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Jakesbenjamin
Jakesbenjamin
Inspiring
May 30, 2024
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premiere scratch disk keeps resetting to same as production

  • May 30, 2024
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Hey I'm working in production workflow in Premiere 24.3.0 

 

My premiere scratch disk keeps resetting to same as production which is wreaking havoc with my lucid link workflow. I really need my scratch disk to stay set to my external SSD.

 

on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra.  with 128 gigs of ram Mac os 13.6.1 Ventura

 

Any Ideas. this is driving me a little insane.

I've rebooted, deleted prefs, cleared caches... nothing works

 

Thanks!!

    Correct answer mattchristensen

    Are you collaborating with other editors using the Production? If so, you'll need to set the scratch disk location somewhere where everyone can see it, like on LucidLink. Otherwise what happens is you set it somewhere local that their system can't see, so then their copy of Premiere Pro sets it back to the default since it can't find your location.

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    Bruce Bullis
    Bruce Bullis
    Legend
    May 30, 2024

    Thanks, Matt!

    mattchristensen
    mattchristensenCorrect answer
    Legend
    May 30, 2024

    Are you collaborating with other editors using the Production? If so, you'll need to set the scratch disk location somewhere where everyone can see it, like on LucidLink. Otherwise what happens is you set it somewhere local that their system can't see, so then their copy of Premiere Pro sets it back to the default since it can't find your location.

    Jakesbenjamin
    JakesbenjaminAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 3, 2024

    I was afraid of that.  Adobe might want to consider an option that allows different users to use different scratch-disk now that we live in a world of remote workflows. Its really useful NOT to render to the remote disk because a lot of people are editing in relatively low bandwidth situations... especially up-loading It's ok that everyone needs to re-render to their own disk. But sending your disposable cache files to the cloud is really a waste of resources. 

     

    A lot of internet providers are only giving people 40mbps up no matter how much your willing to pay. A lot of those resources are really needed for things like live sessions of getting critical files onto the servers.

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      GrahamWillcox_OMC_Studios
      Participating Frequently
      March 12, 2025

      @mattchristensen -  Agree stongly with @Jakesbenjamin here - we've been moving to Productions across our facility, where we are all Lucidlink based - even with pinned folders on symmetical gigabit connections, renders are slowed down considerably, so we render to fast local storage and re-render on other side as needed. The annoyance of resetting scatch disks to local constantly is really a pain point.  If there were a way for individual users on productions to retain their separate local scratch disk settings, at least for audio and video previews, that would be very very helpful.

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