AME Crashing (Not Responding) on every Encode

Hi there,

I am working on a fast turn-around project and need to transcode iphone footage through media encoder. I recently updated and every time I press go on the Render Queue - be it for individual clips or a watch folder the programme crashes. See laptop specs below. 

Not I am on PC and tried converting to DNX and ProRes incase it had something to do with the codec and same thing happens.

Please help!!!