Optimize Premiere Pro 2020 Tutorial! Scratch Disks, Media Cache, etc

Here is how you can optimize Adobe Premier Pro workload for any computer, laptop, Mac, Windows, whatever you use. I mention media cache and scratch disks in the video to further understand how Premier works and increase performance while editing on this program.
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[@BreannaC]

Thank you this is exactly what I needed! Great tutorial, so helpful.

[@rodrigozottis7941]

This is the best video i've seen so far. You're the best, and trust me, I've seen a lot of videos about adobe cache. Cheers

[@21stWallStreet]

Thank you sir!

[@VipinnSwetika]

Helped me A Lot Brother, I was able to see immediate results, I had a smooth playback even without using proxies in my small laptop

[@21stWallStreet]

I'm glad man :)

[@wanderfulbyaki9686]

Thank you so so much for this super helpful tips! i was so annoyed with my laggy old macbook, but after i changed my scratch disk location to my external ssd, it worked like magic!

[@21stWallStreet]

Glad!

[@toolspro7612]

Super video! Informative, fast, no unnecessary speech, only the main topic! SUPER THANKS! :) Cheers

[@21stWallStreet]

:) yep

[@vajiraweerasekera7612]

excellent! Short and to the point.

[@chivasarguello]

it works... a little more speed in my workflow. Thank a lot

[@thirukannan9441]

You just saved my day!!! thanks a lot

[@brandon_wilson]

Great video man I can definitely see a difference!!

[@21stWallStreet]

Glad it helped :)

[@KarjimiDZ]

Super useful. Thanks a lot, man!

[@21stWallStreet]

Welcome!

[@Decodingfashion_]

This is absolute Gold Mine, You have just saved so many Lives,,, Thanks for this video. Can you also cover the same topic on photoshop and Illustrator as well. Many Thanks

[@davistyson3561]

Thanks a lot @SLpreme

[@chudakovsergey]

Thx man! )

[@qaziikram8106]

thank you very much you solved my problem of lagging

[@FroobTubeLIVE]

Very pog, thank you, kind sir. This even helped with my aging potato pc! Now I will WIN the KZbins

[@GeranFrancisHawak]

Life-saver!! Panicked when i checked task manager and saw that premiere was using >15gb/16gb of my RAM lmao

[@spencer5354]

This is some good stuff to know that you!

[@21stWallStreet]

Bot

[@vegisanprodukcje]

thanksssss!

[@cfldriven]

Growing Files is important for those wanting to work with material as it being recorded. You should always give a reason for turning something on or off, so the viewer can make a more informed choice. Enable Mercury Transmit essential if wanting to use external monitor.

[@21stWallStreet]

that's not the point, this is for the general public, my tips were for people with average specs to get a performance boost

[@cfldriven]

@@21stWallStreet Still not a good excuse for not explaining the why to all your choices.

[@21stWallStreet]

I don't need an excuse, it's my video. People don't want to hear rambling so I minimize it.

[@b.narendrapradhan1582]

Thanks sir 🙏

[@dougnixon6464]

@SLpreme You said to put your video and audio preview scratch disks on your fastest drive. Would this be better than having your OS and premiere on the fastest drive? My new build will have 3 separate SSDs, the new super-fast SSD I bought and my 2 older ones. Just curious what you think I should best allocate OS/premiere, cache, scratch disk, and source media, etc...

[@hardcore7559]

Super useful

[@21stWallStreet]

check out youtube videos on proxies as I did a bad job explaining in this old video, its not actually useless!!!

[@jaybarratt]

Hey thanks - Appreciate these tips for my next video... I just upgraded my PC and added multiple Nvme drives to assign the scratch & cache. It would have been helpful if you could provide an explanation of the features you recommend to switch off in the settings, to give people more peace of mind, as to what they are de-activating. Maybe you could add this extra info in your video description? Cheers.

[@21stWallStreet]

They are features that you don't worry about unless you know about them, so basically if you know you know! Otherwise just turned them off!

[@tushar7224]

Hello sir I open the my project say that media pending why

[@VadaiGod]

thanks mamae!

[@md.mithukhalifa6912]

Super video for me

[@artoonygaming394]

3:09 will it effect other apps when premiere pro is not running/ not in use?

[@erikconn]

Thank You..

[@21stWallStreet]

Welcome!

[@torpmusic]

thanks for the vid. if there's just one drive on the computer (macbook), can it be an external ssd for scratch files/media cache? and do you also know, if an external ssd would work for the media files too, or is it faster to have them on the internal? thx thx thx

[@21stWallStreet]

Yessir I do that on my MacBook. Any drive would work, you just have to link it properly. Internal drive ideally should be just premiere only and extra drive should be cache or project files

[@JoeyLuckyBoyNato]

goat

[@21stWallStreet]

thx g

[@mohammad1282]

Thank yOu

[@21stWallStreet]

You're welcome

[@omstudio6677]

thamks sir

[@21stWallStreet]

Yessir

[@basicPROcreator]

tnx

[@BajanLifestyles]

Thanks for making this video really helped

[@21stWallStreet]

Glad :)

[@carlosarotinco3150]

How does your computer handle images when scaling in and out? I have a PNG and it freezes when I try to zoom in.

[@21stWallStreet]

Seems like a bug my friend

[@hotelphotography]

Great video, thanks. When I want to add another scratch disk to my photoshop "scratch disks" window, only 1 appears even though I have multiple external drives connected. So I don't have the option to add others to the scratch disks. Any suggestions?

[@21stWallStreet]

You have to click browse and click on the correct disk drive

[@hotelphotography]

@@21stWallStreet What do you mean "click browse"?

[@21stWallStreet]

@@hotelphotography it's hard to explain over text but there should be a browse button or explore on the right side of whatever fold you have selected

[@thefacelessone74]

indeterminate media timebase is for still images why would it matter if your using video

[@TereWild]

Hello! If I work with proxies I still have to desable proxies?

[@21stWallStreet]

Nope!

[@21stWallStreet]

Keep it!

[@LemonMusic1111]

Bro after applying this settings my premiere pro crashed Blue screen death. It's using 100% Memory and getting crashed idk why, mine graphics card is NVIDIA getforce GTX 1050 4GB, Intel HD Graphics card core i5, 7th gen. Do I need to change something in Graphics Settings?

[@21stWallStreet]

Huh how often does your system blue screen outside of editing?

[@joeypuvel1228]

I don't fully understand all this yet which might be exposed b y this question: When I assign separate SSDs for Scratch disk and cache, can these just be blank SSD's? Like can I have all of my raw footage importing in from a hard drive, and then assign blank SSD's to the scratch disk and cache like you showed? Thanks!

[@21stWallStreet]

Yeah you want to have some drives dedicated to one of those tasks only for best performance. I am not rich so I just used a really fast NVME drive to do the cache and scratch disk and the other works as my normal windows and project files

[@joeypuvel1228]

@@21stWallStreet thanks for the reply. I kind of gave up for the time being because my mac is telling me I don't have permission to write to the drive even though I am an administrator.. it's confusing.

[@21stWallStreet]

@@joeypuvel1228 weird man

[@ivanjunifan]

Thank for the video Bro! But my premiere 2020 keep crash after notifications "cant create image buffer" or "low level exception" any idea with this issue? Thanks

[@21stWallStreet]

HMMMM, are your graphics driver upto date? What GPU are you using?

[@ivanjunifan]

@@21stWallStreet im using ROG laptop G531GT, ram already 16gb and GTX 1650 .. and yes, its updated..

[@21stWallStreet]

@@ivanjunifan strange... I'll google something

[@ktwo2933]

So if i set 29GB RAM for adobe ,other software like FL studio only gets 3GB RAM ?

[@21stWallStreet]

Not really it's more of a maximum amount allowed for premier. If you needed that much ram then premiere would be higher priority

[@evanvalenta7621]

Why disable proxies? They seem to help a lot with intense workflows. Would you only recommend disabling if not using any?

[@21stWallStreet]

Updated this in my 2021 version!

[@87rtlandry]

So... I'm not sure why, but my Edit tab does not show "Preferences" anywhere on the dropdown list. I simply created a new project, and was going to try out your suggestions, but I can't really do that if there's no Preferences option.

[@21stWallStreet]

Are you on Mac?

[@87rtlandry]

@@21stWallStreet I figured it out. Yes, I'm on Mac. It's under the Premiere Pro pull down. ;)

[@87rtlandry]

@@21stWallStreet I just went to the Help tab and searched "Preferences". Easy fix.

[@21stWallStreet]

@@87rtlandry that's why! Windows has different layouts than Mac but I'm glad you fixed it!

[@movesthesoul]

Great video! One question though 🤔 even though I changed the location of the Media Cache Files folder to a different hard drive, upon importing footage into my project my main drive seems to want to fill up (as if it's using that as the Media Cache Folder). Any thoughts on this, and how i would be able to get around it? Thanks!

[@21stWallStreet]

It's probably because the footage moves to your main drive to the media cache drive. Make sure you use an SSD if possible (I would just buy a bunch of 64gb SSD in bulk, one for scratch disk, one for media cache, one of exports)

[@movesthesoul]

@@21stWallStreet Thanks for the reply! I have my source files on a separate hard drive which is not my main C drive. That's why I find it strange 🤔

[@21stWallStreet]

@@movesthesoul are you low on space on your c drive?

[@movesthesoul]

@@21stWallStreet I tend to be low on space when working on a project, yes

[@21stWallStreet]

@@movesthesoul must be massive project or a low sized storage drive

[@seven-tq9vu]

Is it really necessary to buy an external SSD or disk partition can also be considered?

[@21stWallStreet]

it is necessary if you want maximum performance. Partition doesn't count as it is about the drives total bandwidth performance

[@baddogastro]

Why would I want to disable proxies. I use proxy video for edit 4k and 4k h.265 content. With out proxy videos you cannot easily play or scrub timeline without being choppy and have latency issues. I have 64 GB of ram and an 8 core processor, plus an NVIDA Quadro K4200 and without the use of proxies it still lags

[@21stWallStreet]

Really? I have a laptop with iGPU and it works with 4k. You talking about raw 4k red footage?

[@baddogastro]

@@21stWallStreet yes, raw full 4k drone footage UHD h.264 and h.265

[@LemonMusic1111]

Bro do you have changed any settings in NVIDIA Getforce Control panel kindly share with me, my premiere pro is getting crashed, it's using 100% RAM(8GB) Blue screen death 😢. I think I need to change some settings in NVIDIA Getforce Control panel

[@moonchacordon22]

hi, why is there no 1/8 quality in program monitor? thank

[@21stWallStreet]

Only in higher res not 1080p

[@moonchacordon22]

@@21stWallStreet thank you 😊😊

[@Dunzocamerarentpune388]

my ram is 32 gb how i can use reserved ram premiere pro ?

[@Dunzocamerarentpune388]

4K film editing my workflow

[@21stWallStreet]

So do what I did in the video man!

[@miteshpanchal9124]

for media cache files, instead of separate hard-drive, can we allocate a separate partition of same hard drive or SSD ??

[@21stWallStreet]

It wouldn't make a difference. The reason you want multiple drives is for extra bandwidth

[@miteshpanchal9124]

@@21stWallStreet okay.......just a silly thought, what if I attach a pen-drive (64GB) and give cache file location to built there..... can it work ?

[@21stWallStreet]

@@miteshpanchal9124 no because pen drive is too slow :) just work on a project with a single ssd. that should be sufficient

[@lahirumadushanka5756]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3rd CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz 4.00 GB (3.88 GB usable) 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Windows 10 Home 20H2 On board intel VGA 612MB Can I use Pr with these ?

[@21stWallStreet]

Need more ram, 16gb recommend or 8gb with a 4gb graphics card (any card with 4gb)

[@anishmalla7976]

maybe you should get anothet stick of ram and a gpu and you would be ready to rock

[@ChristopherDillman]

This is great. Really appreciate these menu window step by steps. Look forward to trying this, sick of the force quit then restart enemas. Btw - These menu settings are different. Can't find this menu setup in Premiere Pro 2020 v14.3.2. Media and Media Cache however appear to be the same.

[@21stWallStreet]

Hmmm I might create a new updated video

[@ChristopherDillman]

@@21stWallStreet Thanks. Btw just tried all the settings you suggest, and my laptop (MacBook Pro 32Gb RAM, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB, 1 TB) still takes a dump. Premiere does now last longer tho in the edit, but then I hear the fan start to roar, then I get the out of memory message on Mac, proceeded by shut down/hard boot. External drive I'm pointing to for scratch has over 3.54 TB available of space, so this is a kerfuffle.

[@21stWallStreet]

@@ChristopherDillman weird I have much worse hardware and it works pretty well (ryzen 1200 rx 470

[@georgelevantovskij8593]

@@ChristopherDillman The fastest drive option for a cache files would be an internal NVME drive. In your case (with MacBook) even external SSD via USB C/Thunderbolt port would work better compared to 3.54 TB mechanical old school spinning drive which doesn't reach the same speed as SSD or NVME.

[@DerrickDJ]

I have 2x 1TB nvme drives in my computer, should I use one as a scratch/media cache drive?

[@21stWallStreet]

I think you can use one of them as both (it's a little overkill to have one separate one of each of those :) and the other drive could be the project files and exports

[@DerrickDJ]

@@21stWallStreet Wow thanks for the quick reply, thanks! Have a good one.

[@Willferox]

Are the changes made to Video Previews and Audio Previews saved for all future projects thereafter? Or do they have to be adjusted individually for each project?

[@21stWallStreet]

they are automatically generated and future projects will not reuse the files. Only if the file is reused in the same project Premiere would use them again

[@Willferox]

@@21stWallStreet What I mean is, I want to ensure all future project use my M2 drive as a scratch disk. Will I have to select the drive location of the scratch disk for each new project, or is there a way to permenantly set the scratch disks so that all future projects use the same drive (in my case, a dedicated m2 drive)?

[@21stWallStreet]

@@Willferox ohh scratch disk will just need to be set just once and premiere will keep using it forever

[@Willferox]

@@21stWallStreet Perfect, thanks!

[@RejectedHeroesMedia]

Will this work the same for a iMac

[@21stWallStreet]

Yep! I optimize it also for my MacBook Pro

[@PapaBellic]

Thanks for the tips I'm using a 4gb ram lap and using premiere pro 2020 took up to 80℅ of my ram I had to downgrade a bit and now I'm using 2013 version. Well.i just started KZbin so im gonna start small 🙃

[@21stWallStreet]

I know, you gotta start somewhere! I would recommend you to research proxies on KZbin and enable it on low ram computers

[@PapaBellic]

@@21stWallStreet Yeah thanks

[@zetapaul18]

everytime i look at these videos the interface is different and i cant find what im looking for even tho it is pr2020

[@21stWallStreet]

Really? Do you have a Mac?

[@conniearevalo7434]

Hello. Which HD do you recomend to install Adobe CC?

[@21stWallStreet]

Any

[@21stWallStreet]

Or on same directory as your OS

[@redplanet9162]

You don't like proxies? They're amazing. Allow your slow computer to play back faster because you're playing back low res copies of your media. Then when it's time to render, you simply turn it off.

[@autonomous9031]

Legit

[@21stWallStreet]

epic

[@thefacelessone74]

raw at 1/4 resolution :p lets see it in full

[@paulknowles9727]

Disable Proxies????? WHY? You need a super fast and expensive PC t edit without Proxy!

[@cesaramaral7007]

Due to limited amount of spare connections I have, would I benefit from getting just one 128gb SSD just for scratch and cache?

[@21stWallStreet]

Yes. Theoretically. If you have fast enough CPU ryzen 3 or intel i5 3470 or better and a 4GB or better graphics card it'll benefit

[@21stWallStreet]

Also 8gb or more ram

[@cesaramaral7007]

@@21stWallStreet oh, nice. I have a R7 2700X, 16Gb ram, and a 1060 6GB. So I just install the 240gb ssd and set scratch and media cache to that?

[@21stWallStreet]

@@cesaramaral7007 yes it should be a breeze!

[@21stWallStreet]

Make sure you use CUDA hardware acceleration too

[@georgioskonstantinou4226]

disable proxies?

[@21stWallStreet]

It doesn't matter, at least in my case, I don't use them and that's because I have decent hardware. If you don't then leave it on

[@JonathanAyers]

I had the same question. I leave it on, when I want to see something I just render that part. At least for me, when projects start to have lots of layers, color correction, adjustment layers, audio, so on and so forth, it’s just smooth no matter what. 😁🤷🏻‍♂️

[@21stWallStreet]

@@JonathanAyers true

[@georgioskonstantinou4226]

Also for a draft edit on the move with a laptop, the proxies seem to help a lot.

[@gamerpoets]

Disable proxies? You're messing a lot of people with the info in here man = ) Maybe make a pinned comment?

[@21stWallStreet]

old vid

[@ArtyMars]

I also called my Adobe Projects disk my P Drive i just thought that was cool haha

[@21stWallStreet]

Lol

[@markkilby2012]

my F'ING GOD! IM SO GFLAD I WATCH THIS VIDEO!!!!!! I had it set to 28GBS OF RAM GIVING ME ONLY 4GBS OF RAM I WAS WONDERING WHY I WAS SOOOO FRIGGIN SLOWWW!

[@21stWallStreet]

Lmao I did that too!

[@brew-frostudios4047]

AS SOON AS I CLEARED MY CACHE IT STARTED RUNNING LIKE DAY 1 AGAIN 😭😭😭😭

[@21stWallStreet]

nice!

[@maxdaryistrying]

you should explain what shit does

[@21stWallStreet]

Idk though!

[@roweytech9460]

This dude has NO idea...

[@21stWallStreet]

No idea what????

[@andresolsen2024]

Yeah man. What's your problem? It helped a lot of people and it worked for me to. My performance is great now :D Merry Christmas!

[@mohammedovic923]

Too boring 😩💔