Project manager and ARRI Alexa Mini files - cannot transcode-trim files
Project manager and ARRI Alexa Mini files - cannot transcode-trim files. These files have 5 audio channels, so Premiere will only copy, not consolidate files. When there are fewer audio channels. Project Manager works. This 5-channel configuration cannot be altered in-camera.
Oliver Peters
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Leo Sa
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After 4 years and the problem still persists. I'm in the exact situation now.
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Nicolas from Autokroma
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We just developed a plugin called PlumePack which could help you !
It's a kind of Project Manager but with the "Trim" feature instead of "Transcode" : it removes your unused frames without re-encoding so you keep the same codec, exact same quality and your media will be lighter. It's like copying a part of your files.
It supports ARRI RAW Alexa files (xmf) but also ProRes, R3D, BRAW and soon H.264/H.265.
For more information : https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack
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Antoine Autokroma.com (Independent Developer of AfterCodecs, BRAW Studio, PlumePack, Influx)
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Hey, please contact us https://www.autokroma.com/contact and we will solve your problem :)
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Oliver Peters
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This still hasn't been fixed. It relates to the presence of the embedded LUT metadata. This is an easy fix that other applications can deal with. Why not Adobe?
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Oliver Peters
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I've had past Alexa files with audio and they consolidated. But the Mini file (and Amira as well, I believe) embeds 5 channels of audio, even though there are only 4 audio inputs on the camera. Something about that prevents correct consolidation. However, other NLEs have no problem and can properly trim these files.
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Will
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Is the number of audio channels the reason why Project Manager will not trim clips when consolidating a project using Consolidate & Transcode? I ask because whenever we "Consolidate" a project (Red footage mostly) even if there are no audio channels on a clip it will not trim it even though Individual Clips is selected and Transcode & Consolidate to ProRes. I find this part of Premiere highly frustrating when you consolidate a 30sec film down to 1TB of data from an original project size of 1.1TB its a whole LTO tape on its own. When will they sort this out I wonder.