Disk Space, Premiere Scratch Disk

A friend told me that his Premiere Pro 2.0 slows down the performance of his computer. He said that since he uses the Pro 2.0 for his video editing projects, his computer crawls. I told him that it could not be because of the 2.0. It may be because of the location of his scratch disk. Premiere eats a lot of disk space. And if your scratch disk is located in your drive C (or in the drive where your system files are located) it may slow down your machine. Firstly, you should not burden your system drive (usually drive C) with your files. You should put your files somewhere else. Save them in your other drive or any external HD. Your scratch disk should not be located in your system drive (unless it is the drive which has the biggest space). Files like video captured, audio captured, video preview, rendered, etc. are all stored in your scratch disk when you save your premiere project or when you exported a video. It is important to transfer the location of your scratch disk to optimize the performance of your computer. The default location for scratch disk is the same folder where you save your premiere project. To change the location, go to Edit / Preferences / Scratch Disk. This will bring you to the dialogue box where you can see the specific drive and folders for the scratch disk files. Change the location of your scratch disk. This may help to make your machine work faster again.