<p>Try setting the RAM usage inside Premiere Pro performing the following actions:</p>

<p>Edit -> Preferences -> Memory -> RAM reserved for other applications.</p>

<p>Try setting it up to comfortable amount of RAM as You might have it set too low.</p>

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2019-03-17T18:02:39.637Z
is the problem im looking that its not loading stuff onto the ram and just working off files from the hard drive?
nunez7890
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@nunez7890 Well what You are describing up above I would call "normal" Premiere Pro behaviour. It is far from optimal using only 1 drive for all the data that is being used by the software. The ideal situation would be to have:
1. OS drive.
2. Application drive.
3. Cache drive.
4. Used footage drive.
5. Export drive.
Kaszanas
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Kaszanas
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<p>When I drop files from the drive onto my premier timeline, RAM and
disk usage shoots up taking all the RAM then goes down to 11 GB or so.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Probably it's normal, because Premiere use all available RAM at first, then it cleans up part of ram that it don't use or maybe locate data from RAM to SWAP file.</p>

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Viktor Liashenko
<p>If you have multiple partitions on the same spinning rust drive (I.e. not an SSD), it doesn’t buy you much performance. Either use physically separate drives or upgrade to an SSD.</p>

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Wilfred Smith
<p>I wanted to know if my way of editing is going to hurt anything on my computer or not.</p>

<p>So I have my cache, scratch, and project folder set to the same drive separate from OS and adobe app drive and 16 GB of ram.</p>

<p>When I drop files from the drive onto my premier timeline, RAM and disk usage shoots up taking all the RAM then goes down to 11 GB or so.</p>

<p>Is it normal, or is there a problem I'm not seeing?</p>

<p>Thanks for your time and patience, I'm completely new to editing.</p>

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RAM in Premiere Pro
nunez7890
# RAM in Premiere Pro

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-17)

I wanted to know if my way of editing is going to hurt anything on my computer or not.

So I have my cache, scratch, and project folder set to the same drive separate from OS and adobe app drive and 16 GB of ram.

When I drop files from the drive onto my premier timeline, RAM and disk usage shoots up taking all the RAM then goes down to 11 GB or so.

Is it normal, or is there a problem I'm not seeing?

Thanks for your time and patience, I'm completely new to editing.

**Tags:** premiere, adobe, memory


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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-03-17. Score: 0

Try setting the RAM usage inside Premiere Pro performing the following actions:

Edit -> Preferences -> Memory -> RAM reserved for other applications.

Try setting it up to comfortable amount of RAM as You might have it set too low.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: is the problem im looking that its not loading stuff onto the ram and just working off files from the hard drive?  
> **username_1**: @username_0 Well what You are describing up above I would call "normal" Premiere Pro behaviour. It is far from optimal using only 1 drive for all the data that is being used by the software. The ideal situation would be to have: 1. OS drive. 2. Application drive. 3. Cache drive. 4. Used footage drive. 5. Export drive.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-09-06. Score: 0

> When I drop files from the drive onto my premier timeline, RAM and
> disk usage shoots up taking all the RAM then goes down to 11 GB or so.

Probably it's normal, because Premiere use all available RAM at first, then it cleans up part of ram that it don't use or maybe locate data from RAM to SWAP file.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2019-03-23. Score: 0

If you have multiple partitions on the same spinning rust drive (I.e. not an SSD), it doesn’t buy you much performance. Either use physically separate drives or upgrade to an SSD.


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