Merge Clips - Big Bug - Premiere Crash

[Stefan Scherperel]

I have posted this topic over at the adobe forums, but it was quickly swallowed up in the hundreds of questions that are posted there each day without an answer. I have also sent a bug report, but no word yet. I'd like to see if anyone else might be having this problem.

I have been editing a feature film since the start of this week and have found a huge bug and problem with Premiere CC. This has been repeatable for me every time.
I am working on a brand new install of windows 8, all updated, and 64GB of RAM.
I am working with Epic footage shot 5k 2.4:1
Sound was recorded as separate WAV files each video clip has either 1, 2 or 3 mono WAV files (Merged) to them.

Here is the problem:
When working with all merged files, everything works fine, but if I try and bring in any clip that is not a merged file things get crazy. I can work fine unless I select or try to move a merged clip and a non merged clip at the same time. So if I select all on the timeline and only have merged clips, no problem. If there is even one non merged clip on the timeline and I select all, I get an instant Premiere Pro CC has encountered an error, and closes out premiere.

My temporary workaround:
If I merge an audio file, like a music file/ ADR or sound effect with a color slug, and just select the audio file to bring into the timeline, everything is fine.
Same goes with video clips. If I have an MOS clip, I can simply merge it to any random audio file, then just bring in the video file and everything works fine. I can select the whole timeline and nothing crashes. But if I forget even once, Boom Premiere shuts down. . . very frustrating.

I don't know if this is specific to working with Red footage, Windows 8 or just adobe CC, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has run into this problem. I'm getting through the edit fine, I just have to watch my step and save frequently, and merge all external audio clips with some kind of video to keep from crashing.

Any help would be appreciated. I know there are some adobe reps on here, so hopefully this is more visible than on the adobe forum.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

So the second strange problem has occurred now using Adobe CC. I rendered out the first pre screen er of the film for the director to take home. In the edit of the film I had broken the film up into segments and nested those sequences in a master timeline with only nested sequences. Well, every nested sequence, from the time that we watched the film all the way through on the timeline, to the time I hit render, had generated its own cross fade. How does this even happen? Is there even a way to automatically generate cross fades? This is getting very strange and frustrating Adobe? I've been a long time user of Adobe Premiere, and have never run into so may consistently baffling bugs. Sure I've had crashes, and needed to do some workarounds in the past, but I've never felt that things were broken. Adobe Premiere CC honestly is starting to feel like beta software to me. I love it, but boy is it starting to show it's true colors.