Editting with SSD external drive

[jackl13270127]

Hi. Could anyone explain me how to use Samsung T5 SS external drive to edit in Premier Pro ? Do i need to download this program in this external SSD ?

[Mo Moolla]

Thats a broad question indeed. My workflow is a s follows on one of my Mac Pros:

3 x Samsung EVO SSD's. One for OS, one for footage files brought into AE & NLE and the other as the scratch disk for PP, AE, C4D etc etc

If your external SSD dies not house your OS as I expect it doesn't then use it as either the drive your footage is on (which will help with speed). Or if you have another SSD thats reading your footage files use that external as a Scratch Disk

I think you probably will be using it to store footage files and read from that.

Please let me know

Thanks

Mo

[jackl13270127]

In my case will be using the OS C:drive, an internal 500GB SSD, and an external Samsung T5 SSD 1GB. Would this work ?? If so tell me what each drive should be designated for with Premier Pro !

[R Neil Haugen]

I would split the project/cache files on on SSD and media on the other.

Neil

[Mo Moolla]

Use the internal SSD for Premiere install.

Use the external SSD as the scratch disk.

If your internal SSD is big enough to copy the raw footage files to I would transfer them to the drive and start the edit.

If you don't have enough space its fine to use the external drive for your scratch and media files. I however prefer not to have the scratch disk and media files on the same drive. Lots of data moving so I like to keep them separate.

Once the project is done copy everything over to a drive for archiving