Premiere/AME Long Render Crash

StevenBills

StevenBills

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Hi everyone,


It was requested that I film our company's monthly meeting, so I setup two cameras (XF-305s if it matters) and went at it. I then offloaded all of that footage (only about 64GB worth) onto one of our external G-raid firewire drives, and edited a multi-cam sequence from there, and inserted graphics, etc...


Anyway, the time has come to render the video, and it's about 1 hr and 44 minutes long, so it's not exactly short. Anyway, I selected the 720p YouTube Mp4 preset in Premiere and it has consistently crashed about 3 times, as well as trying to render it out through AME. I just tried rendering it again (it said that it would only take about an hour to render the whole project, so I sat here and made sure that the drive didn't go to sleep or anything like that. Is that even a possibility?), and it crashed about half-way through again. The 720p Mp4 YouTube preset DOES have it encoding as a 2-pass VBR. Should I change it to one pass? Because it's crashing on that second pass.


I'm using CC 2014 with a brand new MacPro, and this shouldn't be happening. Any thoughts/comments as to why this could be happening? I know there is an issue with the new 2014 and the MacPro, but I haven't had any issues thus far. Just this.


SB
 
StevenBills said:
...Premiere and it has consistently crashed about 3 times, as well as trying to render it out through AME. I just tried rendering it again (it said that it would only take about an hour to render the whole project, so I sat here and made sure that the drive didn't go to sleep or anything like that. Is that even a possibility?), and it crashed about half-way through again.
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I've had stuff like this happen on the laptop I used to run Production Premium cs6 package on. Turned out to be something with the video card. You can find that out easily enough -- just before you render (doesn't matter whether you go from PPro or AME), in PPro, Project...Project Settings...General. In the pop-up, Video Rendering and Playback, select "Mercury Playback Engine software only" and click on OK. Then click on Delete Previews.

Now, start your render again. It will take a lot longer, 3x longer maybe. But if it completes successfully, you'll have your answer. If not, you've eliminated your video card system as the cause. So you learn something either way.

Oh, yes. Before you start working on NLE again, you'll want to go back to "Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration (CUDA)" or your workstation will just crawl.
 
Does it always crash in the same place? if so, then you have a problem at that spot. Set an in after that spot & an out at the end of your film & see if it exports.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I tried the render again with the YouTube mp4 720 preset, but instead of a VBR 2-pass, I changed it to VBR 1-pass, and it rendered out fine.

Still not sure what the issue could have been though. Maybe it has something to do with the preset? And I updated to OSX 10.9.4 as well, so I guess that could have been the problem.

SB
 
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