Premiere CS5.5 is CRIPPLED with Audio Conforming Issues!
Travis © Jan 15, 2012 3:37 PMI've made a number of posts in prior months concerning problems with Adobe Premiere's audio conforming process. I have now about a half-dozen projects that I've spent many hours & even weeks on but have run into problems with conforming that have made me throw my arms up in rage from all the lost time.
A long, continually running audio wave project in After Effects only conforms HALF of the audio & displays only the latter-half of the waveform. This project was shared out & was found to be cross-platform, repeatable between both Windows 7 & Mac workstations, & regardless of the amount of system resources.
So I drop that project out of frustration.
Then, I begin a new project with numerous subclips from large source files, a mixture of MP4's & MPEG2 video files. Many, many hours spent creating subclips from the video source files to be later used in my sequences. Audio waveforms are visible across each sequence & in what I THINK is the final stages of my project before rendering, I notice there are mutiple CFA's generated for the SAME video source file, presumably because the subclips produced from those source files are scattered throughout the project & between at least two separate sequences (both nested into a sequence for final output).
Soooo, like a total moron, I close up the project & clean my storage RAID of uneeded recordings, purge the Media Cache, the cache folder in AppData\Roaming, etc & then open my project back up, anticipating it will simply reconform all the source files & it'll be ready to render out after a few hours chomping on it.
NO.
Instead, it continually re-conforms certain source files & ultimately when it's finished (idle), I find that over half of the subclips in my sequences are void of audio, no waveform present.
So I engage in this fight with Premiere in attempts to get it to produce a waveform & re-conform the files on it's on - to no avail.
I'm so angry with this software I can't even see straight, right now & I'm trying to suppress my own foul-mouthed expletives.
This software produces false-hope then STEALS it from you. Makes you commit hours upon hours in your creative works only to leave you standing with a #$#$ed up project - EVERY time. And I'm so sick of it!!
Will there be no further updates to CS5.5 now that Adobe is concentrating on CS6 development? Are you using all our complaints & feedback concerning this exclusively for developing CS6 & with no intention of solving these problems for CS5.5 users? There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I will consider purchasing CS6 in any flavor without seeing these problems first solved with CS5.5. The issues are just too severe.
This whole audio-conforming process must be SCRAPPED programmatically in favor of another scheme. I've lost WEEKS over this & there's just no good reason for it because my workflow is sound, my clips are healthy without any blips, they play normally in other apps, etc.
What is being done about this??!





