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Premiere 6.0.2 Crashing on renders and exports
i am pretty new to Premiere CS6, and I am transitioning my old FCP 7 projects to Premiere these days.
I am running a Macbook Pro Retina loaded with 16GB ram, and a newer iMac with 3.2 i5, 16GB Ram with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX video card.
The projects being done so far, are using ProRes 422, ProRes HQ, and some ProRes 4444 material, all in SD Widescreen. Recordings coming from Blackmagic UltraStudio Express in ProRes 422, and Hyperdeck recordings in ProRes HQ. The 4444 Material is graphics, done in AE CS6 for Alpha channel stuff. The show being done is a 58:30, and it’s not too much heavy lifting, as it is SD material, with no heavy effects (other than clamping the IRE to 100) or much to process. Very meat and potatoes edits so far.
I say all that to say, it’s crashing almost every single time on either the final render out, and on almost every attempt to create a file from the timeline. Especially true on the iMac, though it’s a bit “crashy” on renders via the Macbook Retina, and neither seems to do very well on file exports, even using the same as sequence settings. The Macbook has been far more successful on creating files. It seems to crash at different points, sometimes getting through 20%, or 80% of the work, before crashing.
The biggest difference I see with the machines is the video card not being supported for CUDA on the iMac yet. I just don’t know enough to trouble shoot it. I have tried it with “Render at Max Quality” on and off, I have made sure the ProRes settings in the sequence have proper field dominance in “Previews” and the sequence itself, and on exports.
Before last night, I was starting to think that ProRes materials on the timeline were the common denominator.
I did edit a much more interesting project last night, that is not a normal 58:30, and ran into the same stuff on the laptop. This was with a shorter 5 minute timeline (SD 720 x 486) with a lot of h264 material from a Canon 5D that I did animate shots in, using the motion settings, and it had lots of hi res still pics in it. Those were also heavily animated, Ken burns, etc.
It also had about 3 minutes of SD 4:3 in 8 bit Uncompressed format. No ProRes material…. This was a short montage video I did. The sequence started as a ProRes timeline, but changed a lot as it wasn’t outputting correctly.
In desperation, (had to get a rough to the client last night) I changed the sequence to Avid 1:1x on the MB Retina, and exported the same format, and it FINALLY rendered it properly, and exported it out well too. This was after a failed “BlackMagic 10 bit RGB” format attempt, “Uncompressed 8 bit” failed as well.
Until I changed it to Avid Codec, it crashed on every render, and attempt to export it, even after a render that did succeed.
What is happening with these two machines? I must be missing some little preference, or setting.
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I don’t know if it is really applicable to your situation, but I too was having crashes and failed renders on my Retina MacBook. When I forced Premiere to stop using the CUDA hardware acceleration and just use software, the problem went away. This has only happened with one project so far, but something with my layered graphic effects caused a problem.
Hope this helps.
Gerald Goldman
Director of Post Production
Grace Creek Media
http://www.gracecreek.com
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Definitely gonna give that a try, Gerald. Heck, if just one of these machines will work, I will be happy!
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