AVCHD Video Clips Occasional Issue

Every once in a while an AVCHD clip on the timeline will all of a sudden get infected and become jumpy. I don't know when this started, but it happens almost every project now at some point. The clips will be fine and then all of a sudden, a clip that was fine is suddenly having all sorts of trouble. It seems to rapidly jump in and out or stutter for just a few freames, almost as if it were caught skipping like an old CD. It's not the kind of stutter you see when the computer is overwhelmed and can't play it back smoothly. It's usually short, very rapid, and it doesn't go away UNTIL you shut down Premiere and start back up. Then the issue is gone. But it might come back later in a totally different clip. This is NOT an issue with general playback speed. The reason is because all other clips will play without issue and this affects just one clip usually at random and after a restart that clip may never have that issue again. Quality set to 1/2 in Program Window and dropping it to 1/4 doesn't help. I can play the video at full sometimes without issues. I can't remember this ever happening prior to the latest version of Premiere but maybe it did a little. Definitely never saw this in CS6. Is this related to the GPU somehow maybe or is it premiere? Seems to happen more often now and it's super annoying to have to restart Premiere every time to get around it.
Running CC 7.2.1 on a 2011 iMac 3.4GHz i7 w/ 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD and AMD 6970M GPU (1GB VRAM)
We only edit native AVCHD. 720p60 slowed down on a 24p timeline.
Any ideas?

shooternz wrote:
Externals....hmmmmmmm...!
Dont know.
What about the slow down workflow?
I suppose dealing with hundreds of 60p clips interpreted at 23.976 could have something to do with it but then again, this issue didn't seem to happen until the last few months. I can't remember if I saw it happen prior to the last update. But it definitely didn't happen in CS6 when I wasn't GPU Accelerated (I was Software only due to the AMD GPU). Could all this be GPU related because why else would it not have occured before? Our workflow hasn't changed...only the program. The only other thing I think that was changed in the last few months was that I checked the media cache box that puts the clips with the original media. Other than that, no changes really.

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