How to completely DISABLE Peak File Generation?

[nicky9499]

For one particular project I have to deal with lots and lots of short clips and several large ones totaling a few hundred GBs. All of these will be edited with a separate soundtrack so for all intents and purposes I DO NOT NEED the audio from these files.

The problem is Premiere Pro insists on generating peaks files for all of them - over a hundred hours of footage. While it does, PP is practically unusable because all the disk access is being taken up generating these useless waveforms. Working on a tight schedule means that such delays are extremely frustrating. Can the peak file function be disabled altogether somehow or another or only on clips/audio files that I select?

[Jonah35280985plb4]

This seems to have worked and also reduced Premiere's network usage massively.

[Yoel12345]

Why is this still a problem in 2024?? I can manually cancel auto-transcriptions, but peak file generation is for some reason untouchable? And the entire program and/or machine is crippled meanwhile? Why are background processes allowed to hijack the rest of the UI at all? How is this professional?