My system is a Mac Pro 5,1, Lion 10.7.4, 32GB RAM, Quadro 4000 with the latest nvidia and CUDA drivers. My project is entirely comprised of dynamic links with After Effects for the video and Audition for the Audio. I converted all the video clips to AE C6 and imported them fresh. Havent done so with the audio, as it's a more complicated surgery.
My problems are four:
1) Premiere Pro CS6 is painfully slow. I installed the Quadro soon after CS6 came out to take advantage of the expanded CUDA functions. That plus PP was crawling with the ATI Radeon card that shipped with my computer. Doing anything, even nudging a clip dowm the timeline resulted in a spinning beachball. The CUDA card had a negligible effect (it might be slightly faster than the ATI but it's also less stable). Some beachballs never went away and I had to force quit. I tried clearing caches, reinstalling, doing PRAM resets, repairing permissions (even inside the terminal), opening in safe mode and all the other things people suggest. It got slightly better with the last update patch from Adobe, but only slightly. I stilll have to hold onto a clip and wait for the beachball to stop spinning to move it.
2) Premiere Pro CS6 crashes. It got to the point where I was getting "serious error" messages without doing anything. Wil is looking at my crash report.
3) Premiere Pro CS6 can't render clips that rendered without issue in PP5.5. I get compiling errors midway through. These may be related to a Video Copilot plugin effect called Twitch. I'm testing this.
4) Premiere Pro CS6 and Dynamic Link constantly lose track of my clips. The media is incredibly slow to load with lots of italicized "pendings" that last longer than five minutes. Some clips never load. Others claim to be loaded but show "Media Offline" in the project panel and timeline. I relink these one by one, which is a slow process (still can't figure out how to relink all files at once the way Final Cut and Aperture do). Sometimes relinking works and other times it knocks other things that were linked offline. Things that were rendered earlier with "Render Entire Workspce" are rarely if ever rendered the next time I open the project. Sometimes a compiling error (see (3) above) will knock all the clips offline, resulting in a sea of red tiles. This and the crashing are the worst.
All of my problems seem related to Dynamic Link. None occurred in CS5.5. I'm guessing the Dynamic Link engine was reinvented somehow in CS6 that's ill-considered, buggy, and possibly unstable. For instance, did DL always render linked clips in CS6 in the background via the After Effects render engine? Why does it restrict that engine to a single core when rendering via Premier Pro but use all the cores when rendering in After Effects? It must be hard to get consistency across the suite but I was hoping CS6 would clean some of this up, like that page down would advance a frame the way it does in AE or that AE would do it with the right arrow like PP. Or that the spacebar would convert the arrow to a dragging hand in PP like it does in AE. The pieces of the suite aren't as coordinated as they could be, and Dynamic Link, on my system at least, is a disaster.
I couldn't stand Final Cut Pro X and switched to CS5.5. It was a move I was very happy with for a long time, but CS6 has me seriously considering going back to FCP.
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