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Recovering Audio Preview Files

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 7, 2016
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Hello,

I recently suffered a massive data loss in our company. Our main production server had a RAID card die and it took one of the three RAID arrays completely out. Drives were dead, RAID card was fried. It had the best audio clips on there that we recorded from a recent wedding (we also had backup mics, but not as good) and I rendered one video out with those files. There's a backup folder on my desktop that has all of the audio preview files from the project in there.

Is there any way to use those audio preview files to try and recover the lost audio clips from the server? The files are .cfa and .pek formats.

ANY help is much appreciated.

Cam

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excited_Genie16B8

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.cfa files aren't "preview" files. If you'd actually had those, they'e be ordinary .wav files that you could use anywhere.

lasleymediagroupAuthor

Participant

These files are in the "Premiere Pro Audio Previews" folder in the main project folder... so I assume they are, just in a different file format?

excited_Genie16B8

Legend

These files are in the "Premiere Pro Audio Previews" folder

That's odd. They're normally stored in the Cache folder.

Community Expert

Community Expert

I dont think you can.

Pek files are generate on import they make the waveform.

Cfa files are the indexing files to make the audio play in real time

Community Expert

Community Expert

Yes thats what i know but

so i thought he can give it a shot.

Muhannad,

Community Expert

Community Expert

Is this a Premiere Pro question?

lasleymediagroupAuthor

Participant

Yes. Premiere Pro audio preview files

Community Manager

Community Manager

Moving to Premiere Pro