Premiere Pro crashes while selecting Encoding Settings in the Export Settings window

This is because you likely have a discrete GPU that either is not supported at all in the hardware encoder (old, obsolete GPUs) or lack a hardware encoder of any kind (some very-low-end currently available Nvidia and AMD GPUs). The only fix, for the time being, is as Sumeet described.

In Premiere Pro, go to Edit > Preferences > Media and un-check Enable hardware accelerated encoding and decoding (requires restart). When done, close the dialog and close Premiere Pro and launch it again and try.

If that does the trick, follow the advice given abowe by Sumeet Kumar Choubey.

Hi TonyBuenger,

We're sorry to hear about this crash. We would need more info to diagnose the issue properly. Please let us know the system specifications (OS, CPU, GPU & RAM) and the exact version of Premiere Pro that you are using. Are you observing this behaviour with other projects as well? Let us know, we're here to help.

Thanks,

Sumeet

I have branched your post to a new discussion to continue troubleshooting the issue.