Hello all. I've been editing a project in Premiere Pro, and I'm having a big problem. The project is only about 6 minutes long so far, and I've gone from having about 90GB to about 30GB. The problem is...I'm losing space when I shouldn't be!!!
With all of my video captured and all, I still had abotu 70GB left...but now, every time I use Premiere to edit, I lose more and more. I lost 10GB on my last edit!!! I'm not exporting anything. I mean, yes I'm conforming a lot of audio files...ones I already had on my CPU. Any ideas why my harddrive is disappearing so quickly? Thanks everybody!
Hmm... I haven't used Premiere in a long time, but I have some hunches. Are you applying effects to your footage? It's possible that Premiere is holding on to all your old render files. It might also be possible that you captured in a non-native format and it needs to keep re-rendering it to incorporate it in the timeline.
Whatever it is, it sounds like it's got no reason to be doing this. Perhaps resetting the preferences to the factory presets or just reinstalling the software would fix the problem.
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Your hard drive is going towards the conformed audio files, the preview render files, and the autosaves (although these don't take up much space).
Every song you put into your project (into just the bin) is conformed. This takes up a massive amount of space. In a project I'm working on right now (in Premiere Pro) I've exported about an hour worth of video and I have one song (mp3) in my bins right now. I've used 3.15 GB of space for my conformed audio files.
Everytime you render something (be it a picture you've added motion to or an effect you've put to some video) Premiere has to go in and render the files so that your computer can see the finished look. It never deletes these files; if it did you would have to re-render everytime you loaded your project. If you go to My Documents>Adobe>Premiere Pro you can see all the project files (unless you have told Premiere to save the files in a different location).
--QD Jones
--QD Jones
