Newbie coming from FCP to Adobe Premiere
 

Hello everyone just got my Adobe Production Premium today and have a rookie question as I am coming from Final Cut Pro. When setting up a new project I would save my project on my C drive and and Scratch disk capture audio video previews and audio previews on my D drive which is my media drive which is a raid 0 but soon will be a raid 5 is this correct? I am editing AVCHD.

I have my programs on C drive my scratch on D and media on E. I NEVER put anything on my C drive other than programs. This is just the way I do it. It will be interesting to find out how other people manage their drives.


Just out of curiosity, what made you switch?

Thanks Ron is either your D or E drive a raid drive? And were do put your project files?

My F drive is a raid I use it for uncompressed capture. I also have three more drives that are mounted in removable trays. These trays are where I put the source files and backup projects.

Hey Kenneth....

Don't put project files on the C: drive..

Read some of Harm's suggestions....

C: OS and Program Drive
D: Read Drive: Media Drive with project files, etc.
E: Work Drive: Scratch/Cache
F: Write Drive/Backup

I keep the four drives separate to gain maximum speed. A drive can only do one thing at a time. Also, if I have multiple programs open, like Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, I might also use the F drive as a Cache drive, but that depends.

In addition to the above, there are always backup drives and external drives for final project writes, etc.

Sareesh is any of these drives raid?

This is what I have done:

A: Stock footage, SonicFire audio

B: Exports

C: OS & programs

D: (2 x Raid0) Page-file, media cache & media cache database

E: (12 x Raid30) Media, projects, previews, auto-save

K: (networked 6 x Raid5) My Documents

D & E are Raids. But I'm waiting for the OCZ X2 PCI drives to arrive in India and I'll probably swap everything!