Hello all,
Firstly, I'm on a fresh Mountain Lion install 10.8.5 on a Mac Pro 4,1 with 32 GB RAM, running the latest version of Adobe CC and using a GTX 570 video card (not using any CUDA raytracing, BTW), but this issue has also come up on a iMac 13,2 on 10.8.4 with 8 GB RAM and a GTX 675MX and again, on the latest version of Adobe CC.
The issue I'm having is that I will get random red frames when rendering out comps. Sometimes it will be an entire red frame, sometimes it will only be certain pieces of the comp, depending on what's precomped. It doesn't happen 100% of the time and I seem to be getting it while working in Premiere as well, both when I render the timeline and export. I'm working with R3D footage, sometimes rendering out ProRes 4444 proxies to comp with, and always rendering to either ProRes 422 or 4444.
This was happening pretty frequently on my last OS install, but I recently (4 days ago) reinstalled the OS and things have been going fine until 30 mins ago. Purging the memory and disk cache seems to help, sort of, but are we really going to have to live with doing this time wasting function just to make the software work how it's supposed to?
This is absolutely infuriating and completely unacceptable. Both the initial AE CC release and the 12.1 update, in my experience, have had issues with rendering that borderline makes the software unusable.
If this is what we can expect out of CC, more frequent, but half-baked and poorly QCed "updates" that break the software, $50/month doesn't really seem like much of a value. I can't use my scroll wheel to zoom the composition window anymore, how the hell did that bug get out the door?
Fix this Adobe, Smoke is looking better by the minute.
P.S.
Searching to problem solve this issue has been a nightmare. If the frame had been any other color than red, I feel like my searches might have been a bit more fruitful. Searching "red" and "render" sure does seem to bring up a lot about the Red camera.