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Premiere Pro Conforming Taking too Long
Hey, everyone! I’m still new to Premiere Pro and editing in general, and whenever I start work on a new project I almost always get a message saying that it’s conforming. I’m pretty sure it’s the audio that it is working with. What I’m trying to figure out is 1. What is Premiere actually doing? And 2. how can I speed this up.
I recently upgraded from an i3 processor to an i7, from a GTX 970 GPU to 1060, and from 8 GB RAM to 32 GB RAM, mostly to speed up editing in 3D editors, and this seemed to help a bit, but some large files still take a while to conform.
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I think it has something to do with drawing audio waveforms. What version of PP are you on? I remember seeing that months ago.
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I’m on Premiere Pro CC 2017
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When I import a project, usually from a capture card occasionally from a DSLR I get a message with a loading bar in the bottom right saying “Conforming “File name”” And I can’t see the waveform until it is done, which leads me to believe it has to do with processing audio into Premiere Pro.
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[Gary Retzel] “Hey, everyone! I’m still new to Premiere Pro and editing in general, and whenever I start work on a new project I almost always get a message saying that it’s conforming. I’m pretty sure it’s the audio that it is working with. What I’m trying to figure out is 1. What is Premiere actually doing? And 2. how can I speed this up.”
You are exactly correct. Premiere conforms nearly all kinds of incoming audio, creating separate audio streams on-disk for faster real-time processing and playback. More information here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/premiere-keeps-conforming-files-opening.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/importing-digital-audio.html#conforming_audioThere’s only one case where audio will not be conformed: “Premiere Pro does not conform audio in uncompressed clips that were recorded in one of the natively supported sample rates, when you use these clips in sequences with matching sample rates.”
Well, one and a half cases: “If the conformed audio is used in a sequence with a non-matching sampling rate, as when a 44,100Hz clip is used in a 44,000Hz sequence, the audio will play back at the sample rate of the sequence without further conforming.”
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Okay, I thought it might be something along those lines, thanks for the help!
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Did any one solve the problem?
I often have hours of single camera sports coverage that I wasn’t view, select and to edit as quickly as possible.
I need very little of the footage.
I have to wait “hours” on each ingest for Premiere Pro to “conform”
there must be an easier way?
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