Man, I'm getting frustrated!

I have a simple 40-sec clip (one track of video, one track of audio....that's it!) in DV format that I'm trying to export to MPEG-2. The only problem I'm having is that no matter what I do I can't get the blasted thing to export the audio track along with the video.

I've double- and even triple-checked all the settings related to audio and audio compression and everything seems to indicate that audio is enabled (the audio does work when I play the clip in uncompressed DV format...). But when I get to part where I use the Adobe MPEG encoder (File-->Export Clip-->Adobe MPEG Encoder) the MPEG Settings Summary insists that there is no audio track present and will thus not export any audio. Is there something I'm doing wrong? This software was quite expensive and my first impression isn't exactly positive. Here are my system specs just in case:

Athlon XP 1700+ CPU
512 MB PC2100 DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB Video Card
80 GB Western Digital Special Edition Hard Disk
13.6 GB Maxtor Hard Disk
Plextor UltraPlex40 SCSI CD-ROM
TEAC CD-R56S SCSI CD-R
Pioneer Slot-Load DVD-ROM
Sound Blaster Live! Sound Card
Adaptec 2930U SCSI Card
Windows XP Professional SP-1

Export your movie as an AVI, and then use a seperate program to convert it into MPEG-2. That's what I do.

I've never had that problem in Premier though - but I've never tried either

Try exporting your audio track only, then when all that is compiled, take out all your audio, and then replace it with the one long sound for the audio for your whole movie - it's not that bad, if you start your movie and your audio at the same time, it'll line up fine.

Anyway, after that, then you could try it again.

Otherwise, I've never had that problem.

Sony TRV950

Hey, thanks for the tips.

That seems to work "kinda-sorta", but of course it's not exactly ideal. What if you have several edited clips in your bin that give you this same problem? It would be rather monotonous to be exporting audio and video tracks separately for each one. Oh, and BTW, I can't even export to .AVI to accomplish that either. So assuming that I was able to do that, conversion from .AVI to MPEG later on would be a snap, but still all the more tedious.

But there's really no reason why I can't get a $600 editing program to do something as simple as exporting both the audio and video from a clip simultaneously. I never have that problem when working with a Mac at school with FCP (one of the many reasons I just ordered a PowerBook G4; I simply like the DV features on them better).

Well it isn't Premier's fault. So get mad at it and buy another computer if you want; but don't let this one bad experience change your mind. I've never had any problems with mine.

Sony TRV950