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Have we figured out how to manage .CFA & .PEK files better yet?
Still, several years after CFA and PEK files came into our lives, I still have problems with Premiere not knowing when it’s already created them, and re-creating them.
Remembered I posted about this a while ago, and found it…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/923651
Problem’s bee going on for at least two years and nothing’s happened. Anyone have ideas?
For the record, this happens with Media Cache Files created NEXT to originals, on a separate directory, with the XMP linked, not linked… whatever, it doesn’t seem to matter.
I totally understand the need for these files, I’m not being one of those annoying people. But there really needs to be a smarter way to get this done, manage them, move them between different projects using the same media, or different computers with same project, and STOP arbitrarily wanting to re-conform my media! It just takes CPU cycles and causes me to lose time, disk space, and hair.
R
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Are you on Mac or Windows?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Windows 8.1.
R
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So you’re basically asking about regenerating those files for the same media used in different projects?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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No, I’m talking about the general disarray that Premiere manages CFA and PEK files with. This includes –
#1 Re-generating CFA and PEK files for media that already has them generated, at seemingly random project opens when they are already generated.
#2 Re-generating CFA and PEK files when you move a project and media between computers, even if files are already next to media.
#3 Re-generating CFA and PEK files when you use the same media in different projects when it already has these meta files from other projects.#1 is straight-up a BUG that’s been around for a while (see linked in first post). #2 and #3 are just things that should have been fixed.
I’m asking if anyone has found a solution to #1
R
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So…you have ‘Save media cache files next to originals when possible’ checked in the preferences of the original machine and the destination machine, and the destination machine overwrites those files when the project is transferred?
Is ‘Write XMP upon import’ checked on both machines?
Are there specific file formats you’re seeing this happen with?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I echo your complaint as well Ryan and it happens on the MAC
version as well.Doesn’t matter what media you use, it does it for everything
audio and video.For example, if I copy a project and maintain the file path
of original, but instead of being on my disk array root it’s
on external firewire 800 drive at it’s root, when I open it
on the drive it will re-generate all those files, even though
the first set of created ones are all there intact. -
Yes, Tim, please refer to my original post, as well as the post that I have linked. This is an ongoing problem and is not remedied by those options, as I said in my original post. Internal or external drives, nor media type don’t seem to solve it (as I said in the linked post, happens with H.264, MP3, WAV… now I can add HVX MXF files and R3D to this list).
Does anyone have a lead on why this happens?
R
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