Hi jamieb3363089, Sorry to hear that you are facing this issue. The media pending graphics may appear, if Premiere is still trying to load the media or the cache files have been corrupted. You may try the steps mentioned in this article to clean the cache and then check if its helping or not. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2152942 Also, if you are facing issues with playback performance, wherein the playback is dropping too many frames or the playback is stuck for quite a while, then you may try reducing the Playback Resolution to 1/2 or 1/4 and check if its playing back better. If you are still facing playback performance issues, then it could be that the system is not able to process all the frames required for playback in real time and is causing the frames to be dropped. In these cases you may try using the Proxy workflow. You may refer to this article know more about Proxy workflow https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/ingest-proxy-workflow-premiere-pro-cc-2015.html Also, in case if you have issues specific to any particular media then you may transcoding the media and then use this transcoded media in Premiere and check if its working better. Hope you find it useful, let us know if you have any questions. Regards Sumeet Kumar Choubey
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