Photoshop CC 2020 - Render Video stuck at Initializing Video Export

[chrish44612212]

Here I am again ($&*!)... any attempt to render video gets stuck at "Initializing Video Export".  The file I'm working with is a a frame-based animation - 160 x 160px, 120 frames.  Remedial steps taken:

• trashed Photoshop prefs
• uninstalled/reinstalled Photoshop
• verified all CC apps are up to date

This issue has continued to crop up time and again... come on Adobe, lets squash this (expletive) bug.

macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5

Memory 32GB 1866MHz DDR3

Graphics AMD FirePro D300 2 GB

[tonyo3285992]

I now use Davinci Resolve (free version) to do the video work.

[luchababe]

Same issue. I updated to CC 2023 and that's when this problem started.

[Matthew A]

Rendering video files hanging on 'Initializing Video Export' is still a problem for me — I tried removing  adobe keychain items as suggested here, that didnt work.

Im running a Mac Studio with 64Gb RAM, PS 24 OSX 12.6 and video export STILL seems to be a problem...

Very frustrating.

[Matthew A]

I found closing Bridge helped me...

[barrett27720758tkht]

that is the only thing that worked - bridge accidentally opened, i knew it but i didnt think to close it....that bridge app causes more problems for me than anything.'

'thank you so much 

[barrett27720758tkht]

same issue....i have no idea how this is still an issue, this should be resolved by now. cannot export a simple animation and all the steps dont do anyhing to fix it.

[Conrad C]

The one thing that worked for me is to remove a plug-ins folder, which I learned from another post somewhere in this forum.

On macOS, drag this folder out and put it somewhere else temporarily.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore

Important: This is not the Library folder inside your user account’s home folder (~/Library). It’s the top level Library folder (/Library). Also, you may be asked to enter an admin password because it is not within your user account’s home folder.

I don’t know if this solves the stuck Render Video problem in all cases, but it helped with mine.

I do need the plug-ins for other applications, so after rendering video from Photoshop I put the MediaCore folder back where it was.