Do you want to know some quick and easy ways to get Premier Pro running much
faster on any Mac or PC? If you do stay tuned!
Hey there I'm Mark Brown CEO of Editors Keys. Now if you're into Adobe Premiere or filmmaking consider
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video I'm gonna give you my top six tips and tweaks that you can do to Adobe
Premiere Pro to help you edit faster even if you're on a slower Mac or PC.
Now you know we're all being there we've all been trying to edit 4k footage, you pull
it into Premiere and what happens... it starts to slow down or in some cases it
can cras! So I'm gonna give you my top six tips on ways that you can really
speed up Premiere and get your timeline running smooth and buttery. So let's
start with a really important one one that you can moderate right before you
open a new project and that's your video rendering and playback options. To check
this go to file a new project if you have Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 installed
then one of the new features they've added is the recommended option this
will check your graphics options and tell you what is recommended this is the
mercury playback engine GPU acceleration for metal on a Mac and if you've not got
the latest update of Premiere to make sure it's selected as this option will
definitely make a difference to your editing on a PC you may find CUDA
settings work the best especially if you've got a new video card this will
help on making render times faster and making previews show up that weren't
showing up before tip 2 now that's done and your project is open we'll clean up
some of the Preferences to best suit your software first is deleting unused
cache files to do this go into preferences and go into the media cache
folder what you want to do is delete unused cache files go to where it says
media cache management and tick automatically delete files
older than X and then just put in your desired limit we've set it to 10 days so
it's always updated on this and you're not holding unused files for a long
period of time if you've done a project and you're never going to use it again
don't let it be stuck on your computer forever get rid of it
of course if you're working on longer projects you may want to set this to 30
or 60 days tip 3 are you using enough RAM to check your RAM usage go to
the folder just under media cache called memory here it will tell you how much
RAM you have and how much RAM is being used by Premiere Pro now you can
actually help Premiere Pro run faster by allocating more system RAM go over to
this here where it says Ram reserved for other applications and turn this to the
lowest that you can now this will ensure more ram is being used to run Premiere
Pro and less is being used for everything else it's basically a free
Ram upgrade for your Mac or PC now if you're only using Premiere Pro also make
sure other programs that you have open are now closed to prevent any conflicts
and to free up more system ram tip 4 now this is a really easy one and it's
probably one that you already do but some people don't actually know about
this you can lower at your playback quality go over to this drop-down box on
the right hand side of your screen and instead of having it set at full you can
set it to a lower quality so you can go to 1 over 4 or 1 over 8 and this will
definitely help decrease some of your lag especially if you're working with 4k
or even higher quality footage now your footage should play back nice and
smoothly another tip is the mute FX option so when you're editing and you've
got a full timeline and all your clips are filled with effects color grades
transitions graphics and all that kind of stuff this will slow down premiere
now the best way to solve this is to use this tool here this will hide all of
your effects that you've added speeding up things very effectively
it doesn't actually remove the effects it just puts them on standby you can
find the tool over here underneath your program panel and if it
isn't here just simply hit the plus tool here and this will bring up a panel of
options find the effects and drag it over and
now you'll have that option permanently tip six the most effective way of making
Premiere Pro run faster is using proxies using proxies basically makes another
version of your clip but in a much smaller file size for example if you're
editing in 4k or 6k you can create another copy of this footage for example
I'll make my 1080 by 540 the smaller the size the better you just toggle this
whilst you're editing and when it comes to the export can toggle it and it will
export the original file size to do this highlight all the clips you're going to
be using right click and click create proxies go for whatever size you want
and then click OK this will open up Media encoder then when that's done all
you have to do is toggle the proxies in the media bar if this isn't there do the
same as before click the plus icon and then drag it to the toolbar so there we
go there are my top quick 6 tips to help you edit faster in Adobe Premiere now I
hope you really enjoyed them and if you did leave me a comment below I'd love to
hear from you and let me know if there's any tips but I didn't mention there that
you know of I'd love to hear about them so we can feature them in a future video
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