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Premiere Pro 22 and Monterey

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October 31, 2021
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Hello everyone,

I just did an update on the latest Adobe Creative Cloud - and then my MacBook Pro (16" Intel), decided it was time to upgrade to the new macOS Monterey.

As a piece of advice, please do not do those upgrades. The destruction Adobe Premiere Pro did on my projects is unimaginable. Files that were on the same spot, same name, were listed with a "broken link". Renders of Linked After Effects compositions were gone. Linked Compositions themselves froze the system. Relinking "lost" ProRes MOV files could never process. Previously rendered timeline files froze Premiere Pro.

I've done upgrades before, but never have I seen this cataclysmic failure by both Apple and Adobe.

Please, be very mindful about these upgrades. Unless you are willing to redesign your entire projects. I have begun to - away from Adobe, which is really sad.

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Correct answer Vakont

I downgraded Premiere, After Effects, and Media Encoder. The project appears to be working now, so the upgrade incompatibilities is on the Adobe's side only.

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi Community,

This post is starting to catch every Premiere Pro v.22.x issue with macOS Monterey. Too generic, my friends, to tack on your issue here. It's better to create a new post with your specific issue. Therefore, I'm locking this post as the OP has solved their issue.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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JackWakeley101

Participant

Updated to Monterey and PP22 and I can barely play a few frames, even in HD and I'm running a Mac Pro with 32GB Ram.

Adobe - Please advise asap

doyou

Participant

Premiere Pro (also in older versions) on Monterey doesn't work at all. Neither on a clean, new project or an older one. No words.

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Antonio Lage

Participant

same problems, but still using Big Sur. I gess this one is on Adobe

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Dmitry5FB1

Participant

I have absolutely the same problems with iMac. All work just stopped. What to do? I have already cleared the cache but nothing changes. HELP

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Carlos Ziade

Community Expert

it is always best practice not to upgrade or update anything, MacOs or Adobe, while still

having pending projects and deadlines. and if you are working on external drives, please

get your problem projects on local drives and use externals for backups only.

Premiere Pro is not so friendly with external drives.

Concerning prerenders, do a backup of all your projects, as mentioned, put the problem

project on a local drive, delete render files from sequence, and clear cache. you will have

to render again. you can delete render files from the video preview folder as well.

Inside After Effects, purge all memory and disk cache from Edit.

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VakontAuthor

Inspiring

The not friendly with external drives (I have one NVMe that I have connected) is a first. Though most of the files that vanished were the ones stored locally. I didn't have a pending deadline, but there was a new project that popped up that required me to pick up some former elements. Thus, it's a rolling project - where I would eventually have to upgrade at some point either I like it or not (or stay with the old OS and Premiere for years to come). I've done upgrades before, but never have I experienced these effects.