Select Edit > Preferences > Media Cache (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Settings > Media Cache (macOS).
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Technical requirements
- Adobe Premiere Pro technical requirements
- GPU and GPU Driver requirements
- Storage recommendations
- Processor, memory, and GPU recommendations
- Hardware-accelerated decoding and encoding
- Enable hardware accelerated decoding support
- Supported codecs and drivers for hardware-accelerated decoding
- Enable Hardware Encoding in Premiere Pro
- Install macOS updates for Apple Metal GPU Acceleration
- Adobe Premiere Pro 24.x technical requirements
- Enable Mercury Playback Engine (GPU accelerated) renderer
- Download and install
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Preferences and settings
- Preferences overview
- General preferences
- Set Appearance preferences
- Audio preferences
- Audio Hardware preferences
- Auto Save preferences
- Collaboration preferences
- Graphics preferences
- Labels preferences
- Media preferences
- Media Analysis & Transcription preferences
- Memory preferences
- Timeline preferences
- Trim preferences
- Display Premiere Pro interface on a second monitor
- Display video on a second monitor
- Best practices for film and TV productions
- AI Models preferences
- Color preferences
- Control Surface preferences
- Playback preferences
- Set up accessibility features
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Set up Directx HDR for Windows
- Use touch and gesture controls
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Workflows, workspaces, and panels
- Overview of workspaces
- Import workspaces
- Change, create, and reset workspaces
- Manage workspaces
- Display panel options and menu
- Navigate the panels
- Dock, group, or undock panels
- Customize panels
- Display any panel full-screen
- Tools panel in Premiere Pro
- Clip details in the Info panel
- Adobe Premiere Pro FAQ
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Customize the Project panel
- Customization options for the Project panel
- Customize the Icon View in Project panel
- Customize metadata in Freeform View in Project panel
- Customize Freeform view in Project panel
- Customize List View in Project panel
- Align and reset clips to grid in Freeform View in Project panel
- Create layouts in Freeform View in Project panel
- Customize the position of the Project panel
- List View columns
- Restore or delete layouts in Freeform View in Project panel
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Source and Program Monitor adjustments
- Overview of Source Monitor and Program Monitor
- Set display quality for Source and Program Monitors
- Adjust magnification for Source and Program Monitors
- Enable High Quality Playback
- Choose a display mode
- Gang Source and Program Monitor
- Set display options for interlaced footage
- Compare edits to clips in the Program Monitor
- Open or clear a clip in the Source Monitor
- Navigate clips in the Source menu in the Source Monitor
- Display controls in the Source and Program Monitors
- Time controls in the Source and Program Monitors
- View safe zones in the monitors
- Change the unit of measurement
- Add or remove guides
- Snap objects to guides
- Nudge clips in Program Monitor
- Save, export, and import custom guides
- Enable Dropped Frame Indicator
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Technical requirements
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Organize media
- Create projects
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Import files
- Import still images
- Import images as an image sequence
- Import Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Resize imported images
- Import a Premiere Elements project
- Record audio
- Record a voice-over on an audio track from the Timeline
- Record audio using the Audio Track Mixer
- Mute input during recording
- Supported file formats
- Blackmagic RAW support
- Organize files
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Apply labeling
- Overview of markers
- Add a marker to a clip
- Copy and paste sequence markers
- Find, move, and delete markers
- Set default marker colors
- Show or hide markers by color
- View and edit marker properties
- Share markers with After Effects
- Overview of timecode
- Enter timecode
- View Sequence Timecode
- Choose timecode display format
- View source timecode in the Program Monitor
- Change timecode display format
- Timecode display options
- Set clip timecode manually
- Label colors in sequence tabs
- Transfer files
- Ingest proxy workflow
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Edit projects
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Intro to editing
- Add or remove clips
- Aspect ratios
- Set the aspect ratio of a sequence
- Pixel aspect ratio
- Frame aspect ratio
- Aspect ratio preservation
- Correct aspect ratio misinterpretations
- Adjust media start and end times of a subclip
- Convert a subclip to a Source clip
- Add media to the timeline using Source Patching
- Create a subclip from the Project panel
- Create a subclip from the Timeline
- Work with clips on the timeline using Track Targeting
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Edit video using Text-based editing
- Overview of Text-Based editing
- Transcribe video
- Edit transcripts using Text-Based Editing
- Detect and delete pauses in transcripts
- Transcribe individual source files
- Multichannel audio support in Text-Based Editing
- Edit speaker names in transcription
- Add clips to the timeline using Text-Based Editing
- Edit sequences using Text-Based Editing
- Remove all instances of one speaker in transcript
- Trim clips
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Change clip speed
- Different ways to change clip speed and duration
- Change clip speed and duration using the Speed/Duration command
- Change clip speed and duration using the Rate Stretch tool
- Change clip speed and duration using Time Remapping
- Apply Time Interpolation Methods to adjust clip speed
- Remove Time Remapping from a clip
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Change clip sequence
- Create a sequence
- Change sequence settings
- Sequence settings reference
- Copy and paste clips
- Different ways to move clips
- Rearrange clips on the timeline
- Add tracks
- Delete tracks
- Rename tracks
- Lift and paste frames
- Edit track appearance
- Sync Lock to prevent changes
- Track Lock to prevent changes
- Sequence presets and settings
- Create a custom sequence preset
- Navigate sequences in the timeline
- Navigation controls in the timeline
- Modify clip properties
- Set up multi-camera sequences for editing
- Compare edits to source clips
- Correct mistakes
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Edit VR content
- VR editing in Premiere Pro
- VR auto-detection
- Interpret VR footage
- Assign VR properties to sequences
- 360-degree panning
- VR assignments
- Hide VR video view controls
- Immersive video effects and transitions
- Three-axis video rotation
- Assembling Ambisonics Audio
- Monitor Ambisonics audio
- Restage correctly aligned video and audio
- Publish VR videos
- Edit with Generative AI
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Intro to editing
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Add text and images
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Use Motion Graphics templates
- Overview of Motion Graphics templates
- Install Motion Graphics templates
- Organize Motion Graphics templates
- Add Motion Graphic templates to a sequence
- Browse and sort Motion Graphics templates
- Use Motion Graphics templates from Adobe Stock
- Use data-driven Motion Graphics templates
- Customize Motion Graphics templates
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Stylize text
- Create titles
- Create text styles
- Apply styles to a sub-selection of the text
- Style parameters when applying from the style browser
- Replace fonts
- Create Linked and Track Styles
- Apply Linked and Track Styles
- Redefine Linked and Track Styles
- Parameters when applying as a Linked style or Track style
- Use color fonts
- Use emojis
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Insert images and graphics
- Create responsive graphics
- Preserve intro and outro animations while creating Responsive Design graphics
- Group text and graphic layers
- Create clip layers
- Create credit rolls
- Add gradients
- Animate layers using the Effect Controls panel
- Animate layers using the Properties panel
- Rename layers
- Export graphic as a Motion Graphics template
- Create Source Graphics
- Draw objects
- Align and distribute objects
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Insert captions
- Captions overview
- Auto transcribe video using Speech-to-Text
- Find and replace text in transcript
- Create captions
- Create styles for captions
- Translate captions
- Languages supported by Speech-to-Text
- Supported file formats for captions
- Import caption file from third-party service
- Download language packs from within Premiere Pro
- Download language packs from Creative Cloud
- Deploy language packs for Teams and Enterprise users
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Use Motion Graphics templates
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Add video effects
- Types of effects
- Apply video effects
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Effects and transitions library
- Adjust effects
- Channel effects
- Color Correction effects
- Distort effects
- Generate effects
- Image Control effects
- Immersive Video effects
- Keying effects
- Apply and customize Chromakey using the Ultra Key effect
- Ultra Key effect parameters
- Noise and Grain effects
- Perspective effects
- Stylize effects
- Time effects
- Transform effects
- Transition effects
- Utility effects
- Video effects
- List of Video transitions
- List of Video Dissolve transitions
- Blur and Sharpen effects
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Control effects and transitions using keyframes
- About keyframes
- Add keyframes
- Select keyframes
- Copy and paste keyframes
- Delete keyframes
- Keyframes and graphs in panels
- View keyframes and properties in the Timeline panel
- View keyframes in the Effect Controls panel
- Move the Current Time Indicator to a keyframe
- Set keyframes to snap
- Control effect changes using keyframe interpolation
- Change the keyframe interpolation method
- Filter properties in the Effect Controls panel
- Adjust or reset controls in the Effect Controls panel
- Control change using Bezier keyframe interpolation
- Adjust effect speed
- Edit keyframes graphs
- Create masks and composites
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Commonly used effects
- Auto Reframe overview
- Add Auto Reframe effect to sequences
- Add Auto Reframe effect to clips
- Apply Motion effect
- Edit vector graphics using Vector Motion effect
- Stabilize shaky footage using Warp Stabilizer
- Warp Stabilizer settings
- Create fade-in video effects
- Add lightning effects
- Create a Jacob’s ladder effect
- Effects and transitions removed from Adobe Premiere Pro
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Apply video transitions
- Align and reposition transitions
- Move cuts and transitions simultaneously
- Change transition duration using the Effect Controls panel
- Reposition the center of a transition
- Morph Cut overview
- Apply morph cut to smoothen jump cuts
- Morph Cut transition options
- Replace transitions
- Change transition settings
- Set and apply default transitions
- Copy and paste transitions
- Transitions overview
- Apply single-sided transitions
- Clip handles settings
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Add audio effects
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Basic audio editing
- Audio editing concepts
- Extract audio from clips
- Link audio and video clips
- Synchronize audio and video
- Synchronize clips in the Timeline panel
- Merge clips in the Project panel
- Merge clips in the Timeline panel
- Use the timecode from an audio primary clip to create a merged clip
- Edit merged clips
- Edit metadata of merged clips
- Limitations of merged clips
- Advanced audio techniques
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Adjust volume and levels
- Automatically tag audio
- Apply Enhance Speech
- Audio editing with Essential Sound panel
- Improve dialogue clarity
- Repair dialogue
- Create a Reverb effect
- Automatically duck audio
- Create audio presets
- Adjust gain in audio
- Adjust track volume
- Auto-match audio loudness
- Monitor volume levels
- Use Dynamic Audio Waveforms
- Enhance Speech technical requirements
- Apply audio effects
- Apply audio transitions
- Use Adobe Stock audio
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Basic audio editing
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Correct color
- Color correction fundamentals
- Add color effects
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Set up Color Management
- Color Management overview
- How Color Management works
- Manage source media colors in the Program Monitor
- Color Management options
- Color Management and Lumetri Color
- Premiere Pro and After Effects Color Management compatibility
- Tone mapping in Premiere Pro
- Disable Color Management
- Configure sequence Color Management
- Configure clips for Color Management using Clip Modify
- Customize color presets for new or existing sequences
- Configure sequence’s output color space
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Render and export
- Render sequences for playback
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Export files
- Export video
- Export a still frame
- Export a still image
- Export transcripts
- Export selected captions
- Export text from Motion Graphics
- Best practices for exporting video for social media and phones
- Export videos for social media channels
- Export a project as an EDL file
- Export a project as a Final Cut Pro XML file
- Export videos with Content Credentials
- Export caption tracks
- Stream video
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Collaborate with others
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Collaborate using Team Projects
- About Team Projects
- When to use Team Projects and when to use Productions
- Collaboration using Team Projects
- Create Team Projects
- Create linked Team Projects
- Convert Premiere Pro projects to Team Projects
- Add media
- Manage media
- Connect to Team Projects service
- Invite collaborators to existing Team Projects
- Accept an invitation to collaborate
- View online collaborators
- Remove collaborators from Team Projects
- Search and filter Team Projects
- Archive Team Projects
- Delete archived Team Projects
- Restore archived Team Projects
- Publish an edited sequence with changes
- Visual cues during collaboration
- Offline editing and cloud sync status
- View versions of a Team Project
- Create a new Team Project from a version
- Specify Auto Save cache location
- Sequence Locking
- Sequence Locking for offline editing
- View auto saves
- Share for review using Frame.io
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Collaborate using Team Projects
- Use Premiere Pro with other apps
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Troubleshooting
- Limitations and known issues
- Media issues
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Crash issues
- Premiere Pro is crashing
- Fix outdated Windows Libraries
- Premiere Pro freezes on the splash screen
- Recover projects after a crash
- No splash screen appears on app launch
- Try Adobe Creative Cloud Diagnostics
- Adobe Premiere Pro hangs on launch on macOS
- Premiere Pro crashes when you open a specific project
- Preferences and settings issues
- Export issues
- Audio issues
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Playback issues
- Timeline doesn’t show video preview
- Not able to optimize playback performance
- Hardware setup not optimal for playback performance
- Audio playback keep getting stuck
- Optimize playback performance for H.264 and H.265 media
- Troubleshoot sequence and file-interpretation settings
- Choppy playback and poor performance issue
- Slow rendering and playback
Choppy playback and poor performance issue
Last updated on
Jun 24, 2025
Learn how to work with Media Cache and Media Cache Database to resolve choppy playback and poor performance issues.
Many issues that are related to playback and performance are linked to the Media Cache and Media Cache Database. Media Cache contains the .CFA and.PEK files that are generated by Premiere Pro while importing clips for the first time in Project bin. Clearing cache files can help in solving such issues.
A quick list of short-term and long-term solutions for improving playback in Premiere Pro.
Delete the media cache files from within Premiere Pro
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Select the Delete button next to Remove Media Cache Files.
Delete Media Cache files manually (if you are unable to launch Premiere Pro)
Navigate to the location of the Media Cache Files and Media Cache Database and delete the files manually. After you delete the files, empty the trash. Learn how to free up hard disk space by removing cached media files, refer to managing the media cache database.
Default locations of the media cache files:
- Windows: \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
- macOS: /Users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common
If you have customized the media cache location, you need to navigate to that custom location and clean the media cache files from there.
