Premiere crashes if I try to edit metadata

Ahh, didn't catch that. 

And yea, not being able to match-frame across a Production ... from the start of that mode ... has been a big pain in the patootie. Totally agreed there.

Hi Neil,

As I mentioned in my post, I am using a production rather than a stand alone project. I just said that most of my main video media is imported into a single "Media" project within that production. I prefer it this way for a variety of reasons. One of them is that the nature of this project, and many of my projects, requires that I be able to search all media quickly and easily. There is no built-in way to search across a production right now. I know there are workarounds and plugins but I prefer to try to keep things simple - mostly to simplify the inevitable trouble-shooting that is always required. Additionally, stand alone projects, as well as projects within productions, are capable of containing immense amounts of media and before productions became available, Adobe went to great lengths to stress that fact. I have separate projects for graphics, audio, etc and another for selects. Once I've done the bulk of my selects reels creation, I only open that "Selects" project for editing so I don't have to load all the original media every time. 

Cheers,

Colin

Hi Ian, Thanks a lot for your quick reply and direct message. I've sent you the project file and appreciate your help.

If you are doing large projects constantly, I don't understand the use of the ancient stand-along project model. That is neither built for nor recommended for such work.

Building a Production is no more work than properly organizing a project in a stand-alone. It requires a bit of planning of the organization, which most people already do ... bins for this, that, and the other things.

In a Production, that's simply top folders for the different major parts, subfolders to hold parts of the project, and right-click/create project to make those projects that are actually used identical to the bins you're already using.

It's elegant, simple to organize, and is designed for the larger projects either episodic or long-form. It's what most everyone else that does that work uses.

I even do all my small-shop work in a Production so all my Broll, audio library, graphics, and templated things are available for all my projects no matter the client or type of work.

The only time I ever mess with a standalone is to simply do a quick test of something that I'm going to delete after testing anyway.

Hi @colinruggiero 
Can you file-share the project file with us? I sent you a direct message where you can email me the .prprproj file. It would help us if you could use the link here, How to Report a Problem, which has steps to provide more information that can help us identify the issue. 
We apologize for the frustrations you have been experiencing, and we want to help improve even the basics so that you have a much more pleasant time editing. 
Here to help
Ian