Premiere Pro on Mac Pro Running Slow

Question

I just purchased a new 6 Core Mac Pro with 32GB RAM, Dual AMD FirePro D500s, 512GB Solid State Internal Drive and have it connected to a G-RAID 6TB Thunderbolt Drive and Premiere Pro is running pretty darn slow.  There are certainly some things that are much quicker than my 2008 Core Duo 2.8 GHZ iMac (such as render times and export times) but if I past a simple effect like "Transform" on a 1920x1080 AVCHD clip on either my iMac or my Mac Pro I will get a red line above it and if I try to play it back it stutters quite a bit.  I essentially have to do what I've been doing with my iMac which is either playing my footage at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution after effects are applied or just waiting until I'm completely done with my edit before applying effects (of course there's the option to render everything but this still takes a very long time on the Mac Pro and for a simple effect like Transform I'm very surprised that I would need to render just to play the clip back).
Is there anything that can be done as far as settings (or anything else) to enable to me to get my money's worth out of my new Mac Pro?  At this point I really just want to be able to put maybe two effects on a clip without having to render or playback at 1/4 resolution.
BTW I'm running 10.9.3 and have all the most current updates.
Thanks,
Mike S

Answer 1

Jim Curtis wrote:
Thanks, Jason, that's what I was wondering about.  Generally, people post to forums when they have problems.
Yep.  That's usually what happens.  My review will be centered around my usual "benchmark" of editing 2 AVCHD inputs, one PiP'd into the other, synced with an external audio source, and then exported to an h.264 MP4.  CC on my current Mac Pro (modified dual 3.46Ghz Xeon, 48G, nVidia GTX570) takes that task about 1/2t, if t = length of video.  Which is pretty damned good.  I'm hoping the dual GPUs will help scale that export task down a bit more.  I don't expect it to hit 1/4t, but.. hey, maybe I'll be surprised?
I make about 60% of my living from Pr, and the rest from Ae and other apps (mostly Adobe).
Given the lack of CUDA, at the moment, I don't expect the new Mac Pro to be a stellar performer with Ae specifically.  I assume that Adobe is working on OpenCL'ing Ae as much as they possibly can.  But from what I understand, it ain't there yet.
(I'd need a TB monitor and PCI extender, too).
I can understand the need for the PCI extender, but why the TB monitor?  I'd in no way even remotely consider one of those, just given how ridiculously priced they are.  There's no need for one.  Does your display have a DP input?  You're all set.  No?  It has HDMI instead?  Still all set.  It's dual-linked DVI that becomes problematic.