Premiere CS6 anything but smooth (6.0.1 made it worse!)

[Petri Teittinen]

Found an 18-second long 5120x2160/23.976 clip and dropped it into Premiere, RR enabled... and the clip played very smoothly in both Source and Program monitors at 1/4 and 1/2 resolutions. This supports Wes' recent discovery.

I then exported the clip to DVD-compliant NTSC MPEG-2 (2-pass encode). The process took less than 15 seconds, i.e. faster than realtime (yay!). During export there wasn't much happening in the CPU (2-5% load only, most cores active) but at least the CPU was doing something throughout the export instead of only once in a long while. The main GPU (GTX580) worked at 4%, while the GUI GPU (GTX460) stayed at 0%.

Next test: export to Blu-ray compliant H.264 (2-pass encode at medium bitrate preset). For this test I slapped a Colorista II correction on the clip and added simple film dissolves on both ends. Export took 19 seconds. CPU usage leapt to 60-70% (all cores workout) and main GPU to 35%.

[Wes Howell]

That's one nice thing about the Rocket. It leaves your CPU available for processing things like 3rd party / Non-CUDA effects, etc.

[Johnny Friday]

This supports Wes' recent discovery.

What was Wes's discovery? i missed that.....something about 16x9 material?

[Petri Teittinen]

What was Wes's discovery? i missed that.....something about 16x9 material?

Yes. Premiere and RED Rocket stop talking to each other when Premiere is trying to process 16x9 material, such as 4800x2700 or 2880x1620.

The limited testing I've managed to do so far suggests this issue applies to editing (i.e. playback smoothness) and exporting alike. So if we're lucky, Adobe might squash both these bugs in one go. Fingers crossed.

[Kenny Mosher]

I am seeing the same issue with 16x9 Epic material. Any work arounds yet?

[Johnny Friday]

Yes. Premiere and RED Rocket stop talking to each other when Premiere is trying to process 16x9 material, such as 4800x2700 or 2880x1620.

The limited testing I've managed to do so far suggests this issue applies to editing (i.e. playback smoothness) and exporting alike. So if we're lucky, Adobe might squash both these bugs in one go. Fingers crossed.

So would working with 2:1 material BUT then putting it on a 16:9 timeline with center crop create these problems ?

OR

Is it only working with the original content at 16:9 that is the problem?

thanks....

[Kenny Mosher]

I haven't seen the issue when cropping from 2:1 to 16:9 but only with 5k 5HD native footage. I am just disabling my rocket for this particular project. Unfortunately I normally shoot at 2:1 but this current job I shot it at 5K HD. This was before I knew of this issue...

[Johnny Friday]

I haven't seen the issue when cropping from 2:1 to 16:9 but only with 5k 5HD native footage. I am just disabling my rocket for this particular project. Unfortunately I normally shoot at 2:1 but this current job I shot it at 5K HD. This was before I knew of this issue...

For this reason i've been shooting everything at 2:1 or 5kFF and then doing center crops from RCX...BUT, i've not yet tried any work on PrPro to see if any problems.

[Peter Chang]

Yes. Premiere and RED Rocket stop talking to each other when Premiere is trying to process 16x9 material, such as 4800x2700 or 2880x1620.

The limited testing I've managed to do so far suggests this issue applies to editing (i.e. playback smoothness) and exporting alike. So if we're lucky, Adobe might squash both these bugs in one go. Fingers crossed.

Are these bugs still active? Can you confirm that this issue applies to both playback and exporting?

[Tehben Dean]

I am seeing the same issue with 16x9 Epic material. Any work arounds yet?

I really hope Adobe will fix this soon, it's really annoying. I'm glad I finally figured out what it is though :/