FIXED: Export issue for H.264 and HEVC with Premiere Pro 23.1

[Francis-Crossman]

This issue has been fixed in Premiere Pro version 23.2.  Please update to get the fix.

We have identified a file name issue affecting H.264 and HEVC/H.265 exports on Windows with Premiere Pro 23.1

The issue impacts H.264 and HEVC/H.265 exports to folders with names that use double-byte characters, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or extended ASCII characters, like accents and umlauts. Affected users will see this message: File importer detected an inconsistency in the file structure of %filename.mp4%. Reading and writing this file’s metadata (XMP) has been disabled.

If you are experiencing this issue, use one of these options:

• Please update to version 23.2 where the issue is fixed
• The following workarounds are for 23.1
  • Choose an export destination folder that uses only single-byte ASCII English characters (no accents, umlauts, etc.)
  • Export to a different format, such as Apple ProRes.
  • For H.264 exports only: disable hardware-accelerated encoding.

[Kirmm Ella]

The problem I had is that the name of the export folder had non basic English characters. After changing it the problem went away.

[Francis-Crossman]

@Kirmac, thanks for letting us know this worked for you and you were able to get your project exported.

[Rachel25978369gu5n]

Many thanks!
I had the same issue and you helped me a lot 🙂

[Samuel28656396hfam]

muito obrigado

[Pär27477645euw4]

After the latest update I have the same problem. I use H.264. I have plenty of storage space on my harddrive, so that is not the problem. I have changed to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only and use Software Encoding in Export settings. Still doesn't work. I have also tried different Bitrate settings.

The only thing that works for me is when I export to an external drive or even the SD card. Just so you know 🙂 

(I live in Sweden.)

[Francis-Crossman]

The workaround is actually disabling hardware-accelerated encoding in the export window. Toggle open the video section and find Performance under Encoding settings.  Change it to Software Encoding.  Hope this helps.

[Pär27477645euw4]

That did not work for me. I restored to version 23.0 and now it works.  

[JUNIOR5FDE]

funcionou pra mim, obrigado.

[Sascha27767539vc07]

That worked for me. Thanx but please solve the problem.

[Pongpan277953710mjz]

thank you,

ลองเปลี่ยนแบบนี้ดูนะ version 23 ผม export ได้

[just edit]

And do you guys at Adobe find that bypassing hardware encoding is really a solution ? How can it takes more than one month to correct such a obvious bug ? I really would like to understand how is it possible. Are there some Adobe Premiere Pro coders in this forum to explain how it works ?

Thanks !

[mariat24077160]

I'll be doing my edits in the previous version before I try this workaround. I feel the same way about new updates not resolving issues we have to work around - not happy. The other issue is I'm not an IT person so workarounds are not helpful.

[Sol Marengo]

That worked for me! Thanks Francis

[Rıfat Dirgenali]

When I restored version 23.0 the problem went away

[Vinoverse]

Please solve it as soon as possible. Is really anoying to avoid accents when my first name and user profile has it.

[Francis-Crossman]

We fully understand the inconvenience and are working hard on a fix.  In the meantime, you can turn off hardware-accelerated encoding.  If that is not acceptable, I recommend rolling back to the 23.0 version. 

[rlorono]

how do I roll back to previous versions?

[Oğuz27573298yer3]

Hello, I had the same problem. I deleted the new version and installed the old version, which is 22.6 and my problem is gone, I ask you to try

[Francis-Crossman]

Version 23.0 is also unaffected

[António Fragata]

The problem was solved, after i disabled the "hardware-accelerated encoding".
Thanks for the sugestion.

[Francis-Crossman]

Glad to hear this worked for you

[Juliana__mo]

Hasta ahora he intentado todas las opciones que han brindado aquí y ninguna funciona, versiones anteriores, formatos diferentes al H.264, exportar en unidades externas, cambiar nombres, crear nuevos proyectos... ninguno me funciona ylo necesito. 😞

Soy de Colombia

[Kirmm Ella]

¡Oh, pobre alma dulce! ¿Ha intentado cambiar el nombre de la carpeta de salida y el nombre de la exportación? A la versión más nueva no le gustan las letras que no están en inglés. Además, si eso no ayuda, simplemente cambie la versión de Premiere a una versión 22.

[Ivan Najera]

I tried every possible solutions coming from Adobe (and another "experts" forums) but nothing really fixed the issue.

My only personal and possible logical solution was to uninstall Premiere with the lastest version and reinstall the last one when it worked normal, the problem was fixed.

The only thing I guess is not so cool... is to make a step backwards to fix a problem that it is supposed as an upgrade.