Delete preview files – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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Last updated 8/12/2010
Delete preview files
When you play a movie, Adobe Premiere Elements combines the tracks and effects in the background, while playing
the resultant movie in the Monitor panel. If you instead render the movie, Adobe Premiere Elements creates preview
files and saves them on your hard disk. Once rendered, Adobe Premiere Elements needn’t process the tracks and
effects again and can play the preview files directly. Similarly, preview files can save time when you export the final
movie because Adobe Premiere Elements can use the information stored in the preview files rather than render again.
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With the Timeline or Sceneline active, choose Timeline > Delete Render Files. When prompted, click
OK.
Note: It is important to delete preview files using the Delete Render Files command rather than deleting them directly in
Windows. Projects refer to preview files in much the same way they do source media. If you move or delete preview files
without using the command, the next time you open the project, Adobe Premiere Elements prompts you to locate the files.
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