"Preparing audio (1 of 42)"
I'm making some SD h264 mp4 files in Premiere from some Youtube rips, and AME insists on preparing 42 audio files before making the (mono) audio output. It goes through each of the 42 quite quickly but it massively increases the processing time.
Whatever the codec the Youtube files may have had originally, they have been rendered out into Adobe Audition beforehand so they are standard wav files.
Why is it doing this with these particular files? It doesn't normally, when processing similar SD video files using the same settings.
thanks
