Canon DSLR - Scrubbing Timeline CC

iMac 27" Late 2012
OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks
3.2GHz Core i5
32GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048MB
Premiere Pro CC Verson 7.2.1 (4)
Using Murcery Playback Engine GPU Accelerated CUDA
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http://youtu.be/inRcACsSFX8
Using Canon 5D M3 we dropped the H.264 files right into premiere, created a new timeline, chose the "match clip settings" option.
Playback is smooth, but scrubbing over the timeline has a significant delay.
We ran the raw footage through apple compressor to make ProRes 422 files and Premiere Pro CC runs much better. As you can see in the youtube video. I understand that the Canon footage is compressed with frame markers, where as the prores fottage contains all 24frames, but is this delay normal for Premiere Pro CC with CUDA?
Just trying to skip the create proxy step which was a selling feature of our switch from FCP7

Actually should be able to run that just fine "native". One of the things that PrPro editors seem to really work at is avoiding transcoding for most formats coming into the program. One thing I might suggest ... for some people the GPU activation actually slows down play-back which is weird ... but there've been quite a number of people having issues with playback who were running vid cards specifically ok for CUDA acceleration, and ... it worked better with that turned off. Might give it a try ...

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