[Joe Chow]

I take it back. I just went back into Premiere CC and exported to “Queue” an older sequence and that did work OK.
Now I just opened up an older CC2014 Premiere project and that is also exporting a sequence to “Queue”, albeit slower than usual. So maybe there is something wrong with a) the computer or b) the specific projects I was working with this morning.
Clearly uninstalling and reinstalling Media Encoder has helped.
Thanks, Kevin. I’ll update this thread if there are new (negative) developments.

[Joe Chow]

Sorry, Kevin. Thanks for responding. Had to take time out to shovel snow.
So yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled Media Encoder, and still have the same problem. If I export directly from Premiere, it works fine, but exporting to “Queue” and then launching Media Encoder, the media info does not seem to get xferred, so the Media Encoder Queue window just sits there empty. If I close the Media Encoder window, I see a “Export Media” window that tells me it’s “preparing data for export”, but that just goes on forever. If I try to close this window,then I get another window (with the rest of the desktop greyed out) that offers me a choice of “Close the Program” or “Wait for the program to respond”. So then I just close the program, which quits either Premiere CC or CC2014, depending on whichever’s project I’m working on. That’s why I think the problem is with Media Encoder because the “Queue” isn’t working either for Premiere CC, or CC2014,
And as I said, I have the CC apps on my Mac, and exporting to “Queue” works fine there.

[Joe Chow]

I’d also like to know if the Cinemartin version is recognized by more Mac-based workflows as opposed to the Miraizon.
The Cinemartin solution IS considerably more expensive, but might be worth it if it works for more workflow scenarios.
Any further enlightenment would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Joe Chow]

Luckily my problem was solved because I was working in conjunction with an AE guy who was supposed to do the heavy lifting in terms on compositing on the project, so he did all the keying in AE.
Still, Premiere CC has been running very smoothly the last couple of days since I reverted back to version 7.0.1. One of the bugs that got fixed in later versions, I believe, had to do with multicam editing, which I don’t regularly use. So I’m happy as a clam now since all the hassles I’ve experienced with 7.2 since mid-December have gone away.
Here’s the link with instructions on reverting:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5827476
A very helpful guy gave me instructions to revert to 7.1, but a couple of links seemed faulty, so you might try that one instead. And beware of doing updates today, since the CC Downloader seems to be down this morning.

[Joe Chow]

I experienced the same problem on a project I did around Christmas time. Ended up passing the footage onto my AE guy because I couldn’t hack the protracted output times as well with AME.
My feeling this has to do with PPr 7.2.1 because I’ve had a lot of other export problems as well. Even a sequence with just the Fast Color Corrector on the clips would take 5 times as long to output than if I used the 3 Way Color Corrector (which I hate) instead. Something’s not right with 7.2. It’s uncool when they tell you an upgrade is for “Bug Fixes” and it ends up creating a whole new slew of bugs.
I reverted back to 7.0.1 and did a test with the Ultra Key, and the headless speaker got his noggin back. Output time was considerably reduced as well. I did turn the GPU acceleration off though.

[Joe Chow]

Hi, Peter.
I finally reached the point where I needed to work in a “non-hobbled” version of PPr CC. So I tried to follow your instructions to revert to 7.1, but both links for MAC after the Photoshop Elements one do not work.
Please let me if you have alternate instructions. Thanks.
This is becoming very frustrating.
Joe
P.S. Why is 3-way Color Corrector so vastly inferior to its namesake in Final Cut Pro Legacy, as well as Fast Color Corrector?

[Joe Chow]

Thanks for your response, Alan. I am on the latest PPro update (7.2.1). If you check a few replies back, I was told that there were issues with my specific graphics card as well as a number of filters/effects I was using. So for the project where I used the Fast Color Corrector, I switched to the 3-way Color Corrector instead and both playback and output became immediately smoother and faster respectively. The alternate advice I got was to revert to Version 7.1. I might do that with another project on which I’m having output problems, but that’s a couple of weeks away, and I’m hoping either the new computer I’ve ordered (with a “better” graphics card) will arrive to do away with the problems or 7.2.2 will be out and achieve the same effect.

[Joe Chow]

Good to know. Thanks.
2 remaining questions:
1. I thought I experienced performance slowdowns with the Ultra Key filter as well. Can you confirm that?
2. What is the best way to revert to Version 7.1? Uninstall and reinstall? If so, how will I know to stop at 7.1?

[Joe Chow]

Thank you. Will file report.

[Joe Chow]

Actually after realizing how long the outputs were going to take, I went back to the camera card, copied the native format footage, imported it into Premiere to create a native-format timeline (sorry for the inaccurate terminology). Playback was better but output was still horrendously slow. And as I responded to both Jeff and Kevin, using the same footage and filter in a CS6 test project cut the output time on a 9 minute sequence by 2.5 hours! And this was with both the ProRes and native-format timeline.