Premiere CS5 Endless Conforming Fix | Kearwood Gilbert's Site

Premiere CS5 Endless Conforming Fix | Kearwood Gilbert's Site

I capture video in HDV format, which uses compressed audio. When importing these clips into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, the video gets "indexes" and the audio gets "conformed". Conforming audio essentially involves decompressing it and stretching it out to 32-bit samples that are more efficient for non-linear editing. These 32-bit samples are stored in Adobe's proprietary CFA files that are either stored with your source clips or in a subdirectory of your home directory.

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