[Brent Marginet]

Wow even the 2013 Mac Pros have GPU issues.

Bloody near every MacBook Pro and iMac with ATI/AMD GPU’s had issues, so I see AMD has continued there trend of producing crap. Even before AMD bought ATI I saw tons of Video Card failures not only that but AMD CPU fan failures were way to common and caused tons of grief.

I chuckled when AMD bought ATI because I though they’d be a perfect match.
Both had no idea how to implement good fans and ATI Cards had high failure rates because of bad solder pads.
I actually was pretty good with a heat gun at one point fixing ATI Cards for other people.

NVIDIA +100

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

What type of media is it.
Long Gop Media can be very difficult to playback so that could be part of the problem.

What do you mean by the benchmark looks fine.
Are you certain that the 5Big drive is faulty.
I will say that I really dislike the Lacie Big Series of Drives, they’re really slow.
I’ve also had one drive fail in two different clients drives and the RAID 5 wouldn’t rebuild the Volume.
Try running the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test utility to see what kind of performance you can get from that Drive.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

[Hugh Hill] “I suppose at some point I will upgrade these monitors to see what I am actually doing as although they are calibrated they are around 6 years old now not bad for 2 x HP LP 2475’s .”

Upgrading your monitors is not really a solution to your problem because you are upgrading from Computer Monitors to new Computer Monitors. Computer monitors are ridiculously inaccurate so if you have a decent TV you’d be better to send it calibration charts and get it setup as accurate as possible. Even different video cards give different results, so save a calibrated preset for each computer and then you will at least have some constancy. I’ve even found that you will get different results from different ports on a given video card. A DVI Port will be different than the HDMI Port and again even varies from a direct Display Port connection to one with a DP to DVI or HDMI Adapter. So always use the same port and cable configuration if you do do this.

In my case I really couldn’t afford it at the time however I had no choice but to purchase a Flanders Scientific CM-250 which is a $6500US Broadcast/On Set Reference Monitor. Thing is, it pays for itself every time I have to master a new show or movie and find colour or image issues. Since that purchase I have not had a single QC fail because of colour or image problems and some of those QC’s can be up to a 2 to $3000 hit plus of course redoing everything.

I’m not bragging, I’m just stuck in a position where that monitor is a necessity.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Ah yes, everyone take note of this, Perian has been always caused issues and hasn’t been supported for a few years so get rid of it ASAP.

[Kevin B] “Below are the names of the files I removed.

Perian.component”

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Another possible reason Premiere doesn’t surpass 80MB/s is because it probably doesn’t need to.
If your videos are playing back fine with no lagging or stuttering then who cares what the speed is.

If the video file that’s playing back is even as high as 500mbits/s that’s approximately equivalent to 50MB/s so other than some extra for caching that’s pretty much what its going to use to play it back. If your scrubbing really fast Premiere will be skipping frames so you will still likely not see more than 80MB/s. If your really want to test it, playback an Uncompressed 4K DPX Sequence.

This point your making would be like my car burning 300 Litres per hour when it only needs to burn 10.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Oh yeah, Macs and PC’s display Video at a different Gamma as well so that doesn’t help matters either.

Computer monitors can’t be trusted in any way to show you what your Video truly looks like.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

When you do a clean Windows Install you should not do a restore.
That can negate the clean install by putting back old files, drivers, Registry Entries, etc, etc that you don’t want back.
That would mean either backing up everything you need to an external HD or installing the OS on a new boot drive.
The Project may not have been stored in a location that Windows backs up by default.

Wow, no secondary USB, Hard Drive, Dropbox or backup anywhere else.
So starting your project from scratch would be the only way then.

Read My Media Moto below and Apply that to all of your projects as well.
I know you want to cry but really, WOW, no extra backups.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

What do you mean by better, your post is basically saying nothing.

Better resolution.
Better colour, etc. etc.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

I had many of the same issues you are encountering on my PC which lead me to install the CUDA Driver Kit. This seemed to help for bit so that’s why I suggested you go ahead and install It as well. Once again I do apologize for that.

I am primarily a Mac user but I have a Killer i7 System with 64gb of RAM and a GTX-980Ti in it. My main use for this system is passing off Resolve and Adobe CC Renders to it on larger projects.

Yesterday it started being a total PITA again after my so called helpful post to you. Well after a few well chosen words I held myself back from taking a hammer to it or throwing it out a 100 story window and did the next best thing.

First I reseated all of my RAM, Expanison Cards and every connector that I could lay my eyes on. Then I did a BIOS Update and Reset it to the Optimized Factory Defaults. Next I did a clean install of Windows and it’s updates as well as all the drivers and Apps on an SSD.
Gonna hold onto the original boot HD until I’m definitely sure I can wipe it.

I left it to transcode about 30 Hours of RED footage and went home because at this point if it blows up I don’t care anymore.

I just logged into it before I started typing this post and it hasn’t crashed yet.
It also seems to be rendering about 15% faster than I last remembered.

Ok so with all I’ve done is it fixed and if so what fixed it.
I don’t know or care but if just one of these fixed it then it wasn’t a waste of half a days work on this system. Maybe the same may work for you.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

I so second that and to Steve you do know that this is a Premiere Forum.

I’m so sick and tired of dealing with FCP-7 user problems in our small 3 man facility that we have tripled our rates to solve there issues.
Oh yeah, you add FCP-X to the list of useless NLE’s as well.

So let’s hope we can force everyones hands into using something that isn’t from the Dark Ages.

\”MY MEDIA MOTO: If you think three copies of your media is enough.
Take a moment to place a value on it and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”