Lee, thanks for snooping around. That's some good info.
At 12:06 PM 12/23/2008, Lee Menningen wrote:
>So I found the mcdb files, these are in subdirectories under a drive name!
>This machine has subdirectories C, D, G, X, Z, and Iomega-blah, and UNC! So
>sure enough, those would be computer-specific. I also found the cfa, pek,
>mpeg, and mpgindex files mentioned in this thread.
What functions do the mcdb files carry out for Premiere Pro? I
haven't been able to find them on my computer -- what's the pathname to them?
>But I'm not too quick to call their _1, _2, _3 annotation to a file-name
>"dumb", since there might be a valid reason. For example, I noticed they
>refer to camera files. And wouldn't you know it, camera file names are not
>unique. When I have a 3-camera event one day and another one a week later
>for the same project, it happens that I'll import two different files with
>the same names into the same project, because each camera (same brand) makes
>files using the same naming convention.
I don't think the naming convention is dumb, just the decision to
completely re-index a file that's already been indexed. Premiere
could at least present a dialog box asking if it should use the
exiting index file or generate a new one, in which case it can append
a number to the new file. Or they could prohibit importing video
files with the same name. Mandatory re-indexing takes an amazing
amount of time if you've got many big files.
>Maybe the Adobe experts should be more complete about describing the
>mechanism, explaining all the files which are created, where they reside,
>what effect manual deletion might have, whether a file is critical or can be
>manually deleted, proportional sizes, etc. so we wouldn't have to go through
>this guessing exercise.
Amen! Knowledge is the power in this case to edit more quickly and efficiently.
Mike Boom
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