

Those programs can consume all the temporary space they want on the external and it will not impact the space inside my laptop.

I plug it in and it is designated as Media Cache location in Premiere and After Effects preferences, and it is designated as the primary Scratch Disk in Photoshop preferences. To keep space free on my MacBook Pro, I have a cheap external SSD that is only used for fast cache. (46GB free is getting down to a dangerously low amount of free space for the Media Cache…the system needs some room too) Which is worth it to optimize performance. But if you work with large amounts of high res like 4K footage, many layers/tracks, the space required for the Media Cache can run into the hundreds of GB. Timelines are more responsive as a result. Some years ago Adobe decided to speed up Premiere and After Effects by creating a “Media Cache.” This is actually a great feature, because it does store rendered media within timelines to avoid wasting CPU cycles and RAM to render layers and composites again if nothing has changed on them. That could easly be consumed by the Scratch Disk temporary space required by editing one large Photoshop document. It is vitally important when using those types of apps to leave large amounts of free space. Many major graphics/video apps can consume large amounts of temporary space just to keep things rolling, like as caches for frequently/recently used media to avoid time-consuming reload from disk or re-rendering, or to lessen reliance on RAM. If you're new/thinking about getting creative cloud we'll be happy to share our knowledge but please don't start threads just complaining about how you don't like the service. Other rules to be made up on the fly/based on up-voting. Photoshop requests are strictly banned.Īny questions or content about any software or service included in creative cloud is allowed, but generic/beginner questions about the 'bigger' software should be asked in their specific subreddits where possible. Learn and help others so we can get the most out of our creative cloud subscriptions.įeel free to submit advice, comments on features we may have missed, or adobe are about to add, and share your cool cross-program tricks/tips/tutorials. A sub-reddit for discussions of, and help with, Adobes Creative Cloud software.
