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Video files no longer exporting from Lightroom

Participant ,
Oct 06, 2025 Oct 06, 2025

I've been uisng LR for a while to apply my photo presets to video clips, as a simple means of getting my photo preset applied to clips for consistency. So applying the preset on import, then exporting the clip to edit in other software.

Now with LR 17.4, when I go to export, the export dialog progress bar apepas in the top left, but there is no progress, nothing happens. It just sticks on 'Export XX files', and wil stay like that for hours or even days with no progress at all. There are no error messages, and when I work through the export dialog box there is no indication that it isn't going to export.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 07, 2025 Oct 07, 2025

Hey, @mijbil250456. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll need more info to help you figure this out.

What exact version of Lightroom and the operating system are you working on? Is this a personal or work (IT-managed) machine?

 

Has this started after recent updates to the OS? Also, try moving the videos to a new Test album.

- Right-click on the Test Album > Select 'Make Album Available Offline' & try exporting a few images.


Let me know if this helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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Participant ,
Oct 07, 2025 Oct 07, 2025

Hi Sameer, It's version 17.4, Mac os 15.0.1. I can;t tell you if it started specifically with upgrades to either LR or Mac OS. It's a private machine. 

I'm not sure what you mean by creating a test album, I've never used albums in Lightroom before? Either way the video files are on a hard drive, not online. Thanks, Robin

 

 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 07, 2025 Oct 07, 2025

I don't work with video, so I don't have an answer.

However, @mijbil250456 is using Lightroom Classic (which does not have albums), not Lightroom.

 

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Participant ,
Oct 07, 2025 Oct 07, 2025
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I should also add I have now updated to LR 14.5, the latest version, and the issue persists. It occurs with any video file MP4, Mov, WMV etc- I can import them no problem, and play them back in library, but they won't export in any format, not even original. Please fix this Adobe! There is little point in being able to add videos to Lightroom if you can't then get them out of Lightroom. 

 

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