Adjusting smartsound track length

I must admit, I'm very, very dissapointed by the way the smartsound tracks are working in Premiere Pro CS3 (at least, as I don't know any other Premiere versions). I'm used to Pinnacle Studio's behaviour, where, after adding a Smartsound track to a timeline, you can drag it's end to adjust the length. No matter whether you shorten or lenghten the track, the music always finishes nicely with the ending tones and there is no intermediate step of creating a wav fle. (After all, if it is a wav file, as in CS3, it is all over: you can cut it at any moment, and can not make it longer). The beauty and the "smartness" stems from this very behaviour (in Pinnacle): dragging the end marker and adjusting the length directly on a timeline.
b It is really very sad this smartsound feature is not implemented/used by CS3 :(

Grzegorz,
Unfortunately, this is the way that the QuickTracks plug-in for Premiere is implemented. It does not work the same way that SmartSound QuickTracks works in some other NLEs.
Until recently, the QT plug-in also crashed PP, because of the WAV display in the Timeline. That was corrected in an update.
What Jim is referring to is to contact SmartSound on how their plug-in works in Premiere. It is their implementation of it, that causes the behavior that you commented on.
Now, let's hold our breath, because SmartSound just released SonicFire Pro 5, their flagship music program. It is possible that QTs will be changed to add this feature. Also, QTs is not included as part of P Elements 7, so users do not need to install a separate plug-in, just like in Pinnacle. Does this mean closer integration with P Elements? Likely. Does it mean closer integration with Pro too? Possible.
Back when I started with Pro, after using many versions of Pinnacle Studio, one had to BUY QTs for US$99. It soon became a free plug-in, though not without some problems.
I've just upgraded my SFP 4.5 to 5, which features closer integration with FCP (Mac), and I'm exploring how well it flows with Pro.
I hope that SmartSound makes some major changes in their plug-in for Pro. I'd suggest e-mailing their customer support dept. I can tell you that they are quite friendly, responsive, helpful and really care about users, who have any problems. If they see that enough users want and need this implementation, I'm sure they'll do what they can to get those changes into the next release of the plug-in, which should come soon on the heels of SFP 5.
Personally, I'd love to see SFP 5 (a much more robust program, than the QTs plug-in) built into Pro. Now THAT would be great.
BTW, SmartSound is having a "sale" on 6 of their discs right now. It's basically buy 2.5 of these and get the other 2.5 free. I also anticipate other sales in October, as has been their pattern.
Links:
http://www.smartsound.com/music/index.html
http://www.smartsound.com/company/contact.html
Hunt
[Edit to add] You can also stretch, or compress the SmartSound Track in QTs inside of Pro, but it is a couple of clicks and drags, plus re-rendering of the Track. Not as easy as inside of Pinnacle, but very doable. Explain that you want it work the same, as with Pinnacle. If enough request it, and it's possible, they will issue an update.

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