AE hangs at "Initializing Media Core"

I know that Magic Bullet is a Red Giant product which installs a Media Core component which produces this problem.

Maybe Key Correct Pro does that too (or you have Magic Bullet?) Make sure you uninstall using an installer rather than delete the plug-ins manually.

If it's not that, then you could have a third party codec that could be causing problems.

Maybe Key Correct Pro does that too

No, not that I'm aware of. There was a compatibility fix for CS4, but the plug-in itself is not hardware accelerated and should not interfere with MediaCore. Magic Bullet products (Looks, Colorista, Frames, Steady) however might. It's definitely worth checking. In addition, I recommend checking the Media Cache. perhaps there are just some damaged conform files in there.

Mylenium

AE uses WDM sound. It should be able to handle ASIO in a WDM wrapper, but it cannot handel it natively. I think Premiere and Sounbooth do, though. So in essence AE crashed due to attempting to initialize the card incorrectly. I'm sure this can be remedied by enabling some compatibility switch in the audio config, also, but if removing the line does the trick, success can hardly be argued. As they say: Fortune favors the bold!

Mylenium

I found a way to solve this problem easily!

While you are stuck at "initializing media core", you can end the process of the quicktime server. afterwhich, adobe cs5 will proceed as usual

windows 7, x64

NOPE!!haha its simple just install the older versions of quicktime like Quick Time 7 and beloW! or just run adobeqt32server.exe at startup even if your quicktime is updated or you can create a shortcut adobeqt32server.exe and run it!, for Newbies the directory of adobeqt32server.exe  is  C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe After Effects CS5/Support Files/32/Adobe QT32 Server.exe Thank you!

1 more you can create a easy shorcut! first open notepad and paste:

@echo off
start "" "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\32\Adobe QT32 Server.exe"
start "" "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\AfterFX.exe"

and save it as Adobe After Effects CS5.bat dont save it as txt file save it as bat file ok!

I did all of these things and the problem still doesn't get fixed.

I am now having this problem with CS5 not 5.5 AE wont load . Was just useing it.. Then had to force quit now it hans on this spot..

Need help.

Try the solutions described here:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/857/cpsid_85711.html

I have the same problem here, but today I update my Avast free to internet security, the problem disappeared.

Anti Virus software from just about every manufacturer has been known to cause intermittent problems, slowdowns, and crashes at various times for many Windows users.

The problems have not been limited to Adobe. Any app that writes to disk in the background can be broken by anti-virus software. If a windows machine I was on suddenly stopped working properly or failed to install an app that's the first place I'd look. The second, video codecs. The third, fonts. They all can easily go screwy and foul things up.

Same problem. I renamed the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS4\Support Files\(Media Core plug-ins)\Common to common1. Started and gave a Media Core error but still loaded. I renamed the folder to Common and failed again. My solution was to uninstall Quick Time.

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The easiest way to fix this is to Delete your user account and create a new one. In my experience the problem exists somewhere in the usuer preferences. I can log out and sign in as a different user and AE fires right up. This does seem to be an issue with AE not working well with Adobe QT32 Server.exe. I reinstalled AE, removed all plugins, un-installed anre reinstalled quicktime, all to no avail. The best and easiest solution has been to: 1) move all stuff you want from your user account (my documents, my music folder, desktop, Outlook database files etc) to a renamed folder on your C drive. 2) Create a new User account. 3) Delete your old user account. 4)login as new user and copy over any old files you saved on your C drive. This should wipe any problems that were burried in the user acount.

Just turn off the firewall of your antivirus.

In my case McAfee firewall was creating the problem.

I dont have an antivirus program installed.  i've tried turning off all

firewalls it still does it.

And Adobe is strangely absent from all of these discussions.

$800 software and they can't afford to pay for someone to do tech support?

Really?

As with most other CS5 problems, it's 100% Quicktime related. Fact. Look no further.

Will Adobe fix it? No.

> And Adobe is strangely absent from all of these discussions.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Two Adobe employees have responded on this thread alone.

> $800 software and they can't afford to pay for someone to do tech support?

You can contact Adobe Technical Support here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact

> As with most other CS5 problems, it's 100% Quicktime related. Fact. Look no further.

One of the possible causes for this is related to QuickTime---specifically QuickTime failing to load a bad third-party codec (usually an AVI importer). See the second solution on this page for details:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/857/cpsid_85711.html

I had this problem too sometimes when opening After Effects...when it got stuck at "Initialising MediaCore" i 'End Proccess' from task manager ans restart AE but still had th same problem...so what i did after that was I try switching off my Internet or disconnect from the Internet and try relauch AE..and it works!!

I did find one other easily fixed cause that locked up my AE CS6. In looking through System Preferences, the Perian utility that has DivX and other tools for media playback luckily indicated that "It was installed twice". I removed the duplicate install and voila, everything back to normal. Hope this helps someone as it was very frustrating!

I had this same problem, and fixed it by removing some SAN networking software. It definetly has something do a conflict with some other app that is using your network.

yeppo it works this way for me

when I try to searh for an add:

• Adobe QT32 Server
• dynamiclinkmanager

there are no results so I can't allow them to get through the firewall. Please advise. This issue is crippling.

For CC 2015: The problem seems to be AVG anti-virus. I disabled AVG and it fixed everything. Apparently a recent update messed with Adobe. If the other troubleshooting methods don't work for you (re: adding exceptions to the firewall and/or changing read/write permissions of the Adobe folder in app data), this worked immediately.

Thunderbalz wrote:

 

For CC 2015: The problem seems to be AVG anti-virus. I disabled AVG and it fixed everything. Apparently a recent update messed with Adobe.

Yes. To be specific, Firewall, Computer, Identity, and Email options are all fine. HOWEVER, if you switch on either of the Web options (LinkScanner or Online Shield), it goes back to the QuickTime error and taking ages to start.