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  • Program screen goes blank – anyone had this issue

    Posted by Andy Field on September 12, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Editing in Premiere Pro CS6.0.2 on the latest version of LION on mac – all is good – and suddenly the program monitor goes blank – Composite video is selected in pull down – no work around other than to restart Premiere — any idea why this is happening?

    Jeff Johnson replied 13 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Phil Balsdon

    September 12, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    Yep had this too. Closing the sequence and re-opening it would normally work, otherwise re-starting Premiere. I did lots of maintenance (preferences, cache files, check drivers etc. but never got rid of the issue with timeline not responding to play and stop instantly.

    Un-install 6.02. Re-install Premiere CS6. Update to CS6.01 (I did the update with a manual download from Adobe). Back to a stable system again.

    Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
    https://philming.com.au
    https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/

  • Andy Field

    September 13, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    Phil does that mean the 6.0.2 is unusable?

    Andy Field
    FieldVision Productions
    N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

  • Phil Balsdon

    September 13, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    It doesn’t mean it’s unusable everywhere. Some users are finding it better than 6.01, results seem to be erratic from discussions across the forums.

    I had lots of issues on initial update install, timeline not playing, or just playing audio, eventually crashing.
    What I discovered after doing lots of maintenance was that if I closed the sequence in the timeline and then re-opened it, it played.

    In the end I was left with one final issue, the play and stop functions were not instant, ie. if I hit the space bar the play would take a few frames to stop.

    Finally I un-installed and re-installed CS6, then upgraded to 6.01 (which worked well for me previously) and I now have a properly function system again.
    From this I can only surmise the problem for my system was 6.02.

    Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
    https://philming.com.au
    https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/

  • Robert Brown

    September 17, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    I’ve had the black screen thing too and it started working again when I turned off Cuda.

    Robert Brown
    Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro

    https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos

  • Jeff Johnson

    December 3, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    ditto to Robert Brown’s comment. I have a 2.53 ghz macbook pro i5 that I used the CUDA “hack” (see link below) on to get the video card usable by CUDA. Much faster, but had this issue – then turned it off, and bam!

    Also did all the permissions / disk utility / uninstall&reinstall / disk change / pref dump deal without it helping.

    Hey, at least it is a quick fix eh? Hoping this works better in AE.

    link to “hack”: https://www.vidmuze.com/how-to-enable-gpu-cuda-in-adobe-cs6-for-mac/

    -Jeff

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