“Pic Ref” quicktime has audio. “Conform Ref” has tape/TC burnin, but never, ever, ever audio. So I mix and match.
This is more than one LA edit house too. What am I missing?
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I see a lot of times where the edit ref’s have audio but flame won’t read it. I believe this has to do with a newer codec being applied and if flame isn’t up to date won’t read the audio. I’ll send it through media encoder to get it all working. Happens a lot
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That was a good guess. But nope, these have empty audio tracks!
seems like sloppy prep then
Refs without audio is standard procedure for feature films sadly. There were so many times I was building movies that I thought were really good until we got the audio track! 
Come to think of it, I still have no idea what Blade Runner 2049 was about. . . Gonna have to watch that one someday, now that I think I’m finally over the PTSD!
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That’s interesting. Wonder if it’s some holdout prep an edit assist decided they needed for a laundry detergent commercial, and no one has been able to stop them.
I could see the value if it’s got all the repos pulled off as well, so you can easily check if your conform and timewarps are working without playing the “match the scale across time” game. I get those sometimes and they make me happy.
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Yep. Another example of non-sensical editorial shit. I get it for features but if you’re providing a ref with burnins and audio as well…
I get conform refs with audio - commercials - but I also see thing vary depending on editors / assistants