Premiere Pro reports “Adobe Premiere Pro Defaults.kys” is invalid on every clean installation and Beta crashes when opening Keyboard Shortcuts

Does this happen only when a custom keyboard layout is active during Premiere startup? Switch to US English, and there’s no error, right?

I’m not a mac guy so anything else would likely be guessing. Do you have a custom file you’ve used? Could try that. Mac seem to have some strange permissions issue, can you check for that? Do you have After Effects installed? Any issues there?. Photoshop would likely not  be as helpful, but is that working, etc...

Have you tried opening the keyboard file in a text editor. Maybe that’s at fault? Here’s a few lines from the default keyboard shortcuts file in Windows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<PremiereData Version="3">
	<shortcuts Version="5">
		<platform>windows</platform>
		<context.progress Version="1">
			<itemcount>0</itemcount>
		</context.progress>
		<context.capture Version="1">
			<itemcount>11</itemcount>
			<item.7 Version="1">
				<commandname>cmd.capture.record.video</commandname>
				<modifier.shift>false</modifier.shift>
				<modifier.alt>false</modifier.alt>
				<modifier.ctrl>false</modifier.ctrl>
				<virtualkey>2147483734</virtualkey>
			</item.7>
			<item.5 Version="1">
				<commandname>cmd.capture.record</commandname>
				<modifier.shift>false</modifier.shift>
				<modifier.alt>false</modifier.alt>
				<modifier.ctrl>false</modifier.ctrl>
				<virtualkey>2147483719</virtualkey>
			</item.5>