Premiere Pro's Audio Conformation

Paranoir · Post by **Paranoir** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:59 pm

Ok, first off, I use Premiere Pro 2.0.
Whenever I import something, whether it is an Xvid, a hyffyuth, a lagarith or whatever it might be, if it has audio, the program conforms all the imported clips, one by one..
Now, that takes quite some time, always depending on the filesize.. And when it finishes, new files have been created in the media cache folder - the formats are CFA and PEK (one of each kind for each imported episode), and while the PEK files are about 1mb, the CFA files exceed 500mb!
Help, the anime itself takes up enough space on the hard drive..
Is there a way to stop Premiere from doing its conformation?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:05 pm

Kill the audio before saving your source video files? That way you save hard drive space too.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:05 pm

Well first off, you shouldnt be putting xvid and such into premiere, because it cant handle it properly.

Next, when you prepare a lagarith or something, simply dont encode the audio. Then premiere will have nothing to conform, and it saves you even more space.

Theres no way to turn it off.

Paranoir · Post by **Paranoir** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:11 pm

I see.. Thanks a lot!
I do have to use Xvid sometimes though.. I've noticed premiere doesn't like them, but I can't do much when I have a 26 episode series to use and not enough space on my hard drive..
Lagarith needs less space than hyffyuv, but still too much for a big anime series

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:10 pm

then you just keep the .vob files and make small clips in a program like virtualdubmod

Paranoir · Post by **Paranoir** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:20 pm

Kariudo wrote:then you just keep the .vob files and make small clips in a program like virtualdubmod

What exactly do you mean by that?
Won't I end up exporting again?
Or am I getting something wrong here?...

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:55 pm

what I think you're doing right now is importing entire episodes into pro and making your clips in it.
I assumed that you're using dvd footage (when you rip dvds you get .vob files)
even if you don't, you can open your footage in virtualdubmod.
in vdubmod you can mark small sections of the episode that you want and encode those small parts (generally called clips) with lagarith.

so instead of importing entire episodes you only import the small clips
this way you can retain as much quality as possible and make sure that your footage will work in pro

JaddziaDax wrote:
use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room

make small clips instead of converting the whole thing

Paranoir · Post by **Paranoir** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:05 pm

Oh, now I got what you mean!
I've never thought of actually converting only the clips I'm gonna need, but the more I think about it, the better it sounds..
Thanks a lot!