Change where Premiere puts the .prin file

[KazuTa]

Is there a way to tell Premiere where to put the .prin file? My editor likes to keep their project folder super clean. I'd love to be able to use something similar to setting Scratch Disks to tell Premiere where to put the .prin file.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

As far as the devs are concerned, that is a project file type of file. Not like the audio previews or pek files or whatever.

They might be considering allowing it to move, but ... Premiere apparently expects that to be alongside the project file. I do see the occasional comment that people don't want "preview" files in the folder with the project file. Which this supposedly is not.

[Stan Jones]

@KazuTa,

Upvoted, but I don't know what the best options are.

I'm pondering the consequences of attaching a transcription to an asset and, so far with no preference option to control it, it automatically gets added to your project. And there's still no way to delete a transcript. 

I was testing an issue for a user with a problem, and I realized (after making a mess of my test projects), I had to think carefully about moving between PR 2024, PR 2025, and PR Beta. A transcription had been done in 2025, but was now being used in 2024, and - oops - my preferences in 2025 were for .prmi files next to asset, but in 2024 and Beta were still set to media cache. LOL!

I suspect most of this can be handled by current preference settings (e.g. turn off indexing temporarily when you have a special situation), but still working on that!

@mattchristensen 

Stan

[KazuTa]

@Stan Jones How do you set your preferen ces re: where to place the .prmi file?

[Stan Jones]

@KazuTa,

I am still getting my head around this. The answer to your original is still "no," and my thought about turning indexing on/off will not work to control whether a cached analysis/transcription can be stopped from importing.

To change the preferences, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Media Analysis & Transcription -> Cache analysis for reuse.

See "Managing media intelligence metadata" on this page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel.html

The choices are do not cache, put in the media cache, and add a .prmi sidecar with the media asset.

Note the following in the FAQ page, all of which is worth a read:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel-faq.html

"Can I analyze my media on one system and then share that with anyone else who uses the media?

Yes. Before you import any media, open the Media Analysis & Transcription preferences and change the Cache analysis results for re-use option to Next to the media as a sidecar file. Now when you analyze media, you’ll see a .prmi file written next to each media file with video. When other people import those media files, Premiere Pro will recognize the sidecar files and skip analysis."

Stan