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andypeck
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July 2, 2014
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green flashes when rendering in Premiere CC 2014

  • July 2, 2014
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Hi there,

I'm an in-house cameraman and editor for a financial business in London. I'm using the latest Macbook Pro Retina with 16gb ram, NVidia 750 graphics card. I've been using the same method for editing for past two years but have only just started editing with the very latest 2014 version of Premiere cloud. I'm mixing PM-100 and Sony EX1 footage which i've done many times before. However i've spend hours trying to get rid of green flashes that have started to appear on the renders.

These seem consistent with using the PMW-100 as the EX1 footage seems ok. I can replace the error clips with something else but then the render error moves to another part of the rendering.

These flashes can't be seen in playback within the editor, only after rendering.

I'm trying to work out if its the camera, camera drives, Macbook Pro Retina or Premiere.

Can anyone help shed light on this?

Andy

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    Correct answer John_Krantz

    I was having the same problem, and couldn't find a fix. It was also screwing up certain effects, particularly warp stabilizer every time I rendered or exported. Finally, I tried changing the renderer from Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL) to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only, and it worked like a charm. Go to File -> Project Settings -> General and select the renderer from the dropdown menu. Make sure to also change the renderer when you export. Using Adobe Media Encoder, be sure to select "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" in the dropdown menu next to "Renderer" before you export.

    This has completely eliminated the problem for me.

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    Caden26197720rgp5
    New Participant
    October 27, 2022

    I am having the exact same issue.  I tried switching to CUDA Open CL and Software only and I am still having this issue...

    DCanadian
    DCanadian
    Participating Frequently
    February 12, 2021

    The fixes listed here have not helped. My problem arises mostly with stock video I have added in, or a Motions Graphics template, not my own video. 

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    mmdewar
    New Participant
    September 27, 2020

    Still having this problem in 2020 which is ridiculous, this should have been solved in an update a loooooong time ago. Russell0101 has solved it for me.

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    mmdewar
    New Participant
    September 27, 2020

    In fact no he hasn't. Same problem with the 'software only' option selected.

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    Priscilla5F85
    New Participant
    November 23, 2020

    Same.. has anyone figured this out yet?
    Im on a deadline and nothing seems to help.

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    Russell0101
    New Participant
    September 9, 2020

    I followed the advice of user John_Krantz and it works like a charm. So simple. Just adjust the one setting in your project settings and boom, back in action! 9-8-2020

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    Russell0101
    New Participant
    September 9, 2020

    I was having the same problem, and couldn't find a fix. It was also screwing up certain effects, particularly warp stabilizer every time I rendered or exported. Finally, I tried changing the renderer from Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL) to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only, and it worked like a charm. Go to File -> Project Settings -> General and select the renderer from the dropdown menu. Make sure to also change the renderer when you export. Using Adobe Media Encoder, be sure to select "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" in the dropdown menu next to "Renderer" before you export.

     

    This has completely eliminated the problem for me.

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      mateolares
      New Participant
      January 23, 2019

      I had the same issue and I solved it by assigning a new profile to the image.

      For Mac:

      Open image in preview > tools > assign profile > sRGB IEC....

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      andrewh89650660
      New Participant
      July 19, 2017

      I have been suffering random green flashes and flashing dots in encoded output for sometime. Having tried all sorts of things including switching to software only encoding, nothing worked, cutting a long story short it was the video card.

      Using a video card monitoring app you could see the GPU core going from 40c to 98c as soon as the encoding started. Although the old graphics card was an approved Adobe card when purchased, replacing it for a current Adobe approved  CUDA  graphics card immediately fixed the problem.

      The new card was a relatively low cost NVIDIA GeForce GTX750Ti

      Not much help for laptop users but it fixed my work station.

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      URIGLOBAL94129
      Participating Frequently
      July 1, 2015

      Changing to "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" was it! Thank you so much!!!

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        koriw61078602
        New Participant
        June 6, 2015

        Thank you SO much John. Krantz! I have had this issue for over a month how and couldn't fix it. I hope this does the trick and stays perfect when I export the video!

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        John_KrantzCorrect answer
        New Participant
        October 21, 2014

        I was having the same problem, and couldn't find a fix. It was also screwing up certain effects, particularly warp stabilizer every time I rendered or exported. Finally, I tried changing the renderer from Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL) to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only, and it worked like a charm. Go to File -> Project Settings -> General and select the renderer from the dropdown menu. Make sure to also change the renderer when you export. Using Adobe Media Encoder, be sure to select "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" in the dropdown menu next to "Renderer" before you export.

        This has completely eliminated the problem for me.

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          luciagarciam
          New Participant
          February 10, 2015

          You are an angel John. Changing to "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" saved my project. Thank you!!

            BartonGarrett256
            BartonGarrett256
            Inspiring
            September 26, 2014

            I replaced my (second) defective K2000 card with a K2200 and the problem disappeared.  I assume it is a graphics card bandwidth issue, but I'm no expert.  The other problems I saw were crashing, freezing and the render line color not reflecting reality.  All gone.  The simplest way I found to minimize it was to decrease the playback resolution, that helped a lot and was immediate. 

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