Compressor renders mpeg-2 correctly

I'm trying to compress few videos to mpeg-2 for broadcasting but Compressor 3.5 makes them all black. I used the same settings as with older Compressor. The audio is not playing right eater. Can anyone help me a bit? I'm in a hurry here.
Thanks
Mikko K

Ok, i have found a way to make changes to the audio settings. First create a customized MPEG2 setting of your liking. Copy the setting to the desktop and open it with textedit. Locate the 48Khz sampling rate and have it changed to the sampling rate of your choice or in my case the audio data rate which by default is at 38400. Save the setting file and drop it back into the custom settings folder and viola. Be sure to delete the old setting file first prior to import.
Hope this helps.
Jim

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