Encoding keeps getting stuck when exporting

I've only been exporting projects for a few days, still fairly new to all this but it seems that the issue is the disk speed for me.

As you can see I'm stuck at "100% encoding" from checking my task manager it seems to be the hard drive which is slowing things down:

This seems to happen when the separate output files are merged into the MP4 for me, when checking the directory that I'm exporting to, I have 3 files (they've since disappeared, sods law) I think they were:

.AAC - this is audio I think

.MOV - this is visual I think

.MP4 - this is the file they're combining to

Again I maybe wrong but this makes sense as it's quite an intense thing for a hard drive to do, read and write to itself continuously.

From this I think I may try a few different things but it may vary for everyone dependant on their computer and storage drives:

1. try exporting to my fastest drive
2. try moving the project file to my faster drive while exporting
3. try both

I cannot guarantee this will improve things but that's what I'll be trying, fingers crossed it helps!

Komic,

Sorry for the frustration. Does your computer have a discrete GPU at all? Like NVIDIA? Are you using lots of video effects? Are you editing 4K footage? Have you tried 1 pass VBR encoding instead of CBR? Have you tried any of our export presets?

Thanks,
Kevin

First, Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card and your source properties and sequence settings.  And are any of your sources from a smartphone or a screen recording?  

You might try smart rendering.   Reset your preview format in your sequence settings to a high quality format lilke prores422 hq and then render your entire timeline.  If that works, export with "use previews" checked.

Make new project and import old one.

See how that goes.