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  • Premier pro failed to return a frame

    Posted by Lee Cheow hee on January 24, 2008 at 7:21 am

    I spent a lot of time tweaking the edit and everything seems OK when I scroll through the time line.However, when I export to movie, This message appears,”Premier pro failed to return a frame.Cancelling the operation.”

    I cannot export what I have done.

    Effectively, this means I have to redo everything unless I can figure out what this means.

    Why does it happen?
    Can someone please help me?

    Thanks in advance..

    CH Lee

    Diana Kennedy replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Connor Roberts

    January 24, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    sometimes this happens when lots of effects are stacked on one clip, or just one effects is on a file like a PNG or something obscure that premiere pro is not used to working with. this also happes when lots of audio editing has occured, so what i always do is export my audio before i render, and just have one finalized audio track in the timeline, THNE i render.

    also, export using Adobe Media encoder instead of AVI, that way when it stops you will still have the file…whereas when you export to AVI, the file is deleted if it doesnt finish. If you use Adobe Media Encoder, you will can watch the part it did export up until the problem point and find out which frame(s) are giving you trouble, and just go in and modify those.

    I have found that just restarting premiere many times will let me export…OR just render that one problem segment by itself (razor/cut it our of your main sequence to its own sequence, render it to highquality AVI or whatever format you are working in, then put that rendered piece back into the timeline…sometimes i have to render 7-8 AVI pieces for my projects, then put them all together because I use lots of 3rd party plugins that premiere doesnt like when having to do one long render.

    ::: Connor

  • Sean Mclean

    June 6, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    In my case this error happens when I’m using Adobe Media Encoder. This is when (using *.MWV codec) it’s almost done pass 1 and I guess it’s string pass 2… and the worse thing is that it will leave me a file with approximately 6 KB so I can’t track where it’s happening!

    This might be because of a damaged “MPEG” video… not sure, but it would render my other “MPEG” videos when I replace it one with another one in the project.

    Anyhow, there should be an algorithm in Adobe to skip that damaged frame not to abort the entire mission!!!

    This is frustrating, is anyone out there who knows a solution to this?! any patches, updates…

    Thanks a million

  • Diana Kennedy

    August 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    I have the same problem. Somewhere it was said that one should download a patch from microsoft because it was a known bug. I did, but It did not help. But it may help you / others:

    https://support.microsoft.com/kb/886716

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