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itsleah
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November 22, 2022
Question

Premiere Pro Freezing after opening Preferences Menu

  • November 22, 2022
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Hi, I've been frustrated with premiere for the past couple days, as I want to get some editing done, but opening the preferences menu when I need to adjust settings causes the entire program to stop responding. From what I've been able to tell, it's only the preferences menu that crashes it.

Solutions I've tried (to no avail):
Updating My Drivers

Verifying File Integrity of Windows (sfc /scannow)

Resetting Premiere's Preferences

Uninstalling and Reinstalling through Creative Cloud

Downgrading to an older version

 

I'm not sure what to try and fix it at this point.

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    Grimaris
    Participant
    December 2, 2022
    • Issue - Opening any preferences crashes Premiere Pro
    • Adobe Premiere Pro version number: 23.0
    • Operating system - Windows 10 Version 22H2
    • System Info: CPU, GPU, RAM, HD:

      • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.59 GHz

      • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Driver Version 31.0.15.2737

      • 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz

      • ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe

    • Workflow details: Don't need project to be open
    • Steps to reproduce - Open Premiere Pro, click edit > preferences, then select any menu
    • Expected result - Open preference menu
    • Actual result -  Premiere Pro freezes and eventually crashes
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    itsleahAuthor
    Participant
    November 28, 2022
    • Issue - Read above. 
    • Adobe Premiere Pro version number: All seem to be affected, originally started on v23.0, tried downgrading but issue persisted.
    • Operating system - Windows 10 21H2, Build 19044.2251
    • System Info: CPU, GPU, RAM, HD:

      • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800x

      • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 2070 (Driver Ver. 526.98)

      • 32GB DDR4 3000MHz ram

      • M.2 2TB Samsung Drive

    • Workflow details: It doesn't even need to have a project open.
    • Steps to reproduce - I open premiere pro, click edit -> preferences, then select any menu. 
    • Expected result - Premiere should open the preferences menu
    • Actual result -  Premiere stops responding.
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      W.Bee
      Participant
      November 22, 2022

      My Premier Pro crashes when opening any of the preferences menus. I have tried resetting the offences by hunting Alt, reinstalling normally, and the creative cloud removal tool then reinstalling but it is still happening. How can I fix this?

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        Zwea
        Inspiring
        November 25, 2022

        Honestly the only permanent fix I've found for this is to upgrade to a newer version (and deal with an entirely new set of bugs that come with it). Downgrading is usually not an option because you always need "that one function that wasn't added/fixed yet." I dealt with the issue in CC14 and 15, maybe even up until 22.2. I'm sure it went away after updating to 22.6. But that also introduced the (auto)save bug where PPro freezes/crashes on saving. Have you tried installing a newer/older version next to the one you currently have?

        I'm guessing you've already tried changing audio hardware preferences, that seemed to work for some (for me the setting wouldn't stick). Some people were having issues because of the microphone input settings. I know it sounds weird, but that was the temporary fix everyone was preaching at the time. I've read posts where third-party plugins like Insta360 or Red Giant were causing problems, but for me personally it also happened on 100% clean installs, no third-party plugins. And ONLY in Premiere. For good measure: in 3 years of editing on this machine, I have NEVER had a similar issue in After Effects.

         

        The weird thing is, after updating Premiere the issues went away WITHOUT updating any plugins! So that leads me to believe they weren't the issue in the first place.

         

        Hopefully I've given you some insights to get to the bottom of this. 

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