Configuring premiere pro on my PC
by Castlesmith
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Aug 3, 2007 at 3:09:07 pm
Hello All!
I have just built a new PC and have started using Premiere Pro 2.0. I also use Avid Liquid, in that application I can assign the render files to a separate drive.
Is there any advantage to doing this for premiere pro. Basically I would like to know where to find the configuration panels for setting up renders and such to assign them to a specific drive set, leaving the os and source alone to run programs and provide source media
Here is the machine I built:
Asus P5w DH Deluxe
Intel q6600 Quad core (kensington)
4 gigs of corsair xms ddr2
2x ati x1950xt 512 running in crossfire.
OS and Source drives are raid5 array of 4 500 gig seagate drives with 200 gig partitioned out for OS and programs, the rest is source drive.
Render drive is 3 500 gig seagate drives striped.
XP pro sp2
Re: Configuring premiere pro on my PC by Jeff Brown on Aug 3, 2007 at 4:13:33 pm
If you mean renders so the timeline will play real-time, Premiere calls it the "scratch disc". Look under "preferences" (not project preferences). This is not project-specific (at least, not in PremPro 2), but is changeable at any time.
Re: Configuring premiere pro on my PC by castlesmith on Aug 3, 2007 at 5:56:21 pm
Jeff,
Thanks for responding. I am just learning PP2 and don't wuite understand what is happening in the background. I would like to tell the application where to do it's render work, or scratch disk work. I am gatering from further reading now that PP2 does not render in the background like Avid Liquid. So this question might be mute. But I would still like The idea of having the rendering files and process happen on a different drive set.
Re: Configuring premiere pro on my PC by Steven L. Gotz on Aug 3, 2007 at 7:44:37 pm
I put my programs on one drive, my captured material and audio on a second drive (now using a RAID0) and I put my projects on the third drive. The easiest way to keep track of the preview files and other scratch disks, is to keep them with the project file.
So go to Edit > Preferences and select the Scratch Disks option. I set the Captured Video and Audio and DVD Encoding to specific directories, but the previews and cache are all set to "Same as Project".
