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Updated In 2024, Premiere Pro PC Build A Step-by-Step System Setup Tutorial
Premiere Pro PC Build: A Step-by-Step System Setup Tutorial
System Requirements for Running Premiere Pro: How to Set Up Computer
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
We all know that Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best professional video editing software, while to run such a powerful video editing software, you may need a powerful windows PC or Mac as well. Though most modern computer systems can run Adobe Premiere out of the box, there are some steps to take, and potential decisions to make, before installing the software, or if you are building or buying a new computer to make sure you get the best experience possible with the software.
You may also like:Best Adobe Premiere Alternatives >>
Minimum system requirement to run Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac in 2019
Your computer should at least to meet the minimum specification below to run Premiere Pro, and if you need to edit some VR videos, your computer configuration should be higher according to the minimum specifications list on their website .
- Intel 6th or newer CPU
- Windows 10 (64-bit) 1703 or later/ MacOS V10.12 later
- 16GB RAM; 4GB GPU VRAM
- Fast internal SSD
- 1920*1080 Display resolution
- 32-bit video card
- Internet connection
However, it is important to remember this is the minimum specification, and will not necessarily give a satisfactory user experience. The recommended specifications are far more likely to provide the kind of performance expected of the software and those would be the ones to use as a guide for the minimum spec for a new computer or any upgrades being planned prior to installation.
How to check Computer Specifications
Since Premiere Pro CC only works on Windows 10 system after 2018 13.0 release, we will show you how to check if your PC meets the requirements to run Premiere Pro on Windows 10
- Press Windows Key+ E on the keyboard to bring up Windows Explorer.
- Right click the This PC option in the sidebar and then select Properties from the context menu.
- The system specification window will show up which you see the Processor, RAM, system type and other system information.
Checking the specification on your Mac is easy, just click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your Mac, and then select About This Mac option. In the pop-up window you will see the information including Processor speed, memory and graphic card etc.
How to Set Up Computer for Premiere
1. Processor
Whilst the software will run on a Core2Duo intel or Phenom II AMD processor, it is worth noting that rendering can be highly intensive work for the processor and the fastest possible processor within your budget will pay dividends in speed of editing. In general, even a Core I3, the cheapest of the current Intel range, will be significantly faster than older processors, but because Premiere happily uses multi cored processors to their full, if the budget can reach to a quad core or more processor then do so, Premiere is a piece of software that benefits from the computational power increase more than most.
2. Memory
The next consideration is memory. The minimum specification suggests 4GB of RAM with 8GB recommended, for reliable and smooth running consider 8GB minimum, and go for as much as you can. For a computer that is used for other activities as well, multitasking can see even 24GB of Ram being fully utilized, especially if you are working on HD content. Speaking of content, this is the other aspect of memory to look at. Whilst you can use a storage drive that contains everything else on your computer to keep the media you are working on, for HD content especially, and for trouble free and the fastest possible operation it is advisable to reserve a single drive, preferably a 7200 RPM or faster one, exclusively for your media. Bandwidth and access times means Premiere will be significantly faster in operation with its media on a dedicated drive.
3. Graphic
The final aspect of specification to consider is graphics. Adobe Premiere uses a feature called the Mercury Playback Engine that allows much faster and smoother playback of video without rendering, it has two modes, software only and GPU acceleration mode (Using either CUDA or OpenCL). The GPU acceleration mode offers significant performance increases and is therefore highly desirable. However, not all GPU’s are compatible with the Mercury Playback Engine, the list of those that are is found on the previously linked specification page, so if a new computer is being built or purchased, or upgrades are being considered prior to install, it is highly desirable to utilize a compatible GPU where possible.
5. Settings
Having covered the basic specifications of a computer that will enhance the operation of Premiere, it is now time to look at the computer settings and how this can affect Premiere’s performance and usability.
The first thing to understand is that video editing, especially HD video, is bandwidth intensive, in effect, it fills up the lanes between the CPU, RAM, GPU and Hard Drive during operation. Spreading the use of that bandwidth over several devices can see huge performance gains, so one of the best ways to optimize the computer for Premier is to adjust how the hard drives are used. How effective this can be depends on the computer you are using, so we will try to cover a few different possibilities here.
6. Drive
If your computer contains a single drive, simply install Premiere and start using it, there are no options available here. If there are two drives, keep one for the operating system, programs and cache files. Use the second drive exclusively for video project files, exported projects and previews.
If the computer has three drives then keep one for the operating system and programs, the second one for the video project files, and use the third for previews, cache files and exported projects.
If you have access to even more drives, then split the cache from the previews, and ultimately have one drive each for previews, exports and cache. Spreading the files across as many drives as possible enhances performance by enabling the different read/write operations to occur without interference from each other.
That is the theory, but how do you achieve this? This is done within Premiere itself, there are two parts, accessing where the media cache files are placed is done though the edit menu, following the path edit > preferences > media.
Changing where the project files, previews and exports are stored is just as easy, and is accessed via the project menu by taking the path project > project settings > scratchdisks.
7. Sequence Setting
When working with Premiere it is important to have the correct settings for the type of media you are using and the nature of the final output. This is done within Premiere by a function known as a Sequence.
After creating a new project you are presented with the sequence dialogue box. You can have as many sequences in a single project as you like, but Premiere always assumes you require at least one and so needs the first one to be created to allow work on a project. Any media, both audio and video, placed into a sequence is automatically adapted to the settings of that sequence, so you will want to choose settings that match the original media as closely as possible. Each sequence in a project can have different settings if required, as this lessens the workload on the CPU and makes the process faster and smoother.
The sequence dialogue has three tabs, Sequence Presets, Settings and Tracks
The Preset Tab makes setting up a new sequence much simpler. Choosing a preset enables Premiere to choose the settings that best match the chosen video and audio format. There are a wide range of presets available to suit the most commonly used media types, they are organized based on camera formats. Within each group there are numerous settings and configurations to choose from based around frame sizes and interlacing. Whilst choosing the correct preset can be a little daunting to the uninitiated, ensuring the number of frames per second, the frame size and codec are correct is all that is required.
Once the preset is chosen you can move to the settings tab to adjust the preset manually. Some settings will not be adjustable in this tab due to the specific optimization required for the input media.
Because the presets do such a good job it is not really necessary to adjust anything in the settings tab, and unless you are trying to do something very specific.
While the standard presets are usually suitable, on occasion you may desire a custom setting. To do this, choose a sequence preset that is close to your media, and then make custom selections in the Settings tab. By selecting the Save Preset option on the Settings tab you can then create a custom setting with those parameters. Give the preset a suitable name in the Save Settings dialog and add any notes that are needed. The preset can be found in the Custom folder under Available Presets.
Those with the Apple Prores Codec on their computers can use this as the preview codec if required. By choosing Quicktime as the preview format in a custom editing mode, and lastly Apple Prores as the required codec.
Conclusion
If your computer failed to meet the requirement to run Premiere Pro, you may need to spend some money to buy a powerful computer or choose another professional video editing software similar to Premiere Pro, or choose a video editing software. If your computer isn’t powerful enough to run Premiere Pro, you will get awful experience at editing footage because of the long loading time and stuck playback.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
We all know that Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best professional video editing software, while to run such a powerful video editing software, you may need a powerful windows PC or Mac as well. Though most modern computer systems can run Adobe Premiere out of the box, there are some steps to take, and potential decisions to make, before installing the software, or if you are building or buying a new computer to make sure you get the best experience possible with the software.
You may also like:Best Adobe Premiere Alternatives >>
Minimum system requirement to run Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac in 2019
Your computer should at least to meet the minimum specification below to run Premiere Pro, and if you need to edit some VR videos, your computer configuration should be higher according to the minimum specifications list on their website .
- Intel 6th or newer CPU
- Windows 10 (64-bit) 1703 or later/ MacOS V10.12 later
- 16GB RAM; 4GB GPU VRAM
- Fast internal SSD
- 1920*1080 Display resolution
- 32-bit video card
- Internet connection
However, it is important to remember this is the minimum specification, and will not necessarily give a satisfactory user experience. The recommended specifications are far more likely to provide the kind of performance expected of the software and those would be the ones to use as a guide for the minimum spec for a new computer or any upgrades being planned prior to installation.
How to check Computer Specifications
Since Premiere Pro CC only works on Windows 10 system after 2018 13.0 release, we will show you how to check if your PC meets the requirements to run Premiere Pro on Windows 10
- Press Windows Key+ E on the keyboard to bring up Windows Explorer.
- Right click the This PC option in the sidebar and then select Properties from the context menu.
- The system specification window will show up which you see the Processor, RAM, system type and other system information.
Checking the specification on your Mac is easy, just click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your Mac, and then select About This Mac option. In the pop-up window you will see the information including Processor speed, memory and graphic card etc.
How to Set Up Computer for Premiere
1. Processor
Whilst the software will run on a Core2Duo intel or Phenom II AMD processor, it is worth noting that rendering can be highly intensive work for the processor and the fastest possible processor within your budget will pay dividends in speed of editing. In general, even a Core I3, the cheapest of the current Intel range, will be significantly faster than older processors, but because Premiere happily uses multi cored processors to their full, if the budget can reach to a quad core or more processor then do so, Premiere is a piece of software that benefits from the computational power increase more than most.
2. Memory
The next consideration is memory. The minimum specification suggests 4GB of RAM with 8GB recommended, for reliable and smooth running consider 8GB minimum, and go for as much as you can. For a computer that is used for other activities as well, multitasking can see even 24GB of Ram being fully utilized, especially if you are working on HD content. Speaking of content, this is the other aspect of memory to look at. Whilst you can use a storage drive that contains everything else on your computer to keep the media you are working on, for HD content especially, and for trouble free and the fastest possible operation it is advisable to reserve a single drive, preferably a 7200 RPM or faster one, exclusively for your media. Bandwidth and access times means Premiere will be significantly faster in operation with its media on a dedicated drive.
3. Graphic
The final aspect of specification to consider is graphics. Adobe Premiere uses a feature called the Mercury Playback Engine that allows much faster and smoother playback of video without rendering, it has two modes, software only and GPU acceleration mode (Using either CUDA or OpenCL). The GPU acceleration mode offers significant performance increases and is therefore highly desirable. However, not all GPU’s are compatible with the Mercury Playback Engine, the list of those that are is found on the previously linked specification page, so if a new computer is being built or purchased, or upgrades are being considered prior to install, it is highly desirable to utilize a compatible GPU where possible.
5. Settings
Having covered the basic specifications of a computer that will enhance the operation of Premiere, it is now time to look at the computer settings and how this can affect Premiere’s performance and usability.
The first thing to understand is that video editing, especially HD video, is bandwidth intensive, in effect, it fills up the lanes between the CPU, RAM, GPU and Hard Drive during operation. Spreading the use of that bandwidth over several devices can see huge performance gains, so one of the best ways to optimize the computer for Premier is to adjust how the hard drives are used. How effective this can be depends on the computer you are using, so we will try to cover a few different possibilities here.
6. Drive
If your computer contains a single drive, simply install Premiere and start using it, there are no options available here. If there are two drives, keep one for the operating system, programs and cache files. Use the second drive exclusively for video project files, exported projects and previews.
If the computer has three drives then keep one for the operating system and programs, the second one for the video project files, and use the third for previews, cache files and exported projects.
If you have access to even more drives, then split the cache from the previews, and ultimately have one drive each for previews, exports and cache. Spreading the files across as many drives as possible enhances performance by enabling the different read/write operations to occur without interference from each other.
That is the theory, but how do you achieve this? This is done within Premiere itself, there are two parts, accessing where the media cache files are placed is done though the edit menu, following the path edit > preferences > media.
Changing where the project files, previews and exports are stored is just as easy, and is accessed via the project menu by taking the path project > project settings > scratchdisks.
7. Sequence Setting
When working with Premiere it is important to have the correct settings for the type of media you are using and the nature of the final output. This is done within Premiere by a function known as a Sequence.
After creating a new project you are presented with the sequence dialogue box. You can have as many sequences in a single project as you like, but Premiere always assumes you require at least one and so needs the first one to be created to allow work on a project. Any media, both audio and video, placed into a sequence is automatically adapted to the settings of that sequence, so you will want to choose settings that match the original media as closely as possible. Each sequence in a project can have different settings if required, as this lessens the workload on the CPU and makes the process faster and smoother.
The sequence dialogue has three tabs, Sequence Presets, Settings and Tracks
The Preset Tab makes setting up a new sequence much simpler. Choosing a preset enables Premiere to choose the settings that best match the chosen video and audio format. There are a wide range of presets available to suit the most commonly used media types, they are organized based on camera formats. Within each group there are numerous settings and configurations to choose from based around frame sizes and interlacing. Whilst choosing the correct preset can be a little daunting to the uninitiated, ensuring the number of frames per second, the frame size and codec are correct is all that is required.
Once the preset is chosen you can move to the settings tab to adjust the preset manually. Some settings will not be adjustable in this tab due to the specific optimization required for the input media.
Because the presets do such a good job it is not really necessary to adjust anything in the settings tab, and unless you are trying to do something very specific.
While the standard presets are usually suitable, on occasion you may desire a custom setting. To do this, choose a sequence preset that is close to your media, and then make custom selections in the Settings tab. By selecting the Save Preset option on the Settings tab you can then create a custom setting with those parameters. Give the preset a suitable name in the Save Settings dialog and add any notes that are needed. The preset can be found in the Custom folder under Available Presets.
Those with the Apple Prores Codec on their computers can use this as the preview codec if required. By choosing Quicktime as the preview format in a custom editing mode, and lastly Apple Prores as the required codec.
Conclusion
If your computer failed to meet the requirement to run Premiere Pro, you may need to spend some money to buy a powerful computer or choose another professional video editing software similar to Premiere Pro, or choose a video editing software. If your computer isn’t powerful enough to run Premiere Pro, you will get awful experience at editing footage because of the long loading time and stuck playback.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
We all know that Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best professional video editing software, while to run such a powerful video editing software, you may need a powerful windows PC or Mac as well. Though most modern computer systems can run Adobe Premiere out of the box, there are some steps to take, and potential decisions to make, before installing the software, or if you are building or buying a new computer to make sure you get the best experience possible with the software.
You may also like:Best Adobe Premiere Alternatives >>
Minimum system requirement to run Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac in 2019
Your computer should at least to meet the minimum specification below to run Premiere Pro, and if you need to edit some VR videos, your computer configuration should be higher according to the minimum specifications list on their website .
- Intel 6th or newer CPU
- Windows 10 (64-bit) 1703 or later/ MacOS V10.12 later
- 16GB RAM; 4GB GPU VRAM
- Fast internal SSD
- 1920*1080 Display resolution
- 32-bit video card
- Internet connection
However, it is important to remember this is the minimum specification, and will not necessarily give a satisfactory user experience. The recommended specifications are far more likely to provide the kind of performance expected of the software and those would be the ones to use as a guide for the minimum spec for a new computer or any upgrades being planned prior to installation.
How to check Computer Specifications
Since Premiere Pro CC only works on Windows 10 system after 2018 13.0 release, we will show you how to check if your PC meets the requirements to run Premiere Pro on Windows 10
- Press Windows Key+ E on the keyboard to bring up Windows Explorer.
- Right click the This PC option in the sidebar and then select Properties from the context menu.
- The system specification window will show up which you see the Processor, RAM, system type and other system information.
Checking the specification on your Mac is easy, just click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your Mac, and then select About This Mac option. In the pop-up window you will see the information including Processor speed, memory and graphic card etc.
How to Set Up Computer for Premiere
1. Processor
Whilst the software will run on a Core2Duo intel or Phenom II AMD processor, it is worth noting that rendering can be highly intensive work for the processor and the fastest possible processor within your budget will pay dividends in speed of editing. In general, even a Core I3, the cheapest of the current Intel range, will be significantly faster than older processors, but because Premiere happily uses multi cored processors to their full, if the budget can reach to a quad core or more processor then do so, Premiere is a piece of software that benefits from the computational power increase more than most.
2. Memory
The next consideration is memory. The minimum specification suggests 4GB of RAM with 8GB recommended, for reliable and smooth running consider 8GB minimum, and go for as much as you can. For a computer that is used for other activities as well, multitasking can see even 24GB of Ram being fully utilized, especially if you are working on HD content. Speaking of content, this is the other aspect of memory to look at. Whilst you can use a storage drive that contains everything else on your computer to keep the media you are working on, for HD content especially, and for trouble free and the fastest possible operation it is advisable to reserve a single drive, preferably a 7200 RPM or faster one, exclusively for your media. Bandwidth and access times means Premiere will be significantly faster in operation with its media on a dedicated drive.
3. Graphic
The final aspect of specification to consider is graphics. Adobe Premiere uses a feature called the Mercury Playback Engine that allows much faster and smoother playback of video without rendering, it has two modes, software only and GPU acceleration mode (Using either CUDA or OpenCL). The GPU acceleration mode offers significant performance increases and is therefore highly desirable. However, not all GPU’s are compatible with the Mercury Playback Engine, the list of those that are is found on the previously linked specification page, so if a new computer is being built or purchased, or upgrades are being considered prior to install, it is highly desirable to utilize a compatible GPU where possible.
5. Settings
Having covered the basic specifications of a computer that will enhance the operation of Premiere, it is now time to look at the computer settings and how this can affect Premiere’s performance and usability.
The first thing to understand is that video editing, especially HD video, is bandwidth intensive, in effect, it fills up the lanes between the CPU, RAM, GPU and Hard Drive during operation. Spreading the use of that bandwidth over several devices can see huge performance gains, so one of the best ways to optimize the computer for Premier is to adjust how the hard drives are used. How effective this can be depends on the computer you are using, so we will try to cover a few different possibilities here.
6. Drive
If your computer contains a single drive, simply install Premiere and start using it, there are no options available here. If there are two drives, keep one for the operating system, programs and cache files. Use the second drive exclusively for video project files, exported projects and previews.
If the computer has three drives then keep one for the operating system and programs, the second one for the video project files, and use the third for previews, cache files and exported projects.
If you have access to even more drives, then split the cache from the previews, and ultimately have one drive each for previews, exports and cache. Spreading the files across as many drives as possible enhances performance by enabling the different read/write operations to occur without interference from each other.
That is the theory, but how do you achieve this? This is done within Premiere itself, there are two parts, accessing where the media cache files are placed is done though the edit menu, following the path edit > preferences > media.
Changing where the project files, previews and exports are stored is just as easy, and is accessed via the project menu by taking the path project > project settings > scratchdisks.
7. Sequence Setting
When working with Premiere it is important to have the correct settings for the type of media you are using and the nature of the final output. This is done within Premiere by a function known as a Sequence.
After creating a new project you are presented with the sequence dialogue box. You can have as many sequences in a single project as you like, but Premiere always assumes you require at least one and so needs the first one to be created to allow work on a project. Any media, both audio and video, placed into a sequence is automatically adapted to the settings of that sequence, so you will want to choose settings that match the original media as closely as possible. Each sequence in a project can have different settings if required, as this lessens the workload on the CPU and makes the process faster and smoother.
The sequence dialogue has three tabs, Sequence Presets, Settings and Tracks
The Preset Tab makes setting up a new sequence much simpler. Choosing a preset enables Premiere to choose the settings that best match the chosen video and audio format. There are a wide range of presets available to suit the most commonly used media types, they are organized based on camera formats. Within each group there are numerous settings and configurations to choose from based around frame sizes and interlacing. Whilst choosing the correct preset can be a little daunting to the uninitiated, ensuring the number of frames per second, the frame size and codec are correct is all that is required.
Once the preset is chosen you can move to the settings tab to adjust the preset manually. Some settings will not be adjustable in this tab due to the specific optimization required for the input media.
Because the presets do such a good job it is not really necessary to adjust anything in the settings tab, and unless you are trying to do something very specific.
While the standard presets are usually suitable, on occasion you may desire a custom setting. To do this, choose a sequence preset that is close to your media, and then make custom selections in the Settings tab. By selecting the Save Preset option on the Settings tab you can then create a custom setting with those parameters. Give the preset a suitable name in the Save Settings dialog and add any notes that are needed. The preset can be found in the Custom folder under Available Presets.
Those with the Apple Prores Codec on their computers can use this as the preview codec if required. By choosing Quicktime as the preview format in a custom editing mode, and lastly Apple Prores as the required codec.
Conclusion
If your computer failed to meet the requirement to run Premiere Pro, you may need to spend some money to buy a powerful computer or choose another professional video editing software similar to Premiere Pro, or choose a video editing software. If your computer isn’t powerful enough to run Premiere Pro, you will get awful experience at editing footage because of the long loading time and stuck playback.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
We all know that Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best professional video editing software, while to run such a powerful video editing software, you may need a powerful windows PC or Mac as well. Though most modern computer systems can run Adobe Premiere out of the box, there are some steps to take, and potential decisions to make, before installing the software, or if you are building or buying a new computer to make sure you get the best experience possible with the software.
You may also like:Best Adobe Premiere Alternatives >>
Minimum system requirement to run Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac in 2019
Your computer should at least to meet the minimum specification below to run Premiere Pro, and if you need to edit some VR videos, your computer configuration should be higher according to the minimum specifications list on their website .
- Intel 6th or newer CPU
- Windows 10 (64-bit) 1703 or later/ MacOS V10.12 later
- 16GB RAM; 4GB GPU VRAM
- Fast internal SSD
- 1920*1080 Display resolution
- 32-bit video card
- Internet connection
However, it is important to remember this is the minimum specification, and will not necessarily give a satisfactory user experience. The recommended specifications are far more likely to provide the kind of performance expected of the software and those would be the ones to use as a guide for the minimum spec for a new computer or any upgrades being planned prior to installation.
How to check Computer Specifications
Since Premiere Pro CC only works on Windows 10 system after 2018 13.0 release, we will show you how to check if your PC meets the requirements to run Premiere Pro on Windows 10
- Press Windows Key+ E on the keyboard to bring up Windows Explorer.
- Right click the This PC option in the sidebar and then select Properties from the context menu.
- The system specification window will show up which you see the Processor, RAM, system type and other system information.
Checking the specification on your Mac is easy, just click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your Mac, and then select About This Mac option. In the pop-up window you will see the information including Processor speed, memory and graphic card etc.
How to Set Up Computer for Premiere
1. Processor
Whilst the software will run on a Core2Duo intel or Phenom II AMD processor, it is worth noting that rendering can be highly intensive work for the processor and the fastest possible processor within your budget will pay dividends in speed of editing. In general, even a Core I3, the cheapest of the current Intel range, will be significantly faster than older processors, but because Premiere happily uses multi cored processors to their full, if the budget can reach to a quad core or more processor then do so, Premiere is a piece of software that benefits from the computational power increase more than most.
2. Memory
The next consideration is memory. The minimum specification suggests 4GB of RAM with 8GB recommended, for reliable and smooth running consider 8GB minimum, and go for as much as you can. For a computer that is used for other activities as well, multitasking can see even 24GB of Ram being fully utilized, especially if you are working on HD content. Speaking of content, this is the other aspect of memory to look at. Whilst you can use a storage drive that contains everything else on your computer to keep the media you are working on, for HD content especially, and for trouble free and the fastest possible operation it is advisable to reserve a single drive, preferably a 7200 RPM or faster one, exclusively for your media. Bandwidth and access times means Premiere will be significantly faster in operation with its media on a dedicated drive.
3. Graphic
The final aspect of specification to consider is graphics. Adobe Premiere uses a feature called the Mercury Playback Engine that allows much faster and smoother playback of video without rendering, it has two modes, software only and GPU acceleration mode (Using either CUDA or OpenCL). The GPU acceleration mode offers significant performance increases and is therefore highly desirable. However, not all GPU’s are compatible with the Mercury Playback Engine, the list of those that are is found on the previously linked specification page, so if a new computer is being built or purchased, or upgrades are being considered prior to install, it is highly desirable to utilize a compatible GPU where possible.
5. Settings
Having covered the basic specifications of a computer that will enhance the operation of Premiere, it is now time to look at the computer settings and how this can affect Premiere’s performance and usability.
The first thing to understand is that video editing, especially HD video, is bandwidth intensive, in effect, it fills up the lanes between the CPU, RAM, GPU and Hard Drive during operation. Spreading the use of that bandwidth over several devices can see huge performance gains, so one of the best ways to optimize the computer for Premier is to adjust how the hard drives are used. How effective this can be depends on the computer you are using, so we will try to cover a few different possibilities here.
6. Drive
If your computer contains a single drive, simply install Premiere and start using it, there are no options available here. If there are two drives, keep one for the operating system, programs and cache files. Use the second drive exclusively for video project files, exported projects and previews.
If the computer has three drives then keep one for the operating system and programs, the second one for the video project files, and use the third for previews, cache files and exported projects.
If you have access to even more drives, then split the cache from the previews, and ultimately have one drive each for previews, exports and cache. Spreading the files across as many drives as possible enhances performance by enabling the different read/write operations to occur without interference from each other.
That is the theory, but how do you achieve this? This is done within Premiere itself, there are two parts, accessing where the media cache files are placed is done though the edit menu, following the path edit > preferences > media.
Changing where the project files, previews and exports are stored is just as easy, and is accessed via the project menu by taking the path project > project settings > scratchdisks.
7. Sequence Setting
When working with Premiere it is important to have the correct settings for the type of media you are using and the nature of the final output. This is done within Premiere by a function known as a Sequence.
After creating a new project you are presented with the sequence dialogue box. You can have as many sequences in a single project as you like, but Premiere always assumes you require at least one and so needs the first one to be created to allow work on a project. Any media, both audio and video, placed into a sequence is automatically adapted to the settings of that sequence, so you will want to choose settings that match the original media as closely as possible. Each sequence in a project can have different settings if required, as this lessens the workload on the CPU and makes the process faster and smoother.
The sequence dialogue has three tabs, Sequence Presets, Settings and Tracks
The Preset Tab makes setting up a new sequence much simpler. Choosing a preset enables Premiere to choose the settings that best match the chosen video and audio format. There are a wide range of presets available to suit the most commonly used media types, they are organized based on camera formats. Within each group there are numerous settings and configurations to choose from based around frame sizes and interlacing. Whilst choosing the correct preset can be a little daunting to the uninitiated, ensuring the number of frames per second, the frame size and codec are correct is all that is required.
Once the preset is chosen you can move to the settings tab to adjust the preset manually. Some settings will not be adjustable in this tab due to the specific optimization required for the input media.
Because the presets do such a good job it is not really necessary to adjust anything in the settings tab, and unless you are trying to do something very specific.
While the standard presets are usually suitable, on occasion you may desire a custom setting. To do this, choose a sequence preset that is close to your media, and then make custom selections in the Settings tab. By selecting the Save Preset option on the Settings tab you can then create a custom setting with those parameters. Give the preset a suitable name in the Save Settings dialog and add any notes that are needed. The preset can be found in the Custom folder under Available Presets.
Those with the Apple Prores Codec on their computers can use this as the preview codec if required. By choosing Quicktime as the preview format in a custom editing mode, and lastly Apple Prores as the required codec.
Conclusion
If your computer failed to meet the requirement to run Premiere Pro, you may need to spend some money to buy a powerful computer or choose another professional video editing software similar to Premiere Pro, or choose a video editing software. If your computer isn’t powerful enough to run Premiere Pro, you will get awful experience at editing footage because of the long loading time and stuck playback.
Benjamin Arango
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Best Online Photo and Video Collage Makers in 2024
Ollie Mattison
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Sometimes a single picture or a video can’t tell the entire story you’d like to share with your friends and colleagues. If you find yourself in a similar situation often, then you already know that you have to find a way to combine several still or moving images within a frame in order to tell your story properly.
Online photo and video collage makers offer a quick solution to this problem because they feature a number of collage templates that let you merge multiple videos or photos and create a visually impressive collage. Read on if you’re looking for an easy way to produce photo or video collages because in this article we are going to take you through some of the best online photo and video collage makers you can find on the Internet.
- Part 1: Best Free & Paid Online Video Collage Makers
- Part 2: Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Making Video Collages in a More Creative Way with Filmora Video Editor
Filmora now features the animated split-screen effect which will make your videos more interesting. Just drag and drop the clips that you want in the split-screen preview window.
You may also like:
Best Online Video Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Platforms that exclusively offer video collage-making services are rare, and in most cases, you have to use a web-based video editor if you want to create video collages online.
In addition, the video editing platforms that do provide the video collage feature, offer only a limited amount of video editing tools, which is the reason why it is still better to use video editing software for PC or Mac computers if you want to make video collages professionally. However, there are still a few online destinations where you can combine several videos with ease.
1. Kapwing
Price: Free, $17 for a monthly subscription
Kapwing is undoubtedly one of the best online video editing platforms around because it offers a broad range of video editing tools. It video collage feature lets you combine GIFs, videos and photos which makes it a perfect choice for both professional social media content creators and novice video editors. The process of creating a video collage with Kapwing is remarkably easy, as you just have to upload the videos you want to combine and adjust their position on the screen. You can then enhance the colors in each video separately, use the Bring Forward and Send Backward options or fine-tune the playback speed of the videos in your collage. However, all video collages created with the free version of the platform are going to be watermarked and you must subscribe to the Pro version of Kapwing if you want to make watermark-free video collages.
2. Animoto
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start at $15 per month
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The huge selection of fully customizable templates Animoto offers enable you to create videos for a broad range of purposes. You simply have to decide if you want to make a new product launch video, real estate explainer video or step-based tutorial and then upload the materials you would like to use to create a new video. Animoto also lets you add text, photo, video or collage blocks in case the template you’ve selected doesn’t contain all the elements you want to feature in a video. So if you want to create video collages with Animoto you simply have to add as many collage blocks as you want and then import the footage you’d like to include in a video collage.
3. Kizoa
Price: Free, lifetime plans pricing start at $29.99
Yet another versatile online video editing platform that enables marketing professionals and video editing enthusiasts to create new videos in just a few simple steps. Kizoa’s collage maker grants you access to hundreds of templates you can customize to fit the demands of the project you’re currently working on. You can choose from still and animated templates that can be used for anything from wishing your friend happy holidays to putting together your fondest memories of the year together. However, choosing one of the available pricing plans is necessary if you want to make video collages with Kizoa on a constant basis.
4. FotoJet
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $3.33 per month
Even though FotoJet is primarily a platform for design and photo editing, it still enables its users to create video collages. However, you can only use photos to create video collages, which limits your options significantly. The process of making a new video collage is easy, as you just have to pick one of the available templates and proceed to upload the images you’d like to include in the collage you’re making. After customizing the template you can share your creations on social media, but keep in mind that the free version of the platform offers only limited capabilities.
5. VidDay
Price: pay per lenghth, start at $5 for 0-3 mins
VidDay enables you to create a new video collage in just three simple steps. You should start by specifying the occasion for which you’re creating a video, it can be anything from work anniversary to your best friend’s birthday. You will then be asked to add the dates and all other relevant information, and to upload the videos you’d like to include in the collage. The only downside is that the content you create with VidDay can’t be longer than two minutes and that you have to choose a subscription plan if you want to export your videos in 720p resolution.
Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid Options]
Unlike making a video collage, creating a photo collage is a much less technically demanding operation. Hence, performing this task with a web-based photo editor is much easier because the time you’ll have to spend waiting for the pictures to upload is considerably shorter than the amount of time you’ll have to spend on uploading videos. Here are some of the best online photo collage makers you can use to make awe-inspiring collages from your photos.
1. Wondershare Pix Studio
Price: Free, $5.99 per month billed yearly, $7.99 per month billed monthly.
Wondershare PixStudio is an all-in-one and powerful online graphic design maker for everyone. This online platform empowers anyone to create a beautiful design within a few steps. No professional skills required! By simply dragging and dropping the creative elements and templates, you are capable to release your imagination and convert it to stunning artwork.
2. Ribbet
Price: Free, $3.33 per month billed yearly, $6.99 per month billed monthly
Upon arriving at Ribbet’s homepage, you should click on the Create Collage option and once the collage editor window loads you can choose the template you like the most. These presets are divided into Basic, Grid, Big Photo and Jigsaw categories and once you find the one that you want to use you just have to click on it and proceed to upload the pictures from your computer or from your accounts on social media. Optionally, you can change the background color of the collage you’re making or adjust the Proportions, Spacing and other settings. Hit the Done button when ready and continue editing the photo collage you’ve created.
3. Canva
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $12.99 per month
Canva is a platform for graphic designers that offers an easy way to create visual content for social media. It also provides the opportunity for large teams of graphic designers to collaborate on projects. The platform’s photo editor features a huge collection of customizable collage templates you can use to promote different products or services. Skilled photo editors can use Canva to create authentic photo collages, since the importing photos and arranging them on a blank canvas is a straightforward process that requires a minimum amount of time. When done, you can save your photo collages to your computer, share them on social media or store them on Google Drive.
4. Photo Joiner
Price: Free
You can create a photo collage with Photo Joiner even if you have no previous experience. You just have to open the platform’s photo collage editor and then specify how many images your collage should contain. Keep in mind that Photo Joiner allows you to add the maximum of eight pictures to a photo collage, which can limit your options if you’re trying to create a collage that contains ten or more photos. You can adjust the size and the aspect ratio for each image you add to a collage and you can also change the size and the color of the picture borders.
5. piZAP
Price: Free trial available, $2.99 per month billed annually, $2.99 per month billed annually
The large selection of templates and a broad spectrum of photo editing features make piZAP one of the best online collage makers. Furthermore, this online photo editor features a built-in library of stock images, so that you can make photo collages even if you don’t have your own material. There are a lot of different photo collage templates available that enable you to make a new photo collage effortlessly.
The piZAP platform is an excellent alternative to pricy photo editing software products because it enables its users to manipulate images at a professional level. Nonetheless, you must create an account on this platform and choose a subscription plan before you can start editing your photos with this online tool.
6. Fotor
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $8.99 per month
After signing into your account on the Fotor platform you will be able to choose from Classic Collage, Artistic Collage, Funky Collage, and Photo Stitching categories. Clicking on either of these categories enables you to access a number of different templates you can customize in accordance with your needs. The maximum number of photos you can include in a classic photo collage is limited to just ten. You’ll also have the option to resize the pictures, fine-tune the borders or change the color and the texture of the template you selected. Some templates from each of the collage categories are going to be watermarked if you are using the free version of Fotor.
7. PhotoCollage
Price: Free
This is a simple and yet a powerful photo collage maker that lets you arrange your images freely. You can just drag and drop the pictures you’d like to use in a photo collage from a folder on your computer and arrange them manually. The Template folder offers a huge collection of photo collage templates, which enables you to create a new collage in just a few minutes. The PhotoCollage platform also has the text option in case you want to add a text layer to collage you’re making. The Shape and Size, Border or Filters settings can all be used to enhance a collage and make it more visually appealing.
8. PicMonkey
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start from $7.99 per month
PicMonkey has been among the best design and photo editing platforms for nearly a decade. That is why it is hardly surprising that creating a collage with PicMonkey is a quick and simple process. You can choose from hundreds of collage templates you can easily customize, so you just have to select the one you like and decide whether you want to keep the images that are already included in the template or replace them with the pictures you created. Keep in mind that you must select a subscription plan in order to be able to save or share your photo collages.
9. Photovisi
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $4.99 per month
Making a new photo collage with Photovisi is a fun process that can be completed in just a few easy steps. Start by browsing through the online photo collage maker’s library of templates, and click on the one that you want to use. Once the template opens you can upload the pictures from your computer or from Facebook and Instagram. You’ll also be able to add new shapes and text layers to the template or change its background. Each visual or textual element you decide to include in your photo collage can be edited so that it fits the visual style of the collage perfectly. The watermark is going to be added to all your creations if you decide to use the free version of Photovisi.
10. Adobe Spark
Price: Free, $9.99 per month for the full version
Impressing your followers on social media with the content you share won’t be difficult if you decide to create that content with Adobe Spark. There are hundreds of templates available for various kinds of social media posts, so to create a photo collage you should just pick a template. You can change the layout of the template if you want to alter its original design and you can upload images from your computer or use the Adobe Stock option. The best part is that you can apply filters to all photos you add to a photo collage and make their colors more vivid.
11. Photo Collage Maker
Price: $5.56 for a single image
Photo Collage Maker lets you choose from more than 250 photo collage templates that are suitable for virtually any purpose. The number of pictures you can include in a photo collage can vary from just two to more than 75 and it depends on the template you choose. You can also automatically desaturate all the images in a photo collage by clicking on the B&W/Color icon or change the background with a single click. Photo Collage Maker doesn’t offer any border options, so you can’t really control the spacing between the images. Downloading a 1-megapixel file from this platform is going to cost you $5.56.
Conclusion
Combining multiple photos or videos and making collages that are going to attract a lot of attention on social media has never been easier. Hopefully the online collage makers, we included in this article will help you create photo and video collages that are going to impress your friends and colleagues.
In fact, through multiple updates, now we made it super easy to make a collage video with Filmora. Rather than making a photo collage, why not make a video collage?
Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Sometimes a single picture or a video can’t tell the entire story you’d like to share with your friends and colleagues. If you find yourself in a similar situation often, then you already know that you have to find a way to combine several still or moving images within a frame in order to tell your story properly.
Online photo and video collage makers offer a quick solution to this problem because they feature a number of collage templates that let you merge multiple videos or photos and create a visually impressive collage. Read on if you’re looking for an easy way to produce photo or video collages because in this article we are going to take you through some of the best online photo and video collage makers you can find on the Internet.
- Part 1: Best Free & Paid Online Video Collage Makers
- Part 2: Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Making Video Collages in a More Creative Way with Filmora Video Editor
Filmora now features the animated split-screen effect which will make your videos more interesting. Just drag and drop the clips that you want in the split-screen preview window.
You may also like:
Best Online Video Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Platforms that exclusively offer video collage-making services are rare, and in most cases, you have to use a web-based video editor if you want to create video collages online.
In addition, the video editing platforms that do provide the video collage feature, offer only a limited amount of video editing tools, which is the reason why it is still better to use video editing software for PC or Mac computers if you want to make video collages professionally. However, there are still a few online destinations where you can combine several videos with ease.
1. Kapwing
Price: Free, $17 for a monthly subscription
Kapwing is undoubtedly one of the best online video editing platforms around because it offers a broad range of video editing tools. It video collage feature lets you combine GIFs, videos and photos which makes it a perfect choice for both professional social media content creators and novice video editors. The process of creating a video collage with Kapwing is remarkably easy, as you just have to upload the videos you want to combine and adjust their position on the screen. You can then enhance the colors in each video separately, use the Bring Forward and Send Backward options or fine-tune the playback speed of the videos in your collage. However, all video collages created with the free version of the platform are going to be watermarked and you must subscribe to the Pro version of Kapwing if you want to make watermark-free video collages.
2. Animoto
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start at $15 per month
Image from Internet
The huge selection of fully customizable templates Animoto offers enable you to create videos for a broad range of purposes. You simply have to decide if you want to make a new product launch video, real estate explainer video or step-based tutorial and then upload the materials you would like to use to create a new video. Animoto also lets you add text, photo, video or collage blocks in case the template you’ve selected doesn’t contain all the elements you want to feature in a video. So if you want to create video collages with Animoto you simply have to add as many collage blocks as you want and then import the footage you’d like to include in a video collage.
3. Kizoa
Price: Free, lifetime plans pricing start at $29.99
Yet another versatile online video editing platform that enables marketing professionals and video editing enthusiasts to create new videos in just a few simple steps. Kizoa’s collage maker grants you access to hundreds of templates you can customize to fit the demands of the project you’re currently working on. You can choose from still and animated templates that can be used for anything from wishing your friend happy holidays to putting together your fondest memories of the year together. However, choosing one of the available pricing plans is necessary if you want to make video collages with Kizoa on a constant basis.
4. FotoJet
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $3.33 per month
Even though FotoJet is primarily a platform for design and photo editing, it still enables its users to create video collages. However, you can only use photos to create video collages, which limits your options significantly. The process of making a new video collage is easy, as you just have to pick one of the available templates and proceed to upload the images you’d like to include in the collage you’re making. After customizing the template you can share your creations on social media, but keep in mind that the free version of the platform offers only limited capabilities.
5. VidDay
Price: pay per lenghth, start at $5 for 0-3 mins
VidDay enables you to create a new video collage in just three simple steps. You should start by specifying the occasion for which you’re creating a video, it can be anything from work anniversary to your best friend’s birthday. You will then be asked to add the dates and all other relevant information, and to upload the videos you’d like to include in the collage. The only downside is that the content you create with VidDay can’t be longer than two minutes and that you have to choose a subscription plan if you want to export your videos in 720p resolution.
Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid Options]
Unlike making a video collage, creating a photo collage is a much less technically demanding operation. Hence, performing this task with a web-based photo editor is much easier because the time you’ll have to spend waiting for the pictures to upload is considerably shorter than the amount of time you’ll have to spend on uploading videos. Here are some of the best online photo collage makers you can use to make awe-inspiring collages from your photos.
1. Wondershare Pix Studio
Price: Free, $5.99 per month billed yearly, $7.99 per month billed monthly.
Wondershare PixStudio is an all-in-one and powerful online graphic design maker for everyone. This online platform empowers anyone to create a beautiful design within a few steps. No professional skills required! By simply dragging and dropping the creative elements and templates, you are capable to release your imagination and convert it to stunning artwork.
2. Ribbet
Price: Free, $3.33 per month billed yearly, $6.99 per month billed monthly
Upon arriving at Ribbet’s homepage, you should click on the Create Collage option and once the collage editor window loads you can choose the template you like the most. These presets are divided into Basic, Grid, Big Photo and Jigsaw categories and once you find the one that you want to use you just have to click on it and proceed to upload the pictures from your computer or from your accounts on social media. Optionally, you can change the background color of the collage you’re making or adjust the Proportions, Spacing and other settings. Hit the Done button when ready and continue editing the photo collage you’ve created.
3. Canva
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $12.99 per month
Canva is a platform for graphic designers that offers an easy way to create visual content for social media. It also provides the opportunity for large teams of graphic designers to collaborate on projects. The platform’s photo editor features a huge collection of customizable collage templates you can use to promote different products or services. Skilled photo editors can use Canva to create authentic photo collages, since the importing photos and arranging them on a blank canvas is a straightforward process that requires a minimum amount of time. When done, you can save your photo collages to your computer, share them on social media or store them on Google Drive.
4. Photo Joiner
Price: Free
You can create a photo collage with Photo Joiner even if you have no previous experience. You just have to open the platform’s photo collage editor and then specify how many images your collage should contain. Keep in mind that Photo Joiner allows you to add the maximum of eight pictures to a photo collage, which can limit your options if you’re trying to create a collage that contains ten or more photos. You can adjust the size and the aspect ratio for each image you add to a collage and you can also change the size and the color of the picture borders.
5. piZAP
Price: Free trial available, $2.99 per month billed annually, $2.99 per month billed annually
The large selection of templates and a broad spectrum of photo editing features make piZAP one of the best online collage makers. Furthermore, this online photo editor features a built-in library of stock images, so that you can make photo collages even if you don’t have your own material. There are a lot of different photo collage templates available that enable you to make a new photo collage effortlessly.
The piZAP platform is an excellent alternative to pricy photo editing software products because it enables its users to manipulate images at a professional level. Nonetheless, you must create an account on this platform and choose a subscription plan before you can start editing your photos with this online tool.
6. Fotor
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $8.99 per month
After signing into your account on the Fotor platform you will be able to choose from Classic Collage, Artistic Collage, Funky Collage, and Photo Stitching categories. Clicking on either of these categories enables you to access a number of different templates you can customize in accordance with your needs. The maximum number of photos you can include in a classic photo collage is limited to just ten. You’ll also have the option to resize the pictures, fine-tune the borders or change the color and the texture of the template you selected. Some templates from each of the collage categories are going to be watermarked if you are using the free version of Fotor.
7. PhotoCollage
Price: Free
This is a simple and yet a powerful photo collage maker that lets you arrange your images freely. You can just drag and drop the pictures you’d like to use in a photo collage from a folder on your computer and arrange them manually. The Template folder offers a huge collection of photo collage templates, which enables you to create a new collage in just a few minutes. The PhotoCollage platform also has the text option in case you want to add a text layer to collage you’re making. The Shape and Size, Border or Filters settings can all be used to enhance a collage and make it more visually appealing.
8. PicMonkey
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start from $7.99 per month
PicMonkey has been among the best design and photo editing platforms for nearly a decade. That is why it is hardly surprising that creating a collage with PicMonkey is a quick and simple process. You can choose from hundreds of collage templates you can easily customize, so you just have to select the one you like and decide whether you want to keep the images that are already included in the template or replace them with the pictures you created. Keep in mind that you must select a subscription plan in order to be able to save or share your photo collages.
9. Photovisi
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $4.99 per month
Making a new photo collage with Photovisi is a fun process that can be completed in just a few easy steps. Start by browsing through the online photo collage maker’s library of templates, and click on the one that you want to use. Once the template opens you can upload the pictures from your computer or from Facebook and Instagram. You’ll also be able to add new shapes and text layers to the template or change its background. Each visual or textual element you decide to include in your photo collage can be edited so that it fits the visual style of the collage perfectly. The watermark is going to be added to all your creations if you decide to use the free version of Photovisi.
10. Adobe Spark
Price: Free, $9.99 per month for the full version
Impressing your followers on social media with the content you share won’t be difficult if you decide to create that content with Adobe Spark. There are hundreds of templates available for various kinds of social media posts, so to create a photo collage you should just pick a template. You can change the layout of the template if you want to alter its original design and you can upload images from your computer or use the Adobe Stock option. The best part is that you can apply filters to all photos you add to a photo collage and make their colors more vivid.
11. Photo Collage Maker
Price: $5.56 for a single image
Photo Collage Maker lets you choose from more than 250 photo collage templates that are suitable for virtually any purpose. The number of pictures you can include in a photo collage can vary from just two to more than 75 and it depends on the template you choose. You can also automatically desaturate all the images in a photo collage by clicking on the B&W/Color icon or change the background with a single click. Photo Collage Maker doesn’t offer any border options, so you can’t really control the spacing between the images. Downloading a 1-megapixel file from this platform is going to cost you $5.56.
Conclusion
Combining multiple photos or videos and making collages that are going to attract a lot of attention on social media has never been easier. Hopefully the online collage makers, we included in this article will help you create photo and video collages that are going to impress your friends and colleagues.
In fact, through multiple updates, now we made it super easy to make a collage video with Filmora. Rather than making a photo collage, why not make a video collage?
Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Sometimes a single picture or a video can’t tell the entire story you’d like to share with your friends and colleagues. If you find yourself in a similar situation often, then you already know that you have to find a way to combine several still or moving images within a frame in order to tell your story properly.
Online photo and video collage makers offer a quick solution to this problem because they feature a number of collage templates that let you merge multiple videos or photos and create a visually impressive collage. Read on if you’re looking for an easy way to produce photo or video collages because in this article we are going to take you through some of the best online photo and video collage makers you can find on the Internet.
- Part 1: Best Free & Paid Online Video Collage Makers
- Part 2: Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Making Video Collages in a More Creative Way with Filmora Video Editor
Filmora now features the animated split-screen effect which will make your videos more interesting. Just drag and drop the clips that you want in the split-screen preview window.
You may also like:
Best Online Video Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Platforms that exclusively offer video collage-making services are rare, and in most cases, you have to use a web-based video editor if you want to create video collages online.
In addition, the video editing platforms that do provide the video collage feature, offer only a limited amount of video editing tools, which is the reason why it is still better to use video editing software for PC or Mac computers if you want to make video collages professionally. However, there are still a few online destinations where you can combine several videos with ease.
1. Kapwing
Price: Free, $17 for a monthly subscription
Kapwing is undoubtedly one of the best online video editing platforms around because it offers a broad range of video editing tools. It video collage feature lets you combine GIFs, videos and photos which makes it a perfect choice for both professional social media content creators and novice video editors. The process of creating a video collage with Kapwing is remarkably easy, as you just have to upload the videos you want to combine and adjust their position on the screen. You can then enhance the colors in each video separately, use the Bring Forward and Send Backward options or fine-tune the playback speed of the videos in your collage. However, all video collages created with the free version of the platform are going to be watermarked and you must subscribe to the Pro version of Kapwing if you want to make watermark-free video collages.
2. Animoto
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start at $15 per month
Image from Internet
The huge selection of fully customizable templates Animoto offers enable you to create videos for a broad range of purposes. You simply have to decide if you want to make a new product launch video, real estate explainer video or step-based tutorial and then upload the materials you would like to use to create a new video. Animoto also lets you add text, photo, video or collage blocks in case the template you’ve selected doesn’t contain all the elements you want to feature in a video. So if you want to create video collages with Animoto you simply have to add as many collage blocks as you want and then import the footage you’d like to include in a video collage.
3. Kizoa
Price: Free, lifetime plans pricing start at $29.99
Yet another versatile online video editing platform that enables marketing professionals and video editing enthusiasts to create new videos in just a few simple steps. Kizoa’s collage maker grants you access to hundreds of templates you can customize to fit the demands of the project you’re currently working on. You can choose from still and animated templates that can be used for anything from wishing your friend happy holidays to putting together your fondest memories of the year together. However, choosing one of the available pricing plans is necessary if you want to make video collages with Kizoa on a constant basis.
4. FotoJet
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $3.33 per month
Even though FotoJet is primarily a platform for design and photo editing, it still enables its users to create video collages. However, you can only use photos to create video collages, which limits your options significantly. The process of making a new video collage is easy, as you just have to pick one of the available templates and proceed to upload the images you’d like to include in the collage you’re making. After customizing the template you can share your creations on social media, but keep in mind that the free version of the platform offers only limited capabilities.
5. VidDay
Price: pay per lenghth, start at $5 for 0-3 mins
VidDay enables you to create a new video collage in just three simple steps. You should start by specifying the occasion for which you’re creating a video, it can be anything from work anniversary to your best friend’s birthday. You will then be asked to add the dates and all other relevant information, and to upload the videos you’d like to include in the collage. The only downside is that the content you create with VidDay can’t be longer than two minutes and that you have to choose a subscription plan if you want to export your videos in 720p resolution.
Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid Options]
Unlike making a video collage, creating a photo collage is a much less technically demanding operation. Hence, performing this task with a web-based photo editor is much easier because the time you’ll have to spend waiting for the pictures to upload is considerably shorter than the amount of time you’ll have to spend on uploading videos. Here are some of the best online photo collage makers you can use to make awe-inspiring collages from your photos.
1. Wondershare Pix Studio
Price: Free, $5.99 per month billed yearly, $7.99 per month billed monthly.
Wondershare PixStudio is an all-in-one and powerful online graphic design maker for everyone. This online platform empowers anyone to create a beautiful design within a few steps. No professional skills required! By simply dragging and dropping the creative elements and templates, you are capable to release your imagination and convert it to stunning artwork.
2. Ribbet
Price: Free, $3.33 per month billed yearly, $6.99 per month billed monthly
Upon arriving at Ribbet’s homepage, you should click on the Create Collage option and once the collage editor window loads you can choose the template you like the most. These presets are divided into Basic, Grid, Big Photo and Jigsaw categories and once you find the one that you want to use you just have to click on it and proceed to upload the pictures from your computer or from your accounts on social media. Optionally, you can change the background color of the collage you’re making or adjust the Proportions, Spacing and other settings. Hit the Done button when ready and continue editing the photo collage you’ve created.
3. Canva
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $12.99 per month
Canva is a platform for graphic designers that offers an easy way to create visual content for social media. It also provides the opportunity for large teams of graphic designers to collaborate on projects. The platform’s photo editor features a huge collection of customizable collage templates you can use to promote different products or services. Skilled photo editors can use Canva to create authentic photo collages, since the importing photos and arranging them on a blank canvas is a straightforward process that requires a minimum amount of time. When done, you can save your photo collages to your computer, share them on social media or store them on Google Drive.
4. Photo Joiner
Price: Free
You can create a photo collage with Photo Joiner even if you have no previous experience. You just have to open the platform’s photo collage editor and then specify how many images your collage should contain. Keep in mind that Photo Joiner allows you to add the maximum of eight pictures to a photo collage, which can limit your options if you’re trying to create a collage that contains ten or more photos. You can adjust the size and the aspect ratio for each image you add to a collage and you can also change the size and the color of the picture borders.
5. piZAP
Price: Free trial available, $2.99 per month billed annually, $2.99 per month billed annually
The large selection of templates and a broad spectrum of photo editing features make piZAP one of the best online collage makers. Furthermore, this online photo editor features a built-in library of stock images, so that you can make photo collages even if you don’t have your own material. There are a lot of different photo collage templates available that enable you to make a new photo collage effortlessly.
The piZAP platform is an excellent alternative to pricy photo editing software products because it enables its users to manipulate images at a professional level. Nonetheless, you must create an account on this platform and choose a subscription plan before you can start editing your photos with this online tool.
6. Fotor
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $8.99 per month
After signing into your account on the Fotor platform you will be able to choose from Classic Collage, Artistic Collage, Funky Collage, and Photo Stitching categories. Clicking on either of these categories enables you to access a number of different templates you can customize in accordance with your needs. The maximum number of photos you can include in a classic photo collage is limited to just ten. You’ll also have the option to resize the pictures, fine-tune the borders or change the color and the texture of the template you selected. Some templates from each of the collage categories are going to be watermarked if you are using the free version of Fotor.
7. PhotoCollage
Price: Free
This is a simple and yet a powerful photo collage maker that lets you arrange your images freely. You can just drag and drop the pictures you’d like to use in a photo collage from a folder on your computer and arrange them manually. The Template folder offers a huge collection of photo collage templates, which enables you to create a new collage in just a few minutes. The PhotoCollage platform also has the text option in case you want to add a text layer to collage you’re making. The Shape and Size, Border or Filters settings can all be used to enhance a collage and make it more visually appealing.
8. PicMonkey
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start from $7.99 per month
PicMonkey has been among the best design and photo editing platforms for nearly a decade. That is why it is hardly surprising that creating a collage with PicMonkey is a quick and simple process. You can choose from hundreds of collage templates you can easily customize, so you just have to select the one you like and decide whether you want to keep the images that are already included in the template or replace them with the pictures you created. Keep in mind that you must select a subscription plan in order to be able to save or share your photo collages.
9. Photovisi
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $4.99 per month
Making a new photo collage with Photovisi is a fun process that can be completed in just a few easy steps. Start by browsing through the online photo collage maker’s library of templates, and click on the one that you want to use. Once the template opens you can upload the pictures from your computer or from Facebook and Instagram. You’ll also be able to add new shapes and text layers to the template or change its background. Each visual or textual element you decide to include in your photo collage can be edited so that it fits the visual style of the collage perfectly. The watermark is going to be added to all your creations if you decide to use the free version of Photovisi.
10. Adobe Spark
Price: Free, $9.99 per month for the full version
Impressing your followers on social media with the content you share won’t be difficult if you decide to create that content with Adobe Spark. There are hundreds of templates available for various kinds of social media posts, so to create a photo collage you should just pick a template. You can change the layout of the template if you want to alter its original design and you can upload images from your computer or use the Adobe Stock option. The best part is that you can apply filters to all photos you add to a photo collage and make their colors more vivid.
11. Photo Collage Maker
Price: $5.56 for a single image
Photo Collage Maker lets you choose from more than 250 photo collage templates that are suitable for virtually any purpose. The number of pictures you can include in a photo collage can vary from just two to more than 75 and it depends on the template you choose. You can also automatically desaturate all the images in a photo collage by clicking on the B&W/Color icon or change the background with a single click. Photo Collage Maker doesn’t offer any border options, so you can’t really control the spacing between the images. Downloading a 1-megapixel file from this platform is going to cost you $5.56.
Conclusion
Combining multiple photos or videos and making collages that are going to attract a lot of attention on social media has never been easier. Hopefully the online collage makers, we included in this article will help you create photo and video collages that are going to impress your friends and colleagues.
In fact, through multiple updates, now we made it super easy to make a collage video with Filmora. Rather than making a photo collage, why not make a video collage?
Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Sometimes a single picture or a video can’t tell the entire story you’d like to share with your friends and colleagues. If you find yourself in a similar situation often, then you already know that you have to find a way to combine several still or moving images within a frame in order to tell your story properly.
Online photo and video collage makers offer a quick solution to this problem because they feature a number of collage templates that let you merge multiple videos or photos and create a visually impressive collage. Read on if you’re looking for an easy way to produce photo or video collages because in this article we are going to take you through some of the best online photo and video collage makers you can find on the Internet.
- Part 1: Best Free & Paid Online Video Collage Makers
- Part 2: Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Making Video Collages in a More Creative Way with Filmora Video Editor
Filmora now features the animated split-screen effect which will make your videos more interesting. Just drag and drop the clips that you want in the split-screen preview window.
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Best Online Video Collage Makers [Free & Paid]
Platforms that exclusively offer video collage-making services are rare, and in most cases, you have to use a web-based video editor if you want to create video collages online.
In addition, the video editing platforms that do provide the video collage feature, offer only a limited amount of video editing tools, which is the reason why it is still better to use video editing software for PC or Mac computers if you want to make video collages professionally. However, there are still a few online destinations where you can combine several videos with ease.
1. Kapwing
Price: Free, $17 for a monthly subscription
Kapwing is undoubtedly one of the best online video editing platforms around because it offers a broad range of video editing tools. It video collage feature lets you combine GIFs, videos and photos which makes it a perfect choice for both professional social media content creators and novice video editors. The process of creating a video collage with Kapwing is remarkably easy, as you just have to upload the videos you want to combine and adjust their position on the screen. You can then enhance the colors in each video separately, use the Bring Forward and Send Backward options or fine-tune the playback speed of the videos in your collage. However, all video collages created with the free version of the platform are going to be watermarked and you must subscribe to the Pro version of Kapwing if you want to make watermark-free video collages.
2. Animoto
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start at $15 per month
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The huge selection of fully customizable templates Animoto offers enable you to create videos for a broad range of purposes. You simply have to decide if you want to make a new product launch video, real estate explainer video or step-based tutorial and then upload the materials you would like to use to create a new video. Animoto also lets you add text, photo, video or collage blocks in case the template you’ve selected doesn’t contain all the elements you want to feature in a video. So if you want to create video collages with Animoto you simply have to add as many collage blocks as you want and then import the footage you’d like to include in a video collage.
3. Kizoa
Price: Free, lifetime plans pricing start at $29.99
Yet another versatile online video editing platform that enables marketing professionals and video editing enthusiasts to create new videos in just a few simple steps. Kizoa’s collage maker grants you access to hundreds of templates you can customize to fit the demands of the project you’re currently working on. You can choose from still and animated templates that can be used for anything from wishing your friend happy holidays to putting together your fondest memories of the year together. However, choosing one of the available pricing plans is necessary if you want to make video collages with Kizoa on a constant basis.
4. FotoJet
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $3.33 per month
Even though FotoJet is primarily a platform for design and photo editing, it still enables its users to create video collages. However, you can only use photos to create video collages, which limits your options significantly. The process of making a new video collage is easy, as you just have to pick one of the available templates and proceed to upload the images you’d like to include in the collage you’re making. After customizing the template you can share your creations on social media, but keep in mind that the free version of the platform offers only limited capabilities.
5. VidDay
Price: pay per lenghth, start at $5 for 0-3 mins
VidDay enables you to create a new video collage in just three simple steps. You should start by specifying the occasion for which you’re creating a video, it can be anything from work anniversary to your best friend’s birthday. You will then be asked to add the dates and all other relevant information, and to upload the videos you’d like to include in the collage. The only downside is that the content you create with VidDay can’t be longer than two minutes and that you have to choose a subscription plan if you want to export your videos in 720p resolution.
Best Online Photo Collage Makers [Free & Paid Options]
Unlike making a video collage, creating a photo collage is a much less technically demanding operation. Hence, performing this task with a web-based photo editor is much easier because the time you’ll have to spend waiting for the pictures to upload is considerably shorter than the amount of time you’ll have to spend on uploading videos. Here are some of the best online photo collage makers you can use to make awe-inspiring collages from your photos.
1. Wondershare Pix Studio
Price: Free, $5.99 per month billed yearly, $7.99 per month billed monthly.
Wondershare PixStudio is an all-in-one and powerful online graphic design maker for everyone. This online platform empowers anyone to create a beautiful design within a few steps. No professional skills required! By simply dragging and dropping the creative elements and templates, you are capable to release your imagination and convert it to stunning artwork.
2. Ribbet
Price: Free, $3.33 per month billed yearly, $6.99 per month billed monthly
Upon arriving at Ribbet’s homepage, you should click on the Create Collage option and once the collage editor window loads you can choose the template you like the most. These presets are divided into Basic, Grid, Big Photo and Jigsaw categories and once you find the one that you want to use you just have to click on it and proceed to upload the pictures from your computer or from your accounts on social media. Optionally, you can change the background color of the collage you’re making or adjust the Proportions, Spacing and other settings. Hit the Done button when ready and continue editing the photo collage you’ve created.
3. Canva
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $12.99 per month
Canva is a platform for graphic designers that offers an easy way to create visual content for social media. It also provides the opportunity for large teams of graphic designers to collaborate on projects. The platform’s photo editor features a huge collection of customizable collage templates you can use to promote different products or services. Skilled photo editors can use Canva to create authentic photo collages, since the importing photos and arranging them on a blank canvas is a straightforward process that requires a minimum amount of time. When done, you can save your photo collages to your computer, share them on social media or store them on Google Drive.
4. Photo Joiner
Price: Free
You can create a photo collage with Photo Joiner even if you have no previous experience. You just have to open the platform’s photo collage editor and then specify how many images your collage should contain. Keep in mind that Photo Joiner allows you to add the maximum of eight pictures to a photo collage, which can limit your options if you’re trying to create a collage that contains ten or more photos. You can adjust the size and the aspect ratio for each image you add to a collage and you can also change the size and the color of the picture borders.
5. piZAP
Price: Free trial available, $2.99 per month billed annually, $2.99 per month billed annually
The large selection of templates and a broad spectrum of photo editing features make piZAP one of the best online collage makers. Furthermore, this online photo editor features a built-in library of stock images, so that you can make photo collages even if you don’t have your own material. There are a lot of different photo collage templates available that enable you to make a new photo collage effortlessly.
The piZAP platform is an excellent alternative to pricy photo editing software products because it enables its users to manipulate images at a professional level. Nonetheless, you must create an account on this platform and choose a subscription plan before you can start editing your photos with this online tool.
6. Fotor
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $8.99 per month
After signing into your account on the Fotor platform you will be able to choose from Classic Collage, Artistic Collage, Funky Collage, and Photo Stitching categories. Clicking on either of these categories enables you to access a number of different templates you can customize in accordance with your needs. The maximum number of photos you can include in a classic photo collage is limited to just ten. You’ll also have the option to resize the pictures, fine-tune the borders or change the color and the texture of the template you selected. Some templates from each of the collage categories are going to be watermarked if you are using the free version of Fotor.
7. PhotoCollage
Price: Free
This is a simple and yet a powerful photo collage maker that lets you arrange your images freely. You can just drag and drop the pictures you’d like to use in a photo collage from a folder on your computer and arrange them manually. The Template folder offers a huge collection of photo collage templates, which enables you to create a new collage in just a few minutes. The PhotoCollage platform also has the text option in case you want to add a text layer to collage you’re making. The Shape and Size, Border or Filters settings can all be used to enhance a collage and make it more visually appealing.
8. PicMonkey
Price: Free trial available, pricing plans start from $7.99 per month
PicMonkey has been among the best design and photo editing platforms for nearly a decade. That is why it is hardly surprising that creating a collage with PicMonkey is a quick and simple process. You can choose from hundreds of collage templates you can easily customize, so you just have to select the one you like and decide whether you want to keep the images that are already included in the template or replace them with the pictures you created. Keep in mind that you must select a subscription plan in order to be able to save or share your photo collages.
9. Photovisi
Price: Free, pricing plans start at $4.99 per month
Making a new photo collage with Photovisi is a fun process that can be completed in just a few easy steps. Start by browsing through the online photo collage maker’s library of templates, and click on the one that you want to use. Once the template opens you can upload the pictures from your computer or from Facebook and Instagram. You’ll also be able to add new shapes and text layers to the template or change its background. Each visual or textual element you decide to include in your photo collage can be edited so that it fits the visual style of the collage perfectly. The watermark is going to be added to all your creations if you decide to use the free version of Photovisi.
10. Adobe Spark
Price: Free, $9.99 per month for the full version
Impressing your followers on social media with the content you share won’t be difficult if you decide to create that content with Adobe Spark. There are hundreds of templates available for various kinds of social media posts, so to create a photo collage you should just pick a template. You can change the layout of the template if you want to alter its original design and you can upload images from your computer or use the Adobe Stock option. The best part is that you can apply filters to all photos you add to a photo collage and make their colors more vivid.
11. Photo Collage Maker
Price: $5.56 for a single image
Photo Collage Maker lets you choose from more than 250 photo collage templates that are suitable for virtually any purpose. The number of pictures you can include in a photo collage can vary from just two to more than 75 and it depends on the template you choose. You can also automatically desaturate all the images in a photo collage by clicking on the B&W/Color icon or change the background with a single click. Photo Collage Maker doesn’t offer any border options, so you can’t really control the spacing between the images. Downloading a 1-megapixel file from this platform is going to cost you $5.56.
Conclusion
Combining multiple photos or videos and making collages that are going to attract a lot of attention on social media has never been easier. Hopefully the online collage makers, we included in this article will help you create photo and video collages that are going to impress your friends and colleagues.
In fact, through multiple updates, now we made it super easy to make a collage video with Filmora. Rather than making a photo collage, why not make a video collage?
Ollie Mattison
Ollie Mattison is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Ollie Mattison
Unlock FCPX Potential: Troubleshooting Essentials for Editors
Troubleshooting Tips for Final Cut Pro X
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Most of the time, Final Cut Pro X works great. But, when it doesn’t, here are some things you can try to get your system back to normal in no time.
Here’s the quick list:
- Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
- Check your media
- Delete render files and re-render
- Create a new library
- Create a new user account
- Trash FCP X Preferences
- Remove and re-install Final Cut Pro
1 Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
Restarting Final Cut releases and refreshes memory so that if something was confusing your system, restarting Final Cut can fix it.
2 Check your media
Frequently, problems are caused by still images that are too big. Limit your digital photos to no more than 5,000 pixels on a side. Final Cut is a video editor, not a still image editor. Images that are too large cause problems.
Also, stock footage files are known to cause problems. Be sure to convert all stock footage to ProRes 422 before importing into Final Cut Pro X.
3 Delete render files and re-render
Open your Project in the Timeline and choose File > Delete Project Render Files. Render files can become corrupt. Trashing them forces Final Cut to create new render files which often will fix the problem.
4 Create a new library
Create a new library and a new project. Then, copy and paste sections of the old project into the new project. Test each section until you find the spot that doesn’t work. At which point, you can remove or replace the bad media.
5 Create a new user account
Open System Preferences > Accounts and create a new User Account. This resets all preferences for both Final Cut and the operating system back to factory defaults. The only problem with doing this is that a new user account can’t access files stored in the Home directory of the old user account. For this reason, I always recommend storing all libraries on external hard drives, not the Home Directory.
6 Trash FCP X Preferences
Trash Final Cut Pro X preference files. There are at least three preference files and, if you’ve had a crash, there can be more. Here are the steps:
- Go to the Finder.
- Hold down on the Option key and click on the Go menu. The Library folder inside your Home Directory now shows up as a selection inside this menu. (You could also type Shift+Command+G, or select Go > Go To Folder in the Finder; then, type ~/Library/ and click Go.)
- Open to the Library > Preferences folder.
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
- Trash any other files that start with “com.apple.finalcut”.
- Empty the Trash.
- Restart Final Cut Pro X.
7 Remove and reinstall Final Cut Pro
If all else fails, delete FCPX from the Applications folder and re-install it from the Mac App Store .
One of these techniques should fix your problem. If not, it’s time to contact Apple Support .
# Recommendation:
This is a basic tutorial about Apple Final Cut Pro X, professional video editing software. However, if video editing is new to you, consider Wondershare Filmora for Mac . This is a powerful but easy-to-use tool for users just starting out. Download the free trial version below.
Download Mac Version ](https://tools.techidaily.com/wondershare/filmora/download/ )
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Most of the time, Final Cut Pro X works great. But, when it doesn’t, here are some things you can try to get your system back to normal in no time.
Here’s the quick list:
- Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
- Check your media
- Delete render files and re-render
- Create a new library
- Create a new user account
- Trash FCP X Preferences
- Remove and re-install Final Cut Pro
1 Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
Restarting Final Cut releases and refreshes memory so that if something was confusing your system, restarting Final Cut can fix it.
2 Check your media
Frequently, problems are caused by still images that are too big. Limit your digital photos to no more than 5,000 pixels on a side. Final Cut is a video editor, not a still image editor. Images that are too large cause problems.
Also, stock footage files are known to cause problems. Be sure to convert all stock footage to ProRes 422 before importing into Final Cut Pro X.
3 Delete render files and re-render
Open your Project in the Timeline and choose File > Delete Project Render Files. Render files can become corrupt. Trashing them forces Final Cut to create new render files which often will fix the problem.
4 Create a new library
Create a new library and a new project. Then, copy and paste sections of the old project into the new project. Test each section until you find the spot that doesn’t work. At which point, you can remove or replace the bad media.
5 Create a new user account
Open System Preferences > Accounts and create a new User Account. This resets all preferences for both Final Cut and the operating system back to factory defaults. The only problem with doing this is that a new user account can’t access files stored in the Home directory of the old user account. For this reason, I always recommend storing all libraries on external hard drives, not the Home Directory.
6 Trash FCP X Preferences
Trash Final Cut Pro X preference files. There are at least three preference files and, if you’ve had a crash, there can be more. Here are the steps:
- Go to the Finder.
- Hold down on the Option key and click on the Go menu. The Library folder inside your Home Directory now shows up as a selection inside this menu. (You could also type Shift+Command+G, or select Go > Go To Folder in the Finder; then, type ~/Library/ and click Go.)
- Open to the Library > Preferences folder.
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
- Trash any other files that start with “com.apple.finalcut”.
- Empty the Trash.
- Restart Final Cut Pro X.
7 Remove and reinstall Final Cut Pro
If all else fails, delete FCPX from the Applications folder and re-install it from the Mac App Store .
One of these techniques should fix your problem. If not, it’s time to contact Apple Support .
# Recommendation:
This is a basic tutorial about Apple Final Cut Pro X, professional video editing software. However, if video editing is new to you, consider Wondershare Filmora for Mac . This is a powerful but easy-to-use tool for users just starting out. Download the free trial version below.
Download Mac Version ](https://tools.techidaily.com/wondershare/filmora/download/ )
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Most of the time, Final Cut Pro X works great. But, when it doesn’t, here are some things you can try to get your system back to normal in no time.
Here’s the quick list:
- Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
- Check your media
- Delete render files and re-render
- Create a new library
- Create a new user account
- Trash FCP X Preferences
- Remove and re-install Final Cut Pro
1 Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
Restarting Final Cut releases and refreshes memory so that if something was confusing your system, restarting Final Cut can fix it.
2 Check your media
Frequently, problems are caused by still images that are too big. Limit your digital photos to no more than 5,000 pixels on a side. Final Cut is a video editor, not a still image editor. Images that are too large cause problems.
Also, stock footage files are known to cause problems. Be sure to convert all stock footage to ProRes 422 before importing into Final Cut Pro X.
3 Delete render files and re-render
Open your Project in the Timeline and choose File > Delete Project Render Files. Render files can become corrupt. Trashing them forces Final Cut to create new render files which often will fix the problem.
4 Create a new library
Create a new library and a new project. Then, copy and paste sections of the old project into the new project. Test each section until you find the spot that doesn’t work. At which point, you can remove or replace the bad media.
5 Create a new user account
Open System Preferences > Accounts and create a new User Account. This resets all preferences for both Final Cut and the operating system back to factory defaults. The only problem with doing this is that a new user account can’t access files stored in the Home directory of the old user account. For this reason, I always recommend storing all libraries on external hard drives, not the Home Directory.
6 Trash FCP X Preferences
Trash Final Cut Pro X preference files. There are at least three preference files and, if you’ve had a crash, there can be more. Here are the steps:
- Go to the Finder.
- Hold down on the Option key and click on the Go menu. The Library folder inside your Home Directory now shows up as a selection inside this menu. (You could also type Shift+Command+G, or select Go > Go To Folder in the Finder; then, type ~/Library/ and click Go.)
- Open to the Library > Preferences folder.
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
- Trash any other files that start with “com.apple.finalcut”.
- Empty the Trash.
- Restart Final Cut Pro X.
7 Remove and reinstall Final Cut Pro
If all else fails, delete FCPX from the Applications folder and re-install it from the Mac App Store .
One of these techniques should fix your problem. If not, it’s time to contact Apple Support .
# Recommendation:
This is a basic tutorial about Apple Final Cut Pro X, professional video editing software. However, if video editing is new to you, consider Wondershare Filmora for Mac . This is a powerful but easy-to-use tool for users just starting out. Download the free trial version below.
Download Mac Version ](https://tools.techidaily.com/wondershare/filmora/download/ )
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Most of the time, Final Cut Pro X works great. But, when it doesn’t, here are some things you can try to get your system back to normal in no time.
Here’s the quick list:
- Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
- Check your media
- Delete render files and re-render
- Create a new library
- Create a new user account
- Trash FCP X Preferences
- Remove and re-install Final Cut Pro
1 Quit and restart Final Cut Pro
Restarting Final Cut releases and refreshes memory so that if something was confusing your system, restarting Final Cut can fix it.
2 Check your media
Frequently, problems are caused by still images that are too big. Limit your digital photos to no more than 5,000 pixels on a side. Final Cut is a video editor, not a still image editor. Images that are too large cause problems.
Also, stock footage files are known to cause problems. Be sure to convert all stock footage to ProRes 422 before importing into Final Cut Pro X.
3 Delete render files and re-render
Open your Project in the Timeline and choose File > Delete Project Render Files. Render files can become corrupt. Trashing them forces Final Cut to create new render files which often will fix the problem.
4 Create a new library
Create a new library and a new project. Then, copy and paste sections of the old project into the new project. Test each section until you find the spot that doesn’t work. At which point, you can remove or replace the bad media.
5 Create a new user account
Open System Preferences > Accounts and create a new User Account. This resets all preferences for both Final Cut and the operating system back to factory defaults. The only problem with doing this is that a new user account can’t access files stored in the Home directory of the old user account. For this reason, I always recommend storing all libraries on external hard drives, not the Home Directory.
6 Trash FCP X Preferences
Trash Final Cut Pro X preference files. There are at least three preference files and, if you’ve had a crash, there can be more. Here are the steps:
- Go to the Finder.
- Hold down on the Option key and click on the Go menu. The Library folder inside your Home Directory now shows up as a selection inside this menu. (You could also type Shift+Command+G, or select Go > Go To Folder in the Finder; then, type ~/Library/ and click Go.)
- Open to the Library > Preferences folder.
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.plist
- Trash com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
- Trash any other files that start with “com.apple.finalcut”.
- Empty the Trash.
- Restart Final Cut Pro X.
7 Remove and reinstall Final Cut Pro
If all else fails, delete FCPX from the Applications folder and re-install it from the Mac App Store .
One of these techniques should fix your problem. If not, it’s time to contact Apple Support .
# Recommendation:
This is a basic tutorial about Apple Final Cut Pro X, professional video editing software. However, if video editing is new to you, consider Wondershare Filmora for Mac . This is a powerful but easy-to-use tool for users just starting out. Download the free trial version below.
Download Mac Version ](https://tools.techidaily.com/wondershare/filmora/download/ )
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Unleash FCPX’s Full Potential: A Guide to Managing Storage and Freeing Up Space
How to Free Up Disk Space for Final Cut Pro X?
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Whenever you are working on a Mac ensure that 10% of your storage is ideal and free. Without free space, your work is going to get slow. Sometimes you have to erase a portion of things occupying extra storage to work smoothly.
Never ignore and disregard the errors and alerts of the space disk being full. This article is all about how to fix the disk space in the final cut Pro X. Moreover, this article will cover the different ways via which you can check mac storage space, and how to free up space in FCPX and Mac.
Quick Guide:
Part 1: How to free up space from Final Cut Pro Library?
It takes three steps, and here are these steps.
Step1: Remember to delete unused clips and original medias
To make room in your final cut pro, delete all the unused clips and original media. Delete the generated library files and delete the render files. Before deleting make sure to check whether to delete unused or used render files.
Step 2: How to save space with files and transcoding options?
It happens in final cut pro, that while working, it creates records, proxy files, and rendered files. To save space, you have to delete these files. It is advised to delete the generated rendered files before moving the library to mac Final Cut pro. Moreover, Mac recovers all the files the following time you open the project
Step 3: How to stop background rendering and how to delete render files in Fcpx?
Sometimes temporary videos and audios are created in Final cut pro X . Background rendering starts just after 5 seconds you quit working in mac. You can physically control the background rendering in Final cut pro. When you want to have more control, disable rendering in FCP and choose which clip you would like to render. You can change the preferences to disable or enable through the FCPx settings. Once you disable the rendering, it is your choice to select the specific clips to render.
Open the preferences menu in your mac and render the highlighted clips in your Fcpx timeline. Use the control+R shortcut to render the files.
To delete the render files in Fcpx, Delete the generated files. Files> generated files. A window will appear, Click ok on delete render files.
Part2: What to do with the “not enough disk space” error even with enough space in Mac?
Sometimes still having a lot of space, Your final cut pro X shows not enough disk space error in FCP X. Help!
Have you ever got the error of not having enough space at available destinations whenever you import anything to FCP X.?
Quick GuideFollow the below steps to solve this problem
- Click and select the library in FCPX
- Then go to the File menu and select “Delete generated library file”
- Next, Select all the render and proxy files
- You might not be using optimized files, In that case, select optimized files
- Exit FCPX.
- To reboot, hold down both option and command keys
- Delete the preference files
- If the error persists, run the utility folder that is inside the Application folder.
- Execute First aid in all the units.
- If the error persists, obtain a copy of the disk, and repair the directories on all the drives.
Part 3: How much space can FCPX take in Mac?
Today, when we have hard drives and multi-terabytes, many of us have stopped looking at the disk space. Many of you usually don’t bother until you get an alert that the disk is full.
Sometimes the largest drives get filled eventually. If you haven’t checked your disk space yet, use your Mac and follow the instructions given below. You may be surprised about how much space can FCPX take.
Here is how you will do it:
Option 1: Checking the mac storage through “About this Mac”
Now it is a bit easy to check the storage from about the section. You will find this in most of the recent MAC versions.
Click on the mac logo and then click on “About this mac”.
Click on “storage” and you will see a reference chart stacked portraying the capacity of the disk and the absolute amount of storage taken by different categories of information. Moreover, you will find out the space that is yet accessible to you.
Option 2: Checking the mac storage through “Disk utility”
If you’re a Mac user, you might know that there is a disk utility app. You can easily get a readout of the available space from there.
Open your Finder and click “Applications” on the left side.
Or click the magnifying glass in the upper right to find disk utility.
You will find utilities in Applications. Applications> utilities.
After the disk utility opens, you can see the available used spaces. Remember to put your hard drive’s name from the list. The popup window that opens up will also tell you the free space of any device connected to your Mac.
Option3: Checking the storage from the Finder
You can get a preview of your storage device by clicking an item in the Finder and pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Let’s suppose you need to check a particular document without opening it.
Select that document and press the spacebar. You will know what’s inside without even opening it.
Quick Guide Here is how you can do it
- Go to Finder and select Finder>Preferences, next Click General, modify the settings and you will see the storage device on the desktop.
- To check the available or remaining space, click the spacebar. As you click it a window popup will show you the remaining space.
- Press the spacebar again to close the window or you can do it via command. Press Command-W.
- Turn on the finder status bar on your window. In case you want to check the disk space frequently.
- Open a Finder window and next open the view menu. As you select the show status bar option, you will see the number of items in the folders. In the other case, if you are viewing the folder you’ll get the idea of remaining or free space
If you’re looking for a lighter alternative to Final Cut Pro, try Filmora to save more space!
So, is your FCPX good to go? Get your tutorials for FCPX here!
Part 4: How to free up space in Mac?
Find out what’s occupying the room in your Mac to save room for final cut pro. Get familiar with how to deal with your Mac’s capacity. Acquaint yourself with the ideal approaches to free up space in Mac.
Nowadays, Macs have limited and restricted capacity due to the SSDs present in them. When there were hard drives in Mac, we had a huge room on them. In recent memory, high-resolution videos, music, and other functional records take up more capacity. When you run out of space, it hampers your work and processing.
Quickly clear your mac space.
If you are in a hurry, you can do the below things to quickly clear up the space in your mac.
- Select the download folder and open it in the Finder. Now select the folder whose content you don’t need and trash it.
- Move to the home folder and open a new Find window. Press command-F.
- Click the drop-down menu to choose “other.”Look to the box next to “Document size”. Press ok. Choose” greater than” in the next dropdown menu. With this choose the unwanted file or the one that is no longer useful to throw in the trash.
- Another thing that you can do is, move those files in the trash that you haven’t opened in the last year.
- If your desktop has a lot of unused stuff and is taking space, then delete the folders on the desktop.
Ways to clean junk on your Mac
There are many ways to clean garbage records on Mac. You may have different types of garbage in your Mac. Here is a simple solution for the elimination of junk from your Mac. Along with occupying the space, junk slows down your Pc, phone, and Mac.
Cleaning cache files: Every Mac has some files stored which are known as cache files. Some temporary files are kept in Mac to speed up the Apple software. It better to clean the files before it gets accumulated and hampers the performance.
- Press command +shift+G after opening the Finder.
- Enter this command in the field box~/Library/Caches.
- See all the visible files on the appearing window
- Select all files to delete, and you can delete one by one
- Enter the username and password in the popup window
Similarly, you can clean the system log files too from your mac by below steps:
- Go to the folder. Before selecting Go, enter the /var/log/.
- All the system files are visible to you. Now, you can easily delete unwanted files.
Clean with Clean MyMacX
You can now clean your mac with this application. Download this application for free. After launching it, see the features on left and click on the system junk. Do scanning and check the opposite side of user cache files and delete the items, you want to delete. Lastly, press clean to clean it. Your Mac is now as new as before. Clean MyMacX cleans all the junk and makes your mac clutter-free.
Conclusion
Move the unwanted and unused clips from your Mac final cut pro X. Even you can free up the storage by deleting the whole event. A few media files stay in the library as many projects use the same media.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Whenever you are working on a Mac ensure that 10% of your storage is ideal and free. Without free space, your work is going to get slow. Sometimes you have to erase a portion of things occupying extra storage to work smoothly.
Never ignore and disregard the errors and alerts of the space disk being full. This article is all about how to fix the disk space in the final cut Pro X. Moreover, this article will cover the different ways via which you can check mac storage space, and how to free up space in FCPX and Mac.
Quick Guide:
Part 1: How to free up space from Final Cut Pro Library?
It takes three steps, and here are these steps.
Step1: Remember to delete unused clips and original medias
To make room in your final cut pro, delete all the unused clips and original media. Delete the generated library files and delete the render files. Before deleting make sure to check whether to delete unused or used render files.
Step 2: How to save space with files and transcoding options?
It happens in final cut pro, that while working, it creates records, proxy files, and rendered files. To save space, you have to delete these files. It is advised to delete the generated rendered files before moving the library to mac Final Cut pro. Moreover, Mac recovers all the files the following time you open the project
Step 3: How to stop background rendering and how to delete render files in Fcpx?
Sometimes temporary videos and audios are created in Final cut pro X . Background rendering starts just after 5 seconds you quit working in mac. You can physically control the background rendering in Final cut pro. When you want to have more control, disable rendering in FCP and choose which clip you would like to render. You can change the preferences to disable or enable through the FCPx settings. Once you disable the rendering, it is your choice to select the specific clips to render.
Open the preferences menu in your mac and render the highlighted clips in your Fcpx timeline. Use the control+R shortcut to render the files.
To delete the render files in Fcpx, Delete the generated files. Files> generated files. A window will appear, Click ok on delete render files.
Part2: What to do with the “not enough disk space” error even with enough space in Mac?
Sometimes still having a lot of space, Your final cut pro X shows not enough disk space error in FCP X. Help!
Have you ever got the error of not having enough space at available destinations whenever you import anything to FCP X.?
Quick GuideFollow the below steps to solve this problem
- Click and select the library in FCPX
- Then go to the File menu and select “Delete generated library file”
- Next, Select all the render and proxy files
- You might not be using optimized files, In that case, select optimized files
- Exit FCPX.
- To reboot, hold down both option and command keys
- Delete the preference files
- If the error persists, run the utility folder that is inside the Application folder.
- Execute First aid in all the units.
- If the error persists, obtain a copy of the disk, and repair the directories on all the drives.
Part 3: How much space can FCPX take in Mac?
Today, when we have hard drives and multi-terabytes, many of us have stopped looking at the disk space. Many of you usually don’t bother until you get an alert that the disk is full.
Sometimes the largest drives get filled eventually. If you haven’t checked your disk space yet, use your Mac and follow the instructions given below. You may be surprised about how much space can FCPX take.
Here is how you will do it:
Option 1: Checking the mac storage through “About this Mac”
Now it is a bit easy to check the storage from about the section. You will find this in most of the recent MAC versions.
Click on the mac logo and then click on “About this mac”.
Click on “storage” and you will see a reference chart stacked portraying the capacity of the disk and the absolute amount of storage taken by different categories of information. Moreover, you will find out the space that is yet accessible to you.
Option 2: Checking the mac storage through “Disk utility”
If you’re a Mac user, you might know that there is a disk utility app. You can easily get a readout of the available space from there.
Open your Finder and click “Applications” on the left side.
Or click the magnifying glass in the upper right to find disk utility.
You will find utilities in Applications. Applications> utilities.
After the disk utility opens, you can see the available used spaces. Remember to put your hard drive’s name from the list. The popup window that opens up will also tell you the free space of any device connected to your Mac.
Option3: Checking the storage from the Finder
You can get a preview of your storage device by clicking an item in the Finder and pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Let’s suppose you need to check a particular document without opening it.
Select that document and press the spacebar. You will know what’s inside without even opening it.
Quick Guide Here is how you can do it
- Go to Finder and select Finder>Preferences, next Click General, modify the settings and you will see the storage device on the desktop.
- To check the available or remaining space, click the spacebar. As you click it a window popup will show you the remaining space.
- Press the spacebar again to close the window or you can do it via command. Press Command-W.
- Turn on the finder status bar on your window. In case you want to check the disk space frequently.
- Open a Finder window and next open the view menu. As you select the show status bar option, you will see the number of items in the folders. In the other case, if you are viewing the folder you’ll get the idea of remaining or free space
If you’re looking for a lighter alternative to Final Cut Pro, try Filmora to save more space!
So, is your FCPX good to go? Get your tutorials for FCPX here!
Part 4: How to free up space in Mac?
Find out what’s occupying the room in your Mac to save room for final cut pro. Get familiar with how to deal with your Mac’s capacity. Acquaint yourself with the ideal approaches to free up space in Mac.
Nowadays, Macs have limited and restricted capacity due to the SSDs present in them. When there were hard drives in Mac, we had a huge room on them. In recent memory, high-resolution videos, music, and other functional records take up more capacity. When you run out of space, it hampers your work and processing.
Quickly clear your mac space.
If you are in a hurry, you can do the below things to quickly clear up the space in your mac.
- Select the download folder and open it in the Finder. Now select the folder whose content you don’t need and trash it.
- Move to the home folder and open a new Find window. Press command-F.
- Click the drop-down menu to choose “other.”Look to the box next to “Document size”. Press ok. Choose” greater than” in the next dropdown menu. With this choose the unwanted file or the one that is no longer useful to throw in the trash.
- Another thing that you can do is, move those files in the trash that you haven’t opened in the last year.
- If your desktop has a lot of unused stuff and is taking space, then delete the folders on the desktop.
Ways to clean junk on your Mac
There are many ways to clean garbage records on Mac. You may have different types of garbage in your Mac. Here is a simple solution for the elimination of junk from your Mac. Along with occupying the space, junk slows down your Pc, phone, and Mac.
Cleaning cache files: Every Mac has some files stored which are known as cache files. Some temporary files are kept in Mac to speed up the Apple software. It better to clean the files before it gets accumulated and hampers the performance.
- Press command +shift+G after opening the Finder.
- Enter this command in the field box~/Library/Caches.
- See all the visible files on the appearing window
- Select all files to delete, and you can delete one by one
- Enter the username and password in the popup window
Similarly, you can clean the system log files too from your mac by below steps:
- Go to the folder. Before selecting Go, enter the /var/log/.
- All the system files are visible to you. Now, you can easily delete unwanted files.
Clean with Clean MyMacX
You can now clean your mac with this application. Download this application for free. After launching it, see the features on left and click on the system junk. Do scanning and check the opposite side of user cache files and delete the items, you want to delete. Lastly, press clean to clean it. Your Mac is now as new as before. Clean MyMacX cleans all the junk and makes your mac clutter-free.
Conclusion
Move the unwanted and unused clips from your Mac final cut pro X. Even you can free up the storage by deleting the whole event. A few media files stay in the library as many projects use the same media.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Whenever you are working on a Mac ensure that 10% of your storage is ideal and free. Without free space, your work is going to get slow. Sometimes you have to erase a portion of things occupying extra storage to work smoothly.
Never ignore and disregard the errors and alerts of the space disk being full. This article is all about how to fix the disk space in the final cut Pro X. Moreover, this article will cover the different ways via which you can check mac storage space, and how to free up space in FCPX and Mac.
Quick Guide:
Part 1: How to free up space from Final Cut Pro Library?
It takes three steps, and here are these steps.
Step1: Remember to delete unused clips and original medias
To make room in your final cut pro, delete all the unused clips and original media. Delete the generated library files and delete the render files. Before deleting make sure to check whether to delete unused or used render files.
Step 2: How to save space with files and transcoding options?
It happens in final cut pro, that while working, it creates records, proxy files, and rendered files. To save space, you have to delete these files. It is advised to delete the generated rendered files before moving the library to mac Final Cut pro. Moreover, Mac recovers all the files the following time you open the project
Step 3: How to stop background rendering and how to delete render files in Fcpx?
Sometimes temporary videos and audios are created in Final cut pro X . Background rendering starts just after 5 seconds you quit working in mac. You can physically control the background rendering in Final cut pro. When you want to have more control, disable rendering in FCP and choose which clip you would like to render. You can change the preferences to disable or enable through the FCPx settings. Once you disable the rendering, it is your choice to select the specific clips to render.
Open the preferences menu in your mac and render the highlighted clips in your Fcpx timeline. Use the control+R shortcut to render the files.
To delete the render files in Fcpx, Delete the generated files. Files> generated files. A window will appear, Click ok on delete render files.
Part2: What to do with the “not enough disk space” error even with enough space in Mac?
Sometimes still having a lot of space, Your final cut pro X shows not enough disk space error in FCP X. Help!
Have you ever got the error of not having enough space at available destinations whenever you import anything to FCP X.?
Quick GuideFollow the below steps to solve this problem
- Click and select the library in FCPX
- Then go to the File menu and select “Delete generated library file”
- Next, Select all the render and proxy files
- You might not be using optimized files, In that case, select optimized files
- Exit FCPX.
- To reboot, hold down both option and command keys
- Delete the preference files
- If the error persists, run the utility folder that is inside the Application folder.
- Execute First aid in all the units.
- If the error persists, obtain a copy of the disk, and repair the directories on all the drives.
Part 3: How much space can FCPX take in Mac?
Today, when we have hard drives and multi-terabytes, many of us have stopped looking at the disk space. Many of you usually don’t bother until you get an alert that the disk is full.
Sometimes the largest drives get filled eventually. If you haven’t checked your disk space yet, use your Mac and follow the instructions given below. You may be surprised about how much space can FCPX take.
Here is how you will do it:
Option 1: Checking the mac storage through “About this Mac”
Now it is a bit easy to check the storage from about the section. You will find this in most of the recent MAC versions.
Click on the mac logo and then click on “About this mac”.
Click on “storage” and you will see a reference chart stacked portraying the capacity of the disk and the absolute amount of storage taken by different categories of information. Moreover, you will find out the space that is yet accessible to you.
Option 2: Checking the mac storage through “Disk utility”
If you’re a Mac user, you might know that there is a disk utility app. You can easily get a readout of the available space from there.
Open your Finder and click “Applications” on the left side.
Or click the magnifying glass in the upper right to find disk utility.
You will find utilities in Applications. Applications> utilities.
After the disk utility opens, you can see the available used spaces. Remember to put your hard drive’s name from the list. The popup window that opens up will also tell you the free space of any device connected to your Mac.
Option3: Checking the storage from the Finder
You can get a preview of your storage device by clicking an item in the Finder and pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Let’s suppose you need to check a particular document without opening it.
Select that document and press the spacebar. You will know what’s inside without even opening it.
Quick Guide Here is how you can do it
- Go to Finder and select Finder>Preferences, next Click General, modify the settings and you will see the storage device on the desktop.
- To check the available or remaining space, click the spacebar. As you click it a window popup will show you the remaining space.
- Press the spacebar again to close the window or you can do it via command. Press Command-W.
- Turn on the finder status bar on your window. In case you want to check the disk space frequently.
- Open a Finder window and next open the view menu. As you select the show status bar option, you will see the number of items in the folders. In the other case, if you are viewing the folder you’ll get the idea of remaining or free space
If you’re looking for a lighter alternative to Final Cut Pro, try Filmora to save more space!
So, is your FCPX good to go? Get your tutorials for FCPX here!
Part 4: How to free up space in Mac?
Find out what’s occupying the room in your Mac to save room for final cut pro. Get familiar with how to deal with your Mac’s capacity. Acquaint yourself with the ideal approaches to free up space in Mac.
Nowadays, Macs have limited and restricted capacity due to the SSDs present in them. When there were hard drives in Mac, we had a huge room on them. In recent memory, high-resolution videos, music, and other functional records take up more capacity. When you run out of space, it hampers your work and processing.
Quickly clear your mac space.
If you are in a hurry, you can do the below things to quickly clear up the space in your mac.
- Select the download folder and open it in the Finder. Now select the folder whose content you don’t need and trash it.
- Move to the home folder and open a new Find window. Press command-F.
- Click the drop-down menu to choose “other.”Look to the box next to “Document size”. Press ok. Choose” greater than” in the next dropdown menu. With this choose the unwanted file or the one that is no longer useful to throw in the trash.
- Another thing that you can do is, move those files in the trash that you haven’t opened in the last year.
- If your desktop has a lot of unused stuff and is taking space, then delete the folders on the desktop.
Ways to clean junk on your Mac
There are many ways to clean garbage records on Mac. You may have different types of garbage in your Mac. Here is a simple solution for the elimination of junk from your Mac. Along with occupying the space, junk slows down your Pc, phone, and Mac.
Cleaning cache files: Every Mac has some files stored which are known as cache files. Some temporary files are kept in Mac to speed up the Apple software. It better to clean the files before it gets accumulated and hampers the performance.
- Press command +shift+G after opening the Finder.
- Enter this command in the field box~/Library/Caches.
- See all the visible files on the appearing window
- Select all files to delete, and you can delete one by one
- Enter the username and password in the popup window
Similarly, you can clean the system log files too from your mac by below steps:
- Go to the folder. Before selecting Go, enter the /var/log/.
- All the system files are visible to you. Now, you can easily delete unwanted files.
Clean with Clean MyMacX
You can now clean your mac with this application. Download this application for free. After launching it, see the features on left and click on the system junk. Do scanning and check the opposite side of user cache files and delete the items, you want to delete. Lastly, press clean to clean it. Your Mac is now as new as before. Clean MyMacX cleans all the junk and makes your mac clutter-free.
Conclusion
Move the unwanted and unused clips from your Mac final cut pro X. Even you can free up the storage by deleting the whole event. A few media files stay in the library as many projects use the same media.
Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango is a writer and a lover of all things video.
Follow @Benjamin Arango
Benjamin Arango
Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions
Whenever you are working on a Mac ensure that 10% of your storage is ideal and free. Without free space, your work is going to get slow. Sometimes you have to erase a portion of things occupying extra storage to work smoothly.
Never ignore and disregard the errors and alerts of the space disk being full. This article is all about how to fix the disk space in the final cut Pro X. Moreover, this article will cover the different ways via which you can check mac storage space, and how to free up space in FCPX and Mac.
Quick Guide:
Part 1: How to free up space from Final Cut Pro Library?
It takes three steps, and here are these steps.
Step1: Remember to delete unused clips and original medias
To make room in your final cut pro, delete all the unused clips and original media. Delete the generated library files and delete the render files. Before deleting make sure to check whether to delete unused or used render files.
Step 2: How to save space with files and transcoding options?
It happens in final cut pro, that while working, it creates records, proxy files, and rendered files. To save space, you have to delete these files. It is advised to delete the generated rendered files before moving the library to mac Final Cut pro. Moreover, Mac recovers all the files the following time you open the project
Step 3: How to stop background rendering and how to delete render files in Fcpx?
Sometimes temporary videos and audios are created in Final cut pro X . Background rendering starts just after 5 seconds you quit working in mac. You can physically control the background rendering in Final cut pro. When you want to have more control, disable rendering in FCP and choose which clip you would like to render. You can change the preferences to disable or enable through the FCPx settings. Once you disable the rendering, it is your choice to select the specific clips to render.
Open the preferences menu in your mac and render the highlighted clips in your Fcpx timeline. Use the control+R shortcut to render the files.
To delete the render files in Fcpx, Delete the generated files. Files> generated files. A window will appear, Click ok on delete render files.
Part2: What to do with the “not enough disk space” error even with enough space in Mac?
Sometimes still having a lot of space, Your final cut pro X shows not enough disk space error in FCP X. Help!
Have you ever got the error of not having enough space at available destinations whenever you import anything to FCP X.?
Quick GuideFollow the below steps to solve this problem
- Click and select the library in FCPX
- Then go to the File menu and select “Delete generated library file”
- Next, Select all the render and proxy files
- You might not be using optimized files, In that case, select optimized files
- Exit FCPX.
- To reboot, hold down both option and command keys
- Delete the preference files
- If the error persists, run the utility folder that is inside the Application folder.
- Execute First aid in all the units.
- If the error persists, obtain a copy of the disk, and repair the directories on all the drives.
Part 3: How much space can FCPX take in Mac?
Today, when we have hard drives and multi-terabytes, many of us have stopped looking at the disk space. Many of you usually don’t bother until you get an alert that the disk is full.
Sometimes the largest drives get filled eventually. If you haven’t checked your disk space yet, use your Mac and follow the instructions given below. You may be surprised about how much space can FCPX take.
Here is how you will do it:
Option 1: Checking the mac storage through “About this Mac”
Now it is a bit easy to check the storage from about the section. You will find this in most of the recent MAC versions.
Click on the mac logo and then click on “About this mac”.
Click on “storage” and you will see a reference chart stacked portraying the capacity of the disk and the absolute amount of storage taken by different categories of information. Moreover, you will find out the space that is yet accessible to you.
Option 2: Checking the mac storage through “Disk utility”
If you’re a Mac user, you might know that there is a disk utility app. You can easily get a readout of the available space from there.
Open your Finder and click “Applications” on the left side.
Or click the magnifying glass in the upper right to find disk utility.
You will find utilities in Applications. Applications> utilities.
After the disk utility opens, you can see the available used spaces. Remember to put your hard drive’s name from the list. The popup window that opens up will also tell you the free space of any device connected to your Mac.
Option3: Checking the storage from the Finder
You can get a preview of your storage device by clicking an item in the Finder and pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Let’s suppose you need to check a particular document without opening it.
Select that document and press the spacebar. You will know what’s inside without even opening it.
Quick Guide Here is how you can do it
- Go to Finder and select Finder>Preferences, next Click General, modify the settings and you will see the storage device on the desktop.
- To check the available or remaining space, click the spacebar. As you click it a window popup will show you the remaining space.
- Press the spacebar again to close the window or you can do it via command. Press Command-W.
- Turn on the finder status bar on your window. In case you want to check the disk space frequently.
- Open a Finder window and next open the view menu. As you select the show status bar option, you will see the number of items in the folders. In the other case, if you are viewing the folder you’ll get the idea of remaining or free space
If you’re looking for a lighter alternative to Final Cut Pro, try Filmora to save more space!
So, is your FCPX good to go? Get your tutorials for FCPX here!
Part 4: How to free up space in Mac?
Find out what’s occupying the room in your Mac to save room for final cut pro. Get familiar with how to deal with your Mac’s capacity. Acquaint yourself with the ideal approaches to free up space in Mac.
Nowadays, Macs have limited and restricted capacity due to the SSDs present in them. When there were hard drives in Mac, we had a huge room on them. In recent memory, high-resolution videos, music, and other functional records take up more capacity. When you run out of space, it hampers your work and processing.
Quickly clear your mac space.
If you are in a hurry, you can do the below things to quickly clear up the space in your mac.
- Select the download folder and open it in the Finder. Now select the folder whose content you don’t need and trash it.
- Move to the home folder and open a new Find window. Press command-F.
- Click the drop-down menu to choose “other.”Look to the box next to “Document size”. Press ok. Choose” greater than” in the next dropdown menu. With this choose the unwanted file or the one that is no longer useful to throw in the trash.
- Another thing that you can do is, move those files in the trash that you haven’t opened in the last year.
- If your desktop has a lot of unused stuff and is taking space, then delete the folders on the desktop.
Ways to clean junk on your Mac
There are many ways to clean garbage records on Mac. You may have different types of garbage in your Mac. Here is a simple solution for the elimination of junk from your Mac. Along with occupying the space, junk slows down your Pc, phone, and Mac.
Cleaning cache files: Every Mac has some files stored which are known as cache files. Some temporary files are kept in Mac to speed up the Apple software. It better to clean the files before it gets accumulated and hampers the performance.
- Press command +shift+G after opening the Finder.
- Enter this command in the field box~/Library/Caches.
- See all the visible files on the appearing window
- Select all files to delete, and you can delete one by one
- Enter the username and password in the popup window
Similarly, you can clean the system log files too from your mac by below steps:
- Go to the folder. Before selecting Go, enter the /var/log/.
- All the system files are visible to you. Now, you can easily delete unwanted files.
Clean with Clean MyMacX
You can now clean your mac with this application. Download this application for free. After launching it, see the features on left and click on the system junk. Do scanning and check the opposite side of user cache files and delete the items, you want to delete. Lastly, press clean to clean it. Your Mac is now as new as before. Clean MyMacX cleans all the junk and makes your mac clutter-free.
Conclusion
Move the unwanted and unused clips from your Mac final cut pro X. Even you can free up the storage by deleting the whole event. A few media files stay in the library as many projects use the same media.
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