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Rendering video in Photoshop always giving "initialization error 1"

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January 9, 2025
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I keep getting this error message (amecommand Initilization error 1), when I try to render a video in Photoshop & Photoshop Beta, both the newest versions.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop, Bridge & Media Encoder, but still doing the same thing. I restarted laptop (macbook pro), restarted the apps, uninistalled the apps then did a laptop restart before reinstalling, and still.. no luck.

I tried to open Bridge to render through there, but Bridge keeps force quitting before it even fully loads the app, so that's of no use. Older versions of Photoshop and Bridge did not work either and produced the same out come (photoshop still gives error message when renderinig video and Bridge force quits when app is is loading up)

An Adobe employee responded with this since I originally posted in the Photoshop forum: "When you work in Photoshop, it is just sending the file over the Media Encoder. The error you are seeing is telling us that Media Encoder is no responding the way Photoshop expects. If you can't work with the same file in Media Encoder itself, then it tells us the Media Encoder is more closely tied to the issue. It would be a good idea to post a message in
the Media Encoder forums. Also, we have separate forums for Bridge as well, to deal with what is happening there. It is possible that both issues are related and fixing it for one will fix it both."

^ I tried but I cant even get to the render settings to open it in encoder. I did try dropping the PSD file into Media Encoder to see if maybe it could do it but it didn't work, it only rendered the first frame of the video sequence (I have the PSD set up to be frame by frame timeline)

Warren Heaton

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Hi @paige.corkery:

After choosing File > Export > Render Video..., are you getting the Render Video dialog box?

If so, try changing the format pop-up menu from Adobe Media Encoder to Photoshop Image Sequence.

Be sure to use Select Folder... to choose a folder just for the resulting image sequence. You'll want the rendered frames to be by themselves and not mixed in with other files.

Your Photoshop document is 3,000-by-3,000 pixels and image sequences tend be more forgiving when using a non-standard video frame size.

Assuming that works as expected, you could use Premiere Pro or After Effects to convert the image sequence to a video file.

Another option (and this is going to take a good amount of patience), is to go through each frame and use File > Export as PNG. Then assemble the resulting PNG files with their corresponding durations in Premiere Pro or After Effects.

If you are still having trouble and are able to share the file, I'm happy to try to export it for you on one of my Macs.

- Warren