Adobe Premiere Pro 2026, audio waveform generation after importing clips into the timeline is extremely slow

Hi ​@Srinath S ,

I’m looking into this now and I couldn’t find a known issue. I’m curious, in Project Settings, where your media cache is located, how much free space does it have? 

If you could also provide me with the following information, that could help me troubleshoot your issue: 

• Operating System: Specify Windows or macOS, along with the version.
• GPU Driver (Windows only): Please let us know your video card driver version. We recommend updating to the most recent version; for NVIDIA users, we strongly recommend the Studio version of the driver.
• Video Format: If the issue relates to playback or export, please specify the format (and ideally share a sample video).

Hope to help,

Amy Stuvland

Sorry I have no answer, but just confirming that my co-worker and I are having the exact same issues and have tried the same fixes with no luck. I thought perhaps it had something to do with our corporate license or something, but if you are experiencing the same thing then it must be a bug. My co-worker went so far as to uninstall Premiere and reinstall it. No help.

Also transcriptions are taking at age. Current estimate is 4 hours to transcribe a less than 30 minute recording. So no transcript + no waveform is basically dead in the water.