@whamalamaboom Sorry for the confusion here – but I can explain what’s happening. The short version is that if you import media that was previously analyzed and the analysis was cached, Premiere will index that analysis no matter what. The indexing is a very quick step and means you’ll be able to search against that analysis that already existed.
The long answer:
The Media Intelligence process is really two steps. The first step is that each imported media file is analyzed. This is what the “Analyze all imported media...” checkbox controls. If you turn off the checkbox, no new analysis will happen. Premiere by default will cache this analysis in the Media Cache, though you can choose to instead have it written next to the media file as a sidecar .prmi file, or you can set it to not cache at all. This part of the process is more taxing on your system as it uses CPU, GPU, and potentially your NPU or Neural Engine if your system has one.
The second step is then the analysis for each file is put into a single index database for your project. This is what Premiere actually searches when you use the Search panel to find visuals or audio. This is the .prin file next to your project file.
So, what you’re likely seeing is that second step happening, when you import media the already has a cached analysis. The second step is very fast, isn’t taxing on your system, and there is no way to turn it off.
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