Can't Export - Stuck on "Reading XMP"

I just subscribed to the cloud and installed Premiere. I've found that Encore is no longer available (very disappointing by the way). I am trying to export my video from Premiere, I've tried directly from Premiere and also through Media Encoder... it just gets stuck on "Reading XMP"
Please help!

Try a forum search. I've seen this reported before, I just don't recall any details.

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I know this may seem like a silly question, but i cannot find the answer to it anywhere. Some projects take ages to get past this stage, others don't. What is media encoder doing whilst displaying "Reading XMP..."? One project in particular stays on that for a very long time (it hasn't yet got past it and it's been ten minutes!) - it is a 3 hour long timeline with DSLR footage etc, but right now i am only trying to render out the first 2 minutes of it as a test. Do XMP files become corrupt, could this be why it sometimes gets stuck on reading xmp for a long time?
I am running a custombuilt macpro (it works perfectly fine!!) with an i7 3.9GHz CPU, 16gb ram and a geforce gtx560ti gfx card on Lion 10.7.5, I have no plans to upgrade to Mountain Lion as I already tried and it slowed my system down to the pace of a snail.
Any help is much appreciated!

AME can show that and get stuck there when the Importer (the plugin that decodes the footage or does the dynamic link back to a sequence) get's confused.
There is a bug in CS6 that crashes after that "Reading XMP" is displayed. It suggests that it's the XMP read that died but sometimes it's the next bit that didn't update the status.
There are also other times that the .xmp sidecar file is corrupted. If you do have an xmp sidecar file delete it and the Importer will re-generate it.
Having said all that.....
When Premiere/AME/AfterFX etc open a file they need to gather basic information about that file like length, framerate, width, height, pixel aspect ratio.
With some file formats that's not easily gathered from a header at the front of the file.
So, it has to scan the entire file to work out that information.
"Reading XMP" is reading any metadata (like exposure, apature f/T-stop, ISO, etc) but it's also the above indexing.
So, if you have a video format, expecially h.264, which is lacking in the basic information it has to decode the entire movie to work it out. That takes time.
Fortunately after the first time it's done this it'll put a .xmp/.xmpses/.index file next to it so that it doesn't need to do it again.

AME can not get past reading XMP when exporting

So, I'm trying to export a video project that I've been working on. It features high quality images and 1080p video as well as seperate audio files. It is 12 minutes in length. Whenever I queue up the file from Preimere to AME and begin the exporting (as an MOV), it simply sits at reading XMP and no progress it made. As well, I cannot export the video directly from Preimere either.
I done a complete reinstall of the entire Production Suite but no difference has been seen.
I have been able to export small 3-4 minute chunks straight from Premiere, but I would like the video exported as one file.
Export Settings
Quicktime
HD 1080i, 29.97, H.264, AAC 48khz
H.264 codec
I have also tried exporting the project as other files, namely WMV, HD 1080p, 29.97.
I have been having these issues since late August, AME was working fine at the end of May, which was the last time I exported a video.
Video files are 1080p MPEG Movie
Pictures are JPG
Audio is WAV
AME Version 6.0.3.1 (64-bit) CS6
Premiere Pro Version 6.0.5 CS6
Comp Specs
Windows 7(latest version)
AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM - 8 gb
HDD - 2 1Tb Harddrives
If you need any more information, feel free to ask.

I've seen other threads on this. Do a forum search.

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spicer_the_coalman wrote:
I cannot export projects from GB in my MacBook into GB on my iPad3
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportgbxtogbi
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spicer_the_coalman wrote:
nor can I export from IPad to my MacBook.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportgbitogbx
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This is a question that is likely better suited for the forum supporting PDF reader. However, I seem to recall seeing something a year or four back that said this was a preference for each user. If that still holds true today, it would mean that you really have no control over it from the authoring end and machine A might open it and see it in the reader as you want, while machine B might open it and see it in the browser.
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You may try the list, especially 4) or 6).
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save curent artwork first, of course.
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3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
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Can't export because of Error -50 but can't upgrade my final cut because of video card?

So I updated to mavericks later to find out you can't export in final cut pro unless you upgrade the software, my problem is that when I try to upgrade the software it says "you do not have the required graphics card"
So I'm stuck. What can I do? I Simply cannot export using any option as I either get a compressor error -50 or nothing happens at all.
I can't update the software. I can't export.
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The 5770 cost $249 with free shipping about two years ago. Recommend not using a "flashed" card.
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addtoMeta();
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if(!documents.length) return;
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var myNamespace = "http://my.fantastic.newspace/";
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AME CS5.5 hangs on "Reading XMP"

Been having this issue ever since I upgraded to 5.5...
Finish a video in Premiere, export to AME, click the play/start encode. In the encode status, it gets to "Processing: Reading XMP" and simply hangs there indefinitely (hours). Clicking to stop/pause the encode doesn't actually stop it, only way to do anything is to force-quit AME. Then it won't re-open until a restart. Only way I can export my final video from Premiere is the direct export, which works well enough when it's a single video basis, but when I want to do a batch of exports, or continue editing something else while exporting, this completely puts me at a stand-still.
Any idea what's with AME just stalling out on me here?

I would be happy to share them with you. However, I ran into some problems. The files we're on an external drive and I had shut down and disconnected the drive. Even though the computer was OFF when I disconnected, when I reconnected it Windows wanted to scan the drive and like an idiot I said OK. The project file, and other supporting files are all reporting zero (0) bytes. The only thing still there is the MXF video files. Even the exported files I had made one by one are at zero bytes.
So I'm in the process of re-creating the project. I'm starting over from scratch with a different drive for the raw video files. I'll re-create the sequence, make my edits and I'm going to try to export with AME again.
So what would you like? The original MXF files? Or would you like me to finish re-creating the project and see if I run into the same issues?
One thing I'm trying different this time is I went into the Media Preferences and I unchecked the two boxes relating to XMP data. I'm seeing if that will make a difference.

Can't Export - Stuck on "Reading XMP"

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