Media Encoder gets stuck!!

Question

I'm getting frustrated.  I have a 1hr long project that i'm trying to export and been fighting with it for a week.
Media encoder starts its work, it goes on for hours and eventually, at some random point it just stops encoding.  It doesn't freeze, it doesn't show any error, it doesn't physically "stop" but the output preview just freezes on a random frame (different each time) and the 'remaning' export time instead of getting shorter just gradually gets longer and keeps increasing to show that it's gonna take hundreds of hours to finish...  I didn't trust the preview/remaining time so i kept it on and encoding for 48 hours - at that time it showed that it was gonna take 600 something hours to finish and was still increasing.  ridiculous.
I'm on an HP elitebook workstation.  Nvidia Quadro 2000, 8GB ram.  Win7, Using Premiere CS6.  My sequence is pretty heavy - 1hr long, 9 video tracks, 10 or so audio tracks.  Most clips have MB Looks color correction on them, some clips have stabilization, few clips use MB MisFire effect.  95% of my footage are 1080p or 720p MOV files from the Canon 7D and from GoPro.  Few other clips are different formats (flv/mp4) and i have some stills + tiff timelapses and imported photoshop graphics.  Also, just a few AfterEffects clips imported into my timeline.  It's pretty heavy but i exported my rough cuts of this project many times before - most recently with the 720p youtube HD preset - always took a while, but it always DID export.
Now I'm trying to export with the 1080p YoutubeHD preset (except i checked 'render in max quality') and I also tried exporting as 1080p H.264 - and it just will not export...  It's been a week now, i tried many times, i deleted the cache, i started a new project and imported the old one into it, nothing makes any difference and i'm out of ideas...
*** Few potential clues i need to mention:
- For some time now I've been getting the [..\..\src\TickTime.cpp-207] error whenever opening the premiere project.  There are several discussions on this error on the forums - so far no solution and no clear source of the problem (aparrently sth to do with stabilization).  But after clicking 'ok' on the pop up error message continuously for a minute or so, the error goes away and the project doesn't seem affected in any way. 
- a couple of my previous exports of this project had 1-2 clips that looked 'scrambled' in the finished exported file.  It was mostly the stills.  This only happened 2 times though, many other exports were just fine.  not sure why...
i'd much appreciate any advice...

Answer 1

Sounds exactly like what is happening to me.  This is frustrating because it was a 30 hour encoding process and the place where it is stuck is right at the very end of the sequence on the 2nd pass, although there is still about 12% of the progress bar remaining.  I guess that this is where it takes all its work and puts the separate files into the single video file. I really don't want to go through this again. The final video file is showing up though and is shown having the size that I am expecting it to be.
Any workarounds to somehow get this unstuck?  I am hesitant to just try and open the file. I am going to try a couple of things and if I am successful at getting this to finish without restarting then I will be sure to post it here.
Also, I don't know if this has anything to do with this problem, but I looked at my system Activity Monitor, and there is a CPU process highlighted in red, it states:
     Adobe QT32 Server (not responding)
Thirty minutes later...
I was incorrect above as to the actual problem.  I paused the queue encoding that was stuck, then opened up the project again in Premiere Pro only to discover that there was an offline still image which I stupidly had renamed during the day. So I renamed the file back to its original name, reconnected the picture, saved the PP project. Then I started the encoding back up and still no luck.
So I paused the encoding again, went back into the PP project and rendered just the area under question, saved it, and exported it into the queue. Then just to be safe I went to the paused item in AME, and duplicated it adding another version into the queue.
Then I unpaused the encoding and ... SUCCESS!!  Not sure which of the final steps did the trick, but I am guessing that it was the rendering of the part of the sequence that it was stuck on.  Hope this helps someone.