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Question

render video stuck at initializing. AGAIN

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 31, 2023
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PS 24.7.0

When I try to render a video, I get an "initializing video" progress which takes about 30 seconds and then gets stuck at the end (> minutes, then I quit)

I've had this in some other versions, seems the same bug is back again.

PS 2022 (23.5.5) renders the same .psd without any issues whatsoever. (When I click 'Export > Render Video' the Render Video window pops up instantly)

MacStudio M1 Max, OSX 12.6.8

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jennam13142879

Participant

Can confirm, yes this works PS 2024 V25.
Boy oh boy, what a rigmarole.

ReneDamkotAuthor

Inspiring

Okay. This worked for me as well. And it seems consistent & repeatable.

Closed PS, closed bridge, opened .psd in PS, render worked.

Closed PS again, started Bridge, opened .psd in PS, render didn't work.

Closed Bridge (not PS), opened .psd in PS, render didn't work.

Closed PS and Bridge, opened .psd in PS, render works.

Closed file, opened Bridge, re-opened .psd in PS, render still works.

At least Adobe now knows where to look for the bug. :')

phillipw81703998

Participant

This worked for me. I use the latest versions of Bridge and Photoshop Beta 25.5. Video renders without a hitch now.

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.:karen:.

Participating Frequently

Oh, believe me, I understand — it's a PITA. So, today, Render stopped working again. I saw another thing to try _somewhere_... closing Bridge. Did that, restarted PS and for whatever reason, it worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ReneDamkotAuthor

Inspiring

Update. Still broken on PS 2024 25.4.0

ReneDamkotAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried starting Photoshop without third party plugins and it still wouldn't render.

Anyways, if I'd have to restart photoshop every time I want to render a video, I might just as well start PS 2021 to render the video. Then I can get some work done in PS 2024 while the video is rendering time as well 🙂

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.:karen:.

Participating Frequently

@ReneDamkot It's crazy that this has been going on for so many years with only vague work-arounds over multiple version releases. 😞

I only rarely export video (but have had this issue over multiple years and versions, including PS2022) and always have to search again to find the trick that worked (though I finally remembered to bookmark the page this time). Anyway, in the past, this trick, from 2020, of holding Shift while restarting PS to disable 3rd party plugins has worked for me. Today, it didn't, so I tried the Keychain Access suggestion and THEN held Shift while opening PS and it finally worked. I know you said the Keychain Access didn't work for you but have you tried the Shift trick?

ReneDamkotAuthor

Inspiring

Update.

Still broken on PS2024 25.3.1

ReneDamkotAuthor

Inspiring

That doesn't help. Deleted all 'Adobe' keychain items and restarted PS, logged in again and it's still stuck at the end of "initializing Video Esport'.

Photoshop 25.2.0 on OSX 12.6.8

PS 22.5.8 does work as expected, but it's annoying to have to run two versions of PS to get the job done.

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lisac61174007

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https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/video-stops-rendering-at-50-percent.html