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Informal Survey: Where is your project file in relation to your media & assets?
Hive mind question: where do you save your project file vs. the media and assets for your Premiere projects? All on the same drive? Project on a different drive than media?
(Researching the cause for some recent crashes & I suspect the old workflow we’ve been using – all on 1 drive – may be causing problems. Over the years I’ve done both without noticeable impacts – except when using FCP7. My recent switch back to Windows has me curious if things need to change.)
Ben Howard + buttonpusher.tv + twitter: buttonpusher
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Project file on media drive
backup project file on Google drive
media cache on cache / render driveWindows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 |Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with FreeFileSync -
Project File : On Main Hard-drive
Assets : On external hard drive
If its business related everything goes on Google Drive -
I keep project and media on fast external array. Everything together, easy to archive.
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The application on my main internal drive (obviously).
Project on a different internal drive.
Assets on an external drive (fast!)
Sometimes render files on a different (fast) external drive.Why? You don’t want a spinning drive doing multiple functions (like running the app and the system while also processing your project file) as it slows it down.
On a complex project (in AE) I sped up an output from 19 hrs. down to an 90 minutes once I spread everything out to 4 different drives.
I have an older (put pretty fast) mac pro.
Al Davis
Visual Velocity
Brookline, MA
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