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March 22, 2026
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Not a question but share frustrating experience

  • March 22, 2026
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I want to share a very frustrating experience I had with v2026. Upon installation Premiere Elements and/or Microsoft evidently reset defaults… one of which was .mp4 files to Premiere Elements. Whenever I exported a movie and attempted to play it back, all it did was reload the project file, even though it said it was a .mp4 file. Finally, I went into Microsoft ‘default’ settings and reset .mp4 to a different program (in my case I selected media classic player) and all of a sudden the file played as a normal video file. Wow, how frustrating until I figured it out. Hopefully this might save someone else some frustration.

Barry

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    bradc74
    Participant
    March 31, 2026

    I find version 26 to be the worst program I have ever come across. It makes everything that used to be easy much more difficult and much longer

    Legend
    March 22, 2026

    That’s not been my experience by any means. But thanks for sharing.