[DR - glad I could help]

[DR - with AE7 there were two versions - standard and professional. This was the last version to ship with two versions. With AE7 Standard, there is no motion tracking. The good news is that upgrading to AE9 (CS4) is pretty easy and we don't penalize you for having an older Standard version. Hope this helps.]

[DR - If the file is muxed - meaning the audio and video are together in the same file then import the clip and then drag it to the new comp button.

If not, then you need to make sure that the audio format from the Avid is a supported file format by After Effects. Here's the list from the AE help file
* Adobe Sound Document (ASND; multi-track files imported as merged single track)
* Advanced Audio Coding (AAC, M4A)
* Audio Interchange File Format (AIF, AIFF)
* MP3 (MP3, MPEG, MPG, MPA, MPE)
* Video for Windows (AVI, WAV; requires QuickTime on Mac OS)
* Waveform (WAV)

hope this helps - D]

I just purchased CS4 Production premium- and am getting used to the CS4 layout… Wow. Suddenly i cant find saving to different filetypes… Shall i just save it as a quicktime file and then export- then using a converter to make it Avi or Mp4? And YES- I am retarded

[DR - Not sure which application you are speaking of but assuming it is Premiere Pro, the main way to output media is via File>export>media. This will launch the Adobe Media Encoder and give you a variety of output options including AVI (PC) and MP4. I hope this helps.]

[DR - You can go under Windows>Tracker Controls and it should be there. If it isn't, you probably have After Effects Standard. With CS3, we got rid of Standard and Professional and only ship Professional. Please post another comment to let me know you saw this.]