Unable to render and replace any video clips, events panel is empty

[Nibroc99Productions]

Hi all...  I have always had this problem with Premiere Pro across any device that I use, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if I'm just frickin' cursed, but it's very frustrating!

Whenever I try to render and replace any video clip using any settings in the render and replace window, I get the error box below:

In case the image doesn't load, it says "The operation could not be completed due to some errors.  Please refer to the Events panel for details."

But, here is the events panel:

Totally empty.  I have no clue what went wrong.  The file does save next to the original media, and does play just fine in Premiere, but the program just doesn't apply any effects to the clip (namely in this case Warp Stabilizer and Lumetri Color, but I've tried a combination of other effects and it just never works).  And it never actually replaces the file in the sequence or imports the newly created file into my project files panel.

This has happened across multiple versions of Premiere since 2016 since I started using it, as well as multiple installs on different systems (all Windows 10 systems though) and I have never been able to find a solution.  I've scoured the forums but all of the posts I've seen have shown errors in the Events panel.  It just never gives me anything.

I have also tried switching from hardware to software rendering, made sure to have the latest game-ready driver as well as tried using the studio drivers in Nvidia GeForce experience, all to no avail.  Here are my system specs, if it matters:

Ryzen 9 3900X (Corsair H115i Platinum 280mm AIO)

64GB DDR4 2666MHz

EVGA GTX 1070 FTW HYBRID (I've tried this both with and without my overclock settings applied, also tried resetting the GPU and motherboard BIOS just for the hell of it)

Mobo is an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (WiFi)

PSU is a 1250W 80+ Platinum

So essentially I don't think that this is a hardware-related problem.  There's got to be something about the way I'm doing the render and replace command, or maybe an error in Premiere Pro.  I can not for the life of me figure this out.  I've tried reinstalling the program, resetting my preferences, clearing caches (I have a 512GB NVME SSD dedicated to being a cache drive for Pr and AE), even tried different video formats (h.264, h.265, MOV straight from my Nikon D7500, Apple ProRes 422, tried test 8k ProRes footage I downloaded online from someone too just for the hell of it).

I'm fresh out of ideas.  Please let me know if anyone can think of anything!  Thank you!

[Keale]

I have the same issue.  I rarely need this function, but right now I absolutely need it, and it's doing this exact thing.  Ever figure out a fix or a codec that doesn't result in failure?

Does Render & Replace work for anyone?

[Nibroc99Productions]

So, I still haven't gotten render & replace to work...  The way that I've been doing things requiring the render & replace function, is by replacing the clip with an after effects composition.  You can do this via the right click menu on any video clip.  Within after effects, I would then render the comp and replace the after effects composition clip in premiere with the rendered video. Hope this helps!

[Anthony LV]

Still having this issue in 2023

[Frederikkrath]

Also in 2024

[Ayoub-Ishak]

Why is this still an issue in 2024??????????

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[Nibroc99Productions]

Still having this same issue in 2024 myself as well.  Haven't found a solution.  I've had Adobe remote in to try solving the problem a couple times and the customer service technician explained to me that he doesn't know how to fix the problem and would send details to the technical team.  That was like 2 years ago.

[Michael380584571xak · Accepted solution]

In my case, what fixed the render and replace error was re-enabling the audio in After Effects (after disabling it). Oftentimes I'll replace a clip with an after effects composition to apply a denoiser and other effects that Premiere doesn't have, but because I'm replaying the footage so often while I work on applying those effects, I disable the audio playback on the footage track. If I forget to re-enable audio when I'm back in Premiere and attempt to render and replace to bake in those After Effects edits, it'll give me this error.

[YEUDU]

IT WORKED!!!!!! YOU ARE TRULY AWESOMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[agile_writer5E61]

i Love u Buddy (worked like magic)

[Matt.McK]

Mods, this is not solved, despite the rather enthusiastic reply of our friend here YEUDU here on his very specific circumstance using AE comps.

This still happens on render and replace on regular clips, and when trying to export clips via project management tool.  I'm currently having to render out full sequences and manually chop them for clients who need colour graded clips, which is insane.