From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC
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Adjusting key preferences
From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC
Adjusting key preferences
- Software designers don't design for you. They design for novices. They try to make the onboarding, the starting of using a tool as easy as possible. There's some key preferences I would like to check and play with to just adjust so I'm a little bit happier as an experienced editor. Now, on a Macintosh, this is going to be found under the Premiere Pro menu. On a PC it will be found under the edit menu. I'm going to go ahead here and just bring up General and you're going to see a long list of preferences here for Premiere. The first one I like to adjust is this Media Cache preference. I'd like my media caches to live in that sort of temporary folder whether it's on an SSD or on my system here on my desktop. This folder that it uses by default, it happens to be deep in the operating system whether you're on a Mac or a PC, and it's going to grow overtime. Nowadays, it has the ability to start deleting these cache files. But truthfully, I like to make sure I do it myself. So I'm just…
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