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1. Re: AME Bug: Creates new CFA file for each clip queued!
DaveTrayers May 11, 2012 9:33 PM (in response to DaveTrayers)OK, I have a work around. I went back to the sequence and I did a "Render and Replace" for the audio. That took a while, but now, AME doesn't conform the audio anymore. It just exports. And it's fast.
I still think that AME should be smarter and just make one CFA, but until then, the Render and Replace works.
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2. Re: AME Bug: Creates new CFA file for each clip queued!
JSS1138 May 15, 2012 12:01 AM (in response to DaveTrayers)I would presume that PP conformed the files upon import, so really AME shouldn't be doing any conforming at all.
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3. Re: AME Bug: Creates new CFA file for each clip queued!
DaveTrayers May 15, 2012 5:17 AM (in response to JSS1138)Actually, I think it's working as designed when it conforms upon export. See the online help HERE.
It says, in part:
- Premiere Pro does conform audio in uncompressed clips when you use them in sequences with non-matching sample rates. However no conforming is done until you export the sequences or create audio preview files.
The audio in my Canon MXF file is uncompressed 16-bit Linear PCM, so when I bring in the MXF files all PPr does is create PEK files. This is really nice since I don't have to wait for conforming to begin editing. Creating PEK files is really fast compared to conforming. There is a caviat, though...
The max file size from my camera is about 2GB. Anything longer will span multiple files. If I copy the contents of the CF card from the camera to my computer, the browse to the files using PPr, it will find all the spanned clips and interpret them as one longer video file. Not problem, and that's how it's supposed to work. BUT, since PPr is treating all these spanned files as one longer video clip, it WILL conform the audio.
So to speed things up, I just bring in all the spanned files separately, then sort them and insert them into a sequence in order. It works fine, and no conforming.
My problem with AME is when it DOES finally conform, it's not re-using the CFA file. In my particular case, I'm taking one long sequence and exporting different portions of it as separate exports. I would think that AME would conform the whole sequence once, then re-use it. But no, it sees each as a separate export, so each export gets its own identical (but different named) CFA file.
So now my current workflow is:
- Import in all the video as separate MXF files.
- Import audio from digital recorder (house audio).
- Mark the clapper sync points on the video and audio files.
- Add video clips to a sequence in ascending order
- Add to the sequence the audio track and align the sync markers
- Balance the audio tracks with the mixer
- Create a new sequence
- Add to the new sequence the first sequence
- Render and replace audio so I can get a waveform (it helps find edit points) and conformed audio
- Add titles as needed
- Edit the timeline, transitions, add Encore chapters, etc.
- Export clips to AME queue
- Save early and save often!



