[Paul Jay]

What you are describing is more a social issue than a technology issue.
I personally wonder why so many people nowadays like utterly crappy uninspired music.

There are brilliant productions on cheap hardware and there are terrible productions on expensive hardware.

And there’s a lot in between.

[Paul Jay]

Do a test and copy the source files to your internal SATA.

Try the same.

It’s not recommended to edit from system drive but this way you have SATA speed to test compared to FW800

[Paul Jay]

Mainly for the GT 650 M card in the Retina MacBook Pro but i’ve had no problems in Premiere or DaVinci Resolve.

[Paul Jay]

Video playback in Premiere 5.5 was and is a disaster.

In CS6 they got it working very very very Good.
It’s not your BMD device. It’s Adobe.
Upgrade CS6 and you will be happy.

[Paul Jay]

The Video Preview in Sequence settings was set to YUV 10 uncompressed.
With ProRes 10 bit , it was no difference.
Real time monitoring is still full of banding.
My problem isn’t the render. I need a full quality blackmagic 10 bit playback on my Dreamcolor during edit.

You can easily test this. Create a animated Gradient or a blurred circel in a 10 Bit FCP sequence. Export.
Import the file in Premiere. And try to get a proper 10 bit image on a 10 Bit Monitor.
That same quicktime works perfect when importing back in FCP7 and playback Blackmagic 10 bit.
The gradient is ultra smooth.

Not in Premiere.

[Paul Jay]

Also Update Cuda driver in system preferences.

[Paul Jay]

I challenge anyone to test this. It’s not an isolated issue.

[Paul Jay]

The Video Preview in Sequence settings was set to YUV 10 uncompressed.
With ProRes 10 bit , it was no difference.
Real time monitoring is still full of banding.
My problem isn’t the render. I need a full quality blackmagic 10 bit playback on my Dreamcolor during edit.

You can easily test this. Create a animated Gradient or a blurred circel in a 10 Bit FCP sequence. Export.
Import the file in Premiere. And try to get a proper 10 bit image on a 10 Bit Monitor.
That same quicktime works perfect when importing back in FCP7 and playback Blackmagic 10 bit.
The gradient is ultra smooth.

Not in Premiere.

[Paul Jay]

You do have copies of the complete EX card structure right?

[Paul Jay]

I still prefer a non hard crash system.