.FLAC Audio Support?

Reviving this 13 YEARS later. Still no support. Meanwhile REsolve, a free app, supports it. Embarrassing.

Hello, adventurer, welcome to Honeywo...   year 2023! And here we are, still on the same page.

10 Years later and this is still not in.

My jaw is on the floor. I feel sick. I can't believe flac is not supported. This whole CC thing is screwed. I am a professional/ was a professional. I have to tell a client I need more time and start over in Nuendo. OMG I really can't believe this caught me off guard.

Well, this is dumb and pathetic of a big product like Premiere to not support it!

And it is also typical: Companies are pretty much as a rule to dumb to use and support any open source standard. It is something they don't see, know or recognize.

Flac is a defacto standard, it is probably better documented than most proprietary standards.

And unfortunately, Premiere does not support quite a lot of often used formats, some of them that are even considered to surplant many others, like mkv.

I just have to laugh at it, find it pathetic and sad.

And, there are people defending it too, incredible!

Excellence is a rare item. Defending mediocricy is just sad.

And there are companies that would rather die than use open source software (or an OS like Android), Blackberry is a good example of that.

Not sure why Adobe wouldn't support this FREE, open-source format.

That's why. Open source stuff is too much of a moving target to put into an application where you have to count on a particular feature working all the time. Without it being a standardized format--I mean that in the sense that some big monolithic group or conglomeration of companies is behind it--I doubt that Adobe would want to spend much R&D on building this into Premiere Pro. It's a delivery format, or at best, an archive format--not a production format. It doesn't really matter how technically superior something may be--it's all about dependability. That means that, a lot of times, we get watered down versions of things. So it goes...

Has anyone tried http://valion.net/flacimporter64/ ?

Just tried it. Worked for me with an FLAC exported from Audacity. That was in CS5.5.

have the ability to tag them (8000 clips is a lot to search through one by one)

I just added some metadata to a WAV in Audacity, exported it to another WAV, and found that I could see the added metadata in Bridge and Premiere Pro. There might be an option to add metadata directly to a file with another app; not sure though.

(Actually, just tested adding metadata to a file in Premiere Pro; it was added to the file and I could see it with things like Mediainfo.)

chop file sizes in half.

Valid reasoning, I suppose... but hard drives are cheap and getting cheaper. Seems like a small price to pay for spending the time and effort--and potentially quality and stability--to save some space.

Do you see any problems converting a audio library from .wav to lossless .flac?

I don't see any problems, per se, but I guess I'd do a cost-benefit analysis on such an endeavor. To me, it wouldn't be worth it, but YMMV.

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