Close Captioning on Premiere CC

Yesterday I had to get a tape out for delivery. I came back to the shop and found my online editor with his head is his hands while my show was going to tape. The image was skipping tons of frames.
Close capationing was working though. I had just moved a new system into online, all our preliminary tests went great and this was not supposed to be happening. We are using a Black Magic Design i/o.
I had made sure all the settings were correct. Unrendered timelines played fine, put the close captioning file on the time line and playback would stutter. We rendered the time line and we were getting two skip frames per 5 minute segment.
My online editor tried to go to tape and was at his wits end. That is when i threw everything I had read online out the window and tried something completely new.
I render the timeline (which was yellow lined) without the captioning present. Like i said it was playing fine without the captioning so i am not sure why i thought of this. I then added the close captioning to the timeline.
The time line now went from green to yellow again but the project now played flawlessly and we got our tape out in time.
Maybe this is how you are supposed to do it and I missed something. I am posting this in case it helps someone get threw their day with a lttle less stress.
Nick

Hi,
Thanks for providing your workarounds.
I wanted to see if I can get some more details about your setup.
- What OS/system specs
- What Blackmagic card and driver version
- What format are you using
- What format are your Closed Caption files? MCC, SCC, ect...
- What deck are you going out to? SDI?
Thanks for your time. This info will be helpful trying to determine your problem.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

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