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generating peak file explanation please
I’m relatively new to Premiere – I come from Final Cut and Avid world. I’m doing additional editing on a feature that was sent to me. Received the drive, reconnected the media, now I’ve been sitting for over 2 hours waiting for peak files to be generated. Not exactly sure what this is – from what I understand it caches a version of the audio into a database. This process seems to be really slowing down my system and to make matters worse there’s no way to tell how long this process will ultimately take.
Any of you seasoned premiere editors out there have any advice? I really don’t understand exactly what this process is doing so if you could enlighten me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
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ppro automatically generates peak files for waveform display. For several hours of footage it takes some time. If you don’t need to show audio waveforms, you can disable automatic peak file generation in preferences. Then ppro will only generate waveforms at the place you play back.
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Thanks for the response. I feel like it’s not performing properly because the waveforms are all built in the timeline. Its now just rewriting the files over and over.
Where is that pref. to turn off peak file generation. Thanks.
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Tony –
It always helps to post at the very least, the version of PPro you’re using. There was a bug fix in PPro 6.0.1, which added an Audio Preference:
When this preference is disabled, importing audio or opening projects will not cause peak files to be generated. If peak files were already generated, then waveforms will be visible. Files imported before the preference was disabled will continue to generate peak files.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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