pek files and conforming

[Vince Becquiot]

No, but if they conform forever, you may have corruption or incompatible files going on in your footage. Try deleting the media cache folder and go to preferences > Media > Clean database, restart Premiere.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Litzwire]

I do that occasionally, but that’s not really the issue. In CS3, either the program itself or the way I had it set up avoided the conforming process entirely. I just don’t like this conforming thing, personally. In CS3, a project just opened and you went to work – now EVERY project, and not just on my system, spends a good deal of time conforming before you can get to work. Luckily I don’t have clients over my shoulder when I open up a project, but if I did, that would stink. They need to come up with a different way.

[Vince Becquiot]

Premiere will conform non native files, but it will only do it once.

Again, if it keeps doing it, something has gone wrong…

Depending on the project, and the type of files you are bringing in the timeline, you may see it when you first bring in files, or if you are working from external drives when the letter changes.

There has never been a way turn if off, since without it, you wouldn’t have audio.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Litzwire]

Perhaps it’s a Matrox thing. I use an Axio LE. I don’t remember it happening at all in CS3, but it conforms clips pretty much anytime I open up existing projects. I do have two different external eSata RAID arrays. Maybe it conforms the clips that are not on the same drive as the project file, but I’m not sure about that. I’d really like to sit down with a Premiere programmer and have them really explain their cache file situation and conforming, as it never seems to jibe with the settings I make in the preferences. Where the pek files go, for instance, and why they recreate every time (seems like once per project would do), doesn’t match the settings I create. This isn’t a show-stopper for me, but if anyone has the mind to, make a video explaining how, when, and why pek file and cache files do what they do and what settings guarantee the most efficient management of them.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Hop,

I use the RT.X2, and I’d think your options are very similar with AXIO. Not in front of my system right now, but I think it’s in Premiere prefs, there are checkboxes for both PEK files and Conforming. If not in Prefs, try General Settings > Video tab. Must Save, then restart Premiere for settings to kick in.

I leave PEK files on because those are the waveforms displayed on the timeline, but I do have Audio Conforming set to off. PEK files don’t take but a few seconds to create.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers