Yellow Render bar with Prores in Premiere CC

[Ann Bens]

https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html

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[Cody Brown]

Well, that only kind of answers the question really. It just states that if its yellow it needs a preview but it doesnt necessarily state why for which codecs. Why would prores need a rendered preview file? What’s an example of something that wouldn’t? Coming from final cut I’m just trying to understand how the guts of premiere work.

[Justin Kavoussi]

Interesting questions! Got me wondering myself about this as I’ve just been ignoring that yellow render bar these last few months since starting working in premiere.

I’m working on a project now where all the footage I’ve been handed has been transcoded to prores and everything has a yellow render bar over it.

But just did a test: took a prores file that was giving me a yellow render bar, transcoded it to a dnxhd mxf in media encoder, imported that to premiere, created a sequence from it, and no yellow render bar on that sucker.

Gonna do a bit more research and try to run a more extensive test in the next couple weeks, see if there’s any noticeable performance improvements. Will let you know if I find anything else out.

[Chris Borjis]

are you on a pc cody? do you have a gpu installed?

[Cody Brown]

Interesting, so it seems to have more support for dnx, thanks for that info, I’ll be curious to see what else you find.

The other odd thing is, after I render back the contents in the sequence, the files created in the Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files are the same file type. They are also Prores 422, everything the same, which makes sense since that’s what my sequence setting is, but now my render bar is green, but for what? The media I’m dropping in and the now rendered preview files are the exact same, I’m just wasting storage as it’s now duplicated.

[Cody Brown]

Mac Pro Quad Xeon with a GeForce GTX 680 4GB

[Todd Perchert]

I never bother with preview rendering a yellow line, they usually play back just fine. In fact, I don’t preview render many red lines. I render a final file, don’t see much sense in spending so much time rendering. And you can always delete render files easily at any time – Sequence menu, Delete Render Files.
TC

[Chris Borjis]

I’ve never had yellow lines with pro res unless I pulled the GPU (had to get a Quadro 4000 card replaced once)

And thats on a mac system as well. (though it was CS6 at the time not CC)

somethings not right.

[Paul Neumann]

Build a Custom sequence setting with Quicktime/ProRes as the Preview File Format.

[Justin Kavoussi]

Good call, Paul – that did it for me. No more yellow bars.