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Have a look at Options/Preferences/Video - the proxy switch is there for creating proxies for 4K media. Nonetheless, it is strange that VP is creating proxies for 1920x1080 media.

Yeah, I shut that proxies for 4K media off last week and VP still insists that it be made. I believe otherwise and want VP to obey me.

Go to Internal Preferences (Options / Shift key + click Preferences) and will see a new tab there - Internal. Click on the Internal tab. In the field at the very bottom of Internal, type in Proxy - and you should get 8 selections. Lines 3 and 4 show the minimum V + H resolution for which proxies are triggered. If those are coded at 4K like numbers, lines 1 and 2 allow you to turn off proxies by changing the word TRUE to FALSE, then hit OK. If the rez fields are HD like, change them to the defaults of 4097 and 2161 and then hit OK.

@Dexcon It defaults to 4K and my footage is still 2K. Am perplexed because the project in Resolve has no proxies turned on either.

What do you exactly mean saying "to bring in a project from Resolve" and how do you do such?

@j-v Kindly refer to this thread to aid your comprehension: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/hauling-in-a-davinci-resolve-lite-project-into-vegas-pro--121258/

I'd guess in your case Vegas Pro generates an audio proxy, not video proxies. This is needed for project imports.

@Marco. Why have proxies of any kind when the source footage is sufficient and more importantly, I do not want to activate the proxies. I want to dictate to VP what can and cannot be used. Right now proxies are eating up space and there is no reason for it.

If I am right and these are audio proxies, then Vegas Pro needs them to be able to play the sound at all. It wouldn't make sense to suppress them and audio proxies are very small files. If.

Which is the file type you import from Resolve?

Edit:
I just see Nick already answered this question some days ago here (and it looks like I'm right – we talk about essential audio proxies).

@Marco. The proxies are about a hundred gigs. While I have a roomy SSD, I do not like a hundred gigs wasted when my video and audio files are sitting there perfectly fine and operational. I imported xml and final cut pro options, the latter worked best--except for the proxies shoved down my throat. I would supress proxies if my PCM files are there and perfectly fine. Resolve does not use proxies on this project and works fine. I suspect that if I built the project originaly in Vegas, it would not shove 100+ gigs of proxies down my throat either. I am running multiple projects in VP and this importing is the only one where I am made to swallow proxy. So why not continue in Resolve (lite)? Because I thought I might have more options using a full version of an NLE then a lite version. Oh well.

Actually 15 hours of such audio proxies need 10 GB. You have more than hundred GB of such proxy files? These are more than 150 hours.

Anyway - that's the way Vegas Pro works for such project imports. It just needs the audio proxies, imho.

I'm not sure but I doubt it makes sense, but you can try to turn off the audio proxy creation via the internal preferences. Search for "audio proxy" and turn off the option "Create Audio Proxy Files" (set the value to FALSE).

I think @Former user means the generating of the audio peak files (.sfk). These files are needed to visualize the audio waveform of an audio event. By my knowledge the generation of these small files cannot be turned off.

Peak files are only few kB in size. I'm pretty sure now it is about the audio proxy files (see the linked discussion from a week ago which is the same topic). It's about the SFAP0 files, these are audio proxies.

Yes, peak files are small. I just checked one audio folder which has 2.68GB of WAV files. The .sfk files are only a miniscule 17.2MB in size. That's about .046% the size of the original media.

The project is now six hours of interview footage I spent months arranging. Interview audio is from lav, shotgun, and field mics. There still has to be b-roll, (lots of) images, and a lot of source location field recordings. I do not mind some necessary files, a few gigs. But I am pretty sure it is generating video proxies as well, which I do not need.

Check the file extension. SFAP0 are audio proxies. SFVP0 are video proxies.

@Marco.All that and more, like mov.veg among others. 100 gigs of proxies for 6+ hours of footage will not be all audio. It may be best to simply complete the project in Resolve (lite) as I already invested a lot of time and effort into it. I am not keen on losing months of work. It would have been nice to do it in VP.