FCPX renders green frames

any reason known for this? i see the orange render bar is gone but during playback i see random green frames.
is this a hardware issue? thanks.

There's a Apple support document that might be relevant:
Final Cut Pro X: Systems with two graphics cards may export QuickTime movies with green artifacts
Symptoms
You may notice green artifacts when you export a QuickTime movie. This can occur on a system that has two graphics cards installed and a display attached to a DVI port on each card.
Resolution
To work around this issue, only use Final Cut Pro X with a single graphics card installed on your system.

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I have been trying to use FCPX for a couple of weeks now, but haven't been able to. I constantly get green frames/artifacts and dropped frames during playback AND export regardless of using optimixed or proxy media. I am importing mp4 quicktime files, in case that is important.
I am using:
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I just switched a new MacBook Pro and am having a render issue in Premiere CC. Random green frames pop up sporadically throughout my video. This happens both on my rendered timeline and in the exported file. It seems to affect the clips with heavier color correction. What is happening and how can fix it?
Here's a link to the video on Vimeo. You will see green frames at 00:04, 00:43, 01:03, 01:39, 01:48, 01:58 and 02:25.
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Problem fixed!
Someone from the Adobe support team instructed me to change the renderer to software only mode. This can be changed under File>Project Settings>General. More specifically, I changed it from Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL) to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only. I deleted the old render files and reexported without any further issues.
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I have noticed, since moving to DSLR 1080p video, that my workflow ends up with lots of seemingly random green frames, and Premiere Pro crashes a lot more.
My system is a brand new system, and I have never had this happen before, on either my old system (running CS3 and SD video).
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Thank you.
It looks like the camera shoots H.264 full-AVCHD, and a couple other similar modes.
If you shot in the full-AVCHD mode, 1920 x 1080, and us that footage in a matching Sequence, there should be no red line above the Clips (sounds like what you have), and the footage should edit just fine on an adequately fast system, providing that you have copied the full folder structure from your camera's card to your system.
You should not need to install any Nikon software to use this footage. That was just in case your camera used MJPEG CODEC, like many other Nikons do/did. For MJPEG, one often finds that they need their camera mfgr's. exact, tweaked version of MJPEG, and that is often installed only with other software from the camera's utility disc. Not your case.
Also, the Nikon AVCHD is not the only footage type displaying the problems.
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Sometimes, odd Frames can be a display driver issue, but yours are showing up in the output files too.
You have tried with both MPE hardware ON and OFF.
It does sound like ADL is not doing "its thing" properly, all of the time, but unfortunately, I am at a loss, as to what could be the cause.
Thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions, and also for doing a very good post. Wish that I had some ideas on how to test, or suggestions on what the cause might be. As there are not tons of others, shouting "me too," it seems that the issue is either specific to your installations, or your system (seems like you have a more than adequate system, but perhaps Harm, or Bill G. will spot something, that I missed).
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And also, thanks for the heads up on not needing the HQ version. I assume that you're referring to the non-HQ choice that is available in Compressor. I wish I had known that before starting the project. It's going to be a long one indeed seeing as I can only play three images at a time and the final product is going to have up to six images playing simultaneously. Ahh well, we learn as we live.

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