Premiere CS4 sequence/esting rendering leads to black spaces

Help! When I drop a sequence
into another sequence and render it out, sometimes black video will appear for a few seconds. The same thing happens on some clips when I nest 2 or 3 layers together in a sequence (even though it plays back fine if i go to that sequence). The videos all seem to play back fine in their original sequences. And this will happen in exactly the same place if I try to rerender that sequence in another sequence. And I'm talking about anything really complex here.
- Paul

Thanks, that is a good option. I was able to find and remove two clips on the raw footage timeline that seemed to be causing rendering problems. I have not had any crashes since. If I do, I will use your advice.

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>Any ideas what I am doing wrong
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