nickgates100 wrote:
Thanks again for your time Jason.
Don't thank me yet, I really haven't helped. Let's get to the bottom of this, first.
Still working from external drive caddy's but now over USB3 (the caddy is USB 3 compatible) - Premiere is set to save all scratch media, renders etc "next to originals" - same drive.
So the source, scratch, and exports are all being written/read via the USB caddy? It's a single drive? Or do you have mulitple caddies and drives? Spinning drive or SSD in the caddy?
This new purchase has kind of broken the bank for the coming months so upgrading monitors and switching over to thunderbolt external drive system are out of the question for a while but I do accept that the setup is not yet ideal.
I wouldn't concern yourself too much with the displays you're using as far as speed is concerned. Storage, yes. Getting Tbolt2 RAID arrays will help, specially if you pack them full of SSDs. But nevermind that for now.
Yes I did build new MacPro from Time Machine backup and have since been questioning this. I did however manage to uninstall PPCC2014 today and re-instal - still no difference.
Did you also restore from TM your user directory? Or did you create an entirely new user on your Mac Pro and start from scratch? My suspicion is that something may have gotten transferred over during the TM restore, and it's not playing nice.
So just to outline my issue; Opening an existing project, setting "Renderer" To "Mercury Playback with GPU acceleration", segments of timeline that used to be rendered are now yellow (and obviously cannot be rendered)
Hm. That's not what the yellow bar means. Since you're using MPE in hardware mode, it means one or several of the following:
- The source media’s codec is computationally difficult (such as AVCHD). As mentioned above, only very few simple codecs don’t get a yellow bar; these include DV and DVCPRO.
- The settings of the clip (e.g., pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, field settings) don’t match the settings for the sequence.
- A CUDA-accelerated video effect or transition has been applied to the clip. (A CUDA-accelerated video transition only causes a yellow bar over the duration of the transition.)
(per Todd's write-up from a few years ago)
Given that you're editing AVCHD, it's likely the first bullet. When I edit AVCHD I see the same thing: a yellow bar. But playback is silky smooth (I have the 8-core version of the same machine).
and playback very lumpy - too lumpy to work with.
There was some bit very recently about projects saved in Pr CC, and then imported into Pr CC2014 having troubles with speed or UI issues or whatever. I don't recall it exactly. Have you tried, for giggles, creating an entirely new project, new sequences, new everything, all while using existing AVCHD footage?