Here are a few of the common reasons why Premiere Pro crashes and how I fixed them. The key is figuring out which one it is and how the hell you get around it. Essentially, your video content is stored on a drive, you create a sequence of content referencing those video files, and you export that with all the effects, transitions, and fancy moving graphics you could wish for.īecause of that, many of the problems you’ll face will fall into a category of Premiere Pro software error, dependent software error (e.g. Fundamentally though, the way some NLEs work (including Premiere Pro) hasn’t changed that much. Things have come a long way since the heady days of Final Cut 4.5 (the biggest novelty was that you could cut HD video content) where my career began. As I’ve been here more often than I’d like to think, I feel it’s my responsibility to share my learning’s from the last 10 years of working with NLEs.

But these are the times you expand your technical knowledge (or envisage your entire adult life’s work as a video professional come hurtling towards the ground). Your deadline was 5 hours ago… “Why, oh why won’t you Export?!” you’re banging your head against your battered and weary keyboard.

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