"Export Error: Unknown Error" I Tried everything! Premiere Pro CS3! HELP!

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I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. I'm getting this error titled "Export Error: Unknown Error" with no more details than that. I get this error right when rendering completes and it won't let Premiere create the final finished file. It goes through rendering, then right when it his 100%, this error comes up.
I recently installed the new Quicktime 7.6.7, I think that MAY be a factor, but I doubt it because I'm getting some pretty bipolar results here. The footage originally came from a Canon T2i.

My computer is pretty fast.
Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz
3GB RAM
7200 RPM Sata hard drive
Nvidia Geforce 256MB graphics card.
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, service pack 2.

1st Try:
3 Minute 1080p24 sequence. All clips were in editable formats: PHOTO-Jpeg codec @50mbs with a Quicktime container. Music was in .Mp3 format, and audio connected to the video was uncompressed wav.

I tried rendering in H.264(mp4), Qucktime h.264, WMV HD. They all failed at the last frame like stated earlier.

2nd Try:
I figured Photo JPEG must be acting up because of the high bitrate. So i tried another codec. I tried the Avid DNxHD 36. Which didn't work at all. The second I imported it into premiere pro. All the footage looked weird and rainbowy and weird, so it was obvious that wasn't going to work.

3rd Try:
I thought. Oh! maybe it's not the Photo JPEG codec. Maybe it's my Mp3 audio files, since MP3 is compressed, it has to work! So I do a test render by removing all the music from the project. It worked... but now my music was gone.

4th try:
Now that I thought that mp3 audio was the problem. I went and transcoded those mp3 files to uncompressed wav files and put them back into the project, so my music was back. NOW EVERYTHING IS IN PERFECT EDITABLE FORMAT. I had no super high res JPEG photos. All my clips were in the editable Photo-Jpeg codec. All audio was uncompressed wav. I tried to render now, feeling confident. THEN, I GOT THE "EXPORT ERROR: UNKNOWN ERROR" AGAIN! WITH NO EXPLANATION!

I have been using the Photo JPEG codec with premiere, and mp3 audio with it forever, and it has worked fine! now for some reason premiere is being all buggy. Maybe it's because of the new Quicktime update? I don't think mp3 audio was a problem, because if it was, then transcoding to wav should have worked!

PLEASE EXPERTS! HELP ME!

Also, do you think CS5 could solve this problem?
 
Only one HDD?
Get at least 2, 3 is better.
4 gig of ram would help.
Why do you want to export with Photo Jpeg.
What is the endproduct going to be?
 
I still have plenty of space on my hard drive though. Like 300 GBs.

I wasn't exporting PHoto JPEG. i was editing in photo jpeg and trying to export in H.264 mostly.
 
Ben,
Were you able to get the "Export Error: Unknown Error" fixed?? I am stuck with same problem, with AP CS3.There no problem with specs , machine or storage. I am not even using MP3 file.I am really frustrated.
 
I have encountered this wonderfully pleasing message when rendering or exporting a timeline repeatedly in CS5 and CS5.5. My understanding at this point is that this is Adobe's cheap-rear way of saying "Opps, the program encountered something that it couldn't handle, but we're too lazy to figure out a way to give you more information than that. Tough luck." This quote is paraphrased from a tech at Adobe, by the way.

Fortunately, whenever I've encountered this message, I've been able to figure out where in the timeline things went south, usually by playing the rendered file or export to the end. If you can do this you will probably find that the difficulty lies very near that point on the timeline. Things to look for in my experience are nested sequences (this feature is riddled with bugs), or imported jpegs. If it's a nested sequence, try mixing and rendering the audio down to an aiff, import it and place it in the timeline turning off all the other channels. If it's a jpeg, the image might look find in the source monitor, but try importing it again and you may find the problem goes away. And then send a Thank You card to Adobe for wasting days of your time.

Good luck.
 
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