ADOBE CC Media pending forever in Premiere project

[Kevin Monahan]

Hi Sergio,
In general, it is not a good idea to update your version of Premiere Pro between projects. FWIW, as a CC member, you do still have access to CS6. That said, have you updated to the latest version of Premiere Pro CC?

Thanks,
Kevin

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[Sergio Miranda]

Thank your for the reply, I did update it, I downloaded the CC suite last night. The weird thing is that some After Effect projects are missing elements on the CS6 side but on the CC they are live there, so the headache has been editing Premiere on my office computer and then coming home to export AE projects to Apple Prores to take back the office to put into the cuts.

I am not sure why Premiere and After Effect are taking so long to load from the splash screen. Photoshop loads normally, the Adobe suite is on my SSD drive.

How would I be able to download CS6?

Thank you
Sergio

[Sergio Miranda]

I actually found the CS6 download, and hopefully this will help out with the problem.

[Mike Cohen]

is it true you can’t go back from CC to CS6 premiere projects?
With CS6 I can open the project file in a text editor and change the version number in order to open the project in CS 5.5

I am a bit leery about CC with all of the threads about issues

Mike Cohen

[Kevin Monahan]

[Mike Cohen] “is it true you can’t go back from CC to CS6 premiere projects?”

Hi Mike,
You can try exporting an XML from Premiere Pro CC to open up in Premiere Pro CS6. There is no Save As CS6 function in Premiere Pro CC. Not sure about changing anything in a text file, though.

Thanks,
Kevin

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[Richard Robertson]

I recently had a similar problem on Premiere CC 7.1. The project was large, and had lots of dynamic links to AE. Lots of Colorista filters, too. I solved the ‘Media Pending’ problem by rebuilding the volume that most of my media was on. No guarantees, but it worked twice for me. (I’m on a Mac, and used a utility called Drive Genius 3.

[Gates Bradley]

Richard, can you elaborate on what it means to “rebuild” a volume? Did you re-partition or something? I’m having a similar issue. It was bad with Premiere CC 7.2, but it’s just completely unacceptable with the new CC 2014. Is anyone else having this issue (with 2014 or CC v7?)

I’m using a USB 3.0 SSD, so shouldn’t be an issue of drive speed. I’ve got 16GB of RAM as well, which isn’t a ton, but should be completely sufficient. I should mention, as well, I’m on OSX 10.9.4

[Richard Robertson]

I was getting a lot of ‘media pending’ graphics. I found that if I used the disk utility ‘Drive Genius 3’ to repair and rebuild the disk, then Premiere didn’t get confused about the media references. I think the ‘rebuild’ is just the for the directory. (You don’t want to repartition anything!) The project that gave me trouble was pretty big with lots of media, mixed AVCHD and XDCAM native files.
Hope that helps.

[Stefano Bianchi]

Ciao Sergio,
I’ve installed Premiere Pro CC 2014 a few weeks ago and I have a similar problem with Media Pending and really long loading times each time I open a project containing multiple media assets.

To speed it up a little more I’m manually emptying the media cache folder (user/library/application support/adobe/common – manually, because if I use the dedicated button in the preferences/media panel it won’t gain the same result) erasing all the files contained in the two media cache folders inside the “common” folder. Although this is speeding up the linking operations inside Premiere, unluckily it’s still not 100% solving the problem. With simple h264 projects (coming from a DSLR camera) the problem seems not to happen, but when I start using different medias, well, Premiere becomes a serious problem.
I wrote to the adobe support (the italian one) but they gave me really poor informations, and if I should count the lost hours due to this issue, well, I should have a free subscription to the CC service for a one or two years.
I’m really unhappy about Premiere CC 2014, and I’m still wondering how Adobe could release such a software on the professional market.

Well, until today Adobe has been a good company, maybe the best at all, but if things should run like this without a solution, I will probably (and sadly) look for an alternative to Premiere.

Good luck,
Stefano.