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Project manager fails me again

Forum|Forum|15 days ago
August 5, 2026
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I’ve used Project manager in Premiere (currently in 26.2.2) for a couple of months already without an issue. Now I have this short but rather complicated project with tons of effects and overlays and when I’m trying to make an archive copy with it I get this:

Of course I cleared the cache, reset the preferences, there’s ton of free space on my SSDs and I tried to save the archive with Project manager on each of them. Every time the process either stops at the beginning like this (an hour wait was in vain):

or gives me this error I added above. I do not transcode or include previews or audio conforms, nothing, these are my settings:

The calculation process does not start either.

I also tried to duplicate the project and run it there, copy all the media to a new project (which I cannot use as a solution because I have audio mixer set up and the new project or sequence has none).

The only one time I could export an archive from the Project manager was unchecking this setting:

So I think Adobe should investigate the relation of this setting to the bug.

Premiere 26.2.2, Win11 26.1, NV Studio driver 610.88, 2xSSD @ 1 and 2 Tb half occupied, RTX 4080, 64 Gb of Ram.

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Jonathan+Editor

Community Manager

Hi @AndrewTheGreat,

Thank you for reporting this occurrence. The team is aware of known issues with similar error messages. For us to try to better understand this occurrence, could you tell us if there any special characters in your sequence names or footage files?

Best,

Jonathan

AndrewTheGreatAuthor

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Hi, @Jonathan+Editor

There may be. I get the files from the archive department and they usually name files with a lot of indicator words like “260312_Minister_Meeting with veterans_sync with subtitles” and so on in 2 different languages, and I cannot change the naming because this way another video editor will lose track of the material. Don’t think there were special characters though except the standard . , and _

I just reviewed the files and found a folder with _ at the end. An a couple of files had « » quotation marks and something like _._

At the same time I had no issues exporting the video. Normally you would get an error if there are special symbols Premiere doesn’t like.

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