Premiere Pro CC timeline grayed out.

I recently upgraded to Premiere Pro CC from CS6. The timeline is grayed out and will not accept any type of video file. The source window is able to play video files but not the timeline. I'm running windows 7, (2) quadro K5000 video cards. Please help?

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