I reinstalled Windows and installed PrePro CS6 again and it was still missing presets.

Did you try pressing and hold the shift key while launching Premiere Pro?

srukweza wrote:

 

Did you try pressing and hold the shift key while launching Premiere Pro?

No. I'll give that a whirl.

In the New Sequence dialog, if you go to the "Settings" tab is "Custom" an available choice at the top of the list of editing modes?  If yes, what choices are available in the "Preview File Format" popup?  I suspect that I-Frame Only MPEG is absent.

I had this and spent ages trying to sort it out.  What solved it was going into Adobe Encore where it suddenly popped up demanding a serial number.  I hae already done this when I installed my software (in may case the master collection) and had previously used Encore.  I was getting no other information telling me there was a problem with activation etc..  However I entered my serial number again, got into Encore, and when I went back to Premiere I had all the presets.  I fiddle a lot with my computers so I just assumed I had done something which messed it up in some way.  Try opening Encore and see what happens.  Unfortunately this is no help if you are running the trial version since you won't be able to open Encore.

Ugh, I had a problem importing AC3 audio that held me back from working on my already late project, and now I have this exact same problem out of the blue!

I cannot access animations I have saved in a project.  I need to copy the animations into a project that is thankfully operational, but the dreaded error message appears whenI try to open it.  Several other project files I have saved will not open either.

My sequence presets list is bare, exactly like the OP's screenshot.  But, I can see the full compliment of sequence presets is still at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6\Settings\SequencePresets.  For some reason, only DV and Mobile&Devices presets show in Premiere.

I have uninstalled the CS6 suite, ran the Adobe cleaner, reinstalled and updated.  No effect, whatsoever.  The sequence presets are still in the folder, but cannot be recognized.

I do not have Creative Cloud.

As far as I know, you must be connected to the internet for registration/activation to complete

Since this is a user to user forum, not Adobe support, I think you are going to have to contact Adobe on this one... unless someone comes along with information on how to make Encore work without internet to complete registration/activation

Todd,

Thank you for recognizing that the problem is with the activation and licensing system. I have called Adobe technical support many times about this issue--the latest being twice today--and it is still not resolved.

I have a new Windows 7 computer on which I installed the disk version of CS6 and the disk version of Captivate 5.5. I mention this because I had Media Encoder 5.5 and 6 (5.5 I think may have installed with the Captivate), but otherwise I have no older CS products on this computer.

If I enter my serial number when the trial window comes up (which it shouldn't), I  can open my projects, but this is just a temporary fix until I close the program and the problem shows up again.

For my first call to Adobe today, the technician took over my computer and tried to update to version 6.0.1 (which was running anyway). It took about 3 attempts from her. She told me that my problem was solved and closed the case. Ten minutes later I tried to open a pdf file and saw the trial window again.

For my second call to Adobe, the technician assured me he had solved this problem 6 times by having customers reinstall CS6. He then told that there was an internal document which had the solution to the problem. He tried to tell me that my problem might be caused by incorrect information in my Adobe ID, such as birth date (my information is correct and has not changed). He told me that my problem would be fixed if I turned off my anti-virus software and then entered my serial number in the trial window. He also kept telling me not to trust forums and I kept telling him that the forums served as a way for Adobe to recognize that there is a problem.

I have reopened my case and requested an escalation to second level.

Update: I haven't heard anything further from Adobe. In the meantime I uninstalled Captivate 5.5 and tried to remove Media Encoder 5.5, I also used the Adobe Cleanup tool. Then I reinstalled Captivate 5.5 but declined to install Media Encoder 5.5 with it (I have Media Encoder 6 with CS6). I also uninstalled and reinstalled Premiere Pro and updated it. So far far I haven't encountered the dreaded Trial Version window again so I'm holding thumbs.

I have been trouble shooting this and I finally found something worked. (for the tl;dr go to Solution: Method 1)

Here are things I tried and observed

I opened up the Project within another project. 

1.  It wouldn't allow me to import the the full project because of the default problem of missing presets, but I could open single sequcences. 

2.  I eventually imported each sequence into the new project. 

3.  Unfortunately, after I closed the project, it wouldn't open again for the same previous problem. 

4.  I repeated step 2 and this time I created custom sequences.  I created a dslr preset - 1920x1080, 23.973, progressive... 

5.  Using that preset I created a copy for all the seuqences. 

6.  I cut and pasted all the clips into the new sequence and deleted the old sequences.

7.  This actually worked, and I can open the projects no problem.

But this is the most efficient and simple solution -

Solution: Method 1

1. Close Premiere Pro.

2. Open the project file in a text editor (e.g. Windows Wordpad) and replace all instances of "I-Frame Only MPEG" with "Microsoft AVI".

3. Relaunch Premiere Pro and test it.

Found Solution here - http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/pro/troubleshooter/sequence -could-not-be-opened.html

It took me less than 1 minute to edit the project files in notepad...  Sounds a lot faster than re-installing it

Note:  My deactivation was greyed out, so I couldn't do that.

If you are referring to - http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/missing-sequence-presets.html

Deactivition wasn't available

The alt + ctrl didn't work for me.

If you are referring to - http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/features-presets-missing-premie re-pro.html

I am activated, and I was not give any serial number/activation options

or Re-installing CS6 which I didn't have to do.

I'm not aware of any other adobe solutions, but if you have any please share.

Totally agree.  I do miss my presets.

This is still an issue as of this morning.  It's happened to me twice in one month for no apparent reason.

From what I'm reading, it's happening more often with the Creative Cloud.

Both times, I had to uninstall Premiere Pro, reinstall it, and install the latest updates.

During the failure, it renders existing projects, that worked minutes before, completely ununsable.  And even after a reinstall, some video clips within a project will work, but some identical-type (AVCHD) clips stay "offline," and won't render.

Today's solution was a complete uninstall of all CS6 products, running the cleaner and rebooting twice, reinstalling, and updating.  But then, Dreamweaver was missing a dll file until I installed and updated another CS6 applicaion.

Many hours later, everything's back to "normal," and my original Premiere Pro projects now function properly.

This is a very serious bug that shouild be addressed immediately, please!!

My "preset missing" problem seems to be intermittant.  I started Premire this morning, got the message that "one or more 3rd party items were missing and your sequences will be modified, or quit Premire and reinstall all 3rd party items", and when I looked at my sequence presets, they were mostly gone.

I found this page and started to follow the easiest of the Adobe directions "unregister and reregister", but when I re-started Premire to unregister, I didn't get the "3rd party items missing" message and all of my sequence presets were back.

I'm currently using the cloud subscription.