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October 10, 2012
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"This project contained a sequence that could not be opened".

  • October 10, 2012
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Hi everybody,

Well I have a big problem here, with my software Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. There is a project very important to me, on which I have been working for two monthes now... I can't open it.

Everything worked fine untill this evening. Now, when I want open it, it loads and there is a message on which is written : "This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type.".

I have tried the solutions proposed on http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/missing-sequence-presets.html : I disactivated and reactivated my Premiere Pro CS6, and I "re-created the Adobe Premiere Pro preferences and plug-in cache" (at the least, I pressed alt + shift during the loading screen of Premiere.. I had no sign that anything was done or changed because the software started as usually, but I suppose it's normal).

So, since it seems that there's no further solutions or ideas to resolve the problem, I want, at the least, find a way to recover the huge cutting work on which I
thoroughly strived during the whole last weeks.

According the error message, there is ONE sequence that doesn't work. It means that the great majority of my sequences are clean. How can I recover them in a way I can edit them again on Premiere ?

Thanks.

PS : sorry if there are mistakes in my words, my maternal language is french.

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      pwildhirt
      Participating Frequently
      October 4, 2013

      Adobe helped me with mine at some point and they said it was "sleep." if you sleep your computer it thinks it's not licensed! Lame. lame. lame.

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      Shadreck Rukweza
      Participating Frequently
      December 16, 2013

      I got this problem right now. About a week ago I was able to do system restore and then was able to continue editing. However today the program just quit without warning and lost an hour's work which unfortunately autosave didn't kick in as it is meant to do this every 20 minutes. This is Premiere CC btw. Tried system restore and it failed. Unbelievable....

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      BoomBoom1212
      New Participant
      January 5, 2014

      I just Stepped into this problem, I have Had this Hard Drive Cloned because the previous hard drive was failing. if some one wouldnt mind, can you please explain this Notepad++ Solution? when i open my projects in Notepadd++, all i see is what looks like Compiled language? How does one ungarble it?

      Also I show Activated when i sign into Adobe, Where is the Activation Tab in Premiere pro CC?

      thanks in Advance

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      Anonymous
      August 14, 2013

      I had the same problem and I fixed it like this:

      • Create a new empty project in Premiere
      • Go to File > Import...
      • Import your broken project using the "import individual sequences" option
      • Once it has detected all sequences, select and import them.
        Although this already seems to work, if you save this new project, you won't be able to open it again later. So the next step is the key to make it work.
      • In your project media window, go to each of your sequences, right click, "sequence settings".
        Don't change any settings, just click ok. Premiere will tell you that the preview files will be deleted.
      • Your project should now be fixed. You should be able to save it and open it again without any problems.

      I hope this solves it for you and any other readers too! Good luck!

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        Anonymous
        August 15, 2013

        this way can save 40% of my work (but it's better than i got nothing at the end)


        Besides, this way can help to import all sequences, but the source files of Illustrator and Photoshop were failed. (cannot be selected in the process)

        is it possible to recover an entire project ?

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        Anonymous
        August 15, 2013

        @kid.arbu

        I'm not sure what you mean. In my experience, importing a sequence also imports everything in your project library that is used in that sequence. Probably unused clips and other media will get lost though. In my case that wasn't a problem.
        I used a few Illustrator and Photoshop files in my project too, and the sequences where I used them were imported correctly. All the source files on my harddisk have always been in the same place, I didn't touch them.

        So as far as I can tell, I recovered my entire project.

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        RockstarBruski
        Inspiring
        July 14, 2013

        I ran into this when I swapped my SSD from my dell e6510 i5 laptop into a dell e510 i7 laptop.  THe laptop hardware is identical to each other other than the cpu.  Everything worked except CS6 gave me the same error you are having and then told me that I needed to reactivate which I did and boom I could open my projects again.  Interestingly I could create new projects before reactivation but couldn't open up any old projects.  Well then the i7 laptop was having lock up problems from a hardware issue so I decided to put the SSD back into the i5 laptop and once again ran into the same couldn't open old projects error.  After reading the above replies in cs6 I clicked on help, deactivate, then reactivated and boom I was able to open up my old projects again.  This definately seems like a licensing issue when CS6 sees a change in hardware and in my case the same OS but different CPU / laptop with different hardware IDs and such.  I'm hoping this solution of deactivating and reactivating will stick because I have a lot of editing to do over this week-end.

        Hope this helps some people having the same issue - cheers!

        BTW - for those of you wondering why I'm editing on this laptop I wouldn't recommend a dell e6510 laptop (has 8GB ram, SSD and an nvidia video card) for editing with cs6 as it tends to be very slow on larger material edits - but it's the best laptop I have right now and I need to edit while traveling in a car and I don't really want to buy a faster laptop just yet as I have an editing desktop with a good video card that is MUCH faster than my laptop.

        KeithHopkin
        KeithHopkin
        Inspiring
        May 29, 2013

        I just encountered this same problem after copying all of my projects to a different external drive. I verified btye counts on every folder when I copied. I just read the FAQ that adobe pointed too. Maybe the error message should be a little more verbose as this is a very unsettling error to see on something you have worked really hard on.

        Update. I'm on Creative Cloud and deactivating and reactivating RESOLVED this issue for me

        http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/missing-sequence-presets.html

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        bird birdy
        New Participant
        February 27, 2013

        its happen when i open my project from macpro to my macbook pro..

        my method is create new project and just import that old sequence (not entire project)

        its work to me.

        good luck.

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        Artyms
        New Participant
        February 19, 2013

        Hello everyone and sorry for my bad english.

        Ok, this was my problem :

        I created my project in Prelude CS6 then worked out in Premier Pro CS6 and then send it to SpeedGrade CS6. After closing everything for a reboot, my main project Premiere couldn't be opened, error message : " This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type. "

        So, after looking on all those forums I decided to reinstall all my CS6 programs with Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner. Somehow, the cleaner doesn't clean everything, 5 of my CS6 programs were still there. And when I tried to reopen my project with the fresh Premier CS6, the same error message shown his face.

        This is my solution :

        Open a new Premier project and import your "work" project in the new one. When Premier ask you how to import, choose Import selected sequences. This worked for me.

        ( Any of my CS6 were updated ).

        Also, my " old " project had dynamic link with After Effect CS6, maybe all this cocktail made this error.

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          excited_Genie16B8
          Legend
          February 19, 2013

          Dynamic Link doesn't cause the error, not being activated is what causes it.  Sometimes you need to close PP and retry after activation.

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          andrewdoug
          New Participant
          January 8, 2013

          I had the same problem.  After some trial and error I figured out that it was some .psd files that I had imported as a sequence. 

          I created a new premiere project and imported the sequences from the old project that wouldn't open.

          Then I used Photoshop to save the graphic as tiff files and reimported them into the project.

          I replaced the .psd/sequences with the Tiff files and deleted the .psd/sequences from my project.

          This totally solved the problem.

          I know it's just a workaround but until this .psd import issue is fixed, it's a perfectly good one.

          I hope this helps.

            Kevin-Monahan
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            October 23, 2012

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              DirtyLowPull
              Participating Frequently
              January 30, 2013

              >>This project contained a sequence that could not be opened.  No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type.

              I deactivated, killed everything with Adobe's name on it and restarted Premiere (which promptly failed to ask me to or provide any options for reactivation - Encore subsequently told me I was not activated - relaunching Premiere showed the 30day message - relaunching the Adobe Application Manager let me activaite.

              That allowed me to open ALL the prproj's I was DENIED access to by Adobe's licensinig division..... Slap on the back of the hand for your new flangled licensing devs - I bet you tested the part that collects the money and blocks use of the program right?  Serious killjoy project manager...

              And Priemere dev's - you should know better than to trust them when they say you won't need to update anythign for the new licensing  - update the damn eror rmesage: "Oh yea...sorry...I'm gonna go ahead and ask you to reactivate everything"

              Reinstall?  What is this ATI?

                josephs51576386
                josephs51576386
                Participating Frequently
                October 10, 2012

                What version of Premiere are you using?  6.0 or 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 or 6.0.3?

                Also sometimes this problem occurs when you used a customized sequence in the project but this sequence/codec is no longer installed is this possibly the case? For example did you have any capture cards installed that aren't installed anymore? Did you recently re-install your OS or remove codecs or make any system changes?

                Also from what I have read another quick work-around for this issue is to open the Premiere Pro Project up inside Notepad ++ and change all instances of the current preview codec from I-Frame Only MPEG to Microsoft AVI. Because some other people have said this solution works in some cases. However I'd only do this as a last resort. This solution will only work though if the problem was being casued by the I frame only mpeg preview codec option though which isn't always the case. So this might not work anyways. I'd honestly recommend just re-installing though if you've already tried to deactivate and you personally already know that you weren't using I frame only mpeg as a preview choice and you also know for a fact you haven't uninstalled any capture cards recently or any codecs. If you do uninstall though, use the adobe cleaner tool when doing so.

                http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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                  Anonymous
                  October 11, 2012

                  Hi,

                  Thanks you both for your fast answers !

                  ComputerNovice25, I edited my project on notepad ++ as you told me, and now it works really great. I can open it again ! Thanks you.

                  Best regards !

                  josephs51576386
                  josephs51576386
                  Participating Frequently
                  October 23, 2012

                  Hi all,

                  I've recently run into this issue as well. My client gave me a 2TB external with a mess of PProCS6 projects, and I cannot get a single one of them to work.

                  System:  Win7/64 Ultimate
                  i7-2760QM
                  32gigs Ram
                  3gig NVidia 560m

                  First attempt to fix was the notepad workaround. Unfortunately each project file ranges from 300mb to 600mb (rounded, obviously). Not only did the rename process take upwards of 15 minutes to complete on the seemingly massive text docs, but I still received the error.

                  Next attempt was to completely wipe CS6 off my system, and follow up with Adobe Cleaner. Ran Cleaner 5 times back-to-back, reinstalled Master and still have the issue.

                  What gives?


                  What preview codec was the project previously listed as using?

                  lasvideo
                  lasvideo
                  Inspiring
                  October 10, 2012

                  Try this solution.

                  Create a new sequence that has same attributes as the old one.

                  Open the old one and copy the entire timeline.

                  Go to your  NEW empty sequence and paste .

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                    gabrieled29378775
                    New Participant
                    March 2, 2015

                    YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! WE CANNOT OPEN SEQUENCE!!! HOW xxxxx CAN I COPY TIMELINE???
                    u are not smart

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