What is “conforming”?

[Andrew Devis]

Hi Tony

Premiere Pro doesn’t play the clips as they come in but converts them to its own format for use in the editing workflow. To do this, PP ‘conforms’ or if you like ‘converts’ your clips to the native format for PP. This is completely normal but can take quite a time when your clips are long. The conformed clips are then saved in your Preview Files folder (or Encoded Files folder – not sure exactly which one) ready for use next time you open up the project.

So, don’t worry, all is well :o)
Andrew

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[Jeff Pulera]

To my knowledge, “Conforming” is just for the audio, Premiere never converts any video files being imported. See this Adobe link for a clear explanation of Audio Conforming:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS00AF9E2E-9F99-4aff-8961-1E2F30E9ECCC.html

Jeff Pulera
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[Andrew Devis]

You may well be right, I suspect I am getting mixed up with After Effects which uses it’s own file format for video …

Sorry for any mix up …
Andrew

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[Andrew Devis]

Hi Tony

This is what I meant … follow the link

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS741BE3C1-41CC-4e00-BCA2-E1DC068001CF.html

I was getting mixed up with After Effects which creates its own version of MPEG files ( .mpegindex I think) so it can access them easily etc ..

Sorry for any mix up
Andrew

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[Jeff Pulera]

Well that would also be news to me if After Effects was converting every video file that was imported.

Jeff

[Andrew Devis]

Hi Jeff

As I said above, I was a little mixed up with the way that AE works with the media cache files and especially the way that mpeg files are reindexed to .mpgindex files. See the following link at the bottom under media cache

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS155A1BB2-BB32-4833-A079-F8396553D7B0a.html

Again sorry for the mix up and I hope this explains why I got a little mixed up … it’s been a busy day! I will hold back answering in the forum for a while …

Andrew

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[Ann Bens]

I know exactly what you mean. I sometimes get all mixed up. It’s because we are trying to keep up with everything. So many apps so many different versions.

[Andrew Devis]

Thanks Ann 🙂

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