Here I am again ($&*!)... any attempt to render video gets stuck at "Initializing Video Export". The file I'm working with is a a frame-based animation - 160 x 160px, 120 frames. Remedial steps taken: trashed Photoshop prefs uninstalled/reinstalled Photoshop verified all CC apps are up to date This issue has continued to crop up time and again... come on Adobe, lets squash this (expletive) bug.macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Mac Pro (Late 2013) 3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 Memory 32GB 1866MHz DDR3 Graphics AMD FirePro D300 2 GB

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Photoshop CC 2020 - Render Video stuck at Initializing Video Export

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April 23, 2020
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Here I am again ($&*!)... any attempt to render video gets stuck at "Initializing Video Export". The file I'm working with is a a frame-based animation - 160 x 160px, 120 frames. Remedial steps taken:

trashed Photoshop prefs
uninstalled/reinstalled Photoshop
verified all CC apps are up to date

This issue has continued to crop up time and again... come on Adobe, lets squash this (expletive) bug.

macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5

Memory 32GB 1866MHz DDR3

Graphics AMD FirePro D300 2 GB

macOS

Correct answer Conrad_C

The one thing that worked for me is to remove a plug-ins folder, which I learned from another post somewhere in this forum.

On macOS, drag this folder out and put it somewhere else temporarily.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore

Important: This is not the Library folder inside your user account’s home folder (~/Library). It’s the top level Library folder (/Library). Also, you may be asked to enter an admin password because it is not within your user account’s home folder.

I don’t know if this solves the stuck Render Video problem in all cases, but it helped with mine.

I do need the plug-ins for other applications, so after rendering video from Photoshop I put the MediaCore folder back where it was.