Hi guys it's Mark here from EditorsKeys. Have you ever been concerned that
your video editing seems to take absolutely ages? Well if you have you'll
be pleased to know we've partnered up with Premiere Gal for some speedy editing
workflow tips, so let's go straight over to Premiere Gal.
So if you guys are new to this series basically what I'm doing is breaking
down the best video editing hardware that you should be using the speed up
your workflow as well as some video editing tips, so in this episode I'm
going to be talking about the best media management practices to speed up your
workflow. First up is your folder organization I like to keep a project
template folder saved on my desktop at all times as well as on my external
drives so that way I can copy and use them as a starting point for all of my
projects. So in my template folder I have three main root folders a projects
folder which is restoring all of my project files such as Premiere Pro, After
Effects, Audition, Photoshop etc and I create a new folder for each of these
different project files to organize them within so within the project folder I
always store my template Premiere Pro project which has all of the bin folders
already that I need for every project and it has all of the set graphics that
I use in every video that I create so next I have a folder for media and here
I have folders within it for video photos graphics motion graphics and
audio well most of these folders are empty I tend to keep a few graphics or
audio tracks that I often use in my video productions and lastly here I have
an output folder this is a folder where I save all of my finished exports from
my video projects or thumbnails it's nice to have one place where all of that
goes and once you have all of the final assets done I like to create a folder
called Final so that we in this folder you can always come back to it and have
all of final assets and you don't have to worry about you know was this the
final project we've all done that so I have a link to download this template
project folder structure in the description box below so that way you
can use them in your future projects if you like. So once you're in Premiere Pro
here are a few other customisation that you can make to speed up your
workflow. So first you want to make sure to set your media cache to your local
drive most computers come with an internal solid-state drive which can
read and write footage at a much faster rate than a standard hard drive in a
previous episode I talk all about drive so you guys should watch that if you
haven't and you shouldn't be storing your media cache to an external drive
because it slows down the process so while we're here in preferences let's go
to ram and memory usage so you want to dedicate more ram for use in premiere
pro and only dedicate a few for other applications to maximize your speed and
lastly go to your project settings and go to general and make sure that you're
using GPU acceleration for rendering make sure that you're not using software
only you want to take advantage of the mercury playback engine to speed up your
workflow if you're on a Mac you have a choice for both open CL or metal and
many say that metal is better for speed when using a Mac but I would recommend
trying out both options to see which one has a better GPU performance on your
computer but the key here is to make sure that GPU acceleration is on as many
effects in Premiere Pro rely on it for preview and rendering speed
so another tip for editing larger projects with lots of effects is to
reduce the playback resolution most video editing software's have this
capability but if you're using Premiere Pro just change the playback resolution
from the program window using the select playback resolution drop-down and from
here you can change and reduce the quality of playback I would recommend to
a quarter speed so what this will do is reduce the quality of the playback
preview it doesn't reduce the quality of your actual video it'll just make the
playback faster and smoother and easier to edit so that's all for tips this week
and if you have any questions about the process or any tips that I gave be sure
to leave a comment below and I'll see you next time for an episode on the best
keyboard shortcuts for editing fast inside of Premiere Pro. See you guys then
Bye!