Dan Destefano
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Word to the wise, never convert something to H.264 to edit. H.264 is not an editing codec, it’s a watching codec. Premiere claims to be able to handle it, but only if you want to pull your hair out.
You want to convert to ProRes 422 if you’re on a Mac. What do you mean by jumps around? Try using ProRes and Match Settings and see if that helps. Did you look at the Audio Gain and Channel settings? Maybe one channel is screwed up? Good luck!
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Hi! I just posted about this, actually. Long story short, Adobe dropped a big fat whopper of a lie when they claim that their timeline can handle any codec. It can’t. Unless you want to watch slideshows when you’re scrubbing for BROLL and wait at least a second every time you press play. (It adds up.) After cursing out Apple and Adobe, I decided to convert to ProRes and I have my sanity back.
Definitely convert, no question. Adobe knows their product can’t handle all these codecs, that’s why they’re offering auto-proxy conversion in their next version. I have the exact iMac 27″ you do, except I have 32GB of RAM and it still chugs like nobody’s business using MXF or AVC or anything but ProRes, really.
Convert! Convert! Convert!
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Ugh. So basically, Premiere says it will defninitely play the clips without issue, but then when it plays back, they’re stutters as hell. Dammit! Is there a workaround for this?
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I had a problem where I would press play and nothing would happen at all… the solution to that was a weird one, I had to change my audio device settings. Seems nonsensical, but worth a try. Also, if I have Logic running or an external mic plugged in, that would give it problems. Good luck!
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Oh stop, you love being an I told ya so! Otherwise you wouldn’t have said it 😉 There are workarounds though for us guys who wanted pinned tabs in Safari ASAP, I posted below. 🙂
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Instead of shaming you, how about a solution? 🙂
I also upgraded and that issue only happens when using OpenCL rendering. Do you have an NVIDIA card? If so, then install the CUDA drivers and change your render mode to CUDA. That works fine. Software rendering also works fine, except that it’s software rendering so it’s hella slow.
I’m also finding that it crashes very often when using slip, roll, etc. So beware of that too. Happy pioneering!
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That is a better question, isn’t it? I often wonder if the app is to blame or Apple. For instance, OpenGL was never anywhere near as good as DirectX, so I’m excited to see what they can do with Metal.
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I’m running it on three different systems at the moment and on every single one, it crashes over and over again, giving me the “serious error” message, among others. Sometimes it just refuses to play at all, something that FCP never did. The CUDA drivers in conjunction with Premiere completely corrupt my graphics system-wide. On the other hand, After Effects runs beautifully, so stable.
I’ve clean installed the OS many many times to see if maybe there’s a problem with my OS, and I keep having problems. How a program that is so established can still be so immensely buggy is beyond me. How they can sell a program to professionals, when it has serious crashes on the brand new iMac I run at work, my top-of-the-line iMac from three years ago at home, and the Mac Pro at my other job? Instead of fixing these issues, they’re adding features like Morph Cut that benefit only a handful of users, but look good in the media when they release a new version. I’m at the end of my rope trying to troubleshoot and dealing with the constant crashes. It crashed trying to autosave once. AUTOSAVE.
I would love to hear what config your systems have, because I can see no reason that my system wouldn’t be able to handle this program. I bitch because I don’t think Adobe cares that they ship a buggy program. I use Thunderbolt-connected GDRIVES, I save to Dropbox, I close out all my other programs, and still I’m constantly having to stop my work and interrupt my flow, to address crashing issues. If this isn’t a reason to speak out, I don’t know what is.
Clean Install Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite
27-inch iMac (Late 2012)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
32GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
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Why should we be forced to keep from upgrading because Adobe failed to use the three month beta period to make sure their app would be stable? Not that it was stable on Yosemite. Really a shameful piece of software no matter the OS.
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This is the solution! Thanks!