Peak Files Issue

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 31, 2019
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Dear Support Team,

Premiere is generating Peak Files every time I open up a project. I have many copies of each Peak File although they are already exist.

I've seen in the Adobe forums that there were issues with Peaks in earlier versions. But, obviously the problem has not been solved so far.

We are working right now on a large series with 20 TB of footage. There is no room and time for generating unnecessary file copies. It slows down our workflow dramatically!

Our storage system is an Avid Nexis connected via 2 x 10Gbit.

HP Z840 Workstation, 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 2,4 GHz, 128 GB RAM,

Local Drives: 4 TB SSD (Samsung)

Network Drive: Avid Nexis, 80 TB

We tried everything concerning Media Cache and Scratch Disk: Linked/Copied/Moved to SSD, Linked/Copied/Moved to Nexis.

No change at all, PR is still generating Peak Files when opening the same project again.

Any Ideas? Solutions?

Many Thanks.

Matthias

felix r.b66368205

Participant

Any Update on this? I have the same problem and couldn't find a solution yet...

joes8923424

Participating Frequently

I have the same problem and it's really exhausting. Adobe products are a nightmare to work with professionally. Every time we change a computer or anything like that its constantly buggy and glitches like this. I am learning FCP X.

It's hard to believe i've put up with this level of instability for close to a decade now.

cluelet

Participating Frequently

Ok here's what Iv'e found so far. I've run into this problem for the first time in a while. I am using Teams Projects now with my clients and using Lucid Link, so everything is essentially either online (using the internet) or on a server. I'm assuming when this server or my internet is being over used it slows the processes down like generating peak files. I turned off auto generate waveforms and now it stops that process. If I highlight a clip or all clips and go to Clip>Generate Audio Waveforms it will actually create them faster than if it was on Auto... yet I'm still running into some issues with certain large clips... So that isn't of much help. Try this and it might help clear the bug initially but there is something going on here. Either my internet, or an Adobe bug...

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ak@anderskoch.dk

Participant

Same here and im so tired of Premiere Pro having issues with so many things. Now crashing again for the 12 time today. On a new mac. Feels like they suppor PC better? But seriously konsidering going to another software now!

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StudioPark

Participant

Adobe, I have the same problem. Unchecked Auto waveform generator and it is still generating Peak files. It has already made them when I brought the footage in. Why is it doing it every time I open the project. I'm new to premiere from FCP but this surely can't be the norm. I'm editing a 2 hour documentary and have over 100 hours of footage. You can see this would be a problem when this happens every time I open the project. Whats your official response to this?

Averdahl

Community Expert

I'm new to premiere from FCP but this surely can't be the norm.

This is not normal but i have seen it happen when one start working with media while it still conforming the audio, and/or when having the Media Cache Files and the Media Cache pointing to external or network drives. Go to Premiere Pro > Preferences > Media Cache and change them to internal drives.

Are the files conforming or are they generating peak files?