HELP! I've created a blue movie!

Just created my first movie using Premier Pro CS5. Just a standard QuickTime DV Pal. As I've done with CS4, I went to File - Export - Media. I set it to QuickTime PAL DV then clicked Export. To my surprise it started rendering without first opening Adobe Media Encoder CS5. Is that normal?
Anyway, when I viewed the rendered file in QuickTime I noticed that certain sections that should be in colour were just bright blue. Initially I thought I'd left in an unwanted Video effect for those particular sections. But no. I can't get to the bottom of the problem. The entire .prproj file renders fine in CS4 using Adobe Media Encoder CS4. The two individual movies render fine on their own in CS5. Even earlier sections of the same movie render fine. Has anyone else had a similar problem? I'm mystified.
SOLUTION
Only good news is that I've got a solution:
Instead of clicking Export in the Export Settings box, I click Queue. This takes me to the Adobe Media Encoder CS5. I then click Start Queue. Resultant QuickTime movie is fine!
But it should still work using Export shouldn't it?
Any ideas anyone?

Guys that is why the PRO external MONITOR is needed and it is expensive!
And color management of your monitor is often not the broadcasting one (I just bought nVIDIA CUDA 3800FX graphic card the other day, and when I installed it, it asked me which monitor color profile I wanna use to work with... And it is much more then just sRGB and sADOBE ones... Almost like pro-printers!!!
I use hardware gadget to calibrate my monitors, but still check all my work up on CRT TV-set (nowadays you can get really good second hand CRT TVs, since people are all changing them for "slim" ones - and TUBE TV (CRT) is still the most reliable one!!! So, if you can't afford real studio MONITOR (I know that I can't), my advise to you is to buy some good SONY CRT TV-set (at least 32" screen) somewhere from the second hand market!!!
I would also suggest using some other DV codecs then QUICK TIME one, I tried many of them in the time I was working with DV materials, and my personal favorite was MAIN CONCEPT DV codec, although Panasonic had good one... And someone just told me yesterday on 5D forum that QUICK TIME codecs (being APPLE's product) aren't suitable for 64bit computing, so they crush down your quality to 32-bit ---- I don't know if that is correct - just telling you what I was told!
And about exporting or queing (for opening Media Encoder) ---- It is still Media Encoder's engine rendering your file directly from Premiere, they just made it so that if you have only one file to render, you save time and extra process of going into ENCODER's window....
But, if you still wanna do it from there (which I personally do, 'cause you can still change some custom setting from there, or you intend to export more files, but not one at the time, just press QUEUE - and your MEDIA ENCODER WINDOW will pop up!!!
Good luck and all the best in the New Year!!!!
V.

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        game.onEnterFrame = replayMain; // start the main loop
    placeFood("new"); // place a new food block
    gameRunning = true; // flag telling if the game is running. If true it does not necessarily mean that main is called (the game could be paused)
function main() { // called on every frame if the game is running and it's not paused
    if (playRec) {
        if (ticks == lastRec+parseInt(recFrame.charAt(recPos*2)+recFrame.charAt(recPos*2+1), 36)) {
            currentDirection = parseInt(recTurn.charAt(recPos));
            lastRec = ticks;
            recPos++;
    } else if (turnQueue.length) { // if we have a turn to perform...
        var dir = turnQueue.pop(); // ...pick the next turn in the queue...
        if (dir % 2 != currentDirection % 2) { // not a 180 degree turn (annoying to be able to turn into the snake with one key press)
            currentDirection = dir; // change current direction to the new value
            recTurn += dir;
            var fn = ticks-lastRec;
            if (fn < 36) {
                recFrame += " "+new Number(fn).toString(36);
            } else {
                recFrame += new Number(fn).toString(36);
            lastRec = ticks;
    x += xVelocity[currentDirection]; // move the snake position in x
    y += yVelocity[currentDirection]; // move the snake position in y
    if (map[x][y] != SNAKE_BLOCK && x > -1 && x < gameWidth && y > -1 && y < gameHeight) { // make sure we are not hitting the snake or leaving the game area
        game.s.attachMovie("snakeMC", snakeBlockCounter, snakeBlockCounter, {_x: x*blockSize, _y: y*blockSize}); // attach a snake block movie clip
        snakeBlockCounter++; // increase the snake counter
        if (map[x][y]) { // if it's a not a vacant block then there is a food block on the position
            score += 10; // add points to score
            scoreTextField.text = "Score: " + score; // type out score info
            snakeEraseCounter -= 5; // make the snake not remove the tail for five loops
            placeFood(map[x][y]); // place the food movie clip which is referenced in the map map[x][y]
        map[x][y] = SNAKE_BLOCK; // set current position to occupied
        var tailMC = game.s[snakeEraseCounter]; // get "last" MC according to snakeEraseCounter (may not exist)
        if (tailMC) { // if the snake block exists
            delete map[tailMC._x/blockSize][tailMC._y/blockSize]; // delete the value in the array m
            tailMC.removeMovieClip(); // delete the MC
        snakeEraseCounter++; // increase erase snake counter
    } else { // GAME OVER if it is on a snake block or outside of the map
        if (playRec) {
            startGame(true);
        } else {
            gameOver();
        return;
    ticks++;
function replayMain() {
    for (var n=0;n<replaySpeed;n++) {
        main();
function gameOver() {
    textMC.gotoAndStop("gameOver"); // show "game over" text
    delete game.onEnterFrame; // quit looping main function
    gameRunning = false; // the game is no longer running
    enterHighscore();
function placeFood(foodMC) {
    if (playRec) {
        var xFood = parseInt(recFood.charAt(recFoodPos*3)+recFood.charAt(recFoodPos*3+1), 36);
        var yFood = parseInt(recFood.charAt(recFoodPos*3+2), 36);
        recFoodPos++;
    } else {
        do {
            var xFood = random(gameWidth);
            var yFood = random(gameHeight);
        } while (map[xFood][yFood]); // keep picking a spot until it's a vacant spot (we don't want to place the food on a position occupied by the snake)
        if (xFood < 36) {
            recFood += " "+new Number(xFood).toString(36);
        } else {
            recFood += new Number(xFood).toString(36);
        recFood += new Number(yFood).toString(36);
    if (foodMC == "new") { // create a new food movie clip
        foodMC = game.food.attachMovie("foodMC", foodCounter, foodCounter);
        foodCounter++;
    foodMC._x = xFood*blockSize; // place the food
    foodMC._y = yFood*blockSize; // place the food
    map[xFood][yFood] = foodMC; // save a reference to this food movie clip in the map
//- Highscore functions
loadHighscores();
enterHighscoreKeyListener = new Object();
enterHighscoreKeyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
    if (Key.getCode() == Key.ENTER) {
        playerName = highscores.enterHighscoreMC.nameTextField.text;
        if (playerName == undefined || playerName == "") {
            playerName = "no name";
        saveHighscore();
        Key.removeListener(enterHighscoreKeyListener);
        Key.addListener(keyListener);
        highscores.enterHighscoreMC._visible = false;
        loadedRecordingNumber = -1;
        startGame(true);
function enterHighscore() {
    if (score >= lowestHighscore) {
        highscores.enterHighscoreMC._visible = true;
        highscores.enterHighscoreMC.focus();
        Key.removeListener(keyListener);
        Key.addListener(enterHighscoreKeyListener);
    } else {
        loadedRecordingNumber = -1;
        startGame(true);
function getLoadedRecordingNumberHighscorePos(num) {
    for (var n=0;n<10;n++) {
        if (num == highscores[n].recFile) {
            return n;
function loadHighscores() {
    vars = new LoadVars();
    vars.onLoad = function(success) {
        for (var n=0;n<10;n++) {
            var mc = highscores.attachMovie("highscoreLine", n, n);
            mc._x = 5;
            mc._y = 5+n*12;
            mc.place.text = (n+1) + ".";
            mc.name.text = this["name"+n];
            mc.score.text = this["score"+n];
            mc.recFile = parseInt(this["recFile"+n]);
        lowestHighscore = parseInt(this.score9);
        if (!gameRunning) {
            loadRecording(random(10));
        delete this;
    if (this._url.indexOf("http") != -1) {
        vars.load("highscores.txt?" + new Date().getTime());
    } else {
        vars.load("highscores.txt");
function loadRecording(num) {
    vars = new LoadVars();
    vars.onLoad = function(success) {
        if (success && this.recTurn.length) {
            recTurn = this.recTurn;
            recFrame = this.recFrame;
            recFood = this.recFood;
            startGame(true);
        } else {
            loadRecording((num+1)%10);
            return;
        delete this;
    loadedRecordingNumber = num;
    if (this._url.indexOf("http") != -1) {
        vars.load("rec"+loadedRecordingNumber+".txt?" + new Date().getTime());
    } else {
        vars.load("rec"+loadedRecordingNumber+".txt");
function saveHighscore() {
    sendVars = new LoadVars();
    for (var n in _root) {
        if (_root[n] != sendVars) {
            sendVars[n] = _root[n];
    returnVars = new LoadVars();
    returnVars.onLoad = function() {
        if (this.status == "ok") {
            loadHighscoresInterval = setInterval(function() {
                loadHighscores();
                clearInterval(loadHighscoresInterval);
            }, 1000);
        delete sendVars;
        delete this;
    sendVars.sendAndLoad("enterHighscore.php", returnVars, "POST");
function startClicked() {
    if (!gameRunning || playRec) {
        if (highscores.enterHighscoreMC._visible) {
            Key.removeListener(enterHighscoreKeyListener);
            Key.addListener(keyListener);
            highscores.enterHighscoreMC._visible = false;
        startGame(false);
function viewGame(lineMC) {
    loadRecording(lineMC.recFile);
    statusTextField.text = "Loading " + lineMC.name.text + "'s game...";
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I created my first movie using one long video (all photos) clip created in Keynote and imported to Imovie. I added many music clips, some overlapping. I now want to lay down a new updated video clip, eliminate the original but retain the audio. Can I?

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find the info anywhere in help.

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