No improvement in responsiveness of AVC/AVCHD footage on time-line, in CC

The header says it all. No apparent difference between CS6 and CC, in this respect. Too bad....
Anyone wishing to test this claim, simply lay down a few minutes of relatively short AVC-I or AVCHD clips on the time-line, then go to the start, hold down the "down" arrow for a few seconds, and note the delay before the recorder window updates and displays the correct frame. Then do the same thing again, perhaps in the opposite direction.
Eventually, the system will become more responsive, as you run through the entire time-line, but that improved responsiveness won't last.

On a side note, that's actually called the Program Monitor in Premiere Pro, not the recorder window.

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Alex

I was demonstrating After Effects and Premiere Pro at the NAB trade show last week, and this was a common question. I asked the people who had had bad AVCHD experiences to bring me their bad media, and we could try it out right there on the show floor. Three people took me up on this and brought me USB drives with clips that had failed to import correctly using the CS4 applications; and they turned out to work fine using the CS5 applications on my computer.

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Hey Gina,
This may be a year late, but as I have been pulling my hair out trying to solve this problem for the last 48 hours I finally did find somewhat of a work around, but it requires Adobe PP CS4.2.
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http://www.mainconcept.com/site/prosumer-products-4/mpeg-pro-hd-7850/features-7861.html
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Lately I've been trying to burn DV timelines of nothing but AVCHD footage, and somewhere through the rendering process I always get a kernel panic. This happens with different projects, footage from different cameras (I'm using a Panasonic AG-AC130 or HMC40), whether I'm using Encore CS5 or CS6. The projects never finish. It seems to get 50-75% through rendering video before crashing. Rendering these projects on my MacBook Pro work just fine (though much slower). Timelines where it's not 100% AVCHD are still working fine.
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Thu Mar 21 02:32:47 2013
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff800fe9db1b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x1, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2337
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0xffffff8101e53f40 : 0xffffff800fe18aea
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0xffffff8101e53fb0 : 0xffffff800feced53
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12C60
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Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
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After a not-too-intense Bing search, the particular panic you're getting seems to be an indication of:
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Bad drivers in combo with an unforgiving OS.
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Jeff
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Where is this media stored? What sort of hard drive?
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Here is a 100% size screenshot of the two clips opened side-by-side in Quicktime. Have a look.
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