I just picked up a little 1-terabyte USB drive at Costco for US$119,
just the thing, I thought, for storing a really large Premiere
project and taking it with me to work on a laptop while I'm traveling.
Nope.
Premiere seems completely brain-dead about how it finds existing
index and audio conform files, re-indexing and re-conforming every
time I plug the USB drive in and the drive is assigned a new drive
letter value. (This almost always happens when moving from one
computer to another.) Because I have 72 hours of HDV source footage,
it takes over 24 hours for Premiere to re-index and re-conform, which
is unworkable.
Does anyone know how to get Premiere to recognize existing .pek and
.cfa files in a Media Cache File folder? Are there any other ways to
avoid endless re-indexing and re-conforming?
I'll try assigning the same drive letter value to the drive when I
plug it in to see if that helps.
For the life of me, I can't imagine why Adobe hard-wired drive letter
values in the pathnames to .cfa and .pek files instead of using
relative pathnames that don't care about the drive letter value.
Perhaps the Adobe engineers working on video indexing and audio
conformation were brain-dead themselves.
Mike Boom
P.S. I'm using Premiere Pro CS3. Does anyone know if indexing and
conforming have been fixed in CS4 or CS5?
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