Export Error Error compiling movie. Accelerated Renderer Error Unable to produce frame.

Had a similar issue. Doing a custom reinstallation of nVidia drivers resolved this.

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 - Encoding Time: 00:00:02
09/08/2024 11:31:33 AM : Encoding Failed
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Export Error
Error compiling movie.

Accelerated Renderer Error

Unable to produce frame.

Writing with exporter: QuickTime
Writing to file: E:\Video Projects\George Worrell - Neighborhood Favorites\assets\footage\Proxies\fx3_4183_Proxy.mov
Around timecode: 02:29:26:11
Rendering at offset: 0.000 seconds
Component: QuickTime of type Exporter
Selector: 17
Error code: -1609629695

1. Clicked Reinstall driver

2. Did  custom installation 

3. Used the "Perform a clean installation" option at the bottom.

4. I am now able to render with the CUDA option. The software option worked before but was significantly slower. 

Nightmare over. I can now continue the evening's plans with peace of mind.

I've gone through every post online without success looking for the solution to: "Video Preview Error, Error Compiling Movie, Unknown Error"

Not once did I see it suggested that the problem might be with the Premiere Pro programme. After weeks of searching and stress: I DELETED THE PREMIERE PRO PROGAMME AND RE-INSTALLED IT, and found that was the solution.

GB,
I'm glad you got your problem solved via smart rendering. Using preview files to harness an export is the way to go should you be in certain workflows with your particular computer. Your intuition is correct. A more performant GPU would have helped this situation with your standard workflow. That said, a workflow centered around smart rendering might be suitable considering the hardware you own. 

• What would help guide you in designing your ideal workflow is knowledge of how the "Mercury Playback Engine" works, and how your GPU is working with it. Details are here in this legacy blog post.
• For example, knowing that "Scaling" is one thing handled by the GPU. So are GPU accelerated effects, like Lumetri Color, and Warp Stabilizer. So, if you're working with 4K footage scaled to a 1080p sequence that has a color grade and a stabilzation applied, you've got 3 GPU processes going on. 
• The error you are facing is when during exporting, too many GPU processes are overloading your GPU. Your CPU is going full tilt doing the encoding, so it cannot assist in the rendering of these frames. So: you crash with Error Compiling Movie or Can't Produce Frame, or similar warning because all available processes are literally tapped out.
• The "smart rendering" workflow that you ended up using can help with situations like this because all the GPU processing that is normally firing off in the export/encode process had been previously offloaded to "preview files" which are used in stictching together files that already exist. The files are merely copied, not encoded. This results in a very fast export process, as you found. The downside are a lot of large preview files, but these can be deleted after you have exported your show.
• If you find errors while watching down, you'll find that smart rendering provides a fast way to fix the error, render a quick preview file, then export at high speed once more. If you had errors in the older workflow, exporting another H.264 file once more with the fixes would take much, much longer...and you might crash along the way!

Hope this helps explain what went on there a bit better.

Thanks,
Kevin

Then as I noted in my first post...

• make sure your "preview" format/codec for that sequence is a good quality interframe format/codec like Cineform, ProRes, or DNxHD/R;
• break the sequence into segments, and do a "render and replace" or "render selection" process for every segment;
• export the sequence after clicking both the "use previews" and "Import into Project" buttons near the bottom of the Export dialog. This gives you a "master" file for your sequence.

Now, you can use that file for whatever you need, or ... export that master file as a compressed H.264/265 file or whatever without troubles.

Neil

No, which is why say rendering chunks to an interframe "preview" format/codec identical to the export to be created is useful. It breaks up the work some.

And ... that is then usable as a "master" file. Check the re-import box near the bottom of the Export dialog, and it comes right back into your project after the export. Then export that same file if you need as an H.264/265 file, and all the heavy lifting has already been done. Easy peasy.

Neil

Have you tried an interframe format/codec such as Cineform, ProRes, or DNxHD/R? They would be easier on your gear I would think for the initial encode, and you could also if necessary use "smart previews" ... by setting your Preview format/codec to the same as that you would export using those codecs, rendering each clip, then exporting the sequence with "Using previews" selected.

Your rig is pretty low powered, and some Red Giant things take a lot of processing.

Neil