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Premiere 2026 update crashing every time I open it

Forum|Forum|6 days ago
January 28, 2026
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I just updated to 2026 Premiere and every single time I open my project it crashes before it can open. Switching back to 2025

MarekMularczyk

Community Expert

Have you tried resetting Premiere preferences? It usually helps ;-)

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Hi @Myles0D4C,

Sorry you’ve been experiencing issues. We need a few more details to help, like hardware and operating system information. Please see How to Report a Problem.

Is this happening with a specific project or with different and brand new projects as well? Do you have any third-party plugins or panels installed?

Are you getting a Premiere Crash Report window? If you add your email in before sending the reports, the team can look these up.

Sorry for the frustration,

Dani

Myles0D4CAuthor

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It’s a pretty large project, about 4GB of footage and the time line is 2 hrs long. I have the 2021 M1 Macbook, the software is up to date. The 2025 seems to be working, and I always clear the cache when I load the app. This newer version doesn’t seem to be working at all. The 2025 version does take a while to load, and every now and then it will crash because the project is so large, but the 2026 version is definitely acting way more finicky as it won’t even open up the project at all. It always crashes about halfway through trying to open.

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Thanks for the additional information @Myles0D4C. Something to try: Are you able to create a new project in v26.0 and import that affected project (the .prproj file) through the Media Browser panel?

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