MEDIA PENDING - what is it?

I left my project opened for an hour, and after i returned i saw yellow screen instead of video with "media pending" written in different languages
what is it, who knows?

Maybe this thread will help to explain what is going on:
Media pending?

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'Media pending' MP4 not opening in PP6

So i've just got a new Camera (canon Vixia HF G30) and im trying to import the clips.. MP4 - 35 Mbps 60p and also tried 28 mbps 30p.
Now is i drag it straight off the SD card in to PP6 it works fine... but if i copy it my laptop first or an external drive it doesn't work and says 'MEDIA PENDING' What am i doing wrong?
I've tried copying the whole file! ...doesn't m ake a difference!
Anyone got any ideas?

First off, thank you for posting this thread!
You got me wondering when you mentioned the files played directly off your SD card in CS6. Unfortunately I had already deleted the entire shoot off of both SD cards after copying them to an 8TB Thunderbolt drive. I'm using CS6 as well, and the Vixia HF G30 at 28mb 30P. I prefer the MP4's for exactly the same reason as you and was beginning to get more than a little perturbed by the seemingly meaningless "Media Pending" that appeared on my screen. I'm delighted to report that the MP4 files are now working as I expected they should in the first place.
I copied the files from the 8TB to the internal digital drive of my Mac, and THEN when I drag them to the timeline they thankfully appeared as viewable footage. Next I copied them to an external 4TB Firewire 800 drive and, lo and behold, they STILL worked. Finally I put them back on the original Thunderbolt external drive and they load and play as they should.
Apparently copying the MP4's files from the SD card to a local drive loses some relevant file information, but copying it a second seemed to flag the MP4 files correctly so that CS6 could view them. I'm only hoping this work-around works for you too!

I get a message: media pending. This happens after cc 2014 update. Is there any workaround? What to do? Deadline wednesday

Media pending message stays for weeks now.
Also after:
cutting a shot
switch enable of and on
trashing media cashe database
trashing render files
Are there any more options?
The director will be in in the morning. deadline is wednesday. What to do?
Thanks, Michiel

>What to do?
Start by asking in a forum that is specific to your program... what program are you talking about?
The Cloud forum is not about using individual programs
The Cloud forum is about the Cloud as a delivery & install process
If you will start at the Forums Index https://forums.adobe.com/welcome
You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says All communities) to open the drop down list and scroll

Error Message for "Media Pending" or "Media Offline"

This is INCREDIBLY frustrating.
It is my job at a church to produce broadcast-quality segments for our local tv stations for 28 minute slots. I am working with HD-quality videos, bumpers, audio files, etc. It takes my PC about 30 minutes to render each segment and I work with about 4 segments a week. Add that up, and it takes me two straight hours to render each finished product (not counting any edit work), all which have to be done in a day because we broadcast most of the stuff that happens on Sunday the following Tuesday.
That said, I render the final product, after everything has been through quality-control, through encoder because of the FTP option. When I leave every Monday afternoon, I start the queue for the four segments, which, in turn, will spit out the product and FTP it to our server at the tv stations.
But when I come in Tuesday morning and find that AME has rendered four USELESS videos because, instead of informing me when I started the queue there was something wrong with fetching the video files, it decided to render some stupid stock frame of either, "Media Pending" or "Media Offline" - which makes ABSOLUTLY NO sense, for when I open premiere or after effects, it renders quite fine through AME. You can't sit here and tell me that the rendering software requires the project to be open in Premiere or AE. That would be counter productive and impossible for anyone batch-rendering.
Here is what I need: Just a simple, "Hello, there was something wrong with fetching all of the media files in your project (blank, blank, blank) - please check your project file."
Thanks!

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button,
navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

Media pending with adjustement layer CC 2014

Hi,
I have so many problem with adobe premiere pro CC 2014
- Media pending with adjustment layer track and some Red giant effects on it. Impossible to rendering ! Please, what the problem ?
- I loose sound sometimes during playback, I can not hear anything.
- Sound make a big noise sometimes, like a 1khz but not exactly. It appears when I go up the volume after adding gain or push up the volume in effect control.
Have you got solutions please ?
Thank you

>What to do?
Start by asking in a forum that is specific to your program... what program are you talking about?
The Cloud forum is not about using individual programs
The Cloud forum is about the Cloud as a delivery & install process
If you will start at the Forums Index https://forums.adobe.com/welcome
You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says All communities) to open the drop down list and scroll

Conforming and Indexing Errors, Media Pending, Audio won't play in timeline

I'm working on a desktop PC which is running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and Adobe Premiere Pro (version CS5.5). It's currently utilizing a second gen. 3.4Ghz i7 2600 processor, 16GB of 1600Mhz RAM, 64GB solid-state drive and a ASUS P8Z68-V Intel Z68 Motherboard with onboard audio (Realtek ALC892 chipset) and onboard video. My problem is this:
The conforming and indexing of all of my imported media never seems to finish regardless of how many times I reopen the project file and wait for it. On the lower right-hand portion of the screen, next to the conforming/indexing progress bar, is a little red "X". When clicked, it pops up with a list of errors that read: "An unexpected error occurred while performing a conform action on the following file...". As a result, my audio channels have no waveform and during playback there are no audible tones or levels. On some video clips there's just text that reads "Media Pending". This only appears to happen with project files that I saved on external hard drives, and I suspect it has something to do with the Media Cache Files folder and how Premiere Pro locates these conform/index files. I've also encountered this problem in CS3 and CS4.
I have a few questions:
1) How do I avoid error messages in regards to indexing and conforming
2) How do you know when indexing/conforming has completed itself? (there doesn't seem to be a progress log or a list of commands/executions)
3) Indexing and conforming appears to be an automatic process, but is there a way to do it manually?
4) What's the best way to setup your media cache files when you click EDIT > PREFERENCES > MEDIA?
5) If I have approximately 1 hour of footage, what's an average wait time for conforming/indexing? What about 5 hours of footage? 10?
6) Adobe recommends not editing until the conforming and indexing has completed itself-- how important is this?
7) Sometimes it appears as though the conforming and indexing has finished, but then I still have problems with playback. Do I have to reopen the project for it to continue with the conforming/indexing progress? I've already determined that the video file I'm working with is intact and free of any corruption.
I'm fine with having to wait for a project to conform and index, but it never seems to complete itself! Any help regarding this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Harm filled in pretty much all the salient details, but I'll do another pass here.
1) How do I avoid error messages in regards to indexing and conforming
Two parts here. One, conforming only happens for certain media files, ie the ones where performance is critical and we can't depend on extracting the audio fast enough for realtime playback. That's basically anything in an .mpeg wrapper, or AVCHD material. So if you edit XDCAM HD/EX or P2, or RED, or even AVIs or QT, those formats don't require audio conforming.
If you're stuck editing AVCHD or MPEG2, then it needs to conform. But, that being said, you shouldn't be getting errors in the first place. I think it's related to your external drives. More below...
2) How do you know when indexing/conforming has completed itself? (there doesn't seem to be a progress log or a list of commands/executions)
Nope, you have a progress status bar indicating which file it's working on. If there's an error, it shows up in the events panel.
3) Indexing and conforming appears to be an automatic process, but is there a way to do it manually?
No.
4) What's the best way to setup your media cache files when you click EDIT > PREFERENCES > MEDIA?
While some people like having the check box for having the conform files beside the media, I hate it. Yes, it means that if you move the project to a different system & reopen, it means that you potentially can avoid recreating CFA files, but I find the drive littering not worth it. I much prefer having setting the Media prefs to point to a specific media drive. Usually a raid, if available. Definitely not an external drive that you disconnect & walk away with. If you don't have a permanent raid on your system, then preferably a dedicated internal drive for media (think along the lines as your Photoshop 'scratch disk'). Failing that, leave it on your C: drive, although with a 64 Gig SSD, you probably don't have much room for transient temporaries.
5) If I have approximately 1 hour of footage, what's an average wait time for conforming/indexing? What about 5 hours of footage? 10?
Like Harm said. Totally dependant on the media container & the speed of your drive i/o. The conforming is iterating through the entire file & pulling audio data, so it's not CPU intensive, it's all i/o.
6) Adobe recommends not editing until the conforming and indexing has completed itself-- how important is this?
If you're trying to play/scrub while conforming, it's going to be pokey. Esp. if you're trying to access the file that's actively being conformd. As I just said, we're hitting the files for all the audio. The i/o is being saturated already, so unless you have a stellar raid, you don't have much headroom.
7) Sometimes it appears as though the conforming and indexing has finished, but then I still have problems with playback. Do I have to reopen the project for it to continue with the conforming/indexing progress? I've already determined that the video file I'm working with is intact and free of any corruption.
You should be good to go. Sounds like there's something else at play here.
Okay, back to what I think is wrong: you don't mention what kind of external drives you're using. You're making a bad assumption that blowing away conformed files & doing a reconform is buggy - I doubt it, as that's the same process that happened when you initially brought in the files. I've blown away my media cache folder multiple times and have never seen failures on reconform. So it's got to be one of two things: either a read error from the source when attempting to pull the audio, or a write error to the destination. Now I don't know where you currently are pointing the media cache directory, or what your source drive is, so I can only speculate.
My suggestion is to do some elimination. Copy one of the files that failed on you to your C drive, & target your media cache directory also to C:. Pick a new project, import your copied file, confirm that it conforms correctly & behaves. Then, try to use the same clip from your external drive, keeping the media cache to C:. If that's still good, then try targeting another (local/internal) drive as your media cache target; close/restart, then import the clip from C:, and then import the clip from your external drive. This troubleshooting should give us something.
PS, if you're trying to edit from external USB drives, good luck. I find it a major PITA that I avoid as much as possible. Firewire isn't much better. I know some people do it successfully, but I think it's a road fraught with peril. These devices are generally not designed for heavy duty I/O and a flaky connection or drive is nothing but pain.
Cheers

Delay on playback when switching between Sequences (Media Pending)

Hello guys,
I'm growing quite frustrated with Premiere CC lately.
So I am running CC on a Desktop PC. Core elements are : Asus X-79 Deluxe, Intel i7 4930K, 32gb ram, Geforce Titan.
OS (Win 8.1) and CC are running on a SSD. Footage is on internal 7200rpm HHDs.
All other softwares (mostly Davinci and Red Cine) are working perfectly, fast, no crash what-so-ever. So I thought the system was working fine. But Premiere is a nightmare and I'm trying to figure out where it can come from.
Some issues appeared recently, on the latest version, and I did not have in the previous ones.
First, I was facing a huge problem when simply opening clips from the Project window into the Source player. I usually had a 30-second "Media Pending" every time. When working with 1000+ files, it was simply impossible to work. Weirdly enough, I found a trick : when opening the first clip, I would have this Media Pending issue, but (that's where it gets funny), if I did not play the clip, just stay on the first frame, and opened a second one right away, then the second one wouldn't have the Media Pending issue. As long as I stayed on Frame 1 of each clip, I could open the next one without any issue. Then, once I navigate in those "pre-opened" clip, they'd play fine, without delay. But again, if I went a bit further and opened a new clip (not previously pre-opened) I'd have to go through 30 seconds of Media Pending again. F*** annoying. But whatever, I just had to open all clips before starting editing and then it would work.
But now, I have a very similar issue when I edit further on. Especially if I have several sequences, every time I move from one sequence to the next, it would take several seconds before the video (on the Program Player) would appear. Most of the time, the player just stays black, but a couple of times, I got the Media Pending screen again.
Then, once this is passed, the playback is all over the place. The most common problem is that the video plays, but if I press stop, the cursor stops on the timeline (the UI reacts to what I do) but the video keeps playing.... and I can press stop like a maniac, it stops playing like 20 seconds later... The UI still reacts, I can navigate menus etc... but the video just keeps playing. I have to wait several seconds before being able to work again.
I've tried a lot of things : changing the footage to a different disk, updating Video drivers. I suspect it is related to a fairly new function cause I never had these problems on the previous Premieres (the pre 2014.2 version). But right now, I just missed the deadline of a client today because the program was being so slow. You can imagine I feel a bit stressed.
Let me know if you have experienced stuff like this before, or if you had any idea where it can come from, I would really appreciate your help!
Thanks a lot!
Cédric

Yes of course, I know it's mostly the frustration talking, but unfortunately the issues with the software are important enough to affect my job a lot.
And they are still here, I'm really trying different solutions, especially since they appeared recently, they must be linked to a new feature somewhere in Premiere. Any idea what it could be? It working absolutely fine on Premiere pre-2014.2.
Now I open my almost finished sequence, and when I drag the cursor across the sequence, every time it's on a new clip, it freezes for a while. A few seconds. Then that clip plays fine. I move to another shot and it's the same, the video freezes for a while (UI still reacts normally). If I try to just press play, it plays the shots that i already when over, but if there is a new one, the video freezes, sound continues, and I can press stop as many times as I want, it keeps playing.
Once I have finally gone once over every shot, then the video plays absolutely fine. So I guess it has to do with a cache option. But tried cleaning the cache, moving the scratch disk to a different disk (now it's on a internal ssd, should be fast!) but to no avail..
At this point, I feel the last 3 options I have is :
- finish my current projects, and try an entire new workflow for the following ones, and use something else than the MXF container
- or, finish my current projects then move to Avid
- rebuild my entire system to see if that changes anything

Importing MPG files - media pending?

Hi Guys,
Have only just started using PE11 and have editted some footage from my Gopro ( mp4 files ) and my Intova ( mov files ) with ease. I just tried to edit some of my older footage take around two years ago from a digital video camera which have mpg files and are unable to import them into premier elements.
They appear in the timeline showing the correct file duration but the media display shows 'Media Pending' in several different languages. There also isn't any audio. I have tried waiting 30 minutes without any change. My computer was able to load the previous file types which were considerably larger instantly.
I have the mpg files in my docs same as the other files. I'm able to play the mpg videos with media player on my computer without any problems. Is there anyway of being able to import these into premier elements 11. I have quite alot of this footage I want to edit which was I bought this program in the first place? A solution to this would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Pointy1
Your mention of two copies of each file caught my curiosity.
Is the .mpg of the two that same exact footage as the one with the .tod file extension?
What are the properties of each?
Is the MediaInfo properties readout the same for both?
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
Congratulations on moving forward with your project. Good work.
ATR

Freezing Playback, Media Pending, No Saved Prvw Files -on Pr 6 Cloud.

Freezing Playback, Media Pending, No Saved Prvw Files -on Pr 6 Cloud.
My Creative Cloud Pr 6 is freezing video on the timeline and it's driving me crazy. Can't work all day. I've checked all my system settings and all seem to be okay. Running Creative Cloud on Win 7. 16GB RAM with 12GB dedicated for Pr, Ae, Ps etc. 138GB free on C Drive and 1TB free on project drive. I'm working with HDV video from Panasonic HMC150 1080/60i and 1080/30p. What's wrong and what can I do? I just found out there are no "Saved Preview Files" in the Pr Preview folder. "Media Pending" constantly showing when attempting to playback from timeline, even with 1/4 or 1/2 playback resolution. Timeline video display head showing thumbnail of a completely different video clip. My video card (EVGA GTX 580) is getting hot excessively. It's inbuilt fan is ok. All system fans are ok. I had to put extra fans on it. Product update issue or what? Thank you. I need help.

Hello Jim.
Thanks again for the link. I thought that would help but I started another project and the timelinve video was freezing on a 10 minute AVCHD clip.
It even freezes on a 2 minute clip, so spanning is not the cause of the problem. My system is running on only 6Gb of my 16Gb RAM, so memory is not the issue.
What else can be the problem?
Meanwhile, my C Drive is filling up real fast with Pr cache files. I deleted the ccache file in it's folder and cleaned up cache files through Pr. Could that be the problem?
Most of the clips I'm working with were imported before the cache cleanup/delete. Even at that, the cache folder has grown about 80GB after the cleanup?
I mostly use Pr, Ps and En, Ae once in a while.
Thanks

Premiere CC Media pending

I just checked on the Adobe site and this problem seemed to have been a real issue until last year. With an increasing growth of files within Premiere it seems to be unable to connect to them. I get that now getting the message: media pending. All files have been loaded and I can hear the sound, but even in the preview you can not see any pictures/videos. I have got over 100 files connected, including 3 camera views in HD plus some clips and scans (some files are 600 dpi though as I need them quite big to zoom into those A4 pages, like indidual (musical) notes from a score. I always mirror my files as so many times the premiere file has become corrupted and was not being able to be opened again.
But no matter which file (or copy) I open at the moment it won't give me anything but sound.
I have got 11 GB RAM reserved for Premiere so that should be enough ... and on the scratch disc I got 460 GB left (within a 2 TB harddrive), but maybe I will need more Crucial CT256M4SSD2BAA 256GB M4 SATA III 6Gb/s MLC 9.5mm 2.5 Inch Internal SSD for RAM for Adobe to get it sorted. Currently Windows 7 ultimate runs on such a solid state drive but perhaps I will have to install another one just for RAM like I mentioned to cope with the work.
Actually sometimes when I shut down Premiere now and try to restart it ... hoping that the files will be properly displayed, Premiere does not start at all. I really don't know if that is a bug again or maybe the bug that was mentioned to be fixed last year was not fixed completely.
Another side effect seems to be that some files (sound as well as pictures, get corrupted being imported into premiere. So pictures all of a sudden get faulty lines or sound crashes that have not been there before. Then I copy them from a backup folder and they load fine.
So I really don't know what Premiere (import) sometimes does to files.
But at the moment it worries me most that the video and picture files are not being displayed so I can't do nothing at the moment, as I have to animate music score on music (showing the notes when I can hear them or the explanations for them).
Hope somebody can help as I am through all these very upsetting problems several days behind schedule.
Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard (Socket 1155, ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, HDMI, Bluetooth Module)
PNY nVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Graphics 1536MB PCI-E DVI-I Dual Link/Mini HDMI
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
can not remember, which harddrive I work on
have several installed but I baught this one at the time I was putting all items together
Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB 6GB/S Internal SATA Drive

Well, the agent said that this was the case. In fact when I was relinking the files on this pc it would not even let me do that.
with NLE you mean drag and drop? I mean normally, if you copy something for backup (like a picture or whatever file) you normally just copy it to another harddrive or even the whole project to keep the structure of the tree. That is how I learned to do things like with Pagemaker or now InDesign. So if you want to keep or safe a magazine for example you just take the whole folder with all connected pictures and adverts and copy it to an external drive and that is all it normally needs.
Not here apparently.
But when you say the project manager has it's own set of issues. I think there is hardly any major programme within the Adobe collection that has not any issues. The amount of complaints I can see in the community. The issues might be small sometimes (just a guess) but it just proves that the collection is anything but (fully) trustworthy. Really not good for a product that is supposed to be for professionals as well as average users.
At the moment, if somebody would ask me for my judgment, I would not really know if I could recommend it. But then .... I do not know how well Programms like Pinnacle or others have. Might be the same ... nothing is perfect in life .... yet it is really annoying that you work really hard for weeks and weeks and all of a sudden ...
Yes, the relinking should work just flawless, like in InDesign .... no problems. So I really wonder what result I might get if I really have to go from scratch. I did not get to the point discussing with him that some TIF files got corrupted (getting lines) after being imported to Premiere. When I overwrote those links by the same TIF that I had on another drive for backup, it would be fine in Premiere as well.
So that is another issue. I already updated my pc-guy about the situation and let me know that we should first check on the system as Premiere needs quite a while to launch, really, then install the new RAM or say extra RAM of 256 GB SSD to make it really fast and then see what we can do from there. I just hope to get going very quickly as all of this delay is anything but good and people do want results. And facting these problems: if this is your job making money with it, can you ever be sure to get anything out? I mean, if customers ask you: when will it be ready? The only thing you may say is: if everything goes according to plan and nothing unusual happens it should be ready then and then. But it could be delayed for months ... if you can't solve problems like this. That is not really satisfying.

Program not responding with a media pending showing

First off, I apologize for how ignorant I am sure to sound in the following.
This is a new thing that has started happening a bit ago. Sometimes after successful minutes to even hours of editing my project, my program stops responding. All media then shows up with"Media Pending" on all windows. I have learned that this is a sign that the program is about to stop responding - I can then successfully save before the crash. As you can see in the photo, any new window that was covering the viewer or canvas gets imprinted on them. I have no idea as to why this is happening. I have tried to search other forum threads, but a lot of it seems gibberish to me (sorry). If anyone has any kind of knowledge of what is happening and how I can resolve it, it would make editing so much more enjoyable again.
Thanks for any help,
Matt

Try to delete all the Adobe Media cache folder. On windows it's located here :
Quit Pr Pro
Go to c:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
Delete all the content of this folder manually
Empty windows bin
Reboot machine
Relaunch your project and wait Pr Pro to recreate all the cache
Good luck !
noar

Premiere cc constantly says 'Media Pending'

Hi, if anyone could help me resolve this problem I would be so grateful as I have been tearing my hair out trying to fix it. I was editing wedding footage for a client (the first one I have ever done!) and noticed that as I added more warp stabilisation to my shots, Premiere started getting quite slow and sticky. Then it finally froze and crashed. However, uponrestarted it just says 'media pending' and will not play any of the footage. the worst thing about this is it has affected my auto save files too which do the exact same thing!
All the footage is stored on my hard drive on a 2013 Macbook Pro, 8gb ram with no other programs installed and with over 200gb of space free. I have tried clearing the cache and this did not help. Previously to this Premiere had been crashing at least once per day and twice even wiped all my footage! (Although I was able to retrieve the majority of it from my last autosave). This is currently a trial version of Premiere Pro cc. Any advice or help any of you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Tony

Hi,
Thanks for replying. I just did what you suggested but unfortunately no difference. The footage was shot on a canon 7d, 30fps as .mov files with a h.264 codec. With this uncompressed footage Premiere was really struggling to do anything (never mind let me edit) so I was advised by a friend to transcode the footage to an easier codec (i think it might have been Apple DVCPRO50) but still in a .mov format. This worked better for a time (with less crashes) but whenever i started adding the warp stabiliser it all fell apart.
I had a guy from Adobe controlling my computer for over an hour today trying to work out what the problem was. He was stumped and advised me to move my footage form the external drive to my hard drive - this worked for a short time before the same problem with 'media pending' occurred and i haven't been able to access the footage since.
I am starting to think i might have to start again with my footage (this will be the 3rd time a serious problem with Premiere has forced to restart my project), could i ask you guys what is the best format to transcode the footage to ensure there is as little strain as possible on Premiere while also retaining the best image quality?

'media pending' message in Encore CS6

So here's the situation:
This is only my second time trying to create a DVD with Premier Pro CC and Encore CS6, this first time I tried doing it this way, it seemed to work fine. Now this time around I am having some difficulties.
I have created a project in Premier Pro CC that is about an hour and a half long.
I exported the video as an MPEG2-DVD format with all of the setting set to their default settings. This gives me a .m2v file (video), a .wav file (audio), and a .xmp file.
I then imported the .m2v and .wav into Encore CS6 as a timeline. This would normally bring the audio and video files into a timeline together, thus bringing me one step closer to creating my DVD.
Instead, when I import the .m2v and .wav as a timeline, I get the yellow 'media pending' screen in my Monitor window where would normally be the video that normally plays.
Am I just supposed to wait a longer time than normal for the media to pend because it is a larger file? I'm not quite sure what to do here. I am still new to creating DVD's this way so any information would be great!
Thank you.
-christian

Yes, it may be a matter of time. Encore must, using the xmpses file, process to see if all is well with the file.
But...

Opening all projects freezes Premiere with Media Pending

Hi there,
I've run into a problem with Premiere Pro CS6. Last week, I experienced a crash while working on a project, and ever since then I have been completely unable to open ANY of my saved projects.
Whenever I now try to open any saved project - regardless of whether it contains any footage or not - Premiere immediately freezes unrecoverably. The same thing happens with newly created projects. If the project contains video footage, the 'Media Pending' preview shows on the frozen page - if there is NO video footage in the project (which would be rare, obviously), then it just freezes without the Media Pending message.
I can, however, open a previously saved project by opening Premiere, creating a NEW project and importing an old project or sequence into it. Using this method I am able to encode one video at a time. I can not use Adobe Media Encoder to queue up video sequences for encoding - Adobe Media Encoder also crashes (freezes) whenever I attempt to start the encoding queue.
Steps attempted to resolve this issue (all unsuccessful);
Uninstalled the Adobe Master Collection CS6 completely, followed by a reinstallation. No change.
Uninstalled every Adobe application on the computer, then deleted every remaining Adobe directory I could find - including those contained in Program Files, Program Files (x86) and in my user profile directory. Also emptied my Media Cache folders. I also then ran the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool and removed everything it would allow me to from CS6 and below. Followed by a reinstallation. No change.
Both of the above installing back without any patches (Premiere CS6.0.0) and with patches (Premiere CS6.0.5). No change.
Emptied the 'Temp' folder for my user profile. No change.
The one slightly useful thing that I have found is that if I create a new user account in Windows and open Premiere from there, everything seems to be fine - so the issue would seem to be related to my Windows user account ... I just don't know how to fix it.
I do not want to simply eraze my current user account because it would take me ages to restore all of my preferences, applications and whatnot to their correct configuration - and there's no guarantee that the same thing wouldn't occur again (especially given that I've seem similar reports from other people, so it's not an isolated incident).
Other than Premiere and Media Encoder, I'm not aware of any other Adobe application suffering from a problem.
I'm running Windows 7 Pro, SP1, incidentally. Thanks in advance for any help or insight anyone can provide.
Crash details, for what it's worth:
Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    AppHangB1
Application Name:    Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Application Version:    6.0.5.0
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The user profile may well be damaged, but it's pretty difficult to Google user profile faults when the only applications displaying any symptoms whatsoever are Premiere and Media Encoder. Add to this the fact that there are numerous other reports of the same thing having happened to other Premiere users for a range of reasons (including font conflicts and external or virtual drives). Also, the issue materialised not at an undetermined time - but precisely when Premiere suffered a crash, in use. It would be irrational to rule out the possibility that something external to Premiere could have caused the crash, but whatever has been damaged would seem to be directly related to a resource that Premiere was using at the time. Identifying that specific resource would be invaluable.
Anyway, this is all pretty moot now - I'm in the process of setting up a new profile. I'll just have to hope that it won't occur again. I would like to have spent some time trying to identify exactly which aspect of the profile was affected, but sadly time is an issue.
If anyone else is experiencing similar symptoms and stumbles upon this thread, they might want to look at this: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4323738. It didn't help me, but maybe it'll be of use to someone else.
Also worth considering is the possibility that external drives, virtual drives or virtual file systems have also been reported as causing these symptoms (for example, I'd used a Linux file system integrator/emulator some months ago - not that this had coincided in any way with these issues for me).
Thanks for taking the time to respond, Jim.

Premiere pro cs6 on my Mac stuck at media pending

I can load my project and it will work for about 1 minute and then when you scrub a clip the thumb nail is replaced by Media Pending. If I go to the next clip the thumb nail comes back but the new clip goes to Media pending and
the time line freezes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and updated several times. I also cleared catch. I can't find any fixes on the web. What can I Do!!!

It sounds like the media may be going offline. Where is your media located? ...local, server, hard drive... etc. If it;s a hard drive or server, ids it possible that the location itself is going offline and back on? Otherwise it may be a media cache problem, in which case you can delete those and re-generate. I (or someone else) can send instructions for that if needed. There may be other possibilities to explore too, but let's start here.

MEDIA PENDING - what is it?

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