A CS4 Question re: Quicktime

I have a client who needs my video files as Quicktime. I have discovered much to my dispair, that when I export to Adobe Media Encoder I experience a quick rejection of the timeline and it results in a green check as having finished. That is not the case. I'm coming off a camera that produces .mts files, edit in Matrox SD. My exprort is Quicktime NTSC DV; video codec is DV/DVCPRO-NTSC. Does anyone have a clue what I'm overlooking or doing wrong.
Chuck

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No answer to the "autoplay" problem. Maybe a corrupted .plist file.

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It's probably an incompatible codec in the QT. If the audio isn't AC3 and on a separate track from the video this can happen. There are still a few applications out there that will write the audio into the video track, and QT will still play it that way.
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Anyway here we go. I just got Production Premium CS4 yesterday. I have been using CS3 for a while now. I have a HDV project that was started in CS3 and I installed CS4 and opened the project without any problems. It went through and re-conformed all the footage again but that was not a big deal. The wierd thing is that I cannot get my computer to recognize PPro CS4 as a program used to open my project. Let me see if I can explain it a little better. When I opened my project folder it showed the xxx.prproj file but is did not have a program associated with it, so I just opened up PPro CS4 and then selected the file and waited for everything to re-conform and then I saved the project. I thought that would have taken care of it. I looked back in the file and the xxx.prproj file still had no program associated with it. OK, so I go into properties and where is says "Opens with" I clicked on "Change" Went through my programs and found PPro CS4 and double click on it, only it does not put it in the list of programs to choose from. So I go thought it again and clik on Photoshop. It puts that in the list to choose from. Same goes for IE, or any other program that I click on but for some reason when I select PPro CS4 it does not put it in the list for me to be able to use that program to open that file.
Skip to today (all the above was yesterday). I open PPro CS4 this morning and select the project file and it has to go thorough all the files and re-conform everything again. It was not a big deal to me yesterday because I figured it was the first time opening it in the new program so OK, but now it is annoying because there are a lot of files and it takes a while to get it all done. I still cannot seem to get my computer to associate PPro CS4 with this file for some reason...
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OK I got it to work... Man am I tired of messing with this thing...
What I did was the steps above that Bill Hunt pointed out, but when I got to the pproj file type I clicked on "Advanced" then from there I went to Actions and clicked on "New" then I just browsed for PProCS4 and you have to name the action so I named it Open.
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Hello everyone,
I have just transferred my files from my G4 to my new Intel iMac via Target Firewire and I was surprised to see that iMovie 6.04 transferred over fine even though the new OS has the latest iLife 11. Many in this forum said that this could not be done without deleting iLife 11 and then installing iMovie 6 and then reinstalling iLife 11. Or using Terminal which I was prepared to do.
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Second question:
Only QuickTime Player can be upgraded to "Pro". QuickTime X has a much more limited file export option.
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I appreciate your comment...thank you. While DVD isn't really my primary concern...mostly just being able to play the files on PC's and Macs so I can show them at school and such as well as a Youtube vid here and there (which is a different can of worms), with the CS3 you can actually see the difference in quality with the Sorenson on DVD. I actually just burned a DVD for my father with a Maya animation I recently did and I also put an older animation on the disk as well...the older animation had been created with uncompressed AVI and the new one with the Sorenson 3 and there was actually a rather significant difference...we watched it on my Dad's 37" flat panel and the Sorenson quality was noticably much better.
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Dan,
Forget about using CS4 for multicam HDV streaming. I decided to go
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.. Jun
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