,cfa and .pek file madness

[Michael Sacci]

https://www.adobe.com/products/director/

[Michael Sacci]

weird, I had to sign in on a new computer and it took me back to this thread. Sorry.

[Michael Sacci]

Clips are either 28 minutes or 58 minutes give or take.

I’m never using the source panel. I drop the clip onto a timeline. Resize it to the correct aspect and size. 4:3 is centered in the 854×480 and 16:9 material is enlarged to fill. Remember everything that I’m working with right now was converted to 720×406 and going to 854×480. I have to deliver 16:9 for everything. So 4:3 is pillar boxed.

Clips are mxf (Broadcast Omineon wrapped files) that automatically go through an encoding server, These are files are encoded to H264 but they have to be trimmed and commercials edited out. Then reencoded and uploaded to the web.

So it is going through the delivery encode twice, not what I want but what I have to deal with.

Now if anyone knows how to unwrap Omneon files quickly and easily I would love to know.

BTW: I just got a new PC system to perform this task. HP Z600 same problem. Does anyone know if putting a CUDA graphic card would make the system more stable? I know it would speed things up and give me better playback but right now I need stability.

Thanks for any help.

[Hari Krishnan]

Uncheck “Save Media Cache next to Originals when possible”.

[Samuel Davids]

This totally fixed my problem thanks alot

[Mike Gorga]

BOOM! Excellent. Clicked off the XMP box and all is good again. I think the CC upgrade defaulted mine to on. Thanks man!

Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884

[Jeff Bugbee]

Hari Krishnan’s Uncheck Save Media Cache FIles next to originals worked for me. Now my question is… Where are those cfa and pek files being placed?

[Tero Ahlfors]

In the media cache database. I would set this in some better location that’s easier to monitor.

[Roberto Serrini]

In Preferences->Audio there is a check box that says “auto generate peak file” … you could click that. You could. If you wanted. Not actually sure it does anything. But again, you could click it. Made me feel better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kWmWw6UUA4

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[Duke Sweden]

That option isn’t even included in CC 2015.4.