Premiere crashing during final encode, reason unknown

Yogurtron · Post by **Yogurtron** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:46 am

I am completely confused by this. Me and my friend did a little Iron Editor competition, and I wanted to export mine to get the sources off my computer. Problem being, everytime I start exporting, it crashes, doesn't even SAY anythign, just shuts down premiere, at about the 50-80th frame (used to be high 70s, now its done the mid fifties after recent attempts).

As any intelligent person would do, I started trying to narrow down the reason. First, I found which clip that was, and saw that it did have a lot of filters, so I dropped the number of filters. It got from 74 to 78 or 80 with that, and still crashed. I then tried encoding that into a HuffYUV avi, and replaced the avs in the project with that. That got the same results, crashed around mid 70s again. I thought, well maybe my avisynth is running out of memory, so I set it up to 512 (I have 2 gigs of ram, so that's no problem for me), still crashes, same place. I tried using a different version of HuffYUV from the main HuffYUV website, same thing. I tried the Lagrath lossless codec, same thing. I even tried completely uncompressed, crashes at the exact same point!

I am so confused... it isn't the source, it isn't the compression, it isn't avisynth, and as unstable as I know premiere is, it cannot possibly be premiere, just RANDOMLY crashing at the exact same point 10+ times. It can't do it randomly in one point, the chances are... well... low, for such to happen. And since I've modified the source with different filters or even architecture, with the HuffYUV encode of it, it can't be the video data, its reading completely different video data (well... i guess not comletely, but still, slightly different, at least)....

So yeah, any ideas? Or even maybe know of where Premiere stores a crash log? I hate that it just shuts down without hte slightest error message.... I want to know is causing it.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:20 pm

Change the memory on your avisynth scripts to 32 or 16.

Export to a sequence of PNG or BMP images.
If it crashes on one frame, try restarting the export from the next frame. The goal is to try and export every single frame to an image except specific ones that have problems. Then maybe you can work from there.

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:15 pm

I had the same problem just recently while exporting my amv for my MEP. Not only did it conck out about 1/2 though, I got some weird glitches in my footage while rendering in Premiere; the video plays cuts from a different portion of the video and it shakes around and goes all spastic. Unfortiounatly, I never figured out the cause of the problem. I changed the memory for the AVS plugin, uninstalled and reinstalled PICVideo MJPEG (just to rule it out), manually crashed my OS and even started the video over. I just got lucky and it eventually did a full render.