BRAW will give you unknown error. And there are others bugs in the Project Manager ! But I agree we should have a better error message

My issue isn't Braw, but unknown error. I've had several fails where after hours of seeming to copy, I get an unknown error and not a single file transferred over. So it was difficult to diagnose where the problem was. I have since figured out some file name issues with special characters, but I've also had another failure after correcting all those. It could literally be an issue with any of thousands of files. Unknown error is not enough information.

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It's 2022 now, Adobe...

My projects are virtually an unmanageable mess now.
Thanks for the attention Adobe, not!

Unbelievable that you need to buy a third party application to make a Premiere Pro feature work properly.
How hard can it be for Adobe to fix this?

This happens to me too. I am using the most up to date version
Please fix this bug

EASY WORKAROUND:
select the whole timeline and replace it with After Effects composition. In AE save the project and go to File>Dependencies>Collect Files...

So, Adobe says this is a problem with merged clips. If you have synched audio and video in the file, whet is the workaround? I tried unlinking the audio and video tracks in the timeline, but that made no difference.

I also tried the free version of PlumePack and it didn't work either.

All I can say is wow! Adobe Premiere Pro Project Manager. Why even have a drop-down menu for something that simply doesn't work. You guys need to do better!

We just developed a plugin called PlumePack which could help you !

It's a kind of Project Manager (so with the same "Collect & Copy" feature) but with the "Trim" feature instead of "Transcode" : it removes your unused frames without re-encoding so you keep the same codec, exact same quality and your media will be lighter. It's like copying a part of your files.

Trimming supports BRAW files, but also ProRes, ProRes RAW, R3D, ARRI RAW, and soon H.264, H.265.

For collect & copy all kind of media are supported.

Note : works also with Merged Clips !

For more information : https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack

The problem for me ended up being Merged Clips in my timeline. Remove merge clips and the project consolidated.

The official word from Adobe: “ This email is in reference to open case regarding issue that you were facing with Adobe Premiere Pro. Project manager will not be able to process the projects which contains Merged clips as a merged clip is not a “real” clip. Instead it looks real but is simply two clips linked so that their audio is in sync. This also applies to the Dynamiclly linked clips

We’ve found these self-help articles if you’d like more information about your issue:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/premiere-pro/using/copy-consolidate-transcode-archive-project.html “

Hi Adobe

Still non-functioning functionality in 14.8.0

Please help! I need to send this project to another department and my whole project is an untenable 4.2TB. Need to consolidate!

Trying to use Project Manager to consolidate a project to a manageable size that I can use in a classroom setting and I received the dreaded and useless message: an unknown error occurred during the project manager operation. Please save your project and retry the operation.

I removed the only BRAW clip from my project. I replaced every After Effects template with a rendered version. I even looked at the warning indicators and tried to remove the clips that it was seemingly hung up on. I detached any proxies that were used, looked for special characters on names and couldn't find any. I, also, tried just a straight copy media without removing unused to see if it's something in the transcode, but same exact error messages as attached below.

I will add that I have a lot of mxf files in the project. Before saying yes to the unknown error, I look at the directory on media harddrive to see what file is the last one modified, but it's not hanging on the same one. Mojave 10.14.6, Mac Pro Late 2013, Premiere build 14.4.0. Two hours of wasted time. You guys have to build a more robust project manager if you really want the pros to stick with your product.

Project Manager works with BRAW Studio https://www.autokroma.com/BRAW_Studio/

Premiere Pro will need BRAW native support in order for the Project Manager to function properly with these files. Please upvote native support so that this bug can be addressed. Sorry for the disappointment.

I reproduced the issue on Adobe Premiere Pro Version 14.3.1 (Build 45), running on Windows 10 Home Version 1909. I ran into this error when I use Project manager to save my project, "an unknown error occurred during the project manager operation. Please save your project and retry the operation.", with "collect files and copy to new location" checked.

The issue is caused by an audio file used in the sequence, this audio file has a single quote in the file name. I believe this error happens when adobe is trying to copy this file to destination location. I was able to verify this cause, by removing the single quote in the source filename.

I just went through this with an Adobe tech and the project manager does not support BRAW clips!

I keep getting this issue. It would be really nice if the Project Manager could have BRAW support in the next update. Let's fix the issue that are currently in the software before adding more features.

Having same issue here.
ERROR! an unknown error occurred during the project manager operation.
Using premiere pro 14.0
MacOS Mojave - 15 Macbook 2019, 32GB 2400 MHz DDR4 Ram. 2.3GHz intel core i9, Radeon Pro Vega 20
I expected the project manager to complete the operation. It failed about half way through the operation with the above error message. It appeared to be copying the files and then failed.