[Joe Kilburn]

Never mind – I figured it out. You have to long click the left mouse button to access controls. Not the most intuitive way to go, but oh well.

[Joe Kilburn]

Ordinarily I do keep everything together. Because of my disk space issue on J, I had to put some video files on S away from the associated project files.

I actually save the project files to my storage disk. I like to keep them off my system disk in the event that I reformat (which I do fairly often to my C drive).

Is having the Premiere installation on a separate disk from its associated projects slowing things down as well?

Really sorry for the noob questions here…

[Joe Kilburn]

Okay. Also, would it help if the project files associated with the videos be in the same drive? I only put videos on the S drive. All my project files and other associated files (audio, etc.) are on the J drive.

Worst case scenario, I’ll have to export each individual project as an H.264 and import those back into Premiere and export the whole thing again as one big H.264… I’m wincing at the double compression, but it may be the only solution.

Is there a compression method in PP you’d recommend to cut down on the loss?

[Joe Kilburn]

Okay… I actually wouldn’t add the S drive to the array until I finish this project. But would that make sense for future reference?

How about my C drive? Does that seem to have ample total space? Am I taking the right approach in separating the system drive from my storage partitions?

Thanks.

[Joe Kilburn]

Okay. I’m actually loading all my media from two separate storage partitions (I wanted to keep it exclusively to one disk, but was forced to bring another one into the mix when that one filled up).

I only have my OS and applications on the system drive.

Here’s a picture of my setup:

For this project, I have video files stored on both the J and S drives (again, I was forced to include the S drive as the J drive began filling up).

The E and F drives are external USB and quite slow. I only use them for backup.

Maybe you can give me some advice on how to rearrange this mess so as to avoid issues like this in the future. The C and J drives are two internal drives which are part of a RAID array. The S drive is also internal but not part of the array. I can’t do it until this project is finished, but would it help if I added the S drive to the array and make one big storage disk?

Back to the issue at hand, what would you advise I do to make this project work? Just import all the sequences and let Premiere chew on it for a while?

Thanks again.

[Joe Kilburn]

Thanks a lot for the reply.

I have 24 gigs of RAM with 6 terabytes in total space on various partitions (although I’m down to 225 GB free on the C drive thanks to this project). To be honest, I’m not completely sure of my disk speed… I have an experience index score of 5.9 in data transfer rate if that helps.

Would it help if I import one sequence at a time and completely pre render each one as I go?