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MichaelTC
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May 26, 2020
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Premiere Pro 2020 not opening projects

  • May 26, 2020
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Hello! Currently I am trying to open up my premier pro projects. I am able to open the app on my iMac, but when I go to open a project, it will attempt to open, then it wont respond. I've reset my computer and restarted premiere a few times now. I'm unsure what to do next.

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    Correct answer Averdahl

    Create a brand new project and import the old project into the new one via File > Import.

     

    Have patience, large projects take som time to import and one can get the impression that everything has freezed.

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    RFB2767
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    July 21, 2020

    Im having same issue  cannot open my proects, and they are only ten minutes videos.  this really sucks. I paid a good bit for this and the razer blade pro 17 64gb ram 4TB 2080 super and I7-9750H    All I want is to edit and send it.  looks like its time to eat it and go to davinci  any help??

    Averdahl
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    July 21, 2020

    Have you tried to do what i wrote earlier?

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    RFB2767
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    July 21, 2020

    I have  ALT while launching,  copy then enter as new project  it just started a few days ago, now its useless.  why is this acceptable? its not cheap  and now I have a huge back log of videos  and an in the boc razer blade studio on my counter and Im afraid to load PP to it.  Im dying over here. 

    Averdahl
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    AverdahlCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    May 26, 2020

    Create a brand new project and import the old project into the new one via File > Import.

     

    Have patience, large projects take som time to import and one can get the impression that everything has freezed.

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      Ivo5C08
      Participant
      November 2, 2020

      Anyone reading this - this isn't the actual correct solution it's a work around. The correct solution at time of writing is to disable Mercury Transmit in your video playback preferences

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        Tom André5CD7
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        November 3, 2020

        I have this problem as well. It's very strange, because a project I created last week opens and closes with no issues. But all of my projects created this week gets this "hang up on launch" bug. The only difference between the projects is that I have 4K files in the new projects and only 1080p files in the fully functional project. 

         

        Disabling Mercury Transmit doesn't do anything. It doesn't help to disconnect my external monitor either. I've deleted all cache and reset all preferences. I even completely uninstalled and reinstalled Premiere Pro. I'm running Premiere Pro V 14.5.0 (Build 51) on a 2019 16" MacBook Pro running Catalina (10.15.7). 

         

        I've lost half a day of editing to troubleshooting and would very much like to get back to an effective workflow. The "opening the old project in a new project" method works, but this is not ideal as I already create several new projects each day and often need to jump between them. 

         

        Any more help would be very much appreciated!

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