Generating Peak File for...

Wow, this has been going on for 3-4 hours already.
Unacceptable, and I can't find any reference to this process in the Adobe Docs for PP. I have no idea where it is in the process. Is it almost done? Does it have another 12 hours to go? What is the deal with this? I have not touched my computer in hours.
I have a PP Project with about 10 bins with about 1 hour of video in each.
Should I break my project down so I have 10 PP files with 1 hour of video per project?
I was hoping to keep everything in one PP file, but that is looking like a really bad idea right now. I don't remember having to suffer through anything like with when working with Final Cut Pro.
Will these stupid Peak Files be saved? Is there a chance they will get corrupt and have to regenerate? This took a whole half day, and more, since it's still ongoing. This is on my MBP 2.4GHz. If I want to move the files back and forth between my laptop and my Windows Core i7 920 desktop (I have Production Premium on both platforms), will I have to suffer the Peak File Generation everytime?
All video was captured in OnLocation, straight from the camera. That part of the process seemed really cool. This part with the Peak File is really lame.
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count_schemula wrote:
The solution? I'm going to edit on my windows desktop.
OMG, what have I gotten myself into?
Same problem on my PC. Premiere Pro 4.2 on Windows 7 64 bit. Freshly installed. All legit software.
I made a new project, import all the video, and let it generate all peak files.
It finishes. Close Premeire. Open Premiere... Generating Peak File for...
My heart sinks so low.
I delete the .pek files and the database files and in the preferences, I set it to save cache and database files to a folder within my project folder.
It dutifully generates all new .pek file and database files. I watch it write them one by one. It does not write anything in the original Adobe shared cache folders. It completes. I quickly edit up one segment, just so I have some work to show for my 4 days of messing around with this.
Close Premiere. Open Premiere.
Generating Peak File for...
I'm speechless.
Footage was captured to disc using OnLocation on a Mac from a Panasonic AG-HVX200a via fireware.
If you want to call me an idiot, point out where I'm not doing something right.
If you want to blame my rig(s) just know that I push these systems hard daily with ZERO issues in other apps.
I'm blaming Premiere at this point. Something about how this program works is just not right. In both cases it writes over already existing .pek files. I have 4 channels per clip, so 4 .pek files for every clip I have. It's towards 1000. pek files.

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