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Creative Paragons
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October 25, 2012
Question

Deleting Render Files

  • October 25, 2012
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I am really struggling to open a particular .prproj source file with a file size of 2.2GB.  While the smaller files are opening and editing flawlessly. I am wondering why a file could be so large given that the smaller files are duplicates (161mb) and contain almost all the same information. The only thing I can imagine is that I know that file has been rendered A LOT, so that has increased its size expodentially.

I switched recently to Premiere from FCP so a bit at a loss. If I delete the render files and restart will that reduce the project file size? If so, were are the render files? Under preferences there is a media cache file in /application support totalling 8.5GB. Any idea if that is it?  

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A_Kubba
Community Manager
A_KubbaCommunity Manager
Community Manager
August 26, 2014

Hi,

You can try to import the same project in a new one and check the size of the project.

Thank You

Arjun

shabakav
shabakav
Participant
August 26, 2014

You can delete the cache file you have in premiere pro preferences. Heres a link Clean those Adobe Media Cache Files by Scott Simmons

The render files are also in the preview/render files that you can delete in the "Premiere Pro Preview Files" folder, these usually aren't large files so I'd go for deleting the cache files.

Steven L. Gotz
Steven L. Gotz
Inspiring
October 27, 2012

Warp Stabilizer is notorious for making project files huge. Did you stabilize any of your clips?

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Creative ParagonsAuthor
Participant
October 29, 2012

Thanks Steven, no, I have not used the stabilizer but have used several filters such as color corrector etc. I cannot even open the file at the moment though some earlier versions are opening and editing nicely. Do you know were the render files are ordinarily kept (or how I can find them) so I can delete them and hopefully decrease the file size?

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Creative ParagonsAuthor
Participant
October 29, 2012

I am editing on a macbook pro 2.66 GHZ w/ 8GB of RAM. Not sure how I can keep this info my profile to avoid retyping it every post...though I did search around.. 

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