ProRes timeline/export on mac in Premiere CC

I've posted about this earlier but thought it was worth another try.
Using Premiere CC on a Mac Pro (with Mountain Lion and Quadro 4000 Cuda card) - when in a ProRes timeline (whether it be 422 or LT), and trying to export to ProRes (whether "use preview files" is checked or not), Premiere consistently hangs on export whenever it hits a graphic file (tiff, psd, etc) or a Premiere generated title. If I export into another format (h264, etc) - it exports fine (just takes awhile).
In Premiere CS6, "use previews" never worked with ProRes, but you could still export to ProRes - it just didn't use the preview files. Now with CC, you can't do either - at least not if you are using any graphics files or titles. If you're just using video clips in the timeline, then it works fine (using previews or not). I've tried this on 2 systems and have found other users on these boards as well as the Creative Cow forums that are experiencing the same issues.
Being able to export with previews was perhaps the biggest reason I upgraded to CC, but instead I feel like its taken a step backwards (at least on a Mac in a ProRes environment).
Is anyone from Adobe listening??

Since this is an export problem, you'll probably get more response on the AME forum. At the very least, staff members who visit that forum are more likely to know if this is a known issue.
What are the dimensions of your still images and, for that matter, of the PPRO titles?
If you have GPU acceleration enabled, please try encoding with it switched to Software-only (in Premiere; there's no switch for this in AME.)

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Dear Adobe Community,
I got my first imac a few days ago, and i decided to install Adobe CC.
When i want to run Adobe Bridge, says "the operation could not be completed", the same happens with Adobe After Effects.
And I also have a problem with Premiere, when i want to export a project says that premiere must close.
This is the try version, is this a problem of Adobe or Apple? i'm very worried
Help!
Thank you!
Ivana

Muchas gracias!!! Ha funcionado!
El 11/02/2014, a las 00:02, Federico Platon <[email protected]> escribió:
Re: PLEASE Help! - Bridge and Premiere CC- "the operation could not be completed" and export error - MAC
created by Federico Platon in Foros de usuario a usuario - View the full discussion
Confirma que se trata de una cuestión de permisos.
Por cierto te aconsejos actualices la 9.1 a 9.2, posiblemente se habría arreglado así también.
Bueno los pasos son:
2. Select Go from the Finder Menu.
3. Select Computer.
4. Select Macintosh HD.
5. Select Users.
6. Select your user profile.
7. Right click on user profile. Select Get Info.
8. Go to bottom and unlock with admin password to make changes.
9. Make sure your user profile has Read and Write privileges by selecting from dropdown menu.
10. Go down to wheel at very bottom and select Apply to enclosed items. This should allow Adobe Bridge to run properly.
Creo que no se necesita traducción.
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Yes, I tried to find that forum and couldn't which is why I posted here, but since I have you on the line, and since you apparently have lots of experience with SG, can I ask you:
Because of the way I've done this documentary I can only grade it now that the picture/sound is locked. If I export a ProRes flattened movie into SG, it will have the effects, titles etc which is not what SG wants, right? So do I duplicate a timeline in Premiere, delete the titles, etc, (what else: effects?) and then export to SG?
If I export the timeline (using a MacPro but not the fastest newest model, 16GB Ram) it takes about three or four hours to export the DPX files. I'm trying it again, but don't hold any hope that it will export without some of those incomplete clips. I don't know what causes them. Could it be sections with effects, with stacked clips which have wipes and other stuff, combining them in the ProRes export to a single image but in a timeline exported to SG maybe its not reading that info?
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Thanks for the response Kevin,
I fully updated as of last week - Premiere 8.1.0, Media Encoder 8.1.0.122 and ran the export again with a brand new Premiere project, dragged into a sequence, export media, selected Quicktime / ProRes 422HQ codec, matched the frame size, pressed queue to open Media Encoder and the started the export.
Exactly the same results I'm afraid - blocky, pixelated areas on gradients or areas of similar color.
Frustratingly, the free and 6 year old Mpeg Streamclip (v1.9.2) does a much better job, on a par with Final Cut. I don't suppose there's any way to automatically route the export via it?! Where Media Encoder uses 3 or 4 color shades with blocky finite edges, Streamclip and FCP seem to use 6 or 7 shades and the transitions between areas far smoother with visible dithering (you can see this in my original screenshots).
I would say that it seems to do with the source camera and how it's been originally encoded - I've done some further tests with Canon C300 rushes and they seem to convert / export well without problems and yet some blue skies in footage shot on a Sony F55 show some obvious banding (after conversion to ProRes 422HQ) that doesn't appear on the source.
I'm happy to provide the raw H264 mov to see if you are able to get any better results.
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I also had the Use Maximum Render Quality box checked in my export settings
This should carry over to the AME when you send it to the queue, but you should double-check in the AME.
So I guess the difference is in the GPU rendering vs software rendering?
In theory, software MPE with MRQ and Max Bit Depth enabled should produce (nearly) identical results to hardware MPE.
I had originally understood that this is for rendering previews, but looks like it's also used during final exports?
For exporting, video frames have to be rendered before they can be transcoded to the final format/codec. So hardware MPE helps rendering previews, but it also helps the rendering step of the export process.
That's unfortunate that AME does not utilize the GPU as well. What is the reason for excluding this feature?
That's a question only an Adobe engineer can answer! NB: I know for sure that the scaling-using-software-MPE limitation in the AME applied to CS5 and CS5.5. It may be fixed in CS6, or it may not. I don't have time to properly research that right now.
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I thought I'd share a discovery, and also ask for some advice.
Discovery:
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Stands to reason. ProRes is a full raster 10-bit I-Frame codec.
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