Premiere Pro Settings for Editing and Colouring RAW footage?

[Sam Mantini]

I am looking for advice from an experienced editor/colourist who edits and colours in Premier Pro.

I am editing a video shot on the RED Epic-W and I am editing on a fully spec'd out iMac Pro using a 96TB G-Raid tower with up to 2000/mbs speeds and thunderbolt 3.

Editing went smoothly but now that I am trying to colour the RAW clips, I can't see any changes live. I adjust the curves and nothing happens until I move the playhead to another clip on the timeline then back to the clip I am colouring.

I feel like there is a setting within Premier that I am over looking and causing this to be a very slow process.

I have tried both OpenCL and Software Only and still nothing.

I keep seeing people editing RED content on their macbook pro laptops using premier pro and I just don't get how with a 30k+ setup I am not able to do the same.

If you have any advice on what the best settings are within Premier Pro to maximize efficiency when editing and colouring, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you
Sam

 

[Brent G Miller Jr]

"fully spec'd out iMac Pro" is pretty ambiguous. Can you please post specs. What resolution is your project set to? What's your graphics card(s). How much RAM? Are you previewing using CUDA, or CPU? Etc... Are you trying to edit 8K footage directly or are you using proxy files? etc etc etc.