Premiere is crashing

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Hello dear group,I was having the most ridiculous problems with Premiere 2026 and After Effects 2026 , particularly with their integration. Every time I try to resize the windows in the workspace, the application stops working. I was performing very trivial operations in Premiere 2026, and it kept crashing. To be fair, the next day the situation improved—except when I tried to drag a guide, at which point the same issue occurred again. I’ve been very careful not to make any unnecessary movements.Yesterday, when I converted a Premiere clip into an After Effects composition (AE 2026), I encountered the same problem multiple times—this time in After Effects. I’m even embarrassed to report such a trivial issue, but it is what it is. I just spent two hours reopening the app, restarting my computer, and so on.I’m not very hopeful, but if anyone has any insights or advice about this ridiculous situation, I would be very grateful. Thank you.

PaulMurphy · Answer

For interface-related issues like this, the most likely causes are GPU-related problems or corrupted preferences.

Update your graphics drivers. Outdated or incompatible drivers can cause crashes during simple UI actions like resizing panels or dragging guides.
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/x-productkb/multi/update-graphics-driver.html
Reset your preferences. Corrupted preference files can lead to unstable behavior like the one you described.
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/troubleshooting/preferences-and-settings-issues/why-reset-preferences.html

After completing both steps, restart your system and test again.

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