If this goes unchecked for too long, it will eventually eat up all your space and slow things down. Just know that they are there and after some time, the media cache can begin to eat up valuable hard drive space. We won’t get into the details of these files, because frankly they are complicated computer language. Clear Your Media Cache + Faster SSD DriveĮvery time you import a file into a Premiere Pro project, various types of media cache files are created. For PC users, you should have CUDA as an option. From this dropdown, you should select “Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration.”įor Mac users, choose the recommended (Metal) option on the top. Under “Video Rendering and Playback,” there’s a “Renderer” dropdown. In order to confirm that you’ve turned this feature on, navigate to: GPU Acceleration is a fancy way of saying that the computer will allow both the graphics processing unit (GPU) and the computer processing unit (CPU) to run together in order to facilitate more difficult and complicated processes (like many things done in Premiere Pro). The first easy thing we can do is to make sure that GPU Acceleration is turned on. Let’s talk about a few quick tweaks we can make within the software itself to give ourselves a head start.

The speed of your computer does greatly impact the speed of render, but there’s only so much you can alter there without spending lots of money on a new computer. Obviously you want to make sure your system is functioning at it’s best.

If you don’t have a copy of Adobe Premiere Pro yet (my favorite video editing program), you can try it out for free here. In today’s post we’re going to look at a few methods for speeding up your render process and overall workflow in Premiere that could end up saving you hours of time for your next project. It took each simple tweak several minutes to render before I could make another change to review. I was working hard to get the timing correct and iron out the details, yet every single time I made a change, I had to render the project in order to properly review it without dropping frames and being unable to view it in real time. I was recently editing a project for a client that involved a complicated series of clips and effects at the very beginning of the film. Concluding Thoughts How to Render and Edit Faster in Premiere Pro

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