What's New and What's Fixed in 2014.1

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First, here are links to the two main documents about new features in the 2014.1 release:
Product Manager Al Mooney's blog: Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 Release
The What's New page in the Help: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | New features summary
(I'll review both of those documents ASAP to see if any little goodies got skipped.)
And now, the bugs that were fixed in this release:
Import
Import of CinemaDNG clip fails if the file has been renamed.
Gamma shift in some re-imported QuickTime IMX clips
Some QuickTime Reference files import without timecode.
Indexing of XDCAM clips can take an excessively long time, footage shows Media Pending until indexing completes.
XAVC-S files import without Timecode
Unable to import certain XDCAMHD 422 Long-GOP clips with Pixel Aspect Ratio of 0.7500 MXF
Spanned XDCAM HD422 clips not handled correctly if the clip names do not follow the normal convention
When a sequence is loaded from Media Browser to the Source Monitor and then inserted to a sequence without explicitly importing, two copies of the sequence are added to project.
Scaling values are not properly handled for clips/sequences imported via an XML file written by some shot management and conforming programs
If the reported duration of an XDCAM HD MXF clip shorter than the actual length in the file, then frames outside the stated duration can be accessed.
Some XAVC and XDCAM-IMX-MXF clips have audio noise introduced on playback
Some .mp4 have green frames and 'static' garbage when played in Source Monitor
Canon XF300 Footage has unacceptable performance for playback
.mp4 clips generated by certain transcoding programs exhibit poor playback performance
PPro no longer recognizes timecode from a .qtc file, referenced from within a QuickTime reference movie.
Some XDCAM422 clips fail to import with generic error
Occasional crash on opening Source Settings for DNG footage, with 2nd monitor enabled
Overexposed white areas in some CinemaDNG footage display magenta artifacts.
When scrubbing C300 clips in Project panel’s Icon view, red frames sometimes show and Event panel reports error decoding frame.
If SpeedGrade was installed before Premiere, then double-clicking a prproj file launches SpeedGrade (Mac Only)
Growing Files
The last frames of some growing file are green. Must relaunch Premiere to correct the problem.
Importing a growing file can take an exceedingly long time, with footage showing as Media Pending
When a growing file refreshes, it stops voiceover recording
The incorrect timecode is shown in the Timecode Panel for growing files.
Timeline playback of growing files drops audio for about 1 second each time the growing file refreshes.
QuickTime reference files for growing files fail to import.
Export
When source is 120fps, export fails if Match Sequence Settings enabled
The Advanced XDCAM Settings section in Export Settings is blank for imported XDCAM presets
In QuickTime encodes, audio exported as uncompressed stereo imports into FCP as dual mono.
When you export to 5.1 AAC with the “Import into Project” option enabled, the resulting clip fails to import, throwing
“File import failure”
Image flicker is introduced in some constant-bitrate MPEG2 encodes
When the only variable blocking smart rendering is an adjustment layer, the effect(s) thereon are ignored and the segment is smart rendered.
ProRes media encoded by Premiere causes are not compatible with certain video QC programs.
AAF export: 88.2kHz and 96kHz audio clips exported to AAF do not appear in some audio production programs.
Audio EDL gets wrong source timecode if clip is nested or part of a multicam source sequence
EDL does not give correct Source In and Out for clips with speed reversed.
EDL does not give correct source in and out on reversed clips.
OMF export fails with some multicam sequences, reporting Audio Export Failure.
Hang during OMF export when the sequence contains a 5.1 audio track/clip.
Smart rendering can introduce black and red frames
Playback
Playback of IMX 50 clip freezes after 12 seconds.
With XDCAMHD and DVCProHD footage, frames are sometimes dropped though the render bar is green.
Audio for some mp4 files plays back at double speed
When pre-roll is set to 1 frame, timecode and video of XDCAM .mxf files are out of sync
Some DNxHD do not decode properly, resulting in frames being played out of order
Performance of playback for some QuickTime is poor because they are unnecessarily falling back to QT32
Dropped frames when playing R3D clips with RocketX enabled and Playback Resolution at ¼
Audio
With Maintain Pitch enabled, no audio when playing at slower than real-time
Solo buttons in Audio Meters do not work for clips loaded into the Source Monitor
Mono and Standard track puck and tray panner routing for Ls, Rs, C and LFE channels do not adhere to ITU-R BR.1384 standard.
Occasional crash on switching a clip from mono to stereo via Modify>Audio Channels
5.1 channels are not properly mapped for some Dolby content.
5.1 clip changes to a 6 mono channel clip when “Extract Audio” or “Edit in Adobe Audition>Clip” is performed on a project item or track item.
Changes to Frame Rate via Interpret Footage are sometimes not applied to saved for all audio streams, causing most audio channels to be out of sync after closing/reloading project.
Constant Power audio transitions introduce buzz if either track item has zero channels (generally limited to multicam clips)
Crash on applying changes in Modify Audio Channels dialog [Mac Only]
Project Panel
Sorting by Duration is broken if the column has been moved during the current session
If the Project panel is filtered via Rapid Find when a bin is created, the edit control for naming the new bin does not become active automatically, and it cannot be activated manually until Rapid Find is cleared.
Project items cannot be deleted or renamed if the list view is scrolled to the right.
Project panel does not autoscroll to the left when a column is dragged to the right side of the Name column
When a timecode value is typed in the Video Out control for a clip in the Project panel, the value gets reduced by 2 frames upon committing the change
Subclip
When a soft subclip with only an Out Point set is edited into a sequence, the Subclip Start is ignored; the resulting track item extends all the way to Media Start.
The Media Start/End and Subclip Start/End times for subclips from a merged clip are incorrect
Editing/Timeline
3-Point edit: If the source is a sequence and only an Out Point is set for the source, the wrong segment gets inserted when KEM Roll is set to Insert as Individual Clips
Keyboard trim commands do not affect clips on targeted tracks that are outside of visible area of in the Timeline
Switching between sequences can turn the render bar red.
Frame Hold option doesn't generate the freeze frame when speed change is in effect
In the Timeline, the FX badge gets hidden when the clip is not wide enough to show the full clip name.
If the Left/Right Balance control is displayed in Timeline header, the balance will change if the mouse strays over the Header region during click-and-drag operations in the Timeline (such as trimming out)
'Select In to Out' selects clips on locked tracks.
Multicam
If time-remapping is used on a Multicam Source Sequence, the Program Monitor's multicam view continues to play at 100%; if source sequence was slowed, the Composite view goes black after the original end point.
When a multicam source sequence has been slowed down via speed change or time remapping, the extended of the clip goes black—no video
If the audio in a multicam sequence is selected when it is flattened, the audio is sometimes deleted.
Disabled multicam source clips are sometimes rendered to the composite output
The camera can be changed for a multicam clip on a locked track.
The overlay displays timecode in audio time units for part of a multicam sequence if the source clips are stereo and the MC sequence is mapped to mono
If a nested multicam sequence's duration has been increased via Time Remapping, then upon reaching the original end point during an editing pass, the composite view restarts from beginning
Flattening
If a multicam sequence’s audio is 5.1 or adaptive, then flattening deletes the audio.
Crash on flattening multicam clip with keyframed scale when using a camera angle that does not start at time zero.
Flattening multicam can remove some audio clips from the sequence.
Flattening a multicam sequence with reverse speed applied results in incorrect frames being used
Effects
AE Text Template] When text fields are active for editing, they’re not being visually highlighted
Adding mask points very close to each can result in the ordering of the points being incorrect
Incorrect scaling of 1920x1080 adjustment layers in 720 sequences
Unexpected behavior with Cross Dissolves between Adjustments Layers.
Applying both Echo & Levels effects to an adjustment layer causes video playback to freeze
Crash on rendering previews for a Lumetri filter in Software-Only mode.
Crash on deleting a clip from a sequence after pasting an effect mask to the clip.
JPG frame sequence gets scaled down if an adjustment layers is in effect above it [OpenCL only]
Rename GoPro lens distortion presets to include the camera name
Clip name effect doesn't work correctly if Source Track is set to a different track.
Crash on using Clip effect or Timecode effect on a transparent video.
Crash on loading or applying VST Effects (Mac only)
Intermittent Crash with Warp Stabilizer applied (AEVideoFilter)
The Clip Name effect does not work when applied to a transparent video track item, with Source Track set to a video clip.
Crash on applying audio transition to clips with overlapping timecode
Previewing fails when an adjustment layer has an animated mask applied to Opacity and any other video effect.
In Software-Only mode, rendering previews of the new Cross Dissolve is slower than the old one.
Masking and Tracking
Shift-dragging a control point for an effect mask sometimes yields unexpected results
If a clip has an effect with a mask applied, moving the clip in the Timeline cause rendered preview files to be lost.
Previews rendered to a P2 codec are incorrect for the first 10-30 frames of an Opacity effect with mask applied
If a mask is applied to a GPU accelerated effect on an adjustment layer, the Program Monitor shows a cropped frame with Playback Resolution at Half and goes completely black at Quarter.
Opacity effect on Adjustment Layers fails to render within the mask with tracking.
After rendering an adjustment layer with multiple effects with masks applied, some of the effects are no longer confined within the mask  [Mac only]
Crash on opening some projects with masking and tracking applied to effects
Direct Manipulation control fails to switch between multiple masks that are applied to the Opacity intrinsic effect.
3rd Party
Certain audio filters cannot be applied to a clip in a sequence that is imported via XML
PPro reports audio filter missing when opening a saved project with certain audio filters applied to the clips in a sequence that was imported via XML
Artifacts are introduced when using certain 3rd party transitions.
Certain 3rd party stabilizer plug-in are not working
Markers
On mouse-up after adjusting the Out point of a marker with duration, the playhead jumps to the marker's In point.
Video in Program Monitor strobes when dragging the In or Out point of a sequence marker
GPU
With GPU acceleration enabled, Gamma is being applied to some RAW media when it shouldn’t be.
Basic 3D effect can result in Program Monitor’s video overlay to become corrupted on some GPUs
Performance (Note: Most of these fixes are also listed under a product area)
Locking all Audio Tracks can significantly impair performance.
Performance of playback for some QuickTime is poor because they are unnecessarily falling back to QT32
Dropped frames when playing R3D clips with RocketX enabled and Playback Resolution at ¼
Navigating through projects in multiple Media Browser panels impairs performance and can culminate in a crash
In Software-Only mode, rendering previews of the new Cross Dissolve is slower than the old one.
Canon XF300 Footage has unacceptable performance for playback
.mp4 clips generated by certain transcoding programs exhibit poor playback performance
Interop
Crash on selecting Edit>Edit in Adobe Audition>Sequence...
When a 5.1 clip is sent to Audition via Edit Clip In Adobe Audition, the first channel is used for all channels.
Exporting from Audition to Premiere Pro opens Premiere, but the file fails to import
After grading a sequence in SpeedGrade, Premiere regenerates index & pek files
Miscellaneous
With some capture card hardware, captured uncompressed clips have the wrong field order
In the Overlay Settings dialog, the Track control is not properly constrained by the Property control.
A single preference flag is used for the "Import into Project" setting in the Export Settings dialog and the Export Frame dialog; they should be managed independently.
Custom scratch disk location for Video and Audio Preview folders get’s reset to default, “Same as Project File"
Changes to the label color cannot be undone.
In the Usage lists, all instance are ordered by track item start time; should sort by Sequence Name first, then by track item start
Automatic relinking fails in certain cases when the name of a folder in the relative paths are too similar. [Mac only]
With OpenCL GPU acceleration and Transmit enabled with some 3rd party I/O cards, the video on the output monitor is corrupted
Newly created projects sometimes have multiple Project Panels open.
And in closing, a request: If this post prompts you to think "Great, but what about..." or "Thanks, but I just found this new bug in 2014.1," please start a new thread--after, of course searching to see if there's already a topic on that issue.
[And Shooter, I apologize in advance if the foregoing contains any typos ;-)]

Answer 1

Lots to be excited about. BUT...Just updated to 8.1 on one of my computers to test it out...
Sadly, the following issue is NOT fixed for me. Is it with new projects only?  I haven't started a new project on 8.1 I've only opened an old project but the issue that I'm referring to which involves also a delay/freeze of anywhere from a few seconds to a MINUTE while the render bar goes from yellow to red and then back to yellow is still there. Boo.
On the list above...
Switching between sequences can turn the render bar red.
This issue is incredibly easy to replicate. I really do hope it gets fixed. Here are the steps:
1) Create two sequences with multiple short clips (the more clips the better)
2) Make sure GPU acceleration is enabled.
3) Add warp stabilizer to the clips in both sequences. Again, the more clips the longer the delay/freeze will be as the render bar goes from YELLOW to RED and then eventually back to YELLOW again.
4) Hit SAVE.
5) Now, toggle between sequences. You'll hit a short delay with a few clips stabilized and a LONG delay with lots stabilized. In my case this delay is around a full minute. The render bar will go from YELLOW to RED and then back to yellow...eventually.
6) Toggle back to the original sequence and the delay occurs again.
7) Once you've toggled between sequences and have gone through this delay, that's it, there is no longer a delay...UNTIL...(and here's the big kicker)...until the project is SAVED again. After that the issue returns when you toggle between sequences. Both saving manually and AUTOSAVING cause this issue. No way around it except not editing with GPU acceleration.
Not sure what the issue is...caching issue when saving maybe? Either way, it stinks and it's still there in 8.1. Big bummer.
Again, lots to be excited about with this release but I really was hopefully this specific issue was resolved.
Sigh.