What are PEAK files for and where to enable them?

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December 14, 2024
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After a clean installation of Premiere, the function of creating a PEAK file disappeared. Is it really necessary if I work with an SSD drive and how can I turn it on and off?

Correct answer MyerPj

What makes you think they are off? Do you have any waveforms at all showing?

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MyerPj

Community Expert

If you are going to run it thru ME, that might be a good time to switch it the ProRes, or GoPro (Quicktime). You can even use ProRes "Proxy" format. Otherwise, you would be taking a generation hit. ProRes is visually lossless. Do you have a short sample footage I can try here. Post it on Google drive, etc, and share the link.

MyerPj

Correct answer

Community Expert

What makes you think they are off? Do you have any waveforms at all showing?

Here's where they go:

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T - Sal

Community Expert

Hello, These files hold audio waveforms of individual clips,

For Adobe Premiere Pro:

PEAK files are automatically generated when you import audio or video files into your project. If you don’t see the waveform immediately, Premiere will generate the PEAK file as you scrub through the timeline.
You can manage PEAK file preferences under Preferences > Media. Here you can control where Premiere stores these files and clear or regenerate them if needed.

T-Sal

FulStak Videditr

Inspiring

Hello T - Sal and Adobe Community,

We checked the preference in Premiere Pro under Media (and else where) an see no option to generate peak files, especially for video. We are trying to get Premiere Pro to generate peaks files for vMix H.264 in MP4 container. Even if we convert to footage to ProRes (which are monstrous larger files, even at LT), Premiere Pro still does not generate peak files from the ProRes in the .mov container. Even a native camera file, such as an MP4 from the Cannot R6 generates a peak file. And a Program Mix.mov from vMix also generates a peak file. But for some reason, there is a particular format set from vMix that the editor will not generate peak files. Thank you for any information you can provide.

MyerPj

Community Expert

PIA, I downloaded vmix and managed to generate the AVI, and I saw that the peak file was written, I have audio and the correct waveform. Where are you looking?