[Andy Edwards]

The 2009 & 2010 Mac Pro’s didn’t even come with USB3.0 ports, so unless your plugging in a PCI Express USB3.0 card, you won’t see the speed difference with all your media.

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[Andy Edwards]

Fully understand it’s not exactly what you need. Just throwing it out there in case you can customize it a little.

You can always send a feature request to Adobe about your “Control Fluke!” Maybe something like After Effects brainstorm button pushed into Premiere.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&loc=en

Andy Edwards

[Andy Edwards]

You could play around with Automate to Sequence in Premiere and see if you can bin your selections and randomize your selections before automating them.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to use the Automate to Sequence button:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE53h-oymSU

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I don’t work for Adobe, but I know the current version (CC2014) has some plug-in issues with the Yosemite Public Beta V2. We’ll just have to wait till both get officially released.

Andy

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Sorry about that. To many versions going on in my head right now. For 7.2.2 It’s in the Wrench icon menu of the PGM monitor. You mentioned you were testing it on CC2014, so thought that version first. Yes, if you turn it off you cannot monitor output, but at least you could see if it plays back in Premiere PGM monitor without issues.

You mention Mavericks above. Are you using 10.9.4? 10.9.3 caused all kinds of problems with Premiere Playback.

Have you updated your CUDA graphics card drivers?

What actual codecs do you show installed in your Library/Quicktime folder?

Did you have an older version of XDCAM transfer tool on this system? Have you upgraded it recently?

Is a version of FCP installed on this system, or only Premiere?

Andy

[Andy Edwards]

Have you checked to see if Mercury Transmit is Enabled (checked) in the Preferences Playback Menu?

[Andy Edwards]

Hi Michael,

Do all these systems have external mixers? If yes, do the following. Run a 1/8″ stereo cable from the Line out of the Macs into the Mixer. Your Mixer then feeds external speakers. You can pick up a 1/8″ to RCA or 1/8″ to 1/4″ or 1/8″ to XLR cable at Radio Shack, Guitar Center or your favorite online audio source.

Go to your Mac System Prefs, Sound, for output choose Line out. You can keep the Input set to any AJA hardware you have installed.

Next Launch Premiere and go to your Preferences / Audio Hardware / Set your Adobe Desktop to Built in Line Output. Also set your Map Output to Adobe Desktop Audio.

Go to Playback Preferences and change your Audio Device to Adobe Desktop. The AJA hardware can be checked inside the box. If you are seeing some latency in the playback to an external screen you can make a change to the AJA hardware In the Video Device Box. I have found most AJA devices (Kona3, Kona3G, iO4K) have an adjustment of 240ms to make the external playback monitor match the Premiere Program Monitor.

This should give you clean audio playback and still use AJA for video playback to your external monitors. If you want to take AJA out of the equation, just turn off Enable Mercury Transmit in the Preferences.

You can also search google: “AJA Audio in Premiere”
or watch this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BAYMPwkps

Hope this helps
Andy Edwards

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Agreed. I latched on to the “rugged drive” thinking it was the bottle neck. A Red Rocket would be a definite bonus for decoding the footage.

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What type of Mac Pro Specs?

Do you have SMC fan control installed? Check to see if the system is overheating while rendering. K4000 can make the internals run very hot.

Have you updated your Cuda drivers?

Andy

[Andy Edwards]

Promise Technology 12TB Pegasus2 R6 Thunderbolt 2 Raid Storage Array
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Andy