Adobe Premiere Pro Dynamic Link AE Composition Loading Forever "Pending" Not Getting Online - aerendercore Fix

 Adobe please fix this annoying behavior of Dynamic Link not working properly, loosing the AE Comps links, and creating havoc in our projects.

 And pleeeaase, the issue is not long or complicated sequences, or other lame excuse you constantly throw back at users experiencing this very problem. And stop it with the "you have a weak computer with sub par specs". OK that might be the case for some users working on a laptop with 4GB of ram, most users though have sufficient specs. An app like Premiere or AE does not need outrageous specs to function properly. If that's your excuse, your code is lame.

 Dynamic Link is a great concept, badly executed. Please improve its reliability tenfold.

 In any case, I'm on Mac M1, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, PP and AE 2025. Out of the blue my DL AE Comps are being put on "Pending" forever when opening the PP Project. It all worked properly for weeks before going bezark all of a sudden.

 When I try to manually relink or disable / enable the clips I'm getting the beachball of death.

 I tried all the online "fixes": deleting caches, prefs, plug-ins, disabling frame rendering (in AE), leaving AE open, closing it, turning Firewall off momentarily, nothing worked.

 Re-importing each freaking DL AE Comp manually? No thanks. Would have taken FOREVER. Re-install apps, delete whatever dynamic link folder, no go. 

 In the end what fixed it was rather simple and I got the solution from this AE discussion board: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/aerendercore-consuming-more-ram-than-allocated/td-p/12957589

 I once again tried to disable / enable one of the DL AE Comp, which caused the beachball of death yet again. Then I openend Activity Monitor, saw that both Premiere Pro and aerendercore were Not Responding. I selected aerendercore process and Stopped it / Force Quit.

 And by some miracle, all the DL AE Comps, and other regular media clips that were also offlined by Premiere (why?) came online. Boom!

 So for now DL is working again with minimal intervention. Just quitting the single aerendercore process did the trick. But for HOW LONG?

 How long until PP craps off again, and leave me in the dirt? Why the instability? What can't we trust PP/AE that our project will open and that we'll be able to work instead of FIGHTING the finicky applications?

 We need stable apps that we can trust, that are reliable day after day after day. Is it too much to ask Adobe?

Apple Mail on iOs Showing Only Inbox Folder, Not Showing Draft, Sent, Junk, etc. With Gmail Account

 For some reason out of the blue Apple Mail on my iPhone stopped showing Gmail subfolders (Draft, Sent, Junk, etc.) and only displayed a single Inbox folder. It also was acting up, being really slow, showing an empty screen, closing by itself, not showing all messages, and other niceties.

I fixed this abhorrent behavior by going into: Settings, Apps, Mail, Mail Accounts, selecting the Gmail account that was acting up, Account Settings, Advanced. Scrolled down to IMAP Path Prefix. In my case it showed a greyed forward slash "/".

I typed "INBOX" instead, (you can type whatever you want really, it's just to populate the space with something), clicked Back, Done.

Then I clicked again on Account Settings, Advanced. Scrolled down again to IMAP Path Prefix. Erased "INBOX", it then defaulted again to the greyed out forward slash "/". Clicked Back, Done.

And... Voila, all the Gmail subfolders are showing again under the Gmail account. Mail is working normally.

Notes on Creating a Bootable Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks USB Flash Drive Installer

  First download the installer app. (Install Mac OS X Lion.app, or Install OS X Mavericks.app, etc.) 

Then right-click on the app to "Show Package Content".

Locate "InstallESD.dmg" under Contents/SharedSupport. Copy it to your home folder.

Insert the USB FlashDrive and Erase it, (MacOS Extended, GUID Partition Map.) Name it MyVolume.

Open Terminal and type:

sudo /usr/sbin/asr restore --source InstallESD.dmg --target /Volumes/MyVolume --erase

Enter your password.

Let the command run.

Validating target...done

Validating source...done

Erase contents of /dev/disk4s2 (/Volumes/MyVolume)? [ny]: y

Retrieving scan information...done

Validating sizes...done

Restoring  ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100

Verifying  ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100

Restored target device is /dev/disk4s2.

Remounting target volume...done

Restore completed successfully.

You now have a bootable USB Installer.

Useful Websites For Mac Admins & Advanced Users

 Among others, I rely on these two websites for help related to installation and management of MacOS. I have many Macs, many models, spanning many years.

It's a jungle out there, but thanks to MrMacintosh and TechRechard, my Mac admin life is made a bit easier.

They both offer links to downloadable Apple Installers, and various procedures to manage your Macs. Recommended.

Also, the Mist project on GitHub is an app that facilitates the selection and download of Apple Installers and Firmware updates.

Do you have other sites to recommend? Let me know in the comments.

Premiere "Sorry An Error Occurred" Pro

 

  

Premiere Pro with Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 3G Monitor - Frozen video output

Note to Premiere users - v25.1.0 on Mac mini M1, macOS 15.1.1

For some reason with Premiere I cannot use Primary Audio Device: Adobe Desktop Audio, and Transmit Device Playback to both Blackmagic and NDI. The output video on the Blackmagic USM3G is frozen. It will update if I jump around in the timeline, but it will not playback in realtime instead displaying a frozen frame.

I have to either use Primary Audio Device: Blackmagic, which is not convenient for me, or stay on Adobe Desktop Audio and uncheck NDI output from the Premiere/Preferences/Playback video stream and then it plays just fine.

Just in case someone uses NDI and encounters frozen playback.

This does not work, frozen video output - Both BMD and NDI checked, Primary Audio Device: Adobe Desktop Audio

This works fine - Only BMD checked, PAD: ADA

This works as well, but I have no use for it - Both BMD and NDI checked, PAD: Blackmagic

Adobe Premiere "Pro" Is Such A Sorry POS Software (02)

 Sorry Adobe, your software is so crappy you should be ashamed.

I have a 20 clips for that small project that I want to transcribe. Longest clip is 9 minutes. Select all clips, hit Transcribe.

Premiere crashes after a few minutes on transcribing one of these clips. Boom, error, sorry got to close. All the shit that happened is not saved, sorry user, fuck you. Send the report, sure, whatever.

Fuck you Adobe.

 OK, manually going one clip at a time because Premiere is so crappy it cannot batch transcribe without crashing. Great time Saver Adobe!

Clip 1, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 2, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 3, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 4, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 5, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 6, Load, transcribe, CRASHES!!! Fuck you Adobe.

Relaunch Premiere. The first 5 clips transcriptions are still there. No transcription for Clip 6.

 OK, again manually going one clip at a time.

Clip 6, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save. (FUA.)

Clip 7, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 8, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 9, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 10, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 11, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 12, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 13, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 14, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 15, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 16, Load, transcribe, CRASHES!!! Fuck you Adobe.

Relaunch Premiere. The first 15 clips transcriptions are still there. No transcription for Clip 16.

 OK, again manually going one clip at a time.

Clip 16, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 17, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Clip 18, Load, transcribe, CRASHES!!! Fuck you Adobe.

Relaunch Premiere. The first 18 clips transcriptions are still there. There is transcription for Clip 18. Go figure!?

 OK, again manually going one clip at a time.

Clip 19, Load, transcribe, CRASHES!!! Fuck you Adobe.

Relaunch Premiere. The first 18 clips transcriptions are still there. No transcription for Clip 19.

 OK, again manually going one clip at a time.

Clip 19, Load, transcribe, transcription done. Save.

Finally! Yeah! Best NLE in the world. What should have taken 15min. unattended has taken instead 1hr babysitting stupid Premiere "Pro" all the way. What an amazing time saver waster! Thank Fuck you Adobe!!

And by the way, all the Speaker separation is wrong, like not even close. There are only two speakers, Premiere is inventing a 3rd speaker, mixing up speakers, really a great job. And the transcription is approximate at best, but that'll have to do. I'm not spending another minute on this crap.

Adobe Premiere "Pro" Is Such A Sorry POS Software (01)

 Premiere is so crappy it's unbelievable.

I'm trying to reload a simple project from 8 years back (2017.) Premiere forces to save a new version, fine. Premiere hangs trying to locate the media, with no indication of what it's doing whatsoever, sitting there doing nothing, forever. Not fine!

Fuck Premiere. Hit Cancel, Premiere is missing all the media, opens the Link Media window, fine. If I try to locate media, Premiere hangs miserably after relinking the first media. Super!

Fuck that, hit Cancel.

OK the project opens with all the media offline, at least that. Then "Upgrade Legacy Title" message pops up "The Legacy Titler is no longer supported. Premiere Pro (cringe) will convert each legacy title into a Source Graphic, and all timeline instances will be replaced." Oh great! Click OK.

Relinking the very first clip in the timeline manually, click OK. This is working, great, only 20 or so more clips to relink in this timeline.

Let's try to relink them 20 all at once... Select, select, locate the first file, click OK. The fucking beach ball from hell... Waiting, waiting, waiting, nothing happens, waiting, waiting, waiting, beach ball spinning, waiting, waiting, waiting...

Fuck you Premiere.

Force Quit. So now what? I have to relink clips one by one? What a joke. "Premiere Quit Unexpectedly". Oh really?

Reload the freaking project, again stuck locating media. Click Cancel again. Showing again the link Media window, Cancel.

Selecting the first clip, relink, fine. Select the second clip, relink, hangs! Beach ball of hell, nothing happens.

Fuck this!

Nothing works, what a fucking joke.

Deleting all Media Cache file.

Going into the Finder, media files, deleting all the stupid ".pek" and ".pkf" files by hand.

Relinking one clip at a time, by hand. Great time saver, thank you Adobe!