Thomas Wheeler
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Following up on my earlier post today, I have installed Adobe Production Premium CS4 on my 8-core Mac Pro and created a short project in Premiere Pro CS4. I exported this project to Media Encoder (direct export to Encore appears to no longer be an option), encoded it to a Quicktime .mov file, took this into Encore and did a Build To Flash. In CS4 the Build To Flash works perfectly now on a Mac and the transcoding video step occurred perfectly with no problems
Tom
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When one contacts Adobe Technical support on the failure of Encore CS3 to get past the transcoding step in the Build To Flash procedure on a Mac running Leopard 10.5.5 and the latest version of Quicktime (7.5.5), one gets totally conflicting answers. I called one person at Adobe Tech Support who told me flatly that this was a known problem and would only be fixed when and if Adobe released an update to Encore CS3 or Apple released an update to Quicktime which fixed the problem.
I then wrote Adobe Tech Support and had a long correspondence with a fellow named Adam who swore that he was running Build to Flash on a Mac with Leopard 10.5.5 and Quicktime 7.5.5 and that he and a colleague were both able to get it to work. I spent three weeks corresponding with him, but nothing he suggested solved the problem on my Mac Pro 8-core (Early 2008 model) running Build to Flash within Encore CS3.
Two days ago I purchased a new model Macbook Pro (2.53 GHX Intel processor, 4 GB RAM), and the first thing I installed on it was Adobe Production Premium CS3 and all updates. I then opened Premier Pro CS3 and created a ten second timeline using the included Bars and Tone as a standard definition NTSC project. I exported this to Encore CS3 directly from Premiere and did not build any menus. In then attempted to Build to Flash in Encore CS3 with this ultra simple project it stuck at the transcoding stage just as it had done on my Mac Pro 8-core. This was, for me, definitive proof that Encore CS3 will not buid to Flash on a Mac running Quicktime higher than 7.3.1. I refuse to down convert my Quicktime to 7.1 just to use Build to Flash in Encore CS3.
I now have just received Adobe Production Premium CS4 and I shall shortly be testing the Build to Flash as described above. If it works, I shall post it. It is interesting that on the CS$ Production Premium package Adobe is requiring Quicktime 7.4.5 to run the Quicktime features in CS4. If the Build to Flash feature fails in CS4 on my Mac, I have bought my last Adobe product.
Tom
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I have recently purchased the Adobe Production Premium package and successfully prepared several Blu-ray and standard definition DVD’s. However, whenever I attempt to output any of these DVD’s to Flash Video by selecting Build>Output to Flash from within Encore 3, my menus transcode, but when Encore gets to my timeline video, the progress bar goes to about 20% almost instantly and remains there forever. I have tried several different types of video files including short Quicktime movies created in Final Cut Pro as well as other formats in the Encore 3 timeline. The result is always as given above. When this happens, I finally have to Force Quit Encore 3 because selecting cancel on the transcode give me an endlessly spinning beach ball.
I am running Encore 3 on a 8-core Mac Pro (Early 2008 model) with 12 GB of RAM and under Leopard 10.5.4 (latest version with all updates installed). I have successfully transcoded these timelines that seem to freeze Encore 3 using MPEG SlipStream so I know the files are OK.
I can see from this thread that others are having a similar problem? I also noticed here and/or in other forums that some have solved the problem by reverting to a less than current version of Quicktime, but this did not solve the problem for others. I am reluctant to do this for a variety of reasons. Is there any solution to the problem? Does output to Flash simply not work under Leopard?
I have contacted ADobe regarding this issue, but I have not received a response.
Thank you in advance for responding.
Tom