Adobe Premiere Crashes on Export

mutantfish01 · Post by **mutantfish01** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:04 pm

I just finished an AMV with Adobe Premiere 6.0. Near the end of editing, however, the rendering speed began to lag because of the plethora of effects I used on the timeline. In addition, when I attempt to export the timeline, Premiere crashes at the first frame of exporting.

I'm fairly confident that this has everything to do with the multiple layers I was using, many being masked with photoshop layers and whatnot. However, I wonder if there's a different way to export the video, or change settings so that it does not crash due to an overload of effects. Any information regarding this issue would be incredibly helpful^^;

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:19 am

I can think of a crap load of reasons:

Editing with .avs and complex filter chains
Exporting with xvid or some other lossy codec
You ran out of memory (virtual or otherwise)
Broken plug-ins
Editing with Xvids/divx w/e
You are currently encoding/using in another program the same codec you are exporting with.
You export settings are incorrect
Your codec are broken and need to be reinstalled

and the list goes on and on without more information it's hard to tell what exactly is going wrong.

try exporting uncompressed and find out at which frame your export crashes that's usually a good indication of where you have a problem.

Gene Starwind 21122 · Post by **Gene Starwind 21122** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:57 pm

Same problem here as well.

I currently run a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, and 1.5 GB of RAM.

I keep crashing right around 945 frames. I take a look there and it is about 4 or 5 video tracks of editing with some effects / text. So I tried rebooting and that didn't work. I ran scans on my computer. No viruses, and no adware. I also uninstalled and re-installed AMVapp and that still didn't work either. It was working fine until I added in some effects but now it just crashes.

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Hiro The Dragon King · Post by **Hiro The Dragon King** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:45 pm

I can't seem to export either. I'm on a 3.2 GHz AMD Athalon 64 X2, with 4 GB of RAM and a 512 MB video card. I was exporting fine the other day, but I upgraded my computer and now I can't seem to. It has nothing to do with what I'm editing as there isn't anything on the first frame...

I'm also having trouble with CS3 Flash so I think I'm gonna repair it, if not, reinstall it and see if it works.

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:37 pm

Best suggestion is a reinstall of the application, make sure you back up the adobe backup folder within its own directory before you remove it, last thing you need is adobe to ask where all its temp files are..

I had something similar a week ago, after exporting the audio would begin to jump for no reason.. reinstall fixed it. Hardware upgrades shouldn't usually effect software, then again I've seen it happen at work so I'm not really surprised.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:50 am

*sigh* this is from a pm about the problem, I just forgot to put it here.

I tend to get this when there are track matte's some times, so I have to play with my export settings specifically "maintain data rate/always/recompress" that tick box and drop down. Eventually i can export on uncompressed or huffyuv (Lagarith takes more CPU)
Also those machine specs are not really that good :\ so it may not have enough juice to export.

Alternatively export in chunks... such as export the trouble spot by itself (100 frames or w/e)
*shrugs*
That's all the help I can be usually I have to turn my computer on and off again and futz with those settings before it exorts.

I'd like to add that I cant export more than 10 seconds if I'm using an avs with no filters at all so I have to edit from either vfapi or avi files since vfapi screws up randomly on my pc. There's an approach I recomend to WMM users who keep getting export problems... export in chuncks (workspace bar only) and then replace your original footage , time consuming and a painin the ass but if all else fails and you dont wanna scrap your project... *shrugs*

These are my system specs to put things in perspective:
AMD 4600 Dual core
4 GB corsair (matched sticks of course in their pairs) 800mghz ram
2X 7600 GT TDH Nvidia Leadtech 256mb video cards running SLI
1.3 TB in HDD
Big ass Antec fans

And it still crashes like that even with full system resources allocated to my editing program. But having used WMM for years and putting up with a crash after every single change I really dont have anything to complain about in comparrison <.< >.>
My current solution includes upgrading to premiere pro 2.0 (I use 1.5 and it has a memory leak) and reinstalling a new version of windows (thanks AtomX for trying to halp).
psst I also have trouble with the amvapp3.0 so maybe that is related to your crashes or maybe you should upgrade to it, it seems to help some people :p

Hiro The Dragon King · Post by **Hiro The Dragon King** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:46 am

My problem was that I didn't know that you can't speed up AVS clips too fast. Oops. Yes, there was a clip that was animated so slowly that even at 900% still seemed to move slow.

WesW · Post by **WesW** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:22 pm

For those like me who usually have to piece the vid together, in the old version of the EADfaq it mentions how to use the plus symbol, "+", in avs to join together files. (This really needs to be included in the new edition.)

When I get export errors, they usually come in batches, to random frames, and exporting in chunks usually does the trick if rebooting doesn't.