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Random helpful tips

Paul swears I must have a secret search engine that I am not telling him about. Twice recently we have run into some technical issues that he has spent a long time trying to find a solution online - that I was able to find fairly quickly. Google is my search engine of choice, and he swears he does the same thing but with different results.

So in the interest of one more potential search engine hit for any discouraged person looking for resolution to an obscure technical issue, I will be posting random helpful tips that will mean nothing to the average person but will be a blessing to someone in a pickle.

Today’s issue:
Audio is lost when importing an MPEG file into Premier CS3:

Answer: If you’ve got Encore CS3 installed , copy the file ad2ac3dec.dll from the Encore CS3 directory and paste it into the PPro CS3 root directory. Once you restart CS3, you’ll be able to import the file with the audio. This means if you’ve already have a project with the files imported, you’ll need to remove the files from the project and then re-import them, or just start over with a new project. This works- we’ve done it on 2 different computers with success!