Macbook Pro Retina 15 Fan Full Constant?

Hello all,
I have a Macbook Pro Retina which is just over 1 year old. I dont have apple care so its just out of warrently.
Its the Mid-2012 version.
Last week, i was editing video in Premier CC, and the fan never came on. I edited for about 2 hours and the Macbook became very hot, but the fan was never audiable..
The next day (and ever since), when i boot the macbook up from cold, the instant the OS loads and the login window appears, the fans are audiable and running fastly.
I have tried doing SMC reset aswell as pram resets, but these have had no effect.
The macbook is fully functional, tho its really anoying when i take the macbook into a studio and the fans are realy loud...
I have tried to book a genious bar appointment, but straight out, the site says 'no available appointments'. If you turn up at store, you get turned away.
I installed iStat to find out the fan speeds and they are stuck at around 2k rpm.
Is their anything i can do to try resolve this issue?

Thanks for the reply Kappy, as you can see on the screen shot, theirs no runaway precesses going on. I think its definatley a firmware/software issue. Are their an other resets i can do? Also, is it normal to have soo many processes/threads? - Im coming from a more 'windows' background where 63 process happen with nothing running...
I would take it to the Mac store to have it looked at but aparently the UK macstores arnt offering bookings anymore OR they are not notifying the public of a time to go online to book appointments...

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