preparing audio taking too long and lag the project editing

Question

I’m having a very frustrating issue where every time I open a project, the progress panel in Adobe Premiere Pro starts “relinking media” and “generating audio” and “preparing audio”

which takes many hours to complete and severely slows down my editing process.

I’m currently using version 26.0.2 and working on a large project with a lot of footage. I’m working from a 14TB external USB-C drive. I’ve already cleared the cache that was linked to the external drive and reassigned it to my computer’s internal drive.

I need help solving this problem. Thank you.

EckiAME · Answer

Hi, this sounds like it could be related to an audio sample rate mismatch — if your project is set to 48 kHz but some source files are at a different rate (e.g. 44.1 kHz or 96 kHz), Premiere generates waveform data for all of them on every open. Try going to Sequence Settings and confirming the sample rate matches your source audio.Also: are you on USB 3 or Thunderbolt? And does a simple 3-clip test project show the same delay?

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