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  • Error Compiling in all instances (Premiere Pro 2020)

    Posted by Michael Wallace on May 29, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    Hi,
    I am editing a project that’s composed of a variety of archival videos from different sources. The most common is MP4/MOV H.264
    I just started getting the Error Compiling message when I try to render my timeline. It doesn’t happen when I export, but my exports have missing audio. I’m getting this error message even when trying to render in other older projects that didn’t have problems before. I’ve tried all the fixes I can find and think of, and am at a loss.

    Error compiling movie.
    Export Error
    Exporter returned bad result.
    Writing with exporter:Quicktime
    Writing to file: *my external hard drive
    Around timecode: 00:00:00:00
    Component: QuickTime of type Exporter
    Selector: 9
    Error code: 4

    My machine’s info below
    Premiere v 14.2
    macOS Catalina v10.15.4
    iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
    Processor 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
    Memory 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

    Have tried:
    Restarting Premiere, rebooting the computer.
    Rebooting in Safe Mode, rebooting and clearing the peripheral RAM.
    Duplicating the sequence
    Importing the sequence into a new project file
    Rendering in chunks. Rendering even just one clip on a timeline.
    Changing the GPU accelerator
    Changing the timeline’s codec.
    Trashing the preferences and plug-in cache.

    Michael Wallace replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Ann Bens

    May 30, 2020 at 1:32 pm

    Export to internal drive?

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  • Michael Wallace

    May 30, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    I figured out the problem. It was something simple I overlooked. My scratch disks are set to an external solid state drive, and that had filled to capacity without me knowing. That’s why it wouldn’t render whatsoever. Just had to clear out a lot of space from that drive and I’m not getting the error anymore.

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