Andrew Johnstone
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I have just run into this problem in CS6 as well.
All was fine until I did any update a couple of days ago to try to eliminate another issue I was having. to toggle the external monitor off, I normally go Preferences>Playback and toggle my external screen off. Except after this update, toggling the monitor off does not work. I have to Quit & restart Premiere.
Is there a solution? Perhaps some permissions issue?
Thanks for any help.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
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OK, I am going to bow out of this discussion.
I have finally nailed the problem that has been causing all the issues on my Premiere Pro time line. I bought a plugin to fix a problem with some strobing/flickering footage and this is the source of the grief. The plugin demands too much horse power from my system and causes the flickering images and blocky play back/rendering issue that I have seen. When in combination with other effects added to the time line (simple colour grades from the ‘Fast Colour Corrector” built into PP), this plugin causes all the havoc.
I have notified the plugin producer and I am now hoping for a refund.
from what I can see, PP requires a significant amount of system resources to render effects in real time and clearly my system is not up to it. I will need to find someone with a much more powerful set up for colour grading in PP.
Interestingly though I do not have similar issues in FCP7. My colour grade has worked fine through the entire timeline in FCP7.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
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[Peter Garaway] ” To uninstall the driver move each of the following items to the Trash, then reboot:
/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes/CUDA Preferences.prefPane
/System/Library/Extensions/CUDA
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA
/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylibBest,
Peter Garaway”
At the top of this thread somewhere, Peter suggested removing the drivers. So I thought I would have a go at this and then see if PP would start behaving. But I cannot find any of these files listed on my system !
I have read that the CUDA drivers are built in to Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Is this so? Are they not accessible?
Maybe I don;t have a CUDA issue at all? Maybe this is some other PP glitch? Whatever it is I am running out of patience for this!
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
This thread seems to have got way off topic from the original post about BBC using FCPX! For what it is worth I have talked FCPX with my editor at BBC and he mentioned that they were trialling it in news, but I haave not heard that features In BBC regions) were going go adopt it. They still use FCP7.
I have jumped in at the point about GPU issues for Premiere Pro and Resolve. This is what I am struggling with right now and it has been mentioned on several threads including Here and on the Adobe forums.
I am running Mountain Lion and PP has just stared misbehaving. I am not fond of the subscription model as unless I am actually cutting a film, I don’t need the software every day. I still run CS6 which has been, until this week, my replacement system for FCP7 and I have been very happy with it. However, the glitching (Along with multiple crashes) issue has crippled my project and I have had to rebuild the edit from an XML file in FCP7.
This brings in the massive issue of support. If either of these apps (PP or FCPX) are going to be rolled out across organisations like the BBC or ITV, they will need to be rock solid. The issue such as the glithces in PP because of the CUDA driver issue (see thread above) will cause major chaos if they are not resolved quickly – and judging from the threads on this matter they have not been. I suspect that the BBC is just being very cautious. It knows that FCP7 just works – all be it slowly.
The other issue I am sure BBC is weighing up, like many of us is whether or not they can trust the software company. Apple dumped 1000’s of broadcast edit studio clients in the pooh when they dropped FCP7. How do we know that FCPX will not go the same way? At least Adobe is a dedicated software company, but having said that the speed at which they have addressed this CUDA bug does not inspire confidence.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
Yes of course, but I am not convinced disabling my work station just for PP is worth all that hoo haa. The bottom line is that I simply do not have time to fiddle about testing settings etc. This is the job for the programme developers. As an end user I just need to be able to boot up and work. We pay good money to Adobe for this software and they owe us all a fix clearly! I am sure they are doing what they can and I confess I never had that sort of confidence in Apple when things went wrong with FCP.
The fact remains that FCP7 is still a very good work horse and although it is slower, I have had no issues with my edit at all today. It is a shame as I enjoy Premiere Pro.
I have done all I can to eliminate issues. I have re-plumbed all my drives. I have cut still file sizes. I have cleaned out my render cash/scratch disk, but nothing seems to improve the performance and playback. Very frustrating.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
And it is worth pointing out that while FCP7 is much slower than PP for all the various 32 v. 63 bit architecture reasons (and everything else) FCP& is completely stable and I have no video playback issues what so ever.
So is my problem essentially not a graphics card/driver problem but actually an issue with PP itself?
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
OK slow going, but I am now grading my project without a hitch in FCP7. No sign of a video glitch etc.
I confess to feeling miffed that FCP7 ever went away. I have never tried FCPX as no professional editors that I know use it, but if PP is going to play dirty on large projects (again I have never had these issues before with PP), then I need to find a new best friend.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
OK I have re done the plumbing in the back of my system and both my archive RAID and my scratch disk are wired directly into the Mac with my external screen on a Thunderbolt daisy chain loop from the back of the Raid disk.
My external RAID had been on a USB3 connection via a hub, which is most likely why it was so slow.
Anyway, net result is that I am still getting video playback issues with PP (jumping images, bad image blocks etc), so my plumbing solution has not worked.
The net result is that I have decided to rebuild my Edit in FCP7 from the XML file. So far I have no issues with playback, but I am only half way through the ingest…well not even. I hope this retrograde step works as I have to deliver this film next week.
Will need to do a thorough investigation into what the issue with PP is, but my hope that I had found a fast stable, reliable alternative to FCP7 seems to be fading.
Pretty naffed off. I have now spent 3 days trying to fix this issue.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
Sorry I was having a late night, ‘glass of wine, thick moment.
The TB drive speeds are of course faster than the USB3 drive speeds. For some reason I was looking for a number that said ‘speed’ not ‘amount of data’ – ie. under 10 secs for the 100m is quicker than than over 10 secs.
I will look at the USB3 write speed, but the problem may just be that the drive is not cabled directly into the mac but via a USB hub (too many peripherals!)
Will check that out when I fire up a little later. Either way it looks like I need to find a faster solution. But again, I have worked seamlessly for years using Firewire cutting HD timelines, so TB & USB3 really should be able to cut it!
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com -
For what it is worth, while I try to figure out my current playback/rendering issues with PP, I am recreating my edit from an XML file in FCP7. So far it is working fine, with no hint of an issue.
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com