Premiere CC 2014.1 slows to be unusable on large projects

I have a project that is a feature length documentary, running about 1 hour 20 minutes. When I upgraded to CC 2014.1, the editor became unusably slow. Selecting anything on the timeline will get 2-3 seconds of the beach ball before it shows up as selected, any attempt to change anything takes 2-3 seconds at least. Type in a value and the keystrokes will not appear until after you type them sometimes 5-8 seconds with the beachball sowing up in between. The editor as such is unusable and not acceptable. My machine is plenty fast, accessing everything though a Thunderbolt drive and it was working sufficiently when I was using the previous version, which I can no longer go back to after upgrading the project. Anyone else seeing this or have a solution idea?
Running OS X Yosemite on iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB

Hi KB8WFH,
KB8WFH wrote:
Kevin, it is also never wise to not deliver a project to a client because the bugs in the existing editor version prevent you from doing so, especially when the upgrade/update version of the application solves those problems. Staying with 8.0.1 was not an option.
That is one of the rare reasons that you might want to explore updating your project file. However, I would do so carefully with my backups intact.
KB8WFH wrote:
No I can not return to 8.0.1 to finish my project because 8.0.1 is incapable of working with major bugs in rendering and editing. The good news is that the bug that was in 8.0.1 was fixed in the newest release. The bad news is now there are NEW bugs that also prevent me from delivering my project.
That's terrible. Feel free to start your own thread and I can try to help. Also, please file a case with support: Contact Customer Care
What would also help us is to file a bug report so we can try and reproduce the issue: http://adobe.ly/ReportBug
KB8WFH wrote:
I work with three production companies that are ALL having major problems with the latest updates of Premiere. I am not at all impressed with the quality of this software anymore.
If you are in communication with them, please tell them to create a post, contact support and to file a bug report. We really do want to help fix any bugs like this.
Thanks,
Kevin

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