Seconding. This is becoming completely necessary for broadcast requirements that do not accept sidecar caption loading, MXF, Quicktime, etc, for EIA/CEA-708 captions. Please add MPEG-2 as a format to accept embedded captioning, since ME and PPRo do everything else fine with an MPEG-2 program stream it seems. Currently, other services are needed to then inject embedded captions into MPEG-2 programming in order to meet with ingest compliance for captioning commercials, paid programing, and full length programming. ... View more

Glad I was not losing my mind and thinking some kind of shortcut bug happened on my whole mac. Looking forward to next public release that addresses this!  ... View more

So, just to clarify, you are performing the merge IN the timeline, and not the project panel? I brought up the timeline technique to prevent the media from being deleted from your project erroneously, that way you can enjoy the benefits of merged clips without this issue stopping your work. But, since you brought up the timeline, have you tried Merge Clips from the project panel, or JUST in the timeline? ... View more

Have you marked in, out, or both on ANY of the clips? The original clips shouldn't be deleted from your project when you use Merge clips, but instead may be MOVED to another bin within your project. Have you tried to search for the original clip? The reason I ask about the mark in and mark out of the original clips is because that messes with what actually gets merged - mark in and out a single frame of video and merge with an audio clip, only that frame will be in the resulting merged clip, but both original clips should, I think, get moved to a new bin within the Project Panel. In the interest of a projects getting done - have you tried synchronizing video and audio in their own sequence, and then opening that sequence within the Source monitor to use it like a 'normal' master clip? ... View more

Does the Project Manager's Transcode function not work for this for you? You can use it to export your project and a new project file to a new location - great for archival. It also allows you to transcode every piece of media in a sequence/timeline, and specify the export settings, thought no as robust as AME (I believe it's output functions for transcoding are identical to Render and Replace on the timeline). You can choose to just use the frames used in a sequence, or give each new video file some handle. You can also choose to just copy all used media and a new project file to a new file location, and disregard unused assets from your project. It's not ideal, I'm sure, and it's not the same as batch encoding - for one, It has to run within Premiere and just....goes. Not a lot of monitoring you can do in-program. But, it's an option I know some don't realize is there! ... View more

Can you post the audio portion of MediaInfo as well? It sounds like something is causing it to base the framerate after an audio duration. It's weird because your frame rate for the video is constant, at least it says it is. As a work around, could you duplicate the clip in your project, conform one to the correct frame rate, then, bring the audio from the non-conformed clip and the video of the conformed clip into the timeline, then Group them? ... View more