going to manually type them all in and you can have a look and see if anything you see might be the problem. I really appreciate this!
~nadine~

SpySub.exe
ehmsas.exe
dllhost.exe
alg.exe
NMIndexStoreSvr…
NMIndexingServic…
mcrdsvc.exe
ehSched.exe
ehrecvr.exe
task mgr.exe
explorer.exe
IEXPLORE.exe
ZuneBusEnum.exe
ehMonitor.exe
ati2evxx.exe
spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
LSSrvc.exe
svchost.exe
NMBgMonitor.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
MDM.EXE
PIFSvc.exe
LightScribeControl..
svchost.exe
ati2evxx.exe
Lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
csrss.exe
msmsgs.exe
E_FATIBDA.EXE
ctfmon.exe
InCD.exe
smss.exe
NBHGui.exe
ALCMTR.EXE
ALCWZRD.EXE
SOUNDMAN.EXE
PIFSvc.exe
PicasaMediaDetec…
svchost.exe
AGRSMMSG.exe
hpsysdrv.exe
ehtray.exe
InCDsrv.exe
E_FATIBVA.EXE
System
System Idle Process

[Nadine Martinez]

Thanks Jeff!
Okay…Here’s what I’ve got for you:
No Direct DVD installed.
Audio Codec: AC3 Filter
Video Codec: DV Video Decoder

Other DVD writer applications on the computer are Nero Home Essentials SE.It came with our new HP DVD writer. We also have Sonic Record Now which came loaded with the Computer.
Any ideas?
~nadine~

[Nadine Martinez]

I figured it out!
I did not have the work area bar stretched out over the whole timeline, so it was only rendering a portion. All better now!

[Nadine Martinez]

I exported file as a dv avi using movie maker. Then I imported that to Premiere Pro. Did not require any rendering. When I played it, it got hung up on picture number 60 of 65 until next transition on timeline.
What do you recommend I export file as? Any free converters out there? Thank you sooo much for any help you can provide.