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Media Cache Files FOLDER
We recently upgraded from CS3 to CS5 at my TV Station. We store and work on our projects on a network server, as we’ve done for the past 4 years. In CS3, when conforming audio and creating .pek files, Premiere created a “Media Cache Files” folder inside the same folder as the project. This was usefull because no matter which workstation I edited on, it would find the cache files relative to the location of the project.
Now with CS5, it seems to be creating a local mass cache folder on the C drive. Although this is faster, it means that if I’m working on a project on one computer, when I go to open it on another, it has to reconform everything, sometimes costing me 15 minutes or more! I tried switching on the “Save Media Cache Files Next to Originals When Possible” option, but that saves the pek files inside the same folder as the video, which just fills up my work folders with “junk” I want out of the way. Is there ANY way of having Premiere CS5 default back to being able to create a Media Cache Folder for every project, just like it did with CS3? This is really inconvenient for us.
Television Producer
KTVF-11 Fairbanks, Alaska
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Uncheck the box and set up a new location in your preferences.
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But that only sends cache files to one place, for all projects. The way CS3 worked, it created a new folder for every project (or project folder). It was great. Even if you had two projects in the same folder, it would create ONE Media Cache Files folder, but then have subfolders inside of it for every project in that folder. With CS5, nothing is automated, I would have to change that setting every time I opened a different project. The setting isn’t even a project setting, it’s a universal one, so if I forgot to change it, my cache files would end up in a different place. This is so infurierating!
Television Producer
KTVF-11 Fairbanks, Alaska
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Hi Eric
Created an account just to point you to something… In the “Media” tab of the Preferences menu, there is a checkbox that says “Save Media Cache files next to originals when possible”. Did you try that? Did it work?
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Yes, I tried that, but it doesn’t do what I want it to. In fact, it’s a pretty bad option. Instead of creating organized folders for the cache files, within each project, it just throws all the cache files right beside their parent files, free-floating without any subfolders. So if you have 30 footage files in one folder, the folder will now have 90 files, 60 of which you will never use. CS3 used to segregate the cache files off in their own folders within the parent project directory, so they were out of the way with all the rest of your files, and not strewn around the project folder willy-nilly.
I’ve switched over to making one large, dedicated cache folder on the network, out of site, out of mind… seems to be the best option that CS5 has to offer.
Television Producer
KTVF-11 Fairbanks, Alaska
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I upgraded to Premiere Pro CS5 from CS3 recently and had the same question. I found this thread through a Google search. You penned my same concerns and bewilderment at the awkward solution Adobe is using now for the Media Cache Files and Media Cache Database. We are stuck either letting these files build up until they completely clog up our C: System Drive (or clear them periodically); or we have to assign those two folders globally for every project to only one of our external drives. I have many unrelated projects on many external drives and sometimes edit on a laptop or other system with external hard drives attached. Why can Premiere no longer put all those folders and their files automatically into the same folder as each project on each drive it may be on like it did in earlier versions instead of either just the C Drive or one and only one external assigned drive? This is a very poorly designed system!
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ran into this yesterday while creating an .omf
something I hope is resolved in CS 6
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I just found this post myself as I have the same question. Why cant we save the cache in a folder in the project. It is the most sensible solution.
Sadly both CS6 and CC do not offer this option. Has anyone found a solution?
Editing is why people like movies. Because in the end, wouldn’t we all want to edit our own lives?
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I’m too awating a solution or the dreadful answer that there’s nothing to do 🙁
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If you all haven’t done so already please make a feature request here:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
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I just switched from FCP7 to Adobe Premiere Pro and noticed this cache storage problem immediately. Come on guys. What were you thinking?
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