I chose the dual Xeon because Puget Systems had that as their $30,000 flagship Adobe Premiere NLE workstation. To think I could have built ten workstations with better performance, if I had waited another 3 years... ... View more

I recently started trials with Resovlve 15 and if it was a problem with dual Xeons, I would think I'd get similar results to the Op's. For us, no version of Premiere was able to play 4K 24P smoothly. But I've got EIGHT streams of 4K UHD playing smoothly in Resolve 15. Resolve has a lot of severe limitations that prevent us from using it for anything but Hollywood format cameras (RAW and Prores and DPX) so working with drone footage and consumer camera footage would require transcoding to Prores just to ingest it. And Resolve requires thousands of dollars of hardware just to get full screen 4K preview. They do have Intensity Pro 4K which gives you 3,8K 30 output, but for those that have DCI displays and screening room, it's no use. That and the titler is stuck in 1999--needs to render before playback. But the raw playback performance with LUTs and sharpening applied is unbelievable. EIGHT streams and I still have 50% CPU available. This is definitely a Premiere issue. ... View more

I have basically the same problems. I have a dual Xeon E5-2667, 128GB RAM, fastest SSDs I could buy, separate SSD for audio, video, O/S and temp drives, nVidia Titan X, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, all running on Supermicro X10DRi motherboard. Every version of Premiere that I have tried has struggled with playing ONE stream of 4K 24p. I have been playing with the last four versions of Resolve and recently installed the final of version 15. I am blown away by the difference.. I can play a four camera UHD project AND overlay FOUR additional 4K video streams, scaled and rotated ON TOP of the 4 camera multicam project and play it back. CPU=50%, GPU=100% and that's about my limit. All clips have LUTs and sharpening applied. If I put an nVidia RTX2080Ti in there, I'd probably get to double the number of 4K streams I could play at once. The reason I have not been able to switch to Resolve is it's limited ingest compatibility limits it to Hollywood production formats only. Can't see DJI drone footage or footage from my Sony RX10 MkIII --all display "Media Offline", plus the fact that it can't render output h.264 any higher than 1080p (UHD output results in an error and failed to render), plus you need thousands of dollars in BMD hardware to get full screen output at 4K 60P to drive our 4K production monitor and 4K projector for our screening room. And the titler is still stuck in the year 1999--have to render the titles before they play. But the performance of Resolve 15 is almost too good to believe on a dual Xeon. ... View more

It's like I got a great hammer, but no nails, only screws! ... View more

Well, I got curious tonight, so I updated the beta of DaVinci Resolve to the final version that just was released. I loaded up the troublesome clips and played them. Interesting.. frame rate stays on 24FPS and smooth playback and smooth scrubbing. So then I added a Sony LUT (FS7 footage) and played it. Again, smooth as can be. Open Task Manager.. 9% CPU. Now added some color correction and sharpening.. CPU use peaks at 14%, but mostly stays around 11%. GPU-Z reports 9% GPU utilization. Fans are quiet and not spinning up to high speed. Tried to do a render to h.264. Render failed. "Failed to encode the video frame". So they got the playback there pretty good, but the projects are trapped because the rendering is broken. I'm thinking Adobe is just fundamentally incompatible with SuperMicro motherboards. ... View more

Thanks. I'll pay more attention to hardware compatibility next time instead of trying to build a bleeding edge system. ... View more

I kept going back and forth with SuperMicro tech support on this for a year and a half, but they insist it must be Adobe's fault. No doubt the board is out of warranty after 3 years in system. My next NLE will be from Wal-Mart. No sense mortgaging the house for a machine that doesn't work any better than the cheapest entry level system. ... View more

I looked into Pudget Systems back before I built my system, but they wanted $30K for an similarly configured system. I have long suspected the motherboard to be defective or just not compatible. It runs Maya like a scalded jackrabbit, but Premiere, foggettaboutit! ... View more

I have a strong suspicion that Premiere is incompatible on some low level system hardware specific layer with some motherboards. I have never gotten an Adobe product to run smoothly on a Supermicro X10DRi motherboard. After $16K invested in fast Xeon CPUs, 128GB RAM and a top of the line nVidia GPU, it still barely edges out a ten year old Core2Quad on playback performance. ... View more

I have  a DJI Phantom 4 Pro v2.0 and have been successfully editing and render the 4K video in Premiere CS6 for the past month and a half. I've done dozens of flights and dumped about a terabyte of 4K 24 video to CS6 and edited all of it into many videos that are on Youtube. I have a friend who has Premiere CC and pays the monthly nut for it. He recently asked for some of my footage and I gave him the raw MOV files. Next day, he tells me that CC crashes when he opens my drone videos. So it seems that Premiere has devolved over the years. He had the same problem with my Japan videos that I shot with my Sony RX10 mk III mirrorless camera. I can edit them without any issues in Premiere CS6. In his CC version, they crash the program. What I did read somewhere about the particular flavor of h.264 that DJI uses, is that it's High profile not Main profile encoding, which takes a lot more CPU power to decode. And I've noticed that it's a struggle to play it back on a dual Xeon machine. But the quality of the footage is astounding, even with enormous high frequency detail. So maybe CC is having trouble decoding High Profile h.264. ... View more

Installed OBS (streaming broadcast software) and had to update my video driver in order to get it working. Unfortunately, that broke the nvenc install for Adobe. nvenc is no longer on the export CODEC selection menu. ... View more

I'm editing a project now and just ran into this. Cannot get the time code to display a start of anything but 47 minutes. The timeline set start time is 00;00;00;00, which should cause the time code to start at '0' too. The current time marker shows the correct time, but the time code effect applied shows everything +47 minutes of action time. I did the work around of adding transparent video and applying time code to that and that allows the time code to match up with the current time, but one would think that changing the time code options from Clip, Media or Generate, should change the result. It has not effect though. Baffling. ... View more

I've been running a version of nvenc that's a couple of years old on my Win 7 editing system and have always had to use a lower level in order to render for Encore to make blu-ray discs, but at least it accepted the files. Today, I installed the 1.11 - j3 nvenc and, while it solves the "C++ assertion failed" problem that I've lived with (by hitting "Ignore"), the files it renders won't import at all into Encore. "The software that's used to decode the media is not available on this system" is what Encore says when I try to import .m4v made by this version of nvenc. Even if I use the same settings that successfully imported with the old nvenc version. What changes to settings are required to regain compatibility, or is this version simply not compatible with blu-ray format? ... View more

Can you elaborate? What is the OptiX library and which library are we replacing--the CS6 one or the nVidia one and in which system folders? ... View more

nVidia 361.43 broke my system. I found that mBox crashes during the mux stage of rendering video with the new driver, so I had to roll back. I had so many problems rolling back that I just wiped the system drive and restored a known good image from 2 months earlier. I got nvenc working again, but Premiere stutters on playback of all material, even HD material unless I load nVidia's Precision X 16 program, which I have set to speed up the fan. Without it, the card runs at 60°C and with it, 4２°Ｃ．And the stuttering stops. But I never needed to run Precision X 16 just to play back video in Premiere before trying out the latest nvenc a couple months ago. It's like something went wrong with the hardware because even a full hard drive image restore to the old configuration that worked, isn't working anymore. Dual Xeons have always been shaky with Premiere (my old Core2Quad seems much more responsive on UI and playback performance in Premiere with only 8GB RAM), despite 128GB RAM available to the application. But now I have almost daily problems whenever Precision X quits without my knowing it, and then Premiere drops 95% of frames and outputs about 1fps. Driving me nuts. Seriously considering moving to Japan and taking up rice farming. Technology driving me out of my mind! ... View more

The current environment took from June to October to tweak and perfect to usability. Restoring the image got us back to a functioning system in under 20 hours. A little odd that an image that took 45 seconds to write to disc took so long to restore, but we've back to productivity again. Messing with video drivers can really disrupt the delicate balance required to make Adobe work with 4K video. The new NVENC offers nothing that we need (Blu-ray compatibility) but breaks MP4Box due to the new Nvidia driver. So the good drivers are from October and newer ones break MP4Box so the whole thing becomes useless. Just leaving it as is. Not perfect, but we get productive work out of it the way it is. ... View more

I reverted back to the old video driver. the old NVENC works as it did before, but Premiere can't play back anything without dropping a ton of frames and the playback stutters now. I tried a system restore to a point 2 months ago, but that didn't fix the problem. Now I'm doing a full hard drive image recovery, thinking system restore isn't working. The recovery is taking 19 hours though, so I have to wait that long to find out if that fixed the problem. ... View more

Same problem with the MP4Box crash but even when I revert back to the old NVENC it crashes. Probably the graphics driver. Rolling back to the old 355.82 driver that worked.. ... View more

This should really be a lot simpler. I came over from SoundForge, but I can see that I will be doing this kind of work in SoundForge, because I've wasted too many hours trying to make it work in Audition, only to be facing greyed out option menus. And when I do manage to export something, why does it take more than the blink of an eye to export? It feels like I'm back on a 486/33 with a slow HDD. SoundForge exports all tracks in about 6 seconds. Audition is taking up to 30 seconds to export just one track. Why so slow? ... View more

Another reason people use Vegas is no monthly fees. ... View more

What would be really great is if Adobe used the GPU to decode XAVC. That seems to be a bottleneck for many people these days. Banging out a concert video render in about 10 minutes now, compared to 14 hours that I used to wait, takes a lot of the gamble out of finalizing projects. The Youtube excerpts used to take 45 minutes for each 5 minute segment to render at 1080P. Now it's a 20 second affair to render the same length and resolution of clip. ... View more

I eventually found it.. had to click that icon at the top of the window and select the right view. Lots of interesting tweaks in there. At Level 40, the highest the bitrate will go is 20mb/s. I usually encoded my 24P 1080 BDs at 35mb/s, unless the material is very long form. Click Ignore on the Assertion failed message and encoding will proceed with no apparent issues. NVENC smashes through 4K to HD renders at breakneck speeds on my Titan X. Breathtaking. To think I used to wait 14 hours for a MPEG HD encode to BD on my old machine. ... View more

I found something out today that seems to add weight to a hunch I had about CC 2015's playback problems being related to the SATA controller/driver. Since discovering the Lumetri scopes disabling, I was testing it on my old quadcore and found that I could get almost fluid playback of XAVC 4K on the Core2Quad with 8GB RAM. Another thing I noticed is that opening Task Manager did not cause it to drop frames. In fact, multitasking didn't bother it at all. Moving files around had no effect on it. But over on the dual Xeon machine today, I was copying some files to a newly installed SSD drive. Premiere was reading source material from H:. The drive I was copying over materials to was M:, on a separate controller channel. It was going to take an hour, so I decided to do some work in Premiere CC 2015. I was rather surprised that the app could not play anything at all while files were being copied. It just acted like it does for the first 3 seconds of normal playback, but indefinitely. None of Premiere's drives were involved in the file copy operation, but the fact that the south bridge was active was enough to stop it from staring playback. So this points to some sort of crummy SATA driver that cannot support simultaneous operation by two or more threads. I note that when first starting play on CC 2015, there is a heap of disc activity before playback begins, like the player module being loaded into RAM. That disc activity seems to lock out reading the video file until the player module is copied to RAM. Because when I stop and restart playback, there is no big disc activity the second time. In short, if ANYTHING accesses ANY disc on the system, even for a millisecond, Premiere CC drops frames. Normal system background activity causes disc access every few minutes, which corresponds with the frames dropped every few minutes. The thing to solve is why Premiere CC can't function during disc I/O on the new Intel chipset, whereas it can on the old chipset. This is a conflict between CC and the SATA driver. CS6 does not exhibit any delayed start of playback on the dual Xeon. Unfortunately, I am running the most recent drivers that Supermicro has on their web site. I've reported the issue to them and maybe they'll look into it. ... View more

When I try to enter this command the console response is "Command gpu.enablegopformats = true unknown. Try 'con.help'. ... View more

CONTROL + F12 opens a console. Now what? It looks like an empty Notepad editor. How do I enable NVENC decode? ... View more