Firstly it's not an accidental double post. I posted in two threads in order to reach a "wider audience", as both threads are related to the post.

And secondly I just tried to trigger a crash. I started up, exited a LOT of processes, cleared the logs in Event Viewer and ran Premiere Pro. I clicked on my "actual project" under Recent Projects and I got a BSOD. However I believe Premiere Pro had nothing to do with the BSOD because under Event Viewer > Applications the ONLY error was the WMI one.

Under system, however, I had a "The previous system shutdown at 6:27:02 PM on 26/8/2009 was unexpected." and a "Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for server side authentication.  The data field contains the error number." The second one seems to have NOTHING to do with the BSOD. Thus I believe that one of the processes I killed triggered the crash.

I'm going to further experiment, though, and post the results here.

Okay I tried running it on Windows 7, and as usual I restarted my system and killed off a couple of apps.

It hanged and these are the logs from Event Viewer.

Firstly I got an error from ImporterProcessServer.exe:

Faulting application name: ImporterProcessServer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4a0e03b3
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x50c10bd8
Faulting process id: 0x53c
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca283b4ad4c9e1
Faulting application path: E:\Software\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS4\ImporterProcessServer.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: cdf10acb-942f-11de-a445-002185156cb3

Then followed by 3 "Information".

And then the typical not responding log:

The program Adobe Premiere Pro.exe version 4.1.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: e98
Start Time: 01ca283c51471895
Termination Time: 39
Application Path: E:\Software\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS4\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Report Id: ddf7731e-942f-11de-a445-002185156cb3

*Can't seem to edit my post, never mind*

Sorry, my bad, it's 1 minute 28 seconds approx time remaining. Only 18% of the encoding process is completed, and that's just an estimation.

The thing is when the rendering progress stops loading, I can still alt tab back to my PP and slide the timeline bar around and work as per normal. But AME just won't encode anymore.

Bump

One thing, on another forum somebody said: Also, you're putting 1280x720 30 fps MJPEG footage into an HDV (MPEG) 29.97 fps project setting. That certainly isn't helping anything. You would need to setup a custom project and I'd advise to set the sequence for 1280x720, 30 fps, uncompressed to have a shot at it working...

I tried to change the MPEG to Uncompressed but there isn't the option to do so, there is ONLY MPEG under Video.

And where do I get DV materials? I only have a camera that takes HDV footage.

But isn't the "HDV 720p30" under "HDV" the appropriate HDV preset? Only that under the General tab, under Video Previews > Preview File Format it is set to I-Frame Only MPEG. I think the guy from the other forum meant to change this to Uncompressed. But how do you change it? I can't!

All I know about the settings is that the footage is MJPEG and the video preview file format is I-Frame Only MPEG. How do you change it to Uncompressed?

And how come when rendering Clip 1 and Clip 2 it works, but with Clip 1, 2, and 3 it stops at Clip 2 and eventually Premiere stops responding. Note that it is still responding initially.

From what camera originates the material?

A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX38 camera. It takes videos in HD (MJPEG) so I thought I'd just use HDV. I think this might be causing the conflicts, although it baffles me as to why it stopped responding when there are more than say, 2 clips in one go.

Harm Millaard wrote:

 

HDV is the wrong preset. You need to create a custom sequence, that reflects what you shot.

Can you help me come up with the settings? I'm sorry but I have no idea what to use for the sequence settings.

this is just one of my clips. they were all taken from the same camera, with slight differences (go to first page, i listed them).

Thanks!

It didn't work, but I'm going to try something else. Since rendering invididual footage works, I'm going to try to render the footage as uncompressed AVI and then importing the uncompressed ones to eleminate codec issues. I think this will work.