Premiere Pro CC Show "Media Pending"

Paulina, you are a genious!

AND For those of you who tried Paulinas solution and it didn't seem to work:

After doing the Xmp-stuff:

1. First of all restart Premiere

2. the clip might still be pending, so drag it to the sequence thing (sorry I'm not good with the names in premiere, but I think that's correct)

3. From there the movie won't be pending, only the "source files"/imported media, so now you can edit

Same problem here. Glad to know this hasn't been fixed in two years. Was working fine for a long time.

Hey Everyone!!
so since 2013 till 2015 there is still that sh*t media pending problem!

I FINALLY found the solution and i hope it will help everyone with that sh*tty bug!!!
first at all the problem:
> Starting Premiere Pro cc2015
> everything good until suddenly on one point, a random file: generating peak - Files has stopped working

> nothing happens anymore. But u can hear audio, you can save, you can scroll, BUT:
1. some thumbnails are grey
2. just see yellow Media pending Picture
3. if u wanna close Premiere, it will freeze and u have to force close it with task manager + Adobe QT 32 server and Dynamic link manager

then you try everything in a Loop:
> cleaning cache in Adobe/common
> cleaning cache in Media Cache

> you put footage in another location
> import project in a new project

but nothing helps... and u freaked out ...

so i tried to understand why that sh*t happened. it doesnt make any sense.
My workstation > i75820k 6x3,3ghz, 32gb DDR4, gtx 980ti and F*CKING 2 TB SSD !?!
nothing is too slow, nothing ist damaged, so why?
Maybe Blackmagic ursa Prores 444 is to big? and Premiere CC2015 can't handle that format? Especially my projects are HUGE. a lot of footage, a lot of sequences etc. > cause big productions.
And neither BM4k prores 422 nor r3d ever had that problem :/

so long story short:
Just do it like before.
- Clean everything.

- best way, put the footage in a new folder in a new folder or in a new drive. (important premiere needs to search for it)
- open ur project, make sure ur media is OFFLINE

and then ...
- JUST link either single clips OR take 1-10 footage in a raw and link/search it manually!

- save!

and unfortunately u have to do it EVERYTIME when u open ur project.

for me > my solution have worked EVERYTIME since now!

OR just be quick and put all media offline right away, when u open ur project. and link it manually again.

Its such a pain in the a**, but i hope i could help u guys and it works also for you!

best

Vi-Dan

Thx Paulina... your solution works for me.

I'm testing both Premiere CC and DaVinci Resolve and those kind of frustration doesn't help going the Adobe route...

yep, same problem here. has been a long running premiere problem. WOW adobe, you've added some more bells and whistles...great....can you just fix the damn problems that have been bugging so many users over some many versions of premiere?

Me too. Fresh install cc2014 on a fresh Win7x64.

Solution: toggle track visibility. (click eyeball at start of track on timeline) = sorted everything out on all tracks.

I believe it's a memory issue. When your memory fills up, your computer's harddrive becomes the "memory". Clearing space on your harddrive will probably help, as it helped me.

With your project open, go to your Window's Task manager and watch the Adobe Premiere memory in the Processes tab. You'll notice it counting up, as there's something going on with the media file as Premiere is preparing to work with it in the editor.

Down below in the Windows Task Manager you'll see the Physical Memory. If you're up in the 95% and your video is still not displaying in Premiere, then you need to clear more stuff off your drive. Your objective is to let Premiere fill up whatever space it needs in your memory or harddrive to work with the file you're loading.

E.g. my video file is 6.2 gigs. After Premiere has finished hogging all the memory it needs on my harddrive, the total memory Premiere is using (according to Windows Task Manager) is 4GB.

Sort out your memory and storage issues, and this problem will likely go away for you. It sucks that Adobe didn't give a more specific memory or storage warning.

Okay For me this "Media Pending" only occurs when I start the project on one computer and move it to another. So here is the solution for that:

Trash all the files in your render folder which is where every you set the scratch disk to:

The folder is called: "Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files"

All the files in there TRASH.

Close the project.

Open it again and Render.

That fixed my "Media Pending" issue.

Not a fix but a workaround - double click the clip in the timeline so that it appears in the source monitor, then drag the clip from the source monitor back to the timeline and delete the original clip.  Tedious, but it seems to be working for me. 

By the way, I moved from FCP to PP about a month ago and totally love it.  I've completed several projects already and this is the first time the "media pending" issue has appeared.  :-/

This is seriously a show-stopping bug, and clearly I'm not the only one dealing with it, as evidenced by the length of this thread.

For the record, I've tried all the "solutions" presented here and none of them offers a fix beyond a few days. Like many others above, I am on a new Mac Pro, Yosemite.

My "fix" right now is to open projects on an older Mac Pro (2010) where they open flawlessly. At some point in the near future, this is not going to be an option, so I seriously hope this gets fixed before then.