Premiere 24.1 Export bug with Warp Stabilizer

[Will..]

Once again I literally cannot complete my commercial project using Premiere Pro as a paying customer. I have to deliver the project today and Premiere decided it won't let me export my last 4 clips. No third party plugins, no luts. Literally only using Lumetri Color and Warp Stabilizer.

The issue is warp stabilizer. If I remove it, it exports without error.

I've tried restarting Premiere, restarting computer, adding new warp stabilizer, changing settings. It refuses to work. I get 'Error compiling movie' every time, so I literally cannot export and deliver this project on time because of PREMIERE PRO ONCE AGAIN!!!

I just spent 1 hour exploring the clips individually to ProRes WITHOUT warp stabilizer, then importing the clips back into Premiere, then adding warp stabilizer, then exporting all the clips again to ProRes. That's the only way I could get it to work. A complete waste of my time.

Best part is, earlier today I exported a dozen clips with Warp without problems in the same timeline, but today, it's giving me issues. Same footage, same timeline.

This is unacceptable.

Adobe advertises '5x faster timeline'! I constantly see ads for it. Cool! Too bad we can't export. How about you guys spend the money on engineers or managers that can make the program work instead of ads? Will there ever be a day where Premiere just works?

Premiere won't even let me highlight the error code in the error prompt window so I cant even copy it here to share it so I took a screenshot below.

MacOS 13.6.3

PR 24.1

Footage: Sony A7siii HEVC 4k 422 10bit

Trying to export to ProRes

[Christian.Z]

I wish you didn't hide the very first character of where you are exporting to. Try exporting to a different drive, if that does not work try changing renderer to "software only"

[Joanna3449659246ja]

I'm experiencing the same issues with Premiere Pro. 4k Footage shot on a sony A7c, 27 mins long, and it exports just fine until you play it back and the video has dead spots; frozen frames with audio playing, jumping clips with audio, its all over the place. I've restarted my laptop, reset creative cloud, tried different export settings and the outcome is still the same. Each time its in different parts of the video but still choppy. FIX IT adobepremierepro

[pixelee]

I'm having the same issue. Warp Stabilizer is preventing me from exporting, and I need a stabilizer applied. I'm currently looking for third party stabilizers because this is wasting my time... exporting and rendered has gotten much slower recently and Mac makes it impossible to change GPU settings which is usually the solution for this problem.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @Will.., @pixelee, @Joanna3449659246ja, 

I'm Kevin from Adobe Support, one of the moderators here. Thanks for your bug reports.

The team needs information about the system and the source footage. Can you please provide it? See, How do I write a bug report?

@Will.., you are editing with HEVC 4k 422 10bit camera originals, which is taxing on any computer system. I would advise transcoding clips and then adding Warp Stabilizer or using the render and replace command. I read that you did just that! Sorry for the frustration, but this workflow makes sense because you are maxing out your GPU and getting this frustrating error. Transcoding clips to an editing codec (where GPU acceleration is unnecessary) avoids using much of the GPU hardware encoding/decoding needed by an HEVC clip carrying GPU-accelerated effects at a 4K frame size. You can edit so much more smoothly. Transcoding or using proxies is normal for everyday editors to have a better experience while editing. It doesn't take much extra time (it is a background process), and you can toss the oversized files after you finish the production. I swear by this workflow!

Computers are not limitless in GPU capability, so you have to play within the limits of your hardware. You can also buy more powerful hardware more suitable for your workflow. Let me know your Mac hardware, and I can evaluate it and what you can expect from it. I would say that people expect too much out of the newer ARM-based Macs. You must still consider limitations when simultaneously using many GPU-centric effects (Lumetri, Warp Stabilizer, etc.) and HEVC encoding/decoding processes.

I hope the advice makes some sense.

Anyone else on the thread can try the same and let the community know what happened.

Thank You,
Kevin

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @Will.., @pixelee, and @Joanna3449659246ja,

I'm sorry about the issue. I didn't hear back from you, however. Are you still having the issue? Let me know. I'll move this to Discussions while I await your reply.

Thanks,
Kevin

[pixelee]

Found the solution - sometimes Warp Stabilizer will turn one of the frames black. Sometimes at the end of the clip, sometimes toward the beginning at the end of a transition. Trim the black frame and you can export. People on Reddit forums say they have built a habit to check for a black frame anytime they add Warp now because it's a pretty frequent occurence. I found about 6-8 of these black frames in my sequence. After I removed them, I could export.

[michaelf81393821]

This made me extremely angry once I updated to the 2024 version. If you have it, use After Effects. The quickest, simplest way is to right-click on your video, select "Replace with After Effects Composition," and once you have your clip in AE, apply the warp stabilizer. I have no issues exporting clips in Premiere Pro with that effect applied *as long as* the effect was applied in AE, not Premiere. Plus, AE has an exceptionally cleaner warp stabilizer.