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Filmus
Filmus
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January 12, 2024
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Copy of Audio or Video without reencoding

  • January 12, 2024
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Hi,

I continue to study this wonderful conversion tool. But I'm confused that I can't find a way to not recode the audio or video stream, but just add it unchanged. This feature is available in a lot of free tools and probably in this advanced one, but I can't find it. Is there any clue?

Thank you

Correct answer eckiAMETeam

I am afraid we do not have this out of the box. For MPEG-based formats you can use ffmpeg (e.g.

ffmpeg -i input-video.avi -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aac).


I will add a feature request. Thanks for your suggestion!

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ChWard
Community Manager
ChWardCommunity Manager
Community Manager
March 13, 2024

Hi there,

we basically do this already through Smart Rednering. If Smart Rendering is used, parts that don't need encoding will be copied. For audio, if it is uncompressed we can also pass it through (if no effect is applied). Compressed audio we always need to re-compress. 

Filmus
FilmusAuthor
Known Participant
April 10, 2024

It is very annoying that a commercial encoder does not allow you to simply replace the audio track without recompressing, whereas free utilities easily do this.

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    Anonymous
    February 4, 2024

    An news on this. I desperately need to transcode optimized media to continue working in premiere pro - but it NEEDS to match audio channels later, so there MUST be a way to pass through audio doesnt it???

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    Adobe Employee
    eckiAMETeam
    Adobe Employee
    February 4, 2024

    I am not sure how your post relates to the above thread.

    Please be more specific so that we can help you: What is your source material? What is your target format? Which OS; CPU and GPU do you use? Which versions of AME and Premiere Pro? What exactly does not work?

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    Anonymous
    February 4, 2024

    I am sorry if I got it wrong. I thought he was asking for an option to copy audio (while transcoding video for example.) I added it as an "idea" but maybe a solution already exists. 

    Add audio passthrough for prores transcode or prox... - Adobe Community - 14400410

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    Adobe Employee
    eckiAMETeamCorrect answer
    Adobe Employee
    January 16, 2024

    I am afraid we do not have this out of the box. For MPEG-based formats you can use ffmpeg (e.g.

    ffmpeg -i input-video.avi -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aac).


    I will add a feature request. Thanks for your suggestion!

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