m2t , cfa, pek, mpgindex - HD missing files w/extensions

[Joe M]

I have m2t files that contain these following files associated with the m2t files...

cfa, pek, mpgindex. xmp

Using CS4 in WinXP (32bit).... m2t files are 1.33 30p 1440x1080 HD files captured from HV30. All files (both that render/import and do not render/import) were captured using Avid Liquid.

The files that have these associated files will open up with Premiere Pro and After Effects... but, an entire directory of m2t files that do not have these associated files (except xmp) will not open with any Adobe editing or compositing software.

These same m2t files (with or without the associated files - cfa pek mpgindex) will open and edit fine with Avid Liquid NLE... but without the cfa pek files, the m2t file in AE or PP will not open... instead, I get the dreaded media pending files.

My assumption is that Adobe would create these associated file when you import into AE or PP... but, for this one large directory of m2t files neither AE or PP will import but only shows the "media pending" gold window... and will not render in PP... and, do not contain (nor creates) the cfa pek mpgindex assoicated files.

Any solutions as to why a single directory of m2t group of files fails to import or render with PP or AE? Plus, why aren't the the typical pek cfa mpgindex files not present/created as in the other m2t files?

BTW, these same file are visible in Adobe Bridge and Windows media player.

[Mylenium]

Plus, why aren't the the typical pek cfa mpgindex files not present/created as in the other m2t files?

Well, have you waited long enough? Conforming can take a while with lots of files/ large files... What are your settings for the Media Cache in Premiere and AE? Do you generally have enough disk space? Are the disks fast enough? PEK are peak files used to accelerate waveform display, CFA is conformed audio from compressed audio sources, MPEGindex is GOP and marker information for MPEG files, XMP is Adobe's metadata format. What's also not clear to me: Why not capture in Premiere from the start to avoid all these issues?

Mylenium

[Joe M]

Plus, why aren't the the typical pek cfa mpgindex files not present/created as in the other m2t files?

Well, have you waited long enough? Conforming can take a while with lots of files/ large files... What are your settings for the Media Cache in Premiere and AE? Do you generally have enough disk space? Are the disks fast enough? PEK are peak files used to accelerate waveform display, CFA is conformed audio from compressed audio sources, MPEGindex is GOP and marker information for MPEG files, XMP is Adobe's metadata format. What's also not clear to me: Why not capture in Premiere from the start to avoid all these issues?

Mylenium

The wait time for a typical huge file (say 200 megs is about 1 min. or so)... I have pretty much the fastest machine made (including the raid controller and hard drives)... here are my system specs for details:

WinXP, ASUS W6T6 WS Rev., Intel i7 3.2Ghz 8X32bit CPU, 6G Corsair DDR3 (low lat.) RAM, GeForce GTX 280, LG DVD, Realtek AC97 Aud., Adaptec 5405 RAID SAS controller for 2 Stripes of 2xHD 15k rpm Fujitsu 300G ea.,

This is a dual raid set up... using a total of 4 15k rpm esata drive (2x2 raid 0's)... cpu is the fastone made and the video card is also fast (...and, has the most current driver AND I even rolled back to 3 sets of older drivers to make sure it wasn't the video card driver).

The files will render with other m2t files within reasonable time... but, none of these particular m2t files will render. As far as size of the file... I have a huge file of 500 megs that rendered fine... the m2t files that will not render are relatively small... less than 1 meg to about 20 megs.

The media caches is set to Max. Dish cashe size of 50000 and is sent to a seperate Adaptec raid 0 HD set up. The operating system is the exact same raid set up as my disk cashe drive.

The raid size of the drives show a total of 400+ gigs of drive space available (the render raid has a 2X300gig size drives.)

I tried renaming the files, clearing caches, unused render files, chaning the folder name.... pretty much everything I can think of... no luck.

These were all captured the same way... only this group for some reason is not rendering. I'll keep researching and see what I do... until then, maybe someone has an idea as to how to make this work.

Joe Moya

BTW, I don't have the original tapes to capture from... but, I can get them...it just that it will take some time.