How to fix clip that appears frozen in Premiere Pro render

We've been having problems with clips that appear frozen in the final render and here is the workaround that I have come up with.

[tomgreenwood]

Wow - that works! Big thanks. You've rescued me from an editing nightmare!

[ChingJasonS]

AMAZING!!! I was so frustrated by the frozen clip. Tried rendering it out in different sequences in different formats. Interestingly it was also a slow mo clip, 60p modified to 24p. Great job and thanks for sharing, totally worked for me.

[jessicaberdeau]

Thank you so much! For me, this has been a random hiccup that I've never experienced with drone footage before. I feel like ever since I updated to the latest version of premiere, any time I use adjustment layers to color grade drone footage, Premiere exports a freeze-frame of all drone clips from the sequence. I'd love to know why there are issues, but this is a great solution to get the job done!

[livingfotovideo]

THANK gosh, we have tried everything!!! like Jessica we have the same issue with drone footage, it started recently out of nowhere. 4 hours of premiere pro support, 5+ different youtube videos from people all over and no one gave me this simple solution. AND IT WORKED!! you probably saved about 80+ hours of re-editing that I was about to do to all a lot of my videos (Pr 2021 has the issue, 2020 does not) thank you Eric, I will spread the word and give you all the credits. PS I never write any comments but man! so happy that I found this

[bigsocks]

thanks for the video. I had this problem with multiple clips in a sequence-- ended up deleting my premiere media cache and that solved it.

[Plainsee]

That tutorial just saved me! Thank you so much. But problems like these really get me considering final cut as an option...

[Afrankyy]

Saved me from another 3 hours of headaches!! THANK YOU!

[Trufflestravels]

I had a couple clips on my external harddrive. I put everything in premier and exported it to my desktop. Then I started a new project and edited the combined mp4 and now when i export it, it takes the regular amount of time it's supposed to but then the vid comes out to only a few mb. It plays the first few minutes of the video, then video freezes but the timer keeps progressing. What should I do? I clicked on the media on the left panel and duplicated it but when I double click it it opens in the top left menu. It doesn't duplicated the sequence and create a second tab like yours did where you closed the original. Any ideas what I can do to fix this.

[paul.willett.no.rest.]

I just spent 3 hours searching the internet for this solution and your video was the one that worked! THANK YOU

[ThatFlyinRyan]

Thank you my Dam Dji clips where coming out frozen with my Fx3 clips i think this has fixed my problem

[BopjoWebDesign]

Thanks for this hack. I certainly hope Adobe addresses this ASAP. It happens to me randomly with drone clips. Everything was fine until a couple of months ago when this just started happening out of the blue.

[BrisbaneChannel]

Thanks so much! Finally found a way to fix that damned frozen clip!

[soerenmurmann]

lol thank you man you saved me as well!!

[jamesstevenson]

is there a way i can go about this without using after affects? as i dont have it bought?

[djdjaleldjalel]

I just changed the speed to 99% and the clips started playing again.