Premiere Pro 2020 Crashing constantly

I am having the same issue! I tried the fixes and they do not work. I spent hours working on a video only for it to be lost. I think I am going to have to switch. I even downlowed Illustrator and Photoshop after working for over 20 years in CorelDraw. Guess I need to cancel my subscription and do something else. Pretty frustrating that they haven't fixed this problem yet. Bummer.

Sorry I'm so late to this, but the 2 solutions I found are relatively simple. 

1. File > Project Settings > General >Renderer

Set to software only.

This will make the encoding process slower, but it's a quick fix. If you just need to get the project done, do this, but if you need it to move at lightening speed like I do, try option 2.

2. Go into your graphics card settings, or google search driver updates for your graphics card. SPECIFICALLY make sure you have STUDIO DRIVERS. Since graphics cards are mainly built for gaming, you need to make sure you download studio drivers. I only just realized this myself. Once installed, you can reset your project settings to the GPU. 

Option 1 makes a two hour video take about 40 minutes to render. Option 2 made it take about 15 minutes. Hope this helps!!

Adobe shows by not addressing bugs for years on end that they don't care about stability in Premiere nearly as much as jamming more features in to expand their user base. I suppose it's "good enough" as a popular editor for fairly simple and short projects. That said, it's maddening in a professional setting for a feature-length project how often it crashes and how slowly it performs, and how often you must restart Premiere for stability reasons. No number of support phone calls or tutorials about how to reconfigure it really seem to help much. You may discover settings that run a bit faster but no stunning breakthroughs or fundamentally better reliability. If you're stuck with it until you finish a complex project I recommend you set autosave to work every 5 or 10 minutes and run Premiere on a really high-end machine so you can restart it quickly. If, on the other hand, you're about to start a large, new project I strongly recommend Davinci Resolve.

Have you found a solution yet? Ive been trying to fix this problem for months now and still nothing has changed always just crashes pretty much as soon as i open a project. How has adobe still not fixed this ??? What am i paying them for honestly. Ive uninstalled and re isntalled still crashing ive cleared all my storage on the laptop got an external hard drive to see if it was a spcae problem and no. still crashes everytime its bs. 

If the following are true:

1. None of the software-based solutions solve your crashing problem - clearing caches, changing configs, etc.
2. You have a desktop computer (most likely).
3. You've recently installed new RAM, a graphics card, sound card or other add-on card...
   Newly installed RAM or card may not have been properly seated in a slot,
   OR
   You've been using the same machine (that was upgraded sometime in the past) for months or years without any change..
   Vibration and heating/cooling can cause components to stop making consistent contact, contacts can get dirty. Less likely to happen with factory installed parts.
4. In either of the above cases, a machine may work just fine most of the time but experience crashes when accessing particular features of software that push the computers limits, uses more advanced features  (like Adobe products or game software for example), or causes the computer to access a particular location in the computer's RAM or video card RAM.
5. When all else fails...
6. Unplug everything from the computer (especially the power), ground yourself, open up the case, remove each stick of RAM and each add-on card, clean contacts, and re-insert everything verifying that each component is fully seated in it's slot. If you aren't familiar with doing this kind of thing:
7. There are lots of videos and how-tos tailored to just about every experience-level - it's not rocket science but due caution and care are required. 
8. Always unplug power before opening the case.
9. Static electricity kills computers. Be sure to include videos/how-tos on grounding yourself in your research before you open the case. 
10. Proceed at your own risk.

Removing components, cleaning contacts, and firmly reinstalling components has saved me from pitching a computer and/or piece of software out the window more than once.Try things that don't involve opening the computer first but keep this in mind when all else fails. 

This is incredibly FRUSTRATING, to say the least.  I've been working in a new project and PP just keeps crashing!!!  I try to do almost anything and it locks up.  Try to rename the video tracks in the sequence...IT CRASHES!!!  Add a new video track...IT CRASHES.  Import a new video to the project and try to add it to the sequence...IT CRASHES!!!  Change to a different workspace (as mentioned in this thread) and guess what...IT CRASHES!!!  It seems like with every new update it brings about more bugs.  I am sick and tired of "rolling back" my PP version to correct the new issues with the new versions.  This is just getting so old and it doesn't seem like Adobe even responds to our issues.

It's December 2020, a few weeks into 2021, and Adobe premiere 2020 keeps crashing. Someone, please fix this problem once and for all. 

I have been struggling with this EXACT problem amongst many other ridiciulous problems within Premiere. Needless to say, I am switching back to Final Cut after I complete my current edit now that is possible to work on again using this workaround that discovered. I opened Premiere, made a new project, then opened the project that i was working on and copied the whole sequence timeline and immediately closed out that project before it crashed again. I then pasted my old timeline into a new sequence in the new project and this instantly brought back all of my source files into my main bin. So far this has worked. So frusrated with adobe. I am running a 2020 imac, 10 core, 96gb of ram, and 16gb vram.

Adding a "me too." Here's a list of things that definitely cause PP2020 to crash every single time (and resetting the workspace doesn't help), so I'm listing these as something others might want to avoid:

• Using File>Import or Ctrl+I to import footage (so drag and drop is the only way I can import footage without crashing the program)
• Using "replace footage"
• Using Export > Media and then trying to change the file name in the first window (however, if I add the export to the Media Encoder queue and then try to change the file name, it doesn't crash)

Those are the ones that I've consistently noted; it also crashes at random. I'm on a PC using Windows 10.

I was going to just switch back to 2019, but my company built motion graphics templates that only work in 2020. So now if I have something complex to build, I have to build it in 2019 then export that file, then bring it into 2020 so I can use the motion graphics templates. I've never seen a program crash as much as this one does. 

Same. I work for The Times newspaper. My mac has been fine for 8 months working from home. Just this week, CC is crashing, Ai, Ps and Id all crashing every 10 mins. Also sending my iMac fan crazy. I've never heard the fan until this week. Help!