Consider the following if Premiere Pro crashes while rendering

[Ollie Pepin]

My premiere pro would hardcrash my computer everytime I tried to render a sequence that had many clips layered on each other. If your premiere pro is also hardcrashing when rendering, consider what storage device the clips and prproj. are located because the data cable that connects the device to the rest of your system may be the bottleneck. I originally had my clips and prproj. files on an external drive that connected to my computer via usb 3.0. After realizing this could be the issue. I took my SSD out of the external drive case and connected it to my motherboard using a SATA III cable. I tested the prproj. sequence that was giving me issues and I didn't hardcrash when rendering. So please consider this when troubleshooting rendering problems!

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Thank you for sharing this fantastic tip, @Ollie Pepin! Community, please take note.

Cheers,

Kevin

[Shebbe]

While this case may have worked for your case, I wouldn't call this out as a first fix. Not everyone is a Windows PC user and not nearly any PC user knows how to work with the internals of such a machine. It is true that the drive may bottleneck but there are other best practices that could be executed first.

1. Exporting the clip to one of your local drives, like your desktop. This removes the strain of writing to the same disk a lot of files need to be read from.

2. Rendering the timeline first and then export to that intermediate format with [Use Previews] checked. In this setup I would recommend setting your sequence settings to ProRes4444 previews or 422HQ with Max Render Quality and Max Bit Depth checked. Once the timeline is green export the media with the Use Previews checked to that same format and it'll slam through the render in a few seconds. You can use Media Encoder afterwards to make your desired deliverables.

3. If the above still fails I'd first opt for copying the source media to local drives instead of connecting the external SSD to the PC internally provided there's enough space.

If that isn't an option, there's your solution.