Peak File Re-Generation and Audio Corruptions

Report · Jun 06, 2023

For context I work with huge projects. I'm talking about 8-20 hours long videos, from which I extract what I need into several 10 minutes long videos. Peak files are amazing, both to find out interesting spots in the videos and to make spot on subtitles. Generating peak files take really long, but it's not the issue.

I recently got a laptop to work on my videos, while I am not home. I decided to be really smart about it and use the provided cloud storage for my media cache. I move it there, put everything where it should be and once everything is there I started Premiere on the laptop only to find out peak files are generating again (this has happened twice already). Ok, sure maybe it's my bad, no worries, I waited it out and just put the media cache on the same external drive where I have my footage. Reason for my post is, is there no way to link peak files and why is Premiere regenerating peak files despite there very much being peak files in the correct destination?

Today I booted my laptop and started working. Firstly my hard drive notified me about there being a problem and ran diagnostics, afterwards everything was fine, only one file video file, which was not part of the project and several things in media cache corrupted (only few small audio files I used, so I lost about 5 seconds of progress). There was nothing wrong with the project and I kept on editing without any issues.

When I got home and opened the very same project, all of the audio was distorted into oblivion, I am talking ear destroying peak of one high note. All of it. The drive had no issues, nothing new was corrupted and the videos themselves were unaffected. I followed this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/strange-audio-problem-in-premiere-pro-cs6/td...

and that seemed easy enough, I already had most of the things edited so I only deleted about 2 hours worth of peak files. Boot Premiere back up and all of the peak files started regenerating. The fix did work, at a cost of generating peak files for 2 hours, but why is there no option to import peak files or at least manage them.

Am I completely blind, because I couldn't find out anything in Adobe help/support and on the internet. Now this might be completely my sided, because I've been messing with media cache and work with incredibly unnecessarily huge projects

Version PP: 23.4.0

Report · Jun 06, 2023

Media Cache should be located on a fast, internal drive. Not on cloud storage, and only on an external drive if you know that the drive letter or Volume name will not change.

I would suggest you use the default location of the media cache as it will be the most stable from that location. To quickly reset the location, it is easiest to delete your preferences. Hold Shift key on startup and select "Reset app Preferences"

Report · Jun 06, 2023

Resseting the app preferences would place Media Cache on my SSD, which would be fast and internal, but then I could not work with my files on my other workstation. That would mean generating the peak files everytime I start working on a project on a different device. The drive letter for each workstation is the same, I made sure to assign the designated letter to it.

Is there really no way to link peak files? What is even the point of having cloud storage other than auto-saving projects then? I do admit, that my external hard drive might be at fault here. Currently my entire Adobe Premire Pro Media Cache and Database are only 1GB big and I had a quite a lot of projects being worked on there.

Thank you for your respose.

Report · Jun 07, 2023

"That would mean generating the peak files everytime I start working on a project on a different device."

Yes, this is how it should work. Media Cache and Peak files are not sharable. If you try to share them you will have the exact kinds of bugs you are seeing.