Short answer: Upgrade to CS5.02.
Long answer:
Unfortunately, this has been a problem with Premiere for a long time,
especially when moving projects from folder to folder or to another
drive. CS5 fixed most of the problems, but not for all media types
(XDCAM-EX being one of them). But two days ago, they released an update,
CS 5.02 -- and one of the fixes that are mentioned in the release notes
is for unmotivated reconforming of audio. So now we've hopefully seen
this problem for the last time.
To avoid reconforming (most of the time) in CS3 and 4, at least make
sure your drive gets the same letter assigned to it every time you
attach it. If it doesn't, I am sure you know where to fix this Windows
. Also, make sure both your Media Cache file AND the database are
located on an available drive and that this drive also gets the same
drive letter. Some people have these on separate drives to save space,
and when they move to another PC or Mac, the whole project needs
reconforming. Don't use the default location which is usually the C
drive (or the drive with the operating system) as that one will
obviously not be in the other computer .
In Edit>Preferences>Media I tick the "Save Media Cache Files next to
originals when possible", so my conform files follow the material. So if
I make sure the project folder stays in the same place, it will not need
reconforming. If I need to move it, I would get reconforming in CS3 and
4, but not in CS5. CS5.02 finds the files automatically. Finally!
The biggest problem is probably not the audio conforming, but reindexing
of your MPEG files. Indexing takes more time than audio conforming. So
the fact that you have MPEG material is giving you both indexing and
conforming trouble. You realize that you can start editing when
indexing and conforming happens in the background (provided your
computer is powerful enough).
Uwe
I just picked up a little 1-terabyte USB drive at Costco for US$119,
just the thing, I thought, for storing a really large Premiere
project and taking it with me to work on a laptop while I'm traveling.
Nope.
Premiere seems completely brain-dead about how it finds existing
index and audio conform files, re-indexing and re-conforming every
time I plug the USB drive in and the drive is assigned a new drive
letter value. (This almost always happens when moving from one
computer to another.) Because I have 72 hours of HDV source footage,
it takes over 24 hours for Premiere to re-index and re-conform, which
is unworkable.
Does anyone know how to get Premiere to recognize existing .pek and
.cfa files in a Media Cache File folder? Are there any other ways to
avoid endless re-indexing and re-conforming?
I'll try assigning the same drive letter value to the drive when I
plug it in to see if that helps.
For the life of me, I can't imagine why Adobe hard-wired drive letter
values in the pathnames to .cfa and .pek files instead of using
relative pathnames that don't care about the drive letter value.
Perhaps the Adobe engineers working on video indexing and audio
conformation were brain-dead themselves.
Mike Boom
P.S. I'm using Premiere Pro CS3. Does anyone know if indexing and
conforming have been fixed in CS4 or CS5?
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