STOP audio conforming!!!!!

[Eircom]

Unfortunately I’ve found audio conforming is mandatory and you just have to live with it. It’s a real pain at times – especially as it can take all night and more on big projects. There’s also a glitch where some audio conformed files are silent and you have to try either unlinking-relinking or delete the offending conformed files so Premiere Pro can have another shot at it! I think it has to do with not leaving your computer alone while Premiere works its dubious audio magic!

[Steven L. gotz]

Premiere Pro 2.0 does not conform everything, it just creates small Peak files. But Canopus doesn’t really support it. You are stuck with outdated technology that does some of what you want but prevents you from doing the rest. Rotten situation. I sold my DVStorm2.

[Eircom]

Actually Premiere Pro does conform anything and everything that isn’t already to spec, which means pretty much anything and everything. As for creating small peak files, I suppose it depends on what you would normally classify as small, since the clips for an 80 minute film cranked up nearly 20GB of conformed audio files on my hard drive. I can understand Adobe’s reasoning for this, but its a real shame you can’t have the option to switch it off.

[Nik Nastev]

20GB for 80minute video? Wow!!! It’s a HUGE space. I believe that something is wrong with your files.
For 1hour (60min) I got maximum 3 or 4 GB conformed audio files, no more. And it’s not a pain – for 1 hour project (with 3 hour video) it’s take about 5-10 minutes. That’s all. Night for audio conforming? I can’t believe it.
Audio conforming is not as bad as you think.

Just my 2 cents.
All the best!

Nik Nastev

[Eircom]

The ‘clips for an 80 minute film’ actually totalled around three hours of total footage and it took so long (on a Pentium D dual core with hyperthreading)I was late for work having started it the evening before. Not only that, Premiere Pro 2.0 wouldn’t even let me turn off until it had finished. So now I have to edit in small doses because the audio conforming, as many of my colleagues find, does cause major delays with ‘big’ projects. I suppose it depends on the amount of footage and quality of the individual clips.

[Steven L. gotz]

Not on my system it doesn’t. But I don’t use a Canopus card any more. Perhaps that audio is determined to be not to spec because Canopus can’t write a driver correctly.

[Nik Nastev]

I think there is something wrong on your settings for scratch disks.
You can save and close your projects at every stage of conforming your video without any problems.

Give me some details about your hdd’s and PPro settings for scratch disks.

All the best!
Nik Nastev

[Lei Jing]

Canopus do write a bad driver,but in this case,I think it’s not a spec think,due to Adobe’s support documents,conforming seems will happen anyway.
I’m fine with conforming and not-spec-my-footage,but if a software will AUTOMATICALLY put huges files on my HDD,not matter 2G or 20G,it’s kind of scary anyway.

Is there any cards which can avoid the conforming?

[Rabidpachyderm]

20gb for your 3hrs of video is an indication of a possible problem on your end and might not be PPro’s fault…Sorry I don’t have a solution to offer, but thought you could use these numbers for comparison sake…

[Lei Jing]

My conforming files is as large as 1GB per hours too,
but it’s not the point,
i think sometimes it’s totally not worth it.
For example,if i have to different project based on the same footage,let’s say two editors make there own version of editing.Now,I might import them in my project,sad thing happen,premiere will conform the same footage twice,create two groups of huge files,even if i’ve already import the very same footage and conformed them in my project,now I have three version of conforming files in my HDD,they are all the same!
I think it’s ridiculous!