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Community Expert
May 31, 2026 5:10 PM UTC
Question

Premiere Mobile fails when moving it to Premiere desktop

When trying to move a Premiere Mobile project to the desktop the upload seems to succeed from the phone but trying to import and open that on the desktop yields this error. 

I think we can see from that failure that Adobe is using Open Timeline I/O to make this conversion.  That's admirable but if it fails, how does one get a project from Premiere Mobile to Premiere Desktop? 

    15 replies

    Community Manager
    Sep 28, 2026 6:25 PM UTC

    Hey ​@ScottSimmons,

    Did you ever get this issue sorted out? Let us know.

     

    Cheers,
    Kevin

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    Community Expert
    Sep 29, 2026 6:24 PM UTC

    When it didn’t work I went to plan B so I wasn’t able to go back and try again. 

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    Participant
    Sep 26, 2026 7:59 PM UTC

    I have this issue. Not used 26 version and deleted 25 version to use 26 and it still can’t let me use the moblie feature after I did it twice from my iPad Mini 6? Next it downloaded as zip to folder app. Can’t upload my YouTube video to my PC and export from my PC

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    Participant
    Aug 24, 2026 3:20 PM UTC

    Same issue here, any update?

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    Peter Garaway
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    Aug 24, 2026 10:38 PM UTC

    Hey ​@Alana34534040iqyr There have been recent updates on both the Mobile and Desktop side that have resolved a handful of issues with this transfer, but without seeing exactly what's happening on your end, it's hard to say whether those cover what you're running into.

    It would also really help to get the actual OTIO file so we can see exactly what's failing. Could you go to https://www.adobe.com/files/projects/ and share that file with me? I'll take a look and figure out what's going on. At your convenience, feel free to email it to pgaraway@adobe.com or share via any sharing platform you're comfortable with. 

    Thank you!

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    Peter Premiere engineering team
    Participant
    Jul 26, 2026 11:04 AM UTC

    Same here… 

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    Participant
    Jul 13, 2026 8:28 PM UTC

    I’m hitting the same issue

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    Peter Garaway
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    Jul 7, 2026 11:04 PM UTC

    Hi ​@ScottSimmons  ​@Dana Pride 2 ​@KevinNLPG 

    Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

    Before we dig further, can you share how did you go about importing the project on desktop? Specifically:

    • Did you use File > Import > Premiere Mobile Project?
    • Or did you download the project as a zip and try to import it via File > Import directly?

    That'll help us narrow down where things are going wrong. Once we know that, we may also ask for your Premiere desktop version.

    Thanks for your patience!

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    Peter Premiere engineering team
    Participant
    Jul 13, 2026 8:29 PM UTC

    I used file → import → premiere mobile project. On version 26.3.0 (build 93)

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    Peter Garaway
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    Jul 15, 2026 12:28 AM UTC

    Thanks for the reply ​@Alana34534040iqyr  Can you please go to https://www.adobe.com/files/projects/ and share the OTIO file with me? I’ll review and determine what is going on. 

    At your convenience, please email it to pgaraway@adobe.com 

    Thanks for your patience. I’ll get this sorted out

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    Peter Premiere engineering team
    Known Participant
    Jul 1, 2026 6:07 AM UTC

    Same issue. Why start on mobile if you can’t finish on desktop?

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    KevinNLPG
    Participant
    Jun 21, 2026 7:42 PM UTC

    I have the same issue, its so annoying

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